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When I was in highschool, for the first few months of my freshman year I had a couple of classes that took place inside those old "mobile home" style class rooms (idk what they're called lol). They were old, kinda smelly, the AC unit was loud, and I loved it.

But then they finished construction of a new multi-storied building and relocated all those classes. Every classroom was an identical, minimalist cement rectangle with perfectly white walls and high tech whiteboards. I hated it, and actually felt like it made it harder to focus. Nobody agreed with me when I said the old classrooms were better :(

I can already see the HN comments

If YoU CaN'T iNnOvAtE, rEgUlAtE!1!1

You can find the correct disc image on Minerva archive (its the successor to Myrient)

Tbf, Tesla probably sold more cyber trucks than Horizons got users.

You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they're stupid and think "big = good".

An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It's an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn't happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

Look at TikTok's huge success. If they weren't a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren't allowed to buy a Chinese company.

How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

It's just that most people don't know what you mean when you say something is "AI generated". With context clues, they tie back to terms they're already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery ("that's Photoshopped").

I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they've still thrown the term "photoshopped" around.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. By definition, an "expert" is someone with a lot of "experience". Your hypothetical kid has "no experience". Since we know that 1+1=2, I think we can deduce that the answer to your question is no.

Thanks, I didn't know Lemmy had full markdown support. I assumed it was like reddit, which (last time I used it) didn't allow image embeds in comments.

AI is here. Deal. With It. Your authoritarian chains have been shattered, knowledge Nazi. No longer will creation be a luxury for the mentally wealthy. It has now been fully democratized so that even republican voters will be able to code soon.

And then Google retaliates by not allowing Motorola to include Google Play on any of their devices. In the end, Motorola just cancels their GrapheneOS partnership.

Monopolies are the number one reason everything sucks, and will continue to suck until we get non-corrupt politicians (which is impossible)

Don't forget this gem

(idk how to embed images on Lemmy)

Regular desktop stuff and gaming usually works fine. Problems start cropping up when you try to use some more advanced GPU-powered apps, or do development yourself. I've encountered even older OpenGL apps that fail to start unless you force them to use the Mesa software renderer.