Well it’s about time those slackers caught up. And all they needed was a slop machine.

You’ll have to repartition your disk as GPT (which will delete all your data, so you’ll need to back everything up), then install them both again. GPT disks use an EFI partition that can hold multiple boot loaders. Install Linux first, so it creates a larger EFI partition. Then when you install Windows, it should use the same partition. In the UEFI (BIOS), you’ll be able to select which one you want to boot. Linux’s boot loaders (like GRUB) can usually show the Windows install as a bootable option. Windows’ boot loader will only boot Windows.

One thing to note is that you’ll need to run the grub setup again after you install Windows so you get it as an option at boot. How you do that depends on your distro. In Ubuntu and its derivatives, it’s just sudo update-grub.

How much of this is written by AI?

No Reader View option. Yeah, that checks out.

For $20? No thanks.

The price of RAM wouldn’t increase, but the price of ram would.

They are the least essential service, so that makes total sense. Powering a dildo factory is more important than an AI data center.

Disgusting.

The parts of the ocean shallow enough for them to get sunlight and rocky enough for them to hold on often are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroalgae

(Not technically plants, but basically sea plants.)

Cause Steam has yet to become shit. Let’s enjoy it while we can.

I’m not trying to slander them. It’s just my opinion. They put time and effort into their videos; they’re just, like, lowest common denominator videos. To me, that makes them slop. A million times better than AI slop, but still slop, in the same way that History Channel videos are slop.

It’s sensationalist. It is well researched, so it’s generally technically accurate, and they admit when they make a mistake. But, it’s also generally focused on things that are either very hypothetical, or just not helpful. Basically, it’s high quality clickbait.

That’s right. Kurzgesagt may be slop, but it’s man-made slop. Slop delicately crafted by real human hands.

You should look up the Zaria of the Dawn case. You need to make more than inconsequential edits for it to be copyrightable, and even then, only your edits are copyrightable.

Good. The US made the same decision a little while ago. I’m waiting to see how the courts decide on AI generated code. That’ll be funny when all these companies realize they don’t own their code base anymore.

This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!

Yeah. It happens on occasion. Nothing to worry about.

I have zero interest in being a billionaire. You make a lot of assumptions.

So you have a right over my copy, and you can decide what I do with it. That’s what I said. You are the sole person to have the right to produce copies. There’s a word for that, it’s a monopoly.

To the extent that I can prevent you from distributing copies of it to other people, yes. I can’t stop you from doing anything else with it. I can’t stop you from burning it, eating it, fucking it, shooting it, or using it as a door stop. I only have the power to prevent you from redistributing it.

And since your material can, materially, be copied, copyright only exists as enforced by the state. It’s a state enforced private monopoly. And so are patents.

Sure. You say that like it’s a bad thing, but that’s why inventors can do what they do and survive. I’m an inventor. If I didn’t have my patent, Google could just come and take my idea, build their own version, and undercut me. Isn’t that a worse monopoly? As it stands, if Google wants to sell my product, they have to buy my patent. That’s a great system that protects small inventors like me.

And these didn’t exist until the states introduced them. This is pretty factual.

Correct. The states invented them because of a problem. They fix the problem. Copyrights and patents give power to the little guy to prevent big companies from stealing their intellectual property. I don’t really care what you do with my code because you probably wouldn’t know what to do with it, but if Google starts selling my code and my patented product, you can bet I’m going to sue them.

So you think that at automatic, untraceable term of 90 years if perfectly reasonable?

I’m not sure what “untraceable” in this context means, but yes, I should be able to profit off of my works for my entire life. Arguably, my heirs should be able to benefit from my works too. If I don’t have a fortune to give them, because I’m not a capitalist pig, at least they can benefit from my hard work. And yes, copyright being automatic is necessary to prevent the system from being abused even more. Imagine if I lost out on the revenue from my work because I couldn’t afford to register it, or a thief broke in and stole my draft before I registered it.

You think that the ability by large corporations of amassing and gatekeeping (no derivative work without their permission) 100 years of human culture is just fine? The ability to keep under control works that they are not even distributing, which then means that these can’t even be read, listened or watched… This is all fine?

Like I said, the law can be abused. If the alternative is that the creators of these pieces of culture don’t see a dime, then yes, this system is absolutely better.

You like how the US patent systems grants a patent without any real examination for basically anything that written in English, no matter how ridiculous?

You’ve clearly never been through the patent process. They went over my patent with a fine toothed comb. I went through three rounds of revision and had to take an entire section of claims out (because it might have been too close to an existing patent, which I thought was ridiculous, but whatever). I spoke with the patent examiner who absolutely had read my entire application and understood it very well.

You love the endless cultural slop milking the same damn IPs for nostalgia?

Just because you don’t like Disney doesn’t mean that copyright laws are broken. Yeah, Disney kinda sucks lately. So what? Come up with your own ideas and make something worth watching, like tons of independent creators have recently. I just finished The Amazing Digital Circus. What an awesome example of creativity. I’m very happy that Disney can’t just copy it.

It pleases you that every artist who records a version of “my favourite things” (or any other jazz standards) ends up giving 90% of the proceeds to the heirs of the same two dead white dudes? Or how sampling basically destroys the revenue potential of a new song because the author of the sample is going to eat up the work of new artists?

If you don’t like giving to the creators whose work you are building on, just come up with your own ideas. Tons of artists use their own original content.

You think your viral video wouldn’t have been adequately protected with, say, a 30 year term? You think 5 years in jail for a private copy of a blue ray is good and proportional?

No. I would like to own that video for my entire life. I created it. It wouldn’t exist without me. If someone wants to use it, they can license it from me. Has anyone ever gotten 5 years in jail for privately copying a blu ray?

Apparently it often doesn’t. Courts have already ruled on this. When the billionaires do it, it’s fair use.

And that’s the problem. Our IP laws are not strong enough.

I have a problem with these statements:

it’s a licensed monopoly enforced by the state, which gives the copyright owner power over many many things, present and future, not actually owned by them.

I do own my copyrighted material. You own a copy. You can’t redistribute it (without my permission), because I own the copyright.

But I think we can all agree that the currently landscape of intellectual property legislation is utter nonsense, that it’s gotten completely out of hand, and that it mainly encourages concentration and gatekeeping.

We cannot agree. It’s not gotten out of hand. It needs to be enforced and strengthened, in order to protect creatives from AI companies stealing our IP.

So yes, the model producers have blatantly disregarded copyright, and have gotten away with it in ways which are not available to us peasants.

Exactly. That’s why we need to strengthen copyright protection.

But we’re the copyleft people, we should be pointing at this and shouting that the emperor is finally naked, and that it’s time to curtail all that nonsense legislation once and for all, so that we can all be a little freer from the shackles of corporate monopoly.

That would literally give corporations more power over our creations.

And instead, we (the copyleft guys!) are just sitting here clutching our copyright pearls while muttering “but… But… Copyright! It violates the precious copyright!”.

Because it does violate our copyrights. I didn’t release my code as open source so that it could be copied and stolen without regard to the license I specifically chose to protect it.