Musk shittiness is a high bar.

IMO, “One app/library/etc does one thing only” is a rather ignorant form of wisdom about encapsulation, anyways.

Encapsulation is important regardless of how many disparate tasks a library handles. Doing one thing with one thing is a pretty good rule of thumb to get close to good results, but it is FAR from a golden standard, and serves to drag people away from the finer nuances of encapsulation.

The ONLY time it is a hard and fast rule is at the individual function level. A single function ideally should have one task to accomplish, even if that task has side effects.

I’m sure there are cross-dependency issues on an OS level that makes it a bit wiser to do for widely used system tasks, but to make it an absolute rule smacks of wisdom gone awry. Like not eating shellfish in the bible.

It is both.

You have failed to understand it AGAIN. Good job failing.

It does NOT tell you what the list is. Period. Stop assuming it will advertise to you. You are repeatedly describing how you have FAILED to understand what it’d even be attempting…

Too weak? Nah, that’s just bad story telling. Humans aren’t weak, even if we’d lose a bare knuckle fight against most other animals. Tools will ALWAYS magnify strength far more than bestial fortitude even can.

At least make their downfall something more believable, like they were too prideful and arrogant to take a serious threat seriously until it was too late. Even if the mechanics of the loss involve humans being physically weaker, it cannot be the overarching “just because”.

It’s like Batman. Batman can take out most all of the others in the Justice League despite being “just a human”, in the right scenarios. Nobody likes a story where Batman is simply crushed by a superior force.

I mean, they could offer it through the browser. All modern browsers have more than enough hooks and permissions control to do something as simple as take a couple pictures and make a basic request to a back end.

Though making nice things costs money, so…

Because then REI gets to be the one selling your purchase history and credit report.

two words: data aggregation.

They know it’s you. They can match it everywhere else.

Doesn’t DuckDuckGo not have AI?

Completely terrible. An AI “search” takes as much electricity as hundreds to thousands of normal searches.

'AI" is TERRIBLE for climate change because they’re increasing demand for electricity so much that they’re keeping coal plants going that were even scheduled for decomissioning because they use A LOT of power.

It’s almost certainly going to be milliamps or microamps unless you’re inches from something. This isn’t for cellphones and the like but for remote sensors and the like. I also bet they’ll at least have to have a capacitor to store up extra charge for chirping back only sometimes.

Oh no… They WOULD piss on you. Just not to help put out the fire.

No, that’s NOT begging the question, that’s just being an ass about actually asking a question.

Being hostile to a real question’s answers is also not begging the question.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy where someone is purposefully leaving out info or otherwise twisting things to end at a conclusion that was never properly supported. The point is there is an unsupported conclusion they’re trying to jump to.

Simply asking a question, even one with an obvious or sarcastic answer, is seldom “begging the question”.

Uhhhhh it’s an OPEN question available to people who DO dislike the OS, so no. No just ASKING a question is NOT “begging the question”.

It’s asking a question.

But I’ll taddle on myself, I know it!

Maaaan, I’m so sad I never watched that series long enough to even get the normal baddies, let alone all the fan characters they pulled in by the end.

… though maybe I spared myself the embarassment of becoming a brony, so…

DnD is very much NOT holding role playing together. I have no idea why people fear corporations going out of business… You can still make characters and roll dice or play MTG if the entire company goes bust!

This fear is nothing but complete ignorance and the basic fear of change. Almost as silly as thinking PC’s would die if Microsoft tanked tomorrow…

I’m not accusing you. I’m stating a fact that I included myself in… You are indeed a dim bulb in the pack.

You and I don’t have to imagine that, dummy. We’ve already done it.