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Simple text messages wouldn't typically be deemed copyright-worthy, but if you write a poem or take a good photograph etc. and send that, then it absolutely would be covered by copyright.

However, Microsoft doesn't actively publish your copyrighted material. If their improper storage results in your copyrighted work being leaked, that might be a lawsuit (like you might be successfully sued for putting your backup of a movie onto an insecure server on the internet), but now that Recall is opt-in and all, it would be a difficult lawsuit.

I mean, there's definitely also some neurotypicals that put lots of skill points into languages. I could imagine that auties are more fascinated by the rulesets, whereas for neurotypicals these tend to rather just be a means to an end...?

I think, it's mainly just companies trying to get their foot into the market. If Microsoft can establish LLMs as alternative to search, then it's Google that loses market share. And once they control a share of the market, then they figure out how to capitalize on that.

At the very least, they can use it to control what information is available to the public and how it's framed. But they can also integrate things like the LLM generating an affiliate link when asked about a product, or just generally weaving ad placements into the generated answers.

This is pretty much the biggest reason why I like fish. It automatically runs Ctrl+R as soon as you start typing and shows it as auto-completion suggestion.
You would not believe all the things past-me has run in their terminal, that I would never think to Ctrl+R. It's like the AI stuff the whole IT world rages about, except past-me has real intelligence.

Yeah, I also thought it was a meme and used purely in derogatory form, until I learned that the term was actually coined by a co-founder of OpenAI...

But like, does that happen often for you, that you need a piece of code that's gonna be thrown away?

I always feel like if code exists, it's not gonna be thrown away, so it's a good idea to make it maintainable. But I do probably have somewhat of a bias...

In this kind of job, I'd guess they hope for someone who's done VFX work on Linux before, but if you know about cd and ls, you probably already fulfill their expectations.

If you didn't have any experience, that likely wouldn't be a deal breaker, it would just be one more thing where they need to get you up to speed.
Well, and if you were a Linux crack, able to support others in your team and dish out scripts for automating menial tasks, that would be a bonus.

But yeah, you having even used Linux before probably makes you one of their, if not the, most qualified applicant in this regard, so I really wouldn't worry about it.

It reads like someone translated from English to German and back to English. Which, knowing the source, really isn't surprising...

One thing to understand here is that it mostly depends on the "desktop environment", which is basically the GUI of the system. (Imagine you could have the Windows XP GUI on a Windows 11 PC. Or the macOS GUI on a Windows 11 PC.)

Distros intended for desktop use will typically come with a certain desktop environment by default, so to some degree, you can talk about the distro, but yeah, there's just gonna be a strong correlation with their default desktop environment.

To my knowledge, GNOME and (recent/Wayland versions of) KDE have good support. Most comments here imply these two desktop environments, so for example Ubuntu, Fedora and POP!_OS are typically GNOME, whereas Kubuntu and Nobara are typically KDE.

Some folks here also mention Linux Mint and LMDE working well, which use the Cinnamon desktop environment, so I guess that works well, too. Cinnamon is somewhat based on GNOME.
Well, and Elementary OS's whole shtick is its Pantheon desktop environment, which is also based on GNOME.

So, basically, as Elementary's Pantheon is its own thing, there's no guarantee that it'll work, but I would not be surprised.
As someone else already said, you can use a Linux Live USB to try it out before installing. You should be able to just follow along the installation instructions of Elementary OS and shortly before you actually install things, you should find yourself in Pantheon and can try it out.

you jest, but various pollinators depend on leaf coverage for winter protection. Fewer pollinators does result in less food...

I'm guessing the whole texture was created on a CRT screen. The artist obviously had the shading skills, where they could've faded the eyes red-to-grey, but well, there was no need to.

I mean, we did also end up in the timeline, where conserving the planet Earth is somehow the progressive stance, even though the Earth was kind of important in the past, too. So, I think it's rather that these labels are nonsense, and conservatives just allude to a (fictional) past when it fits their preferred narrative.