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Updates generally don’t require settings resets. It can happen if there’s major changes but that’s the exception, not the norm. If Chrome updates revert settings to default with any degree of regularity (I actually don’t know if they do, I haven’t really touched Chrome in ten? years) that’s either gross incompetence or sheer malice.

Considering that OP’s teachers apparently beat their students (or at least stand idly by while their colleagues do), I’d argue that they do not deserve one ounce of respect.

Yeah, no. Death threats are acceptable in exactly the following circumstances:

That’s it. Nothing beyond that.

Convergent evolution is a thing. Aliens that live in similar natural habitats and that fill similar ecological niches as humans will likely evolve along similar lines due to facing similar pressures. With that said, this is a very big assumption and all that it really tells us is that it is not impossible for “humanoid” alien life to exist.

Also, whatever is out there, we’ll never know for certain. Distances are just too large. Space is so incredibly, unfathomably big that it’s almost certain that there’s other intelligent life out there. However, space is also so incredibly, unfathomably big that it’s almost certain that we’ll never meet it.

That assumes that everyone will be willing to have children with just about anyone, regardless of their personal opinion of them, and regardless of whether or not they even want children to begin with. You can’t selectively breed humans without massive human rights violations.

Which they technically didn’t. I’m sure Nvidia has a legal team that vetted their solution, they certainly have the money for it. At this point the “protection” against the proprietary driver is just anti-consumer.

31, Germany, I can’t drive at all. City kid.

The difference is that the images AIs spit out are, well, real. Imagining someone naked doesn’t produce a potentially very convincing actual image that can be shared.

I do think that AI can’t really be effectively regulated (my fucking laptop can run Stable Diffusion), but that doesn’t mean that there’s no need for a debate.

I don’t need to. iPhones are pretty but every time I’ve been forced to use one I wanted to pull my hair out, I know they’re vaunted for being easy to use but I find them incredibly unintuitive, and I need help to do basically anything. MacOS is mostly Fine™ (with that being said - no window snapping? really?!), but they have no laptops with a number pad on the keyboard, and even if they did, they don’t have matte display options so I couldn’t comfortably use the damn thing anyway. It’s a laptop, I’m not going to use it exclusively in darkened rooms with the lights turned off.

Edit: Also, MacBooks are entirely unupgradable. So that’s a hard no from me based on that alone. The “need more storage/RAM? Buy a new laptop!” approach is just entirely unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.

Also, what 2012 pc laptop would still be usable in 2023?

A lot of them, especially if you’re doing a fair comparison and look at Windows laptops that were in the same price bracket as the MBP (though even many cheaper ones will still work).

Almost certainly both. And people who made an account but who didn’t stick around.

Sony allows unlocking the bootloader on a lot of their devices. Except two new US-specific models, according to their site.