I honestly don’t want to leave windows. I did use linux for years and I don’t want to tinker with my OS or my applications anymore. And you’re right SteamOS isn’t a general purpose OS. My comment was more in the hopes that if it were pushed out like that, that MS would respond with more consumer friendly approaches to the desktop so I wouldn’t HAVE to switch again and deal with the jank. And there will be jank. I know a lot of games work now with proton but how about the Affinity Suite? I found a github that describes how to set up the process in like 18 easy steps so you can begin to install a custom wine for it and just like no I don’t want to do that. I want to just keep using my pc that works with the OS I actually paid money for and not get harvested. I am so tired.

I want to give you two likes.

Well, if Sam “Liar” Altman said it, it must be true! AI can solve climate change for us AND allow us to keep burning as much fossil fuels as the industry wants us to!

What the heck am I going to do when win10 stops getting security patches? I really wish Valve would open up SteamOS to desktops in a public and supported way. That kind of pressure from valve has forced MS to play nice to users in the past. Anyone remember MS demanding that all software for Win8 be sold through the MS store only? And Valve said, fine we’ll make our own OS, with blackjack! And Hookers! And steam machines became a thing. Noone bought them. But it didn’t matter. It was enough pressure for MS to open up to having 3rd party storefronts again. I feel like we need this again. Also, if linux played nice with anti cheat, and discord I would probably be fine ditching windows but as it stands I’d miss out on playing games with my friends.

Anyway. Privacy Nightmare AI tool bad.

I haven’t quite checked off cocaine addicts yet… but I think every other box may or may not be at least somewhat applicable.

my adhd is too strong atm, is there a tl;dr for the tl;dr?

If you are happy with the performance you get out of your existing hardware then you are happy with it.

Shock!

subverted or working as intended?

I had a suspicion! Good luck to you both!

It’s going to depend very much on the features that your daughter used in capcut and what she will need. If it’s their “AI” tools and tiktok filters, probably not. If someone knows of foss projects that have those I’d love to hear about them!

If she just needs a video editor that’s free and powerful kdenlive is much simpler than getting into something like davinci resolve (which I would never recommend as a first step unless someone was very passionate about the editing process itself) and will give her the power to do pretty much anything you’d want, outside of proprietary filters or simple one-click tools.

Openshot seems fairly similar to kdenlive, maybe a little simpler. Check it out if that might work for you. I’ve never used it and can’t compare.

Another one I have not used but is again MUCH simpler with fewer features but this may be a plus actually is Vidcutter. It looks like what I might imagine a FOSS version of Windows Movie Maker might be. Just drag clips in, cut them, mash them together, export. Simple, but not anything fancy.

So in order of least experience and desire to learn the software needed to most, I would recommend Vidcutter, then Openshot, then Kdenlive.

In order of the potential quality and variety of projects possible it’s directly inverse.

Unless your daughter knows what ACES and REC 709 means then maybe point her toward Davinci.

It’s not even fundamentally possible with the current LLMs. It’s like saying “Yes, it’s totally possible to do that! We just need to invent something that can do that first!”

This is not surprising in the least from the organization that brought us such amazing hits as “Cigarettes aren’t bad for you! Doctors recommend them!” when cigarette companies discovered their products give you cancer and “Climate change isn’t real! Invest in big oil!” when it became clear we couldn’t keep just burning fossil fuels forever. If there’s a take that is bad for people, the heritage foundation is there to promote the worst.

I once watched a youtube video where someone built a rig to explore this very question

Lezards heh

gotem

There are DOZENS of people that know at least one character from Concord’s name

Yeah I don’t see this being an issue at all. They have to physically have my key? Oh no. Then they already have my key. And I will have disabled the key on my accounts. Unless they what, steal the key from me, take it to the lab, clone it with 11k worth of equipment, then sneak it back into my purse before I notice it’s gone? That’s some nation state espionage stuff and that is not in my threat model.

WR Tax-Writeoff% no OOB

Of course countries do. But usually you call it a “Department of Communications” or something instead of “advertising”.