Fuck. I bought this forever ago, either for my Droid 2 or my Galaxy S3. Skipped it on my first Pixel and came back on the Pixel 7.

Haven’t really heard any talk about it, didn’t know about the owner/dev drama until seeing some comments here.

Haven’t noticed any ads myself yet, but maybe that’s a “coming soon” thing.

Time to go launcher shopping again. This thread mentioned Lawnchair and Niagara, so I’ll check those out first.

I haven’t had to deal with this many times personally. A great grandparent, great aunt and uncle, you know, ones you expect.

I’ve only had one occasion to deal with that affected my day to day, a younger sibling. And I’ve blacked out a lot of the next couple weeks of it tbh. Happened right before the end of my senior year of high school. I don’t think I had a nightmare phase, but even now, almost 22 years later, it just takes thinking about it for too long before I feel the hurt and sadness again. I don’t envy anyone in your spot.

Emotional triggers will vary by person anyway, so I don’t know how much good any answers to this question will be.

But at least we can all commiserate. The experience is pretty universal. The reactions will differ, just due to differences in the situation it happened in and the personality of the survivors, but we all understand loss.

Even having a conversation about that will take a while to happen because most people think that AI literally means something like ChatGPT.

I don’t know enough about the other kinds to say much definitively, but I do completely invalidate generative AI being of any possible use as I understand it. Other than as a tech demo. Seeing what Sora could do was interesting as a matter of curiosity about what it was possible to get to happen with it current tech.

But I don’t think it should ever be used as literally anything other than a demo of what is literally possible.

I don’t know if it “worked” back then either. At the time my friend hadn’t switched to Linux either.

Win7 was still current back then. I don’t know about him, but I started to look for a way out when I first installed 10. And by the time 11 was just being hinted at, everything I heard just redoubled my resolve to switch. Honestly having candy crush on the start menu was the straw that broke my willingness to look past the “convenience” of a commercial OS.

Not familiar with it personally, but I know it gets used on Linux. I’ve seen a friend of mine play with it once back when it was still called FruityLoops on Windows a decade ago, but I’ve never personally had it.

There will be a little bit of a hassle initially, a dash of typing in the console, (which shouldn’t scare you, but some people freak out if their screen has to look like the 80s, even if just for a minute-even if they are 80s/90s kids) but it seems like it works fine once you get it set up.

I don’t know anyone using it personally but going by mentions of it and several pages showing directions to get it running (via Wine) seems to indicate it works.

Anyone familiar with it can add more info, I’m just going by the fact that directions to install it exist.

Wine will help run a bunch of things that are Windows-only. It’s not perfect and doesn’t work with everything, but FL studio seems to be one it does (based on what I see- again I’d wait to see if someone who uses it chimes in).

Looks like you’re the one without understanding.

Even if I grant that there’s a few super helpful uses that are good for humanity (and I don’t grant that at all), it’s still actively harmful to the other 99.3% of us.

Unless you’re saying it can end cancer, keep us young forever, provide literally limitless energy, and instantaneous networking, all while giving us potential to explore the universe, then it’s still not worth what it’s costing us RIGHT NOW.

Until you can make it do any of that without being owned or pushed by CEOs for money, then it will never be worth it.

Sure it could be useful if it didn’t cost anything and did everything, but that’s about as far as I believe it.

It should stay in the research and theory phase until it’s perfect. And it never will be, hence most people attitudes on it. No. 00000001% change of finding a good execution of a use is worth what it is costing us to try out.