as far as we know, this is paradise within our galaxy.

I hope the technological leaps help us ultimately to become better stewards of the planet.

I wish I could share your optimism.

> stewards of the planet

The 99.99% of the planet that isn't the surface bio film rejects this unwarranted arrogance ;-)

In other news, Terry Bisson's 1990 story "They're Made Out of Meat" has a similar take.

Admiral Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru test.

Siemens?

> I am surprised Micrsooft didnt use the opportunity to create a micrsoft specific Linux distro

The last one didn’t do so hot, they named it “Xenix”

It was a lousy distro, it didn't even include the Linux kernel!

On the other hand, according to AT&T, Xenix accounted for about half of the worldwide Unix licenses in the late 1980s.

That wasn't Linux. Unix != Linux.

Did you try Linux Surface?

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

LOL, I can just imagine someone installing Ubuntu in their Surface, then seeing that several things don't work. Then they go to this repo, which is "scary" in itself for non-technical people, and then they click on the "detailed installation guide" at https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installa...

And that's it, they are lost and tired at that point. They will just go back to Windows.

Yes of course. Without it you simply have no support for touch and stylus. It’s a great effort, but unfortunately not there yet (for SP4)

> not learning from the LLM how to understand his lawyers arguments better

The leverage came in the form of reducing costs. When you ask your lawyer to explain, they happily bill you for that time.

OP told you what he could in a public forum and left out a few things for private. Its only fair.

The incentives are against you. Lower costs lets defendant fight it out longer with less $$ for lawyer. Law firm isn't spending more hours to earn less. So you gotta have a friend with this skill and a vested interest or do the legwork, which OP suggest AI was for him.

I don't agree AI had a significant part to play here. The leverage, whatever it was isn't likely to be public. Certainly wasn't AI as the title suggests.

> the media is largely dominated by institutional players

and also tech journalism as a whole is pretty abysmal to begin with

Speaking as someone who had a passion for journalism and wanted to become a journalist when I was in high school at the end of the '90s, these days I am comfortable with that industry being completely eradicated.

How did we get here? The Telecom Act of 1996 legalized cross-media ownership and an unprecedented degree of consolidation across all forms of media, news and otherwise. Those rules existed to promote local journalism and independent voices. We now have no local journalism and no independent voices that are staffed and budgeted for doing real, investigative journalism.

Now journalists say what their corporate parent tells them to say; the ones who refused were fired years ago. The ones who stuck around work really hard to obscure this fact because they're clinging to their jobs in a declining industry. We went from a press that was the envy of the world to a cartel of decaying shills. Either reform the industry and break up the monopolies or just terminate it and fire everyone.

Commerce subsidizes journalism. Or art. Or any other "hobby", where i do something, that feels right for me.

I have time on the side, because working for the man gives me the freedom to do things other than surviving.

Long lives commerce and capitalism.

This comment obscures/deflects from the issue. The issue is not that journalism is commercial.

The issue is that journalism is monopolized. The industry was restructured into an anti-competitive cartel.

It is oligarchic now, not capitalistic (it is no longer a free market).

I wouldn't count Toyota out. Their mega battery plant in North Carolina is coming online this year, and the biggest drag on their current EV/PHEV lineup is the batteries. New EV/PHEV models are on the way, and frankly if they just update what they have with better batteries they will be absolutely phenomenal because they are currently great to drive and run extremely well despite lackluster battery range.

For the PHEVs yes they are battery constrained. They have great products and a ton of demand and difficulty keeping up manufacturing due to limited batteries.

For their EV, they have yet to make something that is competitive. Their EV is slow to charge, slow to accelerate, somewhat short in range, and quite expensive before they started adding—-in some cases five figure—-incentives to move them. It even had a recall for the wheels coming off.

Not just Toyota; the U.S. will have dozens of battery plants because it is strategic, like having our own chips.