Just a point of clarification: Copyright is about the right of distribution. So yes, a company can just "download the Internet", store it, and do whatever TF they want with it as long as they don't distribute it.

That the key: Distribution. That's why no one gets sued for downloading. They only ever get sued for uploading. Furthermore, the damages (if found guilty) are based on the number of copies that get distributed. It's because copyright law hasn't been updated in decades and 99% of it predates computers (especially all the important case law).

What these lawsuits against OpenAI are claiming is that OpenAI is making a derivative work of the authors/owners works. Which is kinda what's going on but also not really. Let's say that someone asks ChatGPT to write a few paragraphs of something in the style of Stephen King... His "style" isn't even cooyrightable so as long as it didn't copy his works word-for-word is it even a derivative? No one knows. It's never been litigated before.

My guess: No. It's not going to count as a derivative work. Because it's no different than a human reading all his books and performing the same, perfectly legal function.

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Oh my, what a crime: Insulting dead people 🙄

This is why the rest of the world thinks China:

• Obviously doesn't have freedom of speech
• Is super authoritarian; in the dumbest ways

The thing runs Windows so it's not a Steam Deck competitor... It's a has-been at launch.

Windows is absolute garbage for a handheld gaming device. When are these manufacturers going to learn and just ship the things with Linux? Many Chinese devices (made for running emulators) ship with some customized Linux so why aren't more mainstream manufacturers doing it? Seems like a no-brainer to make a better device and save money on licensing costs.

Rich people believe that no matter how rough the world gets they will be fine as long as they remain rich. History has shown repeatedly that this is a false assumption, demonstrating that the rich in America really are just as dumb as poor conservatives who get suckered into voting against their own interests every election.

Also many of the absurdly wealthy are sociopaths and narcissists (because our economic system allows people like that to succeed by stepping on everyone else). To them, all that matters is how they look among their "in group." So if they think they'll look better by being a few billion richer they do whatever it takes to get there... No matter the long term consequences. Either to them or anyone else.

It's already like that except the funding part. There's free online learning for basically anything available to everyone in the world, 24/7. And people do take advantage of it.

You can learn whatever TF you want from reliable, trusted sources it's just that all you get from it is the knowledge. You don't normally get a degree or a certificate or anything like that. Because those things are for traditional institutions (and how they make money).

If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What's stopping you?

It's already like that except the funding part. There's free online learning for basically anything available to everyone in the world, 24/7. And people do take advantage of it.

You can learn whatever TF you want from reliable, trusted sources it's just that all you get from it is the knowledge. You don't normally get a degree or a certificate or anything like that. Because those things are for traditional institutions (and how they make money).

If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What's stopping you?

They officially don't care about running .NET applications on Linux anymore. They never really did before but so few people fell for that trap Microsoft is finally ready to turn in the towel

Correct 👍

You had corruption with btrfs? Was this with a spinning disk or an SSD?

I've been using btrfs for over a decade on several filesystems/machines and I've had my share of problems (mostly due to ignorance) but I've never encountered corruption. Mostly I just run out of disk space because I forgot to balance or the disk itself had an issue and I lost whatever it was that was stored in those blocks.

I've had to repair a btrfs partition before due to who-knows-what back when it was new but it's been over a decade since I've had an issue like that. I remember btrfs check --repair being totally useless back then haha. My memory on that event is fuzzy but I think I fixed whatever it was bitching about by remounting the filesystem with an extra option that forced it to recreate a cache of some sort. It ran for many years after that until the disk spun itself into oblivion.

I wouldn't say, "repairing XFS is much easier." Yeah, fsck -y with XFS is really all you have to do 99% of the time but also you're much more likely to get corrupted stuff when you're in that situation compared to say, btrfs which supports snapshotting and redundancy.

Another problem with XFS is its lack of flexibility. By that I don't mean, "you can configure it across any number of partitions on-the-fly in any number of (extreme) ways" (like you can with btrfs and zfs). I mean it doesn't have very many options as to how it should deal with things like inodes (e.g. tail allocation). You can increase the total amount of space allowed for inode allocation but only when you create the filesystem and even then it has a (kind of absurdly) limited number that would surprise most folks here.

As an example, with an XFS filesystem, in order to store 2 billion symlimks (each one takes an inode) you would need 1TiB of storage just for the inodes. Contrast that with something like btrfs with max_inline set to 2048 (the default) and 2 billion symlimks will take up a little less than 1GB (assuming a simplistic setup on at least a 50GB single partition).

Learn more about btrfs inlining: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Inline-files.html

One point: ext4 has a maximum file size of 16TiB. To a regular user that is stupidly huge and of no concern but it's exactly the type of thing you overlook if you "just use ext4" on anything and everything then end up with your database broken at work because of said bad advice.

Use the filesystem that makes the most sense for your use case. Consider it every single time you format a disk. Don't become complacent! Also fuck around with the new shit from time to time! I decided to format my Linux desktop partitions with btrfs over a decade ago and as a result I'm an excellent user of that filesystem but you know what? I'm thinking I'll try bcachefs soon and fiddle around more with my zfs partition on my HTPC.

BTW: If you're thinking about trying out btrfs I would encourage you to learn about it's non-trivial maintenance tasks. btrfs needs you to fuck with it from time to time or you'll run out of disk space "for no reason". You can schedule cron jobs to take care of everything (as I have done) but you still need to learn how it all works. It's not a "set it and forget it" FS like ext4.