Just reading it is already profitting from the written work. The author should have the freedom to decide whether they want monetary compensation for that or not. Isn’t this a free world? You should respect it when people decide to publish IP under permissive licenses. It’s their work. They can decide. Everyone who is against this and for piracy needs to have their moral compass checked by looking in the mirror. This is a free world, if you like it or not.

The entire open-source scene grew out of that exact system before LLMs even existed. What are you talking about?

Also, just because somebody has the right to make their code open-source doesn’t mean that everyone should be forced to do the same. If you decide to make a living by writing books under a permissive license you should be able to do that. This is a free world. Nobody is forcing open-source developers to make the code proprietary. But people like you feel to be in the moral right to force the opposite to others.

Why, so you can profit from it?

Why do you ask this question here? Do you actually want to know?

Did it work?

He means it as a placeholder for whoever the previous commenter identifies himself as. It’s a response to him addressing vegetarians but not specifying what we should call him.

Well first thing my mom asked me was where she can run Office. Second thing she asked was how she can go back to Windows as it has Office already installed.

I tried Ubuntu, Pop, Mint, Xubuntu. They all have problems. Most of these problems like software or driver support are probably not their fault. But they are problems nontheless. I cannot recommend Linux as a daily driver for non-techsavy users.

It’s awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that’s it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.

Librewolf is already listed. There are unfortunately no good alternatives to Windows and ChatGPT or Gemini.

Mistral sucks. Vivaldi is Chromium. Linux has terrible user experience.

iPhones are already a hard pass from me. iPad is great. But iPhone is terribly overprices and years behind the competition.

No I’m also talking about resolution too. You can tell on 100 inches. On 100 inches a 1080p pixel is more than one millimeter in diameter. You can definitely see that when you sit 3 meters away from the screen. 4k will give you visibly more sharpness. Provided of course that you don’t butcher your movie with terrible bitrate compression.

Depends on your setup. On my 100 inch projector screen you can immediately tell when it’s not 4k. And low bitrates (like Netflix) become especially noticable with rubber banding and loss of sharpness.

Odd. I can immediately tell the difference.

I did an empirical test with friends comparing various bitrates and resolutions of the same source (on a 100 inch projector screen with a good 4k projector). I could guess 100% of the time correctly.

But they always do.

I gave up encoding movies with Handbrake. I can always see the difference in the resulting picture quality and if I don’t, the file is probably only reduced from 80gb to 70gb and it’s not worth it.

I usually just rip the blu-rays, strip out the unnecessary languages and leave the rest as it is.

80 gb is not a lot for movies. My average 4K movie is between 60 and 80 gb per movie. If you start encoding and compressing them you start seing compression artifacts and reduction in quality very quickly.

My advice: don’t compress movies if you can. Just get more storage. Storage is relatively cheap these days.

Doesn’t address the point that humans would be equally deceived by this wall if they don’t pay 100% attention.

All he said was that he doesn’t care and some other nonsensical stuff. This comment doesn’t add anything. Not even an expression of an opinion.

But to be fair: the response doesn’t add much either.