ReactOS is windows. Here’s their front page blurb:

“Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s the mission of ReactOS!”

It’s not Linux, specifically. Its not Linux under the hood, it’s written to be windows without microsoft.

Haven’t tried it myself, but its definitely worth a try if you’ve been using Linux that long and its just not for you.

A few years ago, blatant journalistic malpractice was a controversy.

Are people so lazy they can’t even bother to read the headline? Maybe an AI would’ve been useful here to generate its own defense.

I think humanizing them is a fairly trivial thing, in this sort of context.

Yes, it’s true, it didn’t “lie” about health.

But it has the same result as someone lying, it’s another bulletpoint in the list of reasons not to trust AI, even if it pulls from the right sources and presents information generally correctly, it may in fact just not present information it could have presented because the sources it learned from have done so in a way that would get those sources deemed “liars”.

Could write that out every time, I suppose, but people will say their dog is trying to trick them when he goes to the bowl 5 minutes after dinner, or goes to their partner for the same, and everyone understands the dog isn’t actually attempting to deceive them, and just wants more.

Same thing, to me at least. It lied, but in a similar way to how my dog lies, not in the way a human can lie.

No, they’re definitely also expanding.

Not all of them, certainly, but there are a few plans for new factories. Samsung, for instance, is rolling out a new chip factory, if you want something to search.

It usually does, but it doesn’t have to.

The boring but truthful answers of “I have bills that can easily soak it all up without an issue (mortgage, student loans, car, etc)” have been said, so assuming I cannot use it to repay any debts, and I have to make actual new purchases, I’d buy things that I could pay for now but enjoy for a long time. 3-year VPN plan, multi-year phone plan, gift cards to restaurants (especially with a bulk discount like at a Costco), etc. Upgrade my cockatiels to a cage that goes wall to wall with real plants hanging out and all that. The little things that cost enough that I don’t get them but not enough to be a life-changer. Probably be a good amount left, I’d get a moped or electric bike of some kind, and I’d upgrade my laptop to a stupid powerful one.