is this not standard for every service? black friday deals are usually for new users or everybody would keep renewing their subscription on prepetual sale every black friday.

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Families in gaza can’t even find food, do you think they can spin a gofundme page and pull the money from the local bank?

Compatibility improved a lot since release, you can actually run most apps and games on an X elite now

That was part of it, but they hyped up the product so much as a Macbook M series competitor and made outrageous claims, including having very optimistic benchmarks. They shot themselves in the foot because any benchmarks compared to the macbook were against them, especially in efficiency. They promised Linux support shortly after launch too but it’s still not fully here.

More info in PCMag’s article

TLDR

“This historic settlement will benefit all class members,” Nelson said. “We look forward to announcing details of the settlement in the coming weeks.”

The details aren’t known yet but it sounds like maybe AI companies may stop training by illegally downloading books

There is also only office which has better compatibility with MSOffice file types

No

It’s highly unlikely they would bring more attention to one of the biggest issues AI is causing even if they did make it slightly better

but they are merely doing it to defend AI.

No they’re not, you can agree the research is garbage without defending AI. It literally assumes everything. GPT5 could be using eight times the power. It could be using half the power. It could be using a quadrillion times the power. Nobody knows, because they keep it secret.

and their game that hardly anyone plays anymore

Hate to break it but you only feel that way because you’re getting old. Fortnite is still massive for kids and teens, especially since they added a fortnite editor that allows you to make and play game modes ala roblox.

Mastodon at it again with pitchforks and torches for the slightest inconvenience.

Using Cursor doesn’t prove anything. Many people use Cursor as an advanced autocomplete, nothing else. It’s not like they’re hammering random AI-generated code and merging it without thinking. “Vibe coding” means generating barely-working code you don’t understand to try and get thinks working.

This shit is why I hate the mastodon community, it’s always strawmen and “you’re one of THEM” style witchhunts with them

Keep fighting the good fight comrade, just 20 more garbage “meme” posts per day and you will definitely convince the evil american liberals how wrong they are. Never stop posting.