With the greatest respect, and trying my very best to not sound like an arrogant jerk, if you need to have Calc’s lacklustre FILTER function, which often just spits out Error 533 into cells and which can’t quite figure out if it wants to be an array formula, further explained then I dare posit that you may not be a heavy spreadsheet user and therefore spending a large amount of time explaining it does rather reverse the burden of proof. For goodness sake, try and do anything serious with FILTER is Calc and you’ll very, very quickly see what I mean.

No, definitely thinking specifically of data tables in excel.

Oh boy!

Lack of proper table support.

FILTER is borked.

MAP functions and their ilk aren’t there.

The DBASE functions have serious issues.

Array formulas sort of work but often results in issues.

Calculation speed is super slow. I’ve tried converting a pension forecast tool and it just ran so incredibly slowly.

As someone self hosting my own Nextcloud with Collabora, I can tell you that living with LibreOffice is easy - but living with Libra Calc is impossible. It is not a workable, serious solution.

Ii can thoroughly recommend “A Brief History of Intelligence” (by Max Bennett), which explains how intelligence has taken steps through evolution, what those steps were etc.

Spatial intelligence requires spatial understanding and it’s not something that can be solved through a large language model, IMHO.

I’m excited to see how these are solved. And I’m terrified to see how these will be solved.

My point was mostly that the concept of a router can be executed by any computer with more than one NIC.

Trump isn’t disallowing computers from outside the US, surely, only stuff that looks like routers. They’ll have a hard time defining what a router is.

You can of course run your own router.

Well, you can run your own router on your own hardware but other than that, agreed.

Yes of course. But a lot of it ain’t vested and so the terms may not be great or downright unpalatable.

I mean I dislike the guy as much as you, but almost all of his “wealth” is paper wealth. He may very well not be able to liquidate 2% of his wealth (fine with me).

Let’s talk in 3 years - my round!

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Nor could an assembly line.

As soon as we convince the billionaires to stop hiding their wealth and pay their fair share of tax.

Ie never.

It’s really not and if you believe it is you need to use it more. The threat is real - don’t underestimate it.

That’s what they’re doing. They clearly would prefer people to move to iOS, that smells a bit like MacOS, as it’s a damn sight more profitable to both sell you hardware and software 30% cuts.

This is what I’ve done. Crash rate is high. Performance is degraded. Windows still involved, just hiding.

Affinity.

I just need Affinity.

And then I can dump Windows.

Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.

I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.

https://digst.dk/media/5gybwsaq/implementing-age-verification-with-danish-digital-identity-wallet-dktb-09.pdf

What if I told you that by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.

Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.

And yes it’s basically built with tokens.

You identify with a government system in an app. The services issues you signed tokens that are anonymous. You hand these anonymous tokens over to the sites that demand proof of age.