Doesn't every Instagram user automatically have a Threads account now? (Even if they're unaware of it.) Meta faking Threads user count that way on top of what's happened with X user count would explain this "milestone" quite easily.

I could give you a few real-life examples where it’s been helpful to me, but honestly, there are probably hundreds more depending on the person—as long as it’s used properly and not treated as flawless or final. I’m a kindergarten teacher. I describe what we’ve done in class, and it turns that into a short caption for the school’s daily social media post. Saves a bit of time. For weekly assessments, I speak freely about each child’s week, and it generates a well-written comment. That’s a moderate time-saver, and I learn better phrasing from its output as I'm a non-native English speaker. It helps me brainstorm new daily activity ideas based on specific goals or parameters. I choose the ones that fit and tweak them as needed. When I’ve tried multiple strategies with a difficult child, I use it to get fresh suggestions for guidance or behavior management. I still apply my own experience to decide what works best. It helped me plan a trip based on location, time, and several other factors—and it provided a lot of useful details I hadn’t considered. It’s replaced Google for many tasks: it’s faster, often more accurate (if prompted clearly), and definitely more efficient for basic info. I also use it for translation, and in many cases, it gives better or more natural results than Google Translate. It helped me rewriting this very comment (till point 7) as I'm busy with something else so I saved time spellchecking and rephrasing.

Thank you, I'll give it a look. Unfortunately change is difficult. If it was just me and my controls team we would probably do something like that, but my boss is a little older and I had hard enough time getting him to work on the cloud as it is, and he works in 2 cities, so he isn't always in reach to help him. If it doesn't behave exactly like windows folders, it might be a lost case. The other people in the office I could train easier. It's a small office with less than a dozen people on the system at any one time. I am "head of IT" but that isn't my main job. Having something that installs and sets up quickly is a boon. Not that the sharepoint folders update all that quickly, it takes almost a full day for all the files to show up properly, especially if it is a new user. And if onedrive chokes on any one file it completely stops updating file changes until you fix that. Not a problem for anybody with some savvy, but half the people don't even notice until their files have diverged and somebody calls them and asks why they don't see some change or another. All that being said, if I can save a few hundred dollars a month I could probably eventually talk them into moving over to something cheaper like I did with the Wondershare PDF editor. That was an easy move because it works exactly like Adobe but doesn't crash on large files nearly as often. It is sort of a shame that Adobe is worse at handling their own file format than nearly any other PDF editor.

Hard to say. I'm not sure of the delivery radius that's allowed here and whether rural food deserts would even be eligible or not. I was just mentioning that ordering (non-perishable) groceries online and having them shipped does have a legit and unfortunate use case. Back when I lived 45 miles from the closest grocery store, I'd order my non-perishables online and they'd usually come via UPS or FedEx.

Sure, but the WAN show kinda sucks, it's basically Linus spewing some nonsense and Luke trying to keep him somewhat rational.

well if you want to get into it, i think the last browser that didn't have mozilla in the useragent was internet explorer, which had "trident/9.0" or something. every other browser on the market is based on the old KDE browser Konqueror, which had "khtml, like gecko" in it. when that didn't work they just added "mozilla" to it. then apple took that codebase and added "safari", chrome took that codebase and added "chrome", etc etc etc. compatibility problems just kept compounding on every browser based on khtml until we got to the point where microsoft edge's current user agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/134.0.0. even firefox has had to give in to this: my useragent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0 even though the version of gecko in firefox 140 is v125, from 2022.

I frequently find myself prompting it: "now show me the whole program with all the errors corrected." Sometimes I have to ask that two or three times, different ways, before it coughs up the next iteration ready to copy-paste-test. Most times when it gives errors I'll just write "address: " and copy-paste the error message in - frequently the text of the AI response will apologize, less frequently it will actually fix the error.

But we can do these reflections with raster already?