Since Word documents are one of your bigger concerns, you can download LibreOffice on one of your current machines and try them out. That's the same program you'd be using on Linux.
It'd have to be a pretty unusual video format to have issues. Similar to above, you can try VLC on Windows and see if there's any issues.
Based on your description, I'd be surprised if you encountered any major issues. I'd recommend trying either Pop! OS if you're OK with a slightly different UI from Windows, or Mint if you want something more comfortable. Note that you can create a LiveUSB stick of either of those, or any other distro. You can then boot your computer from it and take it for a spin to see if there's any obvious issues.
Oh neat. Development had died down, but looks like it's picking back up again and the creator is finding more maintainers. It's what I use on my phone.
It just means having to micromanage a particular unit's actions. I like it more when I can say "patrol this area, return fire and advance a bit if necessary, but no further than this", instead of having to flip back to those units constantly to manage them. IMO it's more thematic anyways for a sci fi game, you're probably going to have units with a basic AI in them in-universe.
I recently checked out BAR and liked it. I don't like micro in RTS games, because I always think "a computer can do this better than I could", so it's nice that they've got good unit automations available.
But personally I’ll continue to advocate for technology which empowers people and culture, and not the other way around.
You won't achieve this goal by aiding the gatekeepers. Stop helping them by trying to misapply copyright.
Any experienced programmer knows that GPL code is still subject to copyright [...]
GPL is a clever hack of a bad system. It would be better if copyright didn't exist, and I say that as someone that writes AGPL code.
I think you misunderstood what I meant. We should drop copyright, and pass a new law where if you use a model, or contribute to one, or a model is used against you, that model must be made available to you. Similar in spirit to the GPL, but not a reliant on an outdated system.
This would catch so many more use cases than trying to cram copyright where it doesn't apply. No more:
Handful of already-rich companies building an AI moat that keeps newcomers out
Credit agencies assigning you a black box score that affects your entire life
Minorities being denied bail because of a black box model
Being put on a no-fly list with no way to know that you're on it or why
Facebook experimenting on you to see if they can make you sad without your knowledge
Why should they? Copyright is an artificial restriction in the first place, that exists "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (in the US, but that's where most companies are based). Why should we allow further legal restrictions that might strangle the progress of science and the useful arts?
What many people here want is for AI to help as many people as possible instead of just making some rich fucks richer. If we try to jam copyright into this, the rich fucks will just use it to build a moat and keep out the competition. What you should be advocating for instead is something like a mandatory GPL-style license, where anybody who uses the model or contributed training data to it has the right to a copy of it that they can run themselves. That would ensure that generative AI is democratizing. It also works for many different issues, such as biased models keeping minorities in jail longer.
I wouldn't be concerned about that, the mathematical models make assumptions that don't hold in the real world. There's still plenty of guidance in the loop from things such as humans up/downvoting, and people generating several to many pictures before selecting the best one to post. There's also as you say lots of places with strong human curation, such as wikipedia or official documentation for various tools. There's also the option of running better models as the tech progresses against old datasets.
Kind of looks like an alternative universe where Rust really leaned into its initial Ruby influences. IMO the most interesting thing was kicked down the road, I'd like to see more of the plan for concurrency. Go's concurrency (which it says they're thinking of) kind of sucks for lots of things, like "do these tasks in parallel and give me the return values". Go can do it with channels and all that, but Rayon's par_iter() just magically makes it all work nicely.
It's a nice thought, but doesn't work out so well