The free version of Gemini is incomparably better then chatGpt in a great many tasks including coding. I expect it increasingly doesn't matter what they do in the free tier.
You all are correct that in the current climate automotive manufacturers would never allow something like this get on the market at large.
However 2-3 decades down the line, when car owners have gotten a reality check about the longevity of current & probably worse near future cars, the market demand could reach a point where people would give a simple repairable electric car a really good go and by simple I mean genuinely as simple as possible for an electric car.
Ai makes photoshopping trivially easy, so of course now this is bigger problem than before. This is not going to go away, so society will adapt. Humans can live perfectly fine in the jungle not covering up their unmentionables, so in a few decades this will be a non issue I would guess.
If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.
I don't think most customers -for real- are disliking the new capabilities however limited they think they are. It's just the force feeding and there are also security & performance concerns. All the while Windows is on an enshittification death spiral even without Ai.
CS6 has better content aware filters than Affinity and those may never get updates now, since AI can do them better. This is not even an unreasonable take, but sub..
With ios 26 they f-ed up safari real bad & other browsers are worse performing / laggy even though they are also safari.
So yes, I trusted Apple to not mess with anything too important & they have not for the 5 years I've been using Apple products, but now that is over. Guess Android is back on the menu for my next device, or maybe even a Jolla Phone.
it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?
No it's not. I don't even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles.
The downside is that you'll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you'll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)
Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don't have to figure things out, but it's annoying that they'll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don't want the software you run to report home.
If you decide to go with Bottles, one common rookie mistake is not giving permission to Bottles to the folders you install from and install to. You need to use Flatseal to do this nice and easy.
Heroic Games Launcher is another option, but it's less reliable than bottles, but it has a more noob friendly GUI & you can just directly log into an EPIC account & install away without having to use the epic launcher, which can be quite great if you have a big Epic library.
Nvidia still has its pains, but it's certainly daily drivable now.
Is there any way of telling which ones will and won’t run on Linux?
It's very easy, if a game doesn't have invasive data thieving anticheat, then it will run on Linux, otherwise it won't. Sometimes it takes some fiddling, but pretty much anything at least a month old without anti will run.
I don't know if Irfan View is open source or not, but it is free & it's perfect for viewing & quick simple edits. Sometimes I fire up a VM to run it on Linux for some niche tasks.
There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying "Formerly Twitter". Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what's going on..
I don't don't think this is useful at all, if it only results in a next button occasionally popping up.