> And still capturing audio where

This may come as a surprise, but most phones can capture audio these days. Has your state made them illegal yet?

Not yet! although its not legal to do so.

> The need for actual lawyers will persist..

I agree. But, we will need a lot fewer of them. My small company called our lawyer a lot more before the advent of AI. Mostly to clarify a few things or review simpler contracts. Now, for simple things, we do not call them at all.

Their work will get cheaper so it will become more accessible for people, increasing demand over all would be my guess to some degree at least.

I anticipate an effect on society that troubles me:

(1) Rich people will use human expertise and "the rest of us" will use AI models to get by. This could happen in law, but also in medicine (in particular in societies that - like in the US - do not have universal healthcare).

(2) A positive effect in both domains may be that access to knowledge will be broader and cheaper.

I hope I will be wrong about (1) - I would not like to live in such a two-class society.

(1) already exists. A more banal example is rich people get their kids private tutors. Poor kids lean more on public resources, wiki, the youtube and the internet. Economic forces will always dictate this kind of change.

> This is an incredibly boring task.

We all want super exciting jobs. But plenty have boring jobs like this. Between not having a job or having a boring job that pays well, the choice is obvious for many of us.

Are you defending doing boring work?

I personally never minded doing migrations. I guess I don't really have to anymore though. Weird.

The problem is that in many companies doing migrations would be the only job, thus now there is none.

"Windows", "Word" and "Excel" are just plain English words, but it appears you can trademark them for specific industry. Maybe you have to make it more specific. Like "Microsoft Windows"?

Yep. I faced the exact same issue. Too many times. And then just gave up.

Very odd. I've used DeepSeek heavily for some weeks, and haven't seen a single Chinese character either in its replies or its thinking. Are you using a quantified model or a different provider by any chance?

> I miss Craigslist more and more

I do not. Craigslist was completely anonymous. Marketplace a lot less so. This makes a massive difference.

> marketplace seems to be where everyone in my area has congregated.

I think that is not just limited to your area.

In Switzerland there is tutti, in Austria there is willhaben, Germany has Kleinanzeigen (afaik that's owned by eBay)

Same for events, plenty of local or more spread sites for events in each of these counties.

So glad my general area didn't fall into the Facebook trap.

> it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

You are closer to a normie than most here I assume.

selfprivacy appears to be limited to a handful of services. e.g. It is not clear to me if I can host postgresql with it. i.e. It is not a general purpose container hosting product.

> OS/2 was the only thing I remembering being great.

Thinkpads were great too. I had the Thinkpad 701C with the butterfly keyboard. It was awesome for its time.

> If there is ever a conflict, US will seize assets of whatever country..

Canadians, and the rest of the world is finding out that you don't even need a conflict for US to lay claim over your stuff. "We want it", is perfectly legitimate and legal reason for the taking.