My copy I lost the key that came with my disc ~15 years ago so it thinks it's a pirated copy. Thanks microsoft. I only have windows installed to play steam games.
 
Luckily Valve has their own branch of Wine, Proton:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)
 
And apparently many/most games support running on Proton these days. I'm sorely tempted to just yeet windows once and for all.
 
I will upgrade my computer when I feel like it, thanks. On my "gaming pc" I visit like, 6 websites (gmail, steam, slashdot and a handful of others) and use Steam, security updates are nice but I'm not at enormous risk, and if anything happens to the PC I'll just wipe it and reinstall anyways. This is my only windows PC at this point, there's nothing to back up.

Home assistants to do things like, set a timer, set an alarm, check the weather, turn "smart" lights on/off, adjust "smart" thermostat can be handled by an open source LLM running on a raspberry pi class device. I suspect offline "home assistants" will start hitting shelves soon enough. Weather or news API is the only tricky thing as there's some cost associated with it; the device might come with a 1 or 2 year free subscription to those services.
 
As soon as those devices become available/reliable, I plan on ditching our google home setup.

It's not all that hard to make your household Zero-Waste. If you feel that badly about landfill methane, then make your household Zero-Waste and stop contributing to the problem.

It also restricts the voice of the youth on political issues. Youth can't vote*, but they can express their opinions, and youth are overwhelmingly liberal until at least age 16
 
*In a handful of cities, including, yes, you guessed it, SF, youth citizens can vote at 16 in local elections, and public high schools are polling stations, so most youth in those areas have already been voting for 2 years before they leave public schools

Why not sanction 500, or even 1000 at a time? 15,000? Let's cast a wide net, and then redact as necessary. This is one of those rare cases where "shoot first, ask questions later" is probably a valid solution.

BBC is worlds better than Fox News and all other cable news. Stop complaining.

I read a bunch and I also really struggled with the first book. I would start a new chapter and it would take me a page to realize we'd skipped forward/back in time, and that the characters were somehow related. I'm american born with no asian heritage, and I found all the names really difficult to follow as well. I thought the plot was good but the translation was awful. I did not bother with books 2 or 3

All those are true, but I am disappointed that you didn't even mention that 90% of drivers are nose-down in their phone and not even noticing that they're running down kids on bikes.

These chatbots aren't stupid. They're selling the products that Amazon et al want to sell you. You were offered short fingered cycling gloves because the manufacturer paid Amazon to sell them to you.

Have you lived in a cave the last 25 years? They have this thing now, it's called "social media"

False. Large datacenters and distributed virtualization platforms modulate cycle availability to maintain relatively constant power consumption. Lower priority tasks are often paused, or given higher priority, depending upon the overall power load.

There is a lot of science thrown at load modulation because of the way power is billed. For commercial and industrial customers, electricity is billed based on both average and peak demand, and the latter is tremendously more expensive than the former, so it is important to keep peak demand low.

Incidentally, this is why EV charging networks will all fail eventually, because they will never turn a profit. I'll give you one example: an EV charger on Dominion Energy in Virginia... a single 75kWh charging session at 150kW will cost the EV charging company approximately $26,800 in peak demand for that billing cycle, and generate approximately $35 in top-line revenue.

So, you can bet your ass that datacenters are going to deploy whatever means are necessary to manage their peak demand, including priority modulation.

...Did you mean "Taylor Swift Concert Tickets"?

I know we can't depend on the MAGA congress to do shit right now, but once the US is over its fascination with right-wing fascism, maybe they can get around to passing a law forbidding the exportation of data outside the US without user consent on an opt-in basis...

Right, but it is not for the sensationalist "micro plastics get into everything" claim. It's because the method and procedure were faulty. They are drawing a specious conclusion to further their political agenda against the oil industry.