Yep, I see all the warnings and I wonder why you can't have a fire in the fireplace. We took the hose off dad to blow out the candles on by 97th birthday cake.
But it's astounding that people would be on oxygen and STILL BE SMOKING! WTF?

Except that he's in a zero-turn scooter.

So many people were up in arms about the repeal of net neutrality but I'll bet nobody noticed any degradation in their data speeds.

Given my current status as a primary caregiver for a parent who's on oxygen, I would pay money for an oxygen concentrator that would follow him around the house so I don't have to wrangle the hose all the time. That said, the power requirements are brutal. The machine draws a constant 450 watts.

The lack of interoperability and buggy firmware will bork any AI's attempt to get everything to work together.

It won't be long before you won't own any software and it will only live in the cloud running on a damn browser and you'll rent it every month. Not on demand but every single month. BTW, if you think the Windows UX is garbage, try doing anything in a browser-based user-interface.

Microsoft insists on taking over your machine to apply updates and advertise crapware much to the annoyance of people who need to get things done. Adding AI to this mix will only make the UX more irritating.

I'm shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU at the prospect of an engineer running a company that makes product the requires engineering to create.
You need only look at a particular interview with Steve Jobs to understand this. He said that at one point Apple hired a bunch of MBAs to run things and it didn't work at all because they didn't know how to do anything. This also speaks to the reality that once a company loses sight of what made them a great company in the first place, they're effed. Churning out the same thing year after year isn't what makes a company great. That's why Hollywood studios get into trouble. Taking risks is part of what makes great companies great. MBAs don't understand taking risks. They want to minimize risk.

For those of you who haven't been paying attention, cookie-cutter, assembly line houses are the norm. Drive into any new housing development and they all look the same crammed onto the smallest piece of land possible. That's what you get from mass-production. It's not a new idea. All this is doing is reducing the production cost. Meanwhile, the affluent will be building custom or at the very least semi-custom homes.

As a cross-platform developer, I can tell you that Android is a godawful mess. That aside, I'm guessing that this is really a false flag and the DOJ actually is pissed that they can't backdoor iOS devices. Notice that no DOJ including this one is complaining that Windows has too big a market share and stigmatizes Mac users. That's the dog not barking.

Government cramming shitty CFL bulbs down people's throats because CFL manufacturers i.e. GE were going to lose their shirts once LEDs became viable. The same thing is happening with wind and solar. Cram it down the throat of consumers because once Gen 4 nuclear power gets past the bureaucratic log jam, nobody is going to want anything else. I'm going to predict that in about 15 years when solar fields are going to need to be replaced, they won't be.

The DOJ blames Microsoft for the inability of Apple to have an equal share of the corporate computing market. Oh, yeah, that never happened. It's amazing to me that governments insist on killing the golden goose because the tax revenue they get isn't enough to fund their crap agenda. Let's kill Elon Musk's businesses not because the government isn't benefiting from their commerce but because the government can't control him like they can NASA and General Motors. Just imagine what the country would look like if Garland had gotten onto the SCOTUS.

It's worth noting that this sort of thing didn't exist for years. IMHO, government putting its thumbs on the scale caused this. Moreover, the subscription business model caused this. Government, not content to wait until there's actual commerce that can be taxed, wants to get in on the racket (hint: that's where UBI money is going to come from).

Apple "working on a solution" is like them saying that offering paid upgrades (as opposed to a subscription-based app) is "too hard". (No, it's not)

"Fair" and "Fairness" have been co-opted into meaning "You're going to get butt-effed to make someone else happy and complaining about it is not ok."

The last digit is zero.