An interesting discussion is why at earlier times, this did not happen.

Even during the depression in the 1930's, people did not stop having sex.

Analysis by others seems to point out that the most fundamental requirement will be SSE 4.2 and the popcnt SSE instruction specifically, paired with the most fundamental requirement being TPM 2.0/Secure boot this is basically any CPU in the last six years or so (rough estimate there), but that's mostly the TPM requirement holding you back. SSE 4.2 is about 12 (? I think I didn't look up the age, I'm just guessing here) years old in CPUs, I think the standard is 15 years old. Anyway, the bare minimum requirement in this story is a nothing burger. More importantly is the fact that Microsoft is still going whole hog with AI integration which sucks. If you didn't have the bare minimum requirement, you weren't running Windows 11 to begin with (without hacking the OS to work). But clearly, they're gearing up to make cloud+AI in their OS an absolute requirement be it you like that or not. I think that's the bigger story.

Its entirely about this. Either the ML will be the new printing press or it won't but if it is they want to make sure the crown remains in control of it this time, and damn sure they are the royalty.

It's not the missing. It's the you indicating "because of this, it isn't the year of the wayland desktop". No year is going to be the year of the wayland desktop. You keep missing this aspect in what I write.

As far as I know, Firefox is only available from Ubuntu as a Snap -- at least using the standard/default package repositories. I think Emacs as well and TFA now says Thunderbird too. If people want that or want to mess around with configuring other repos (PPA), fine, to each their own, but many others don't want that. Other than Canonical not having to support packaging for those various apps, and wasting a bunch of disk space with the snaps, not sure how it benefits them to alienate a segment of their prospective users.

How to Install Firefox as DEB on Ubuntu (Not Snap)

Allow me, and let us look at Pew research.https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/nearly-half-of-u-s-adults-say-dating-has-gotten-harder-for-most-people-in-the-last-10-years/

80 percent of women only find 20 percent of men attractive: https://www.eviemagazine.com/p... If a dating site is too beyond the pale, perhaps Connecticut State University will lmeet your exacting standards https://studyfinds.org/unattra... It might be easier to read the Psychology Today article regarding this emerging trend: https://www.psychologytoday.co....

Divorce https://www.forbes.com/advisor...

I too switched away from Ubuntu when they started replacing packages with snaps. Sure, if people *want* a snap instead, fine, but I'm not a fan of not having the choice for myself. I strongly considered Debian, but went with Mint 21 (Cinnamon) -- Snap is available, but disabled by default.

Right because of the regulations, that already exist.

Anyone actually responsible for engineering at a coal fired generating station will tell you they are running a "flue gas remediation facility" that happens to generate a little electricity as it is.

Or they're unwilling to stick it out past a release cycle or two and give up on the long-term too quickly. Sounds like pretty standard short-term, gotta get my stock options, upper-management / board-room thinking to me.

Yup. Apple needs to stop supporting their phones for so long, so people will buy new ones more often. That's the math of it. I'm actually against that and believe Android phone makers and Google should support theirs longer. The latter is better for consumers and the planet (less waste) but worse for the corporate bottom line.

Ah, vibes. Perhaps your vibe narrative is more involved in your manshaming than you might care to admit.

And since we are analyzing responses, yours has a distinct "I have no cogent response" to it.

I'm angry about nothing. I'm just a person with an interest in male/female relationships, and the deterioration of them in recent years. That interest came about during my many years of work trying to get young women interested in STEM careers.

The same "reasons" were always given for why the young ladies weren't attracted to those fields, and despite that narrative, and always working from that narrative, it didn't budge the interest level - and before you pull another manshaming move, I was a token male - all of the decisions were made by women. But I had a strong interest in helping.

You know what they say about trying the same thing over and over again and it never succeeds.

Some people call that insanity. I just call it letting your narrative control you. But one thing I learned is that after all of my research, people such as yourself have no interest in changing their narrative. So you go do you.

Let me first say - I think you are correct

but - I also don't think that is the only explanation. One other I think reasonably likely possibility is they are hedging. The law gives the POTUS authority to delay enforcement for some additional months if he finds there is 'progress' being made toward divestment.

Progress - is one of those squishy bits of language that can mean anything anyone wants it to mean. TikTok knows they are popular with the Biden voter, and they know an election is coming. Even thought he initial drop dead date is after the election, there isn't anything to say Biden can't announce they are being given the extension early. They might want to secure the extra time by threatening to take their ball and go home. There is not grantee they will be able to get an injunction or stay while they fight this in court, or they might simply want to secure a few extra months to see home many young Americans they can convince to become transexuals.

except that fore the most part education and the ability of the public to think critically have not changed THAT much.

Its the social media that is new, and the degree of near constant coupling to it via smart phone that is newer still.

So using a little of that 'critical thinking' clearly you are wrong and social media is very much the problem.

I would like to think the ascendant wing of the GOP is the Goldwatter wing.

Nixon was were things started to go wrong and we are going to put it right; by moving to the right.

Here in the west, we have disincentivized male/female relationships to the point where many males have largely given up. Some whack statistics out there.

Marriage If you marry, she can divorce you for any reason, and take your children, most of your stuff, and you get to pay child support, and often alimony, as well as half of your retirement. around 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women.

What person would go skydiving if there was a 50 percent chance their parachute would fail, or make an investment where there was a 50 percent chance of the investment failing, and not only failing, but continuing to fail for as long as they live?

The relationship gap

And for single men, it doesn't get better. There are some really odd stats there 63 percent of men under 30 classify themselves as single, and only 34 percent of women in the same age bracket do.

Wut? Weird as that sounds, there is the so called situationship thing. A study of dating apps show that 80 percent of women find only 20 percent of men to be attractive in any way.

So if only a small group of men are getting chosen for "dating", presumably the pretty boys, by multiple women, while the bog standard guys are ignored, we can see how we arrive at that strikingly different relationship gap between men and women.

The bad boy thing

What most women learned in High school has been extended until their mid 30's. Bad boys. The tingles. Choosing to engage in sex with them and thinking they can establish a relationship.

Background - I was in a band, drag raced cars and motorcycles, motocrossed, and played ice hockey. From personal experience, I can tell you that the bad boy thing was real. Cuz I wuz one. I was the guy the local busybody moms network told their daughters to stay away from. And I never thanked them for the references!

But the young ladies are supposed to grow out of that. Today, those tingles have become an addiction. Since most guys are not bad boys, they miss out.

The risks

One of the biggest forces that have created the so called manosphere is social media, where males have been able to share their stories of personal destruction. We are told to #believewomen, and #metoo, and in the frenzied days after "white" women took it over, many men lost their careers and families.

And yes, an example of what might happen is best exemplified by this little story from Australia 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The story is how a woman decided to accuse her fiancé of rape, destroyed his life, got him sent to Oz's version of SuperMax, destroyed his parent's lives financially and his mother divorced his father.

She then started accusing his father of things that made little sense, a new case was opened, and the new investigator figure out in a short time that the accusations were false, and if not for the idea that women cannot make false accusations, the man would not have been incarcerated, his parents would have still been married and financially solvent. So much for #believewomen

Back to today

Males have perhaps a built in tendency to do a risk/reward assessment. So in today's world, one where if married, she will divorce him, where approaching a woman can get him in trouble, and in any event, unless he's in the rarified class that she finds attractive, he stands no chance, it turns out that a decision to go his own way is not illogical.