If most of your business can be replaced with software (AI), then you will not be able to compete anymore. Anyone with spare computing power and electricity is going to be able to do what you already do. And there are countries other than the US that are using government money to fund infrastructure for power, networking, and data centers.

Wasnt DECs True64 unix or something?

And even if you didn't want AI, you're getting it anyways.

The consolidation of corporations has placed almost the entire tech industry under a tiny number of people, a tech oligarchy. They decide what consumers must accept, rather than the market working it out through demand.

exploiting the labor of others is very scalable.

Boomer is not ok

It's like flies to shit.

I renamed all my git branches from "master" to "main" primarily because doing so upsets a certain type.

As a consumer, my response will be to use my smartphone for twice as many years. Or to buy a lower end one if the one I have breaks.

I feel like they left this one out of Idiocracy, but it would have fit the theme perfectly.

HP-UX was never any good though, it was always the worst of the UNIXs

you have 4 kW, someone else has 0 kW. On average 1200-1500 Watts is pretty fair rough estimate for AC, and it worked out to a nice round number of homes which is rhetorically desirable.

I don't save money with solar panels (and whole house battery), but not relying on PG&E and being able to instantly disconnect myself from the grid is a flexibility I've been happy to pay for.

And we probably won't replace semi trucks with EVs very quickly. For two reasons I can think of:
First, the lack of charging infrastructure and grid capacity that could handle a 1.2MW charger for a significant number of trucks at say a typical truck stop.
The second is that there's depreciation built into the industry. So most owners will want to squeeze the useful life out of their fleet before replacing them.

When has fascist dictators cared about the rulrs?

The president can't invade foreign countries without the approval of congress either

Inertia will keep them from going down significantly. As it takes energy to change orbits, up or down, your velocity is what establishes the orbit. Collisions tend to make the debris orbits more eccentric.