I think you don't understand the concept of a "crisis". Sharing cars is subject to a subscription service, and in a place with generally excellent car free mobility it becomes an optional expense.

The cost of living crisis has hit many things in the UK, Netflix subscriptions, internet, phone replacement, eating out, entertainment, type of stuff bought. The second hand market is booming. The optional expenses (which for most this service is) are plummeting. Hell the only one really making a profit are those people who make sweaters, and only then because buying a new woolen jumper is cheaper than turning the heating on allowing people to save on their gas bill.

A fuckton of the UK services industry is currently under dire straits. There is nothing wrong with the business model, they are only pulling out of one specific location where it currently isn't viable.

It is. Very much so in the UK, and many parts of Europe. Your problem is you equation considers the two possibilities as being "own a car" vs "share a car". The reality is the real question is "share a car" vs "don't share a car". Ownership is not in question in a place where car free mobility is trivial to achieve. You may not understand what it's like to live in a place where needing a car is optional for all but rare conveniences. (I wrote above a joke about needing to go to a hardware store, but really not owning a car, and not sharing a car didn't stop my sister from renovating her apartment in Hammersmith, it's like she used a website and all the things magically appeared at her home).

There is no "peak" time here. People aren't using this for their morning commute. They are using them for relatively rare trips which usually don't massively align with others. Mathematically there simply is no problem, not unless someone decides to create a "hardware store day" where everyone without a car suddenly needs one to go buy a bunch of 2x4.

While Zipcar may be a curiosity in the USA, it's just one of several car-sharing platforms in London. It's very much not a unique service there.

That's my point. For very many adults the adapting will be burden on them. I see you've never dealt with a bored kid before. The article is written from an adult's perspective because it recognises that adults will be involved and impacted by this change, even if only to support kids with whatever new thing they find.

(Assuming that new thing isn't simply a VPN that allows them to keep accessing their social media).

While I'm with you in general there's a few points to make here: The vast majority of Windows 11 users log-in via PIN - Microsoft nags you to do so quite hard. When login via Hello is enabled there's literally no button press required, on successful entry of the PIN it auto-logs on. If you have at any point enabled windows Hello then there simply is no button. (Fun fact I just double checked this,... I can't even not login via PIN now... Not without going through the "I forgot my PIN" prompts).

And on top of everything, there is no menu to speak of. There hasn't been a button that said "login" or otherwise properly prompted the user since Windows XP. Windows Vista introduced a little arrow that has stayed with Windows 10, ... and as I said I don't actually know what Windows 11 has because I've never seen it. Not on my home PC, not on my work PC.

I've legit not seen someone reach for a mouse to log in on Windows for a decade.

Except it is debunked bullshit. Despite virtually countless exploits being discovered there were precisely zero actually demonstrated outside the lab. Your concerns are just not worth giving a shit about unless you're the type of person running a virtualised environment for untrusted parties in a secure facility. In which case apply a patch an move on with your life.

Thankyou for admitting your original post was incorrect bullshit, I mean you did predicate it on the fact that Intel was cutting corners, but glad you admit now that what they did was industry standard. It's nice for you to agree with reality occasionally.

Citation required. Show us one example of a practical exploit outside of a carefully controlled lab environment. I'll wait. (No I won't, I don't intend to die of old age here).

And yet there were plenty of practical lab exploits demonstrated for AMD (and ARM) as well.

Honestly I'm not surprised you can't compute what other people think. Not only is most of what you wrote wrong, you even contradicted your original post. Thanks for playing.

As much as I like to live in your fantasy world, the reality is pointing to singular incidents doesn't help. If what you said was remotely relevant the war would have been over as soon as we hoped. Unfortunately in the real world it seems Russia is perfectly capable of manufacturing.

Sorry, I really really want to get behind your delusion. I too would love to think that Russia only exists because of the brilliance of the people they are attacking, but there's just zero evidence to back that up, and plenty of evidence against it.

Oh yeah this debunked bullshit. Sorry but literally everyone was doing "unsafe and insecure things" because that is how modern highly optimised CPUs are designed. AMD, Intel, and ARM have all been hit with a variety of these lab-only "exploits".

The fact that you need to dig back to that ol' chestnut shows you've really not paid any attention in the industry for the past decade. Intel has done so much shit, and the only thing you fall back on is the one thing they actually didn't do badly / differently from anyone else.

CEOs don't engineer (nor do you want them to). Their job is to fund engineering and put in place management to ensure engineers are able to work at their best. Under Geisinger's time Intel massively increased it's engineering workforce, restructured the entire management chain, and ultimately looks like he brought the company on plan to deliver 18A.

I'm really not sure what you're complaining about here.

Intel wasn't asking for a bail-out, never has. Intel was asking for a hand-out. There's a difference. It's a CEO's job to source money. If the government is willing to provide it then it's your job to lobby for it.

Intel's staff count increased by close to 10% in 2021 and 10% again in 2022. They went on a massive hiring spree. Gee, maybe you should have done a quick Google before looking like an idiot.

It would be if your firmware update addressed a safety issue on your phone or laptop.

E.g. The Google Pixel 4a was very much subject to a "recall" for a firmware update.
Here's the UK government on that phone: https://www.gov.uk/product-saf...
Here's the Australian government on that phone: https://www.productsafety.gov....
Apparently the CPSC didn't give a shit in the USA, but Google still sent out a recall notice to all Pixel 4a owners.

A recall is pretty easy to execute when for the most part it is a 15min job by a ground technician while the cleaning crew is on the plane. Also most of the world wasn't on holiday this week.

That's not context. That's a conspiracy spurred by a coincidence. Airbus has addressed multiple hardware issues since 2009 for a variety of issues. There's zero evidence that this is out of the ordinary, especially since for the most part it was a simple software update for the majority of their produced fleet that is quick and easy to apply meaning it doesn't make sense not to do it under any context.

The only person who will get a message is you, one from the police and the courts for sabotage / damage of property.

I'm not sure why you think vigilante justice will work out in anyone's favour other than the group being targeted. Are you new to planet earth?

Who said law? Just because the city votes to consider you a public nuisance doesn't mean you've broken the law, especially when your activity was originally granted a permit for operation.

All the city has done is sent a letter. Waymo is free not to comply. If they don't the city will need to actually take legal action and convince a judge that their opinion is worth more than the permit granted for them to operate before any "law" is in effect.