> It used to be my go-to site for all things computer related.

Me too.

They were slightly cheaper than Amazon for the same product, then I did a big project which got slightly downsized and I wound up with $400 in "restocking fees" for a couple of pieces of factory-hologram-tape sealed network gear, after I paid $100 in return shipping.

Learned my lesson real fast.

A lot of people seem to not realize that windows 11 does in fact officially support all that older hardware. Fully.

The gating isn't hardware support. It's the license. To get officially supported version (that contains all the same driver packages, APIs, and layers), you need to get win11 IOT.

Good luck getting an official license for that instead of going the genocide burial route.

To be fair, they then gave everyone an easy way to continue having access to free updates to 10.

And current price hikes on RAM aren't helping the "hardware sales" part.

27% of the cosmos is not insignificant. Unless it is distributed very unevenly. So now your theory has to explain that.

Technically a lot of current build out seems to be already pretty circular. Nvidia invests into AI companies, AI companies invest in datacenters, buy hardware to run them from Nvidia.

The expectation is that this will run everything. Including most products by these companies.

Every single one on the list is already all-in on battlefield AI applications. Everything from drones to ISR processing to something as basic as hardening communications against jamming is in process of being moved to AI-based systems.

We've already had some test runs of very early versions of things like AI-based jamming and drone control in Ukraine, and it's clear that it's vastly superior to existing mainly either algorithmic or pre-programmed systems. This experience is in fact one of the main reasons why all four went into AI in these fields hard in spite of likely being massive losers as manufacturers of legacy systems.

That because they don't expect to survive if they don't.

The ones Samsung got their start making.

Sure do :) I can provide more if you want, but start there, as it's a good read. Indeed, blind people are much better at understanding the consequences of colours than they are at knowing what colours things are..

... it's back to noodles then.

It appears not to at solar system scales. Because we can plot the trajectory of a satellite to intercept an object beyond the orbit of Pluto without considering its effects. But at galaxy scales, it distorts the effects of gravity and galactic rotation sufficient to be easily observable.

Magic stuff, this dark matter. It knows when to be there and when not to.

Local CDNs do nothing for real time data (banking transactions, for example). But for the average bandwidth consumer, I suppose it doesn't matter where the TikTok chicks twerking originates from.

Ask Saddam Hussein how that went.

Joe! for the win.

Why wait for MS? Just call the fake Amazon customer service line and ask them for help...

Interspersed with the occasional foray to the back porch, the better to put a few shells through the 12 gauge towards the cross-country skiers averting their eyes from the glare of the basement windows on Thanksgiving Eve... And blissfully somewhat out of range of #6, since Bill is too cheap to buy 00.