hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Shut up common pleb and go back to Fox News. And don't contact me again without a $1m donation.

Having the ability to update something, and actively forcing the issue are two very different discussions. Just because we could in theory restrict existing WiFi doesn't mean it is practical or enforceable to do so. Try telling a consumer that a product they legally purchased and was FCC approved resulted in a fine for its use due to some moron adding a hidden rider in a law to benefit his financier.

Because they were putting out data used for climate change analysis and it was becoming too obvious to damage was too extreme.

If you live in a place with severe weather events like floods or hurricanes or tornadoes then you can expect to get little or no notice in the coming years.

We all make trade-offs. Last November we made a pretty big one. Just now 5 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires just got rammed through the Senate. If you live in a rural community your hospital will be closing to pay for that. Some suburban hospitals will be closing too.

I don't think we talk about those trade-offs enough. We spend too much time talking about how much damage gets done to the poor but nobody gives a flying rat's ass about the poor.

So instead we should talk about how fucked everybody on this forum is now. We're going to take over a trillion dollars out of the US economy and hand it over to a handful of billionaires. They cannot possibly spend enough of it to keep the economy going. And the massive unfunded tax cuts are going to trash the bond market and with it the entire US economy.

The worst of it is scheduled for right after the midterm elections. And if you're over the age of 12 you should be able to figure out why.

You're going to get a lot of propaganda in your eyeballs over the next several months. And you need to figure out what to do about the economy first and foremost. But I don't think we can give up our moral panics. They're just too much fun.

It goes after individuals. The cops aren't there to protect you they are there to protect capital and business. They're there to make sure the economy moves smoothly for the people at the top.

Companies just want cheap labor and they could care less how they get it. So companies are happy to hire North Koreans and then act like they are victims when they get caught.

We could of course easily fix this by forcing verification but fat chance in hell that's going to happen.

In the meantime the supreme Court just upheld a Tennessee ban on general affirming care for minors. And you can say the r word now in public. Pretty fair trade for the entire US economy I think right? Right?

Definitely time for a different approach. If I were them, I'd definitely build out a domestic supply fully, but I'd also seek to build shorter cables with Spain and other near neighbours.

It's just not true that renewables generate electricity when we don't need it in the UK. Windpower is pretty much all consumed, and to the extent it's not, that's because it's readily switched off in a way that expensive nuclear can't be. We have only a small amount of solar, and again, we're able to consume it all. And of course, there are other solutions to excess supply of renewables besides selling it to variable-demand industrial consumers. The most obvious is storage -- short, medium and long-duration -- which is falling in price rapidly and extends the hours of usage for renewables.

This happened with others like Apple stores.

It's a interesting and legitimate sci-fi scenario but the real problem isn't going to be waste heat it's going to be diverting huge amounts of limited resources, ie construction and money and time, to building out nuclear power plants for the sole purpose of AI to replace white collar workers.

So instead of machines serving all of us they are going to survey very very very very tiny group of people. Techno feudalism.

Dude that heat energy has to go somewhere. So even if you have miraculous electricity you're still going to be belching heat into the atmosphere.

But fusion is getting the headlines while these big tech companies are building out nuclear power plants.

The resources that are going to go into building those plants are going to be diverted from other projects. They don't have to be but they will be because there is very very very little money for anything besides corporate profits.

The economy doesn't have to be a zero-sum game but it is. That's the mistake a lot of people make.

Honestly the more I see the more I think we are eventually going to give nukes to religious lunatics and it's going to be game over.

Down to the last cinder so that we can put a shitload of white collar workers out of work and drive up shareholder value just a little bit more.

I'm kidding I'm kidding. It's a lot more shareholder value.

Remember kids, it's a big club and you ain't in it.

Um did you forget Microsoft Office exists? Offices a little more than twice as profitable as Windows...

Microsoft forces computer upgrades as a giveaway to the oems. It's not for there well-being it's so the dell and HP and all of them have a chance to sell a new computer. This helps keep those oems locked into windows.

To be honest with Windows 10 I don't think they cared nearly as much because they were pretty damn sure the oems couldn't do jack shit and they were right.

The reason Windows 11 requires a computer upgrade is so they can do some of the nastier DRM and eventually lock down the platform like Apple iOS is. That's been their dream since Windows 8 but software vendors saw it coming a mile away and wouldn't have anything to do with Microsoft.

This isn't caused by enshitification. This is just Microsoft never being able to put together a decent tablet at a good price.

Microsoft has never been good at much of anything. Take away the antitrust violations and they wouldn't even be around anymore.

But thanks to those antitrust violations and our complete unwillingness to vote for politicians that enforce law they can do things like lose 6 billion dollars on the OG Xbox and then just throw out another one and then throw out another one and lose money on that one and on and on and on.

But people aren't leaving Windows because Windows got worse. For r the average user even Windows 11 is fine. You have to be a gamer or someone doing advanced content creation to notice the difference. And I mean advanced, if all you do is throw together a YouTube channel with a bit of 4K video you won't notice the problems Windows 11 brings to the table.

But the fact of the matter is most people just use computers to access email and shop and maybe a bit of porn and a cheap Android tablet is good enough.

If Microsoft was a more nimble company they could have put out a cheap Windows CE tablet to compete with Android but they're not so they ended up chasing Apple money on overly expensive devices and anyone who's dropping $1,000 on a tablet is just going to buy an Apple device.

Microsoft would have monetized the user anyway.

Corporations don't want to make money. They want to make all the money. They are in all consuming all devouring Force.