Win9x and Win2k (and the other NT descendants) are fundamentally different operating systems. In general, NT had a much more robust kernel, so system panics were and remain mainly hardware issues, or, particularly in the old days, dodgy drivers (which is just another form of hardware issue). I've seen plenty of panics on *nix systems and Windows systems, and I'd say probably 90-95% were all hardware failures, mainly RAM, but on a few occasions something wrong with the CPU itself or with other critical hardware like storage device hardware. There were quite a few very iffy IDE cards back in the day.

The other category of failure, various kinds of memory overruns, have all but disappeared now as memory management, both on the silicon and in kernels, have radically improved. So I'd say these are pretty much extinct, except maybe in some very edge cases, where I'd argue someone is disabling protections or breaking rules to eke out some imagined extra benefit.

threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch" Warren said on Friday

Higher than paying for multiple streaming services? Is there really choice at the moment or different flavours of lack-of-choice? Surely consolidation of the lack of choice is more convenient.

Perhaps the ownership-over-information ship has sailed?

It shouldn't be that you can use your monopoly position of yesterday in order to leverage and have a monopoly position in the market of tomorrow

Hello, which planet are YOU from?

They can just recycle Twitter the way mainstream news does.

They want to drink a glass of water without getting their mouth wet.

To be fair, their complaint is probably best translated at "Look at meeeeee!"

We need to sue them too - the NYT have been kind enough to put up a wall to protect us from their recycled drivel and now Perplexity have covertly injected some of it into our minds. Wtf!?!

A shame Google didn't buy it then it would have been shut down. There's still hope, I suppose.

I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution...

That would actually make a nice novelty toilet paper. Someone could send a sample to the White House for the official stamp of approval (presumably orange-brown :-)

I'm thinking very very stupid. No sprues for casting.

Trump just made millions of Americans' penises smaller.

Agreed. This is all stuff that at MOST should be accessible over the LAN. The ESP32 is cheap and provides the WiFi and enough power to run a simple RESTful web app. If I actually need/want to access it remotely, it'll be through a well protected integrated web servie on a jump box.

A cheaper manufacturer could probably make the ESP32 do double duty as the primary micro-controller with a suitable interrupt routine.

The situation was worse than I thought. According to the AAIB report, they tested the material and found the glass transition temperature to be about 53C, so the jackass printed it in PLA.

> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.