No, instead you had much more frequent and distributed outages across every site in existence because there wasn't an easy and well-understood paved road to scalable web infrastructure. Thus the recession and almost-extinction of the "Slashdot Effect" of websites being DDoS'd into oblivion by legitimate traffic.

Time zones are a thing, and have been since the railroads were built in the 19th century.

My favorite haiku:

It's not DNS...
There's no way it can be DNS...
It was DNS.

So increase the fine for driverless vehicles until they get the point. If the fine isn't a deterrent for a bad actor, then increase the fine for that bad actor until it is.

If they're profiting from breaking the law, then change the law to make it unprofitable, and you'll see the behavior change instantly.

I'm doing this, right now, at home. I added a cheap eBay Quadro M4000 card and installed Proxmox with that as the primary GPU for the Linux host, and then used IOMMU to share the Radeon RX6900 XT, sound hardware, and USB keyboard / mouse into the VM, which is backed with ZFS storage for snapshotting.

Fuck your shitty updates - when I see there's an update available, I snapshot the system. If the update fucks the system, I revert to the snapshot and ignore that update.

I see maybe a 1-2% performance hit for a whole lot of DR enablement, I always have a Linux desktop available on a third monitor (the Proxmox host), and two displays running at full hardware speed plugged into the Windows VM.

As it turns out, the way to fix Microsoft products is to put them in an impenetrable box that you can roll back when they break stuff.

Of course you could just create your own version of that by running Linux and creating a Windows VM, which allows you to snapshot and revert. Extra credit if you base your VM storage on a sturdy filesystem with built-in snapshotting like ZFS.

Shitty updates that fuck you over are a VM stop + restore away from not being a problem any more.

Which is why you're insane to run Windows on bare metal if you don't have to.

It's sad when dealing with IOMMU + PCI-E passthrough is more reliable than Windows USB support surviving a patch deployment.

This is the reason I spent time to virtualize Windows via Proxmox with PCI passthrough. Minor overhead increase on the CPU that is never pegged in exchange for a dead-simple way to roll back shitty updates with ZFS snapshots.

The best way to fix Microsoft products is to virtualize them in QEMU / KVM.

If wireless charging is the new standard, why would anyone still be buying USB adapters?

It's not like wireless charging is banned in the EU. You just also have to include a USB port that has the capability to charge the device *as well*. You know, like every phone sold on the market with wireless charging already does.

What a ridiculous argument.

Because laws can never be amended to include new standards, right?

And in the meantime, we don't have an explosion of proprietary garbage that doesn't enter landfills. On balance, I think we're still better off than we were before the EU enacted these laws.

When you can't find a flaw in the argument or the supporting data, attack the messenger!

I have a thunderbolt cable with a magnetically attaching end. It charges my laptop and connects external displays, etc. All problems solved.

The MagSafe cable is still in it's OEM packaging because I don't need to carry around a single-purpose cable when I can use a USB-C cable with the charger Apple supplied, and that same cable can be used for data connectivity as well.

Until a law comes around that mandates opt-out. Which is exactly what this law is.

More than that, it's opt-out. If there actually is a "cost savings" that the tenants actually see, they won't be too fired up to opt out unless they have another reason besides cost.

These industry mouthpieces love to lie.

Sounds like you have a problem with those applications.

Note that I said "A good media player" - neither the YouTube site nor Twitch need apply for that designation. Maybe submit a feature request to those companies if they don't support something that has been widely available for years?