That is genuinely interesting. You're absolutely right I just checked Microcentre's website and about 1/3rd of the motherboards on the front page from Intel have a PS2 port, and one even has 2 for separate mouse and keyboard...
Curiously I could only find one single AMD board. Mind you for $800 that motherboard better include a blowjob port too.
Terrible how Microsoft abuses it's paying customers.
Indeed. 99.99% of them won't even notice they had a bug in their software before it is fixed. How dare they feel so abused. It's like that time I got touched as a little boy at school. Okay I didn't actually get touched, but I read somewhere that someone touched someone else and that could have been me so I felt abused by it!
In the meantime I'm still facing a Thunderbird regression that hasn't been fixed leaving me the option of running a version of Thunderbird several years out of date or simply use Outlook, and I'm also facing a Seafile regression that's preventing me browsing a directory a version of Seafile that is newer than about June 2024. I heard OneDrive had a similar bug... for about a week, how abused those people must feel!
Because a bug that'll be fixed in short order will "destroy the west"? If this actually is a risk then the problem wasn't Microsoft. Maybe we've just a bunch of soft pussies who deserve to be destroyed.
The FTP protocol (yes ATM machine, PIN number, RAS syndrome, I I know what I wrote) was invented by an Indian. They also have their own home grown RISC-V processors. Beyond IT we owe a lot of microwave research to foundations developed in India, including designing the first microwave horn antenna, and they are a big player in research and development for quantum key distribution for communication, the DRDO developed their own home grown ramjets and scramjets, they pioneered the first cars and engines operating on CNG (and now the autorickshaws the country over all use CNG as a primary fuel, and several cities have abolished diesel burning busses), they discovered water on the moon before NASA did too.
They've got quite a way to go to match your racism but I'm sure they'll get there too.
Those who do NOT use AI heavily and keep up their own ability to solve problems will succeed over those who do not, in the long run.
Only in a world suddenly devoid of useful tools. Someone who learned to do long division may have a great skill, but is practically demolished in every case by someone using a calculator. Providing a person has a calculator they don't need to know how to do long division, as long as they have a calculator handy.
My niece can do long division, she just learned it at school. I can't, I'm just an engineer who uses complex math daily as part of work.
If AI can do the work of the thinking, then it stands to reason that the thinking wasn't that important and can be substituted by the use of a tool.
*Comment is about learning another language, not learning your first language as a child, for obvious reason that one is learned by hearing and speaking first.
I would argue they are more useful than any other skill. Being able to communicate via written text allows time to absorb and check your work. It's slower, but there's a reason it's generally simpler to read and write a language then it is to hear and speak it.
We're talking about a 45 year investment timeframe. That's not $105Tn, that's $4,500Tn assuming zero growth with is a silly assumption (unless we bomb each other back to the stone age).
But the bigger problem isn't investment dollars but rather execution. You can spend as much money as you want, if qualified people or other resources aren't available you still can't achieve anything. That's a concern in Europe now after Germany announced a $500bn future investment plan recently: neighbouring countries are worried they won't have resources for infrastructure themselves as qualified workers move projects to Germany. The same applies here. That's a LOT of spending.
It's 2025, no one cares about disk space. My Linux server is installed on the smallest SSD I could buy, and the drive is 90% empty.
The great thing about Linux is that you didn't need fifty copies of every DLL
You left out a word. The great thing about Linux *Distributions* is that you didn't need fifty copies of every DLL. Distribution maintainers put a shitload of work into avoiding the kind of DLL hell that Windows suffered from. However that only works when you play within their environment. As soon as you start stepping outside of it, outside of their configuration, outside of their organised dependency tree, then things start to get ugly.
Linux isn't immune from DLL hell, quite the opposite. Many-a Linux distro have failed a distribution upgrade precisely because of incompatible libraries installed outside of the curated environment distro maintainers have setup, and this is all to frequently the result of someone wanting to be on the cutting edge, desperately installing Awesomething-2.0.0beta1 which depends on Criticallibrary-2.2.7beta1 only to find that Criticallibrary2.1.10-stable was the only allowable installed one on the system. Then someone force installs it all, and at the next distribution upgrade the entire system craps itself as Criticalibrary can't be updated to the latest version due to a conflict.
It's quite obtuse to think that Snap exists only because RedHat is trying to screw with standards. It's the same line of thinking that says Systemd exists only because of RedHat. The reality is Snap is just one of several attempts in parallel by multiple people to solve a very real problem. It's easy to look at Linux with rose coloured glasses on if you've never experienced the problem in question, but there's a reason people dedicate engineering resources to fixing it, and it's not because of NIH or because they hate users.
A few things:
a) the description mentions Hello (specifically mentioning USB) and Cryptography. Both touch on WinRE - it's not just a boot process, it's a micro version of Windows. My guess is they screwed something up there.
b) the Shift+Reboot has nothing to do with UEFI. It has to do with Windows telling UEFI to follow a specific boot process. While at one point Shift+Reboot was an emergency restart that specifically forced a full UEFI cold boot, Microsoft changed Window's behaviour to do a warm boot directly into the WinRE environment. This is windows triggering how the computer is restarted - and that has been a problem since the days of Windows 7 where a "reboot" was not as rebootish as the name implied.
If you're trying to find an easy way to get to the UEFI screen you could try creating a command line shortcut. "shutdown
Not sure if any of those specifically fix your problem.
I should add to this that one of WinRE's primary use cases is to reinstall Windows from installation media, i.e. USB. A version of this pre-dates Visa and USB support has actually been part of it from Windows XP days. But WinRE as an installed system component only came about with Windows 10.
WinRE is not a bootloader. It has had perfectly functional USB support since the days of Vista. Also what is PS/2? Is this something boomers used to confuse for a playstation? (I'm joking, but only kinda, computers haven't shipped with PS/2 for a long time, and the option for PS/2 emulation no longer exists in modern BIOSes meaning you can't even use PS/2 > USB adapters to get old keyboards functional).
But seriously which era is your computer from? You're talking about something I've not seen for over 15 years.
Fix what? The problem of having too much money and not enough lawyers from a large corporation suing you for damages?
This is largely due to the fact that they don't travel at speeds likely to cause fatalities.
That is incorrect on all accounts*. Firstly Waymos do travel on highways at highway speeds. Secondly highways account for only 9% of fatalities. Most fatalities occur in rural areas where idiots are about, but just shy of half are in urban / residential / low speed areas.
* The exception here is if you are saying that Waymos don't have accidents because they actually stick to the speed limit and don't drive like morons. In this aspect I agree with you. Speeding beyond the limit of the designated road is a major cause of accidents.
"Murdered" is a bit of a strong word, especially when you state you're referring to an "accident".
"Accident" is an interesting word when in many cases someone is directly at fault. Is it an "accident" if the driver is drunk? Is it an "accident" if the driver is speeding? You may note that in official statistics they don't actually use the word "accident" for this reason as it implies no one is at fault and the situation was unexpected and unforeseen.
Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad.
