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Sorry, everyone. My mistake. An ISP which tolerates its users using ssh or https would be liable for $250,000 per day, not $125,000 per day. I realize that in the time since I posted, many of you made the determination "oh, it's not so bad" and bought houses in Michigan, now to be blindsided by that fact that I negligently underestimated the cost by a factor of two. I apologize for the error.

Michigan has a bill to ban VPNs where SSH is just another "circumvention tool" that must be blocked too. If SSH works, then your ISP is liable for $125,000 per day until they break it.

No more ports 22 or 443 in Michigan if this passes. No more e-commerce. No more banking. No more encrypted internet for anyone, of any age. Telnet and http-no-s are coming back! (Until someone tunnels through them; then ISPs will have to block those too.)

Free ChatGPT is rubbish for coding. For every bug it fixes, it creates two new ones - sometimes three.

And no, I don't want ads. I have never, ever, bought anything from an online advert in over 20 years of using the internet (Yes, I started when it was Arpanet).

>Where there's Africa, there's corruption.
Where there are people, there is corruption.

There, fixed that for you.

Hand-held phones you put in your pocket typically aren't desktop devices, but many VoIP desk phones used in businesses are. Some may even run Linux (I haven't checked).

Not all desktop devices use a mouse or keyboard.

That said, the total number of desktop phones running Linux is probably small enough to be considered noise, at least for now. But in a few years, who knows?

> It's not really applicable for businesses and companies, though, since they likely don't have the expertise or the man-hours required to cobble together their business-critical systems from used parts.

Even if they do have the expertise to do so, they have the wisdom to NOT do so.

If you have to manage thousands of computers and buy dozens of new ones every month, you want all the computers you buy in the same month or quarter to be either the same base model or maybe one of two or three base models. You do NOT want a bunch of bespoke computers that you will have to maintain for 5-10 years just because you needed to save $100/unit for a few months during a price crunch. The colloquial term is "penny-wise, pound (as in British money) foolish."

What a business MIGHT do is push back the scheduled replacement cycle. Instead of buying 20 computers a month to replace "aged out but still functional" computers like it normally does. it might buy a few from now until the price crunch passes just to cover failing hardware, but defer the "normal replacement of old equipment" until the price bubble pops. This isn't without its own problems though: There will be a "bubble" of computers that will age-out at the same time a few years down the road. But at least that's something the company can plan for.

Back in my day kids were born with only 640KB of memory.

>Soldered-in RAM is not acceptable
Soldered-in RAM is not acceptable in SOME use cases, including perhaps 100% of the use cases that apply to you.

As for me, I'm fine with soldered-in RAM for devices that make no sense to have a RAM either upgraded or swapped out due to failure. I'm thinking "throwaway" things like "disposable" e-cigarettes; "appliance" things like routers, cable TV boxes, microwave ovens; embedded systems that won't be touched until it's time to replace them like the chips that are in my car radio or in a satellite; and much more.

I'm kind of torn about soldered-in RAM on my phone. Sure, I'd like to be able to upgrade it, but going from soldered or SOC-based RAM to user-upgrade-able RAM involves tradeoffs and costs that I may or may not want to make. Even if I want to make them, if enough people don't it's not going to happen because it won't be cost-effective to make a RAM-upgrade-able phone for the relatively few people who want it. Same argument goes for soldered SSDs vs user-upgradeable ones. Same argument goes for "super-thin" or "super-lightweight" tablets and laptops.

For "ordinary" laptops and desktops, where there is plenty of room for air flow and plenty of room for the extra space needed for user-replaceable RAM (and SSD) I agree with you: Soldered RAM (and SSD) is unacceptable unless the end user is demanding it.

is a sin tax error.

>Make more RAM?!?
Summary addresses this: "it can take years to ramp up capacity and/or build new manufacturing facilities"

>Even when itâ(TM)s true, you what? Lie? FUCK that delusional shit.
Option 3: You don't publicly say anything that suggests the victim is or is not to blame.

Just wondering if there's a correlation: did you take Apple's side in the "look and feel" lawsuit vs Microsoft?

You don't go far enough. Fighting and control to what end? Much of the fighting is sheer competition to grab more. More land and resources, to support more children. As for fighting, no, most people have the sense not to willingly risk their lives in deadly combat. Most would rather move into empty lands, or failing that, clear out the current occupants through genocide. If easy genocide is not possible either because the occupants can and will fight back, some will choose war, but only if it looks easy.

Religion is rather orthogonal to this. Been used as much or more to justify fighting as to discourage fighting.