Another great example of garbage behaviour being the result of employees gaming garbage metrics.

Ahh, yes...because it was *top* priority for the Biden administration..or even got a mention on Harris's "four years of JOY!!!11" campaign trail that followed her four years of being VP where she could have attempted to get a subcommittee together in the Senate.

Or because Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hochul or Maura Healey have made it any level of a priority for businesses in their respective deep-blue states.

The Republicans certainly couldn't care less about the issue at all...but let's not pretend that the CFPB cracked the top 20 of priorities for Democrats.

I recently started a contract for a company that provides their own windows machines that they manage. This is relatively new for me as I have always used my own hardware, however in this case I use the laptop they provide to access their system.

Every time I would log into Outlook and other bits of Microsoft software with an authenticator (I'm using Google's) it would take me to a website pushing Microsoft Authenticator. It literally said "upsell" in the URL, and I could find no way to disable it. After a couple weeks and dozens of uses it finally seems to have gone away.

From what I can tell, she's talking about Microsoft's disinterest or inability to create mobile hardware, and that MS is instead potentially licensing the XBox brand / OS / software stack to other manufactures that are already making portable gaming devices. She sees this as the decline of the Xbox I guess, even though MS has already stated there will be a next gen Xbox at some point.

I'm no expert in this arena, but Xbox has always had a pretty healthy market share even though its competitors had mobile offerings (although the PS mobile devices were never compatible with the actual main PS consoles).

That's what I use AI for as well: a first step. The biggest difference AI and regular sources, is that the latter give you a lot of clues regarding the accuracy of the information. The source, the website, the way the information is written, context like article titles, all of these give some hint about how well the author understands the material, and if their answer is even relevant to your question. The AI however will always appear authoritative, even if they are obviously wrong, and with important context stripped out. Sometimes you get an answer that looks plausible, but is invalid, or about a different version of the gadget you are asking about.

AI has been great for generating artwork, logos, sounds and so on, for small personal projects. And I've use AI deepfake voice generation to provide voice-over for game mods (some of the voice actors have given modders explicit permission to use their voice like that). It lets me do stuff that was completely out of my reach just a few years ago, or things for which I have zero talent.

For those that have attended a Christian wedding ceremony there's often a biblical passage read about the need for the man and woman to break ties with their parents and create a new family.

- But why should I give a crap what it says in your cult's shitty book full of rape, murder, incest, and other bullshit?

"Nuclear Power will solve the climate crisis, and it doesn't need a breakthrough or a TED talk, all it needs is a building permit" - Sabine Hossenfelder.

So, these are a few things off the top of my head; I tend to limit my usage to only smaller installs, so consider this more of a "stuff to Google for clarification" list than a definitive set of information...

I think the biggest thing is that there is no analogue to vSAN. It'll mount iSCSI and NFS targets, and its ceph implementation is at least on par with VMFS, but larger installs that depend on vSAN tend to be underwhelmed.

The Proxmox Datacenter Manager, which allows for live migration of VMs between hosts, is still in an alpha state. I've had it work pretty well; it's quite polished for something being described as being in its alpha stage, but the functional equivalent of vMotion is still lacking.

Meanwhile, support is not quite at VMWare levels. Obviously, post-Broadcom, VMWare support took a nose dive, but Proxmox does not offer direct phone support, instead depending on resellers to do so.

Beyond that, I personally found the UI to be rather unintuitive, for example storage is defined at a 'datacenter' level, rather than at a 'host' level. PCIe Passthrough can be a bit...special, compared to VMWare having that be a trivial matter. Also, more sophisticated networking configs are more "Linux-y" in Proxmox than in VMWare, which uses a more traditional switches-and-ports paradigm that's much easier to understand and visualize. I also found VMWare's storage to be simpler, in that a datastore can have thin-provisioned VMs, thick-provisioned VMs, and installer ISOs all sit next to each other in harmony, while Proxmox gets more...particular. For example, an LVM-Thin volume will thin provision any VM stored to it and won't allow QCOW2 virtual disks to be added to it. ZFS storage is more flexible on that front, but it handles snapshots differently...

I say all of this as someone who either has moved, or will move, all of my VMWare clients to Proxmox. The feature set is more than enough for all of them, and as an added bonus, Proxmox is a *lot* less picky about hardware; I've got a box full of 10GbE NICs that got a new lease on life because VMWare decided the PCIe 3.0 Qlogic cards were 'too old', while Proxmox will still send traffic over a 10-Base-2 BNC network through an ISA card if I gave it one.

It's kind of crazy every comment to this point is so politically motivated that no one will even talk about the technical merits of wearables. I wear an Apple watch, and make a point to wear it when sleeping as well, because of the vast amounts of health data it captures. Quality of sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate recovery time, blood oxygen levels, respiratory rate, heart rate variability, etc. Heck, I even give myself an EKG from time to time.

One day I had some rare heart palpitations, so I did an EKG on the spot and caught a couple. Super useful for my doctor. The only other option in the past was to wear an expensive Holter monitor 24/7 to try and capture an event like that, but now it can be done at any time on-demand.

Sorry, but wearables are pretty amazing technology - almost like a dream come true. You may not like Trump or RFK, but to be ignorant enough to say this is an awful idea shows just how biased and politically motivated people are, especially on what is supposed to be a community that discusses technology.

This is simply a campaign to raise awareness and encourage people to use wearables in general - in whatever form factor or brand they may choose. This has nothing to do with government tracking, government control, government access to data, or anything like that. This has nothing to do with vaccines, or if a person's skin is orange, or what political party is in control.

If Obama went out and said the same thing it would be the most wonderful idea ever to the other set of individuals, while the right-leaning folks would then smash their wearables. Grow up people.

Yep and we have those. What is the leading cause of non-trauma death in the USA? Heart disease. That's what the wearables for for - gaining vast amounts of data for use by doctors for screening to catch trends much earlier, before some major acute event happens.

I have no idea what you are spouting off. It had Cherys on board, not Chevys. It was transporting Chinese-made and Chinese brand EVs that most of us have never heard of to Mexico, where they can be sold because of their much more lax standards in what can be sold there. Hence a very strong likelihood of why the deck of the ship carrying vehicles caught fire. If their EV batteries are anything like those Chinese scooter batteries that kept spontaneously catching fire, then there will be lots of vehicle fires in Mexico.

Of course they do; it's just more insidious. Try installing software without an iCloud Account...it's getting more and more difficult to get downloadable DMG files anymore; even open source Wireguard doesn't distribute a client for OSX independently of the Mac App Store.

Now, once one has the almost-obligatory iCloud account tied to the Mac, the nags come when the storage runs out...because while us PC folk can install 4TB internal SSDs, possibly two of them or even more, there is no way to upgrade the internal storage on a Macbook.

So, the choice is to either walk around with a USB external drive forever...*or*, capitulate to the conveniently-placed notices about how iCloud can seamlessly put 2TB of data in iCloud for you and manage it automagically, so you never run out of space, for $10/month. ...so yes, Apple has its nags; they're just more transparent because storage isn't the primary sales pitch for iCloud+...and while Microsoft is assuredly worse about the nags and notices, Apple isn't innocent.

The problem with being on the cusp of something is you still are totally not there, and no guarantee you will ever be there.

I'm not sure if this is the same article verbatim as the fully-paywalled Financial Times, but it is definitely the same topic.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/mone...

This town is on an interstate, so we actually have a Tesla Supercharger station in a hotel parking lot, a Sheetz that has 4 EV chargers, and apparently the Nissan dealership has a charging station as well (just googled my town because this made me curious).