then what exactly are they voting for?
if it's only about who makes sweet promises when campaigning and they don't bother when that same person is in power, i don't think I'm the "delusional" one. most administrations will have rough patches during a term and almost 100% certainty of a prolonged one during 2 consecutive terms.
People who vibe-vote based on the state of the moment with no memory of just a few years past ARE the reason for "the current state of things".
My grandparents used to say "tough times never last, tough people do" - something they knew first hand having lived through both world wars, the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression aka the Greatest Generation.
I'm glad they've haven't been around the past several decades.

Didn't all of these problems come up with Google Glass over ten years ago? In fact the term "Google Glasshole" was coined for people using Google Glass to record people who didn't want to be recorded. While it is legal to film in public, they did not seem to understand why people did not like it. This user seems to fit that mold.

No but they were experimenting with germanium. My understanding is that researched stopped because while they could get better results with germanium, the problem was how to use it germanium practically as it is 1.6ppm in the Earth's crust while silicon is 282,000 ppm.

That's like the situation where one of my neighbor's dogs pooped on my lawn. Which neighbor was it? Was it the one that I see conscientiously pick up their dog's poop every time on their walks. Or the neighbor that lets their dog roam around the neighborhood with no leash? Your argument would be the conscientious one did it to frame the other neighbor. Because . . .sympathy and support? I do not believe Europe needs any more justification for sympathy and support for Ukraine.

Consider Russia indiscriminately attacks civilian targets, I would bet Russia hitting it by accident or on purpose. It is hard to know at this point.

Russia has more reason to attack it because in doing so, people like you will contemplate it being Ukraine blaming Russia to garner sympathy. Of course, Ukraine has more reason to attack is so people like me will think it's Russia hoping to blame Ukraine for it being Russia false-flagging Ukraine's implication of Russia being to blame while falsely accusing Ukraine.

We can play sixteen-dimensional chess. Or we can boil it all down to one country being instigators and nothing else mattering. The dome is damaged because Russia invaded another country. Period. In my books, even if the leader of Ukraine ordered Ukranian people to damage the dome, the Russians are to blame. There's the border. Get back on your side.

No what that means is higher production costs do not necessarily map 1:1 to higher price in the end product in every instance. Sometimes the cost is eaten by the manufacturer in terms of profit. Sometimes the manufacturer can change the product to offset the increased cost. For example, cheaper materials, cheaper labor, etc. Now I am not saying they are good changes but that would be one way higher production cost is not passed onto the consumer directly in terms of price.

While the article focuses specifically on memory prices, the AI boom could also cause PC CPU and GPU prices to go up which affects everyone. Currently fabrication at TSMC and Samsung are limited with companies like NVidia and AMD booking orders years in advance. To chase profits, NVidia and AMD will shift more of their orders to AI chips if they haven't already done so. That means fewer consumer CPUs and GPUs and thus higher prices for consumers as there may be shortages.

I don't see how it would help the situation to buy cheaper phones. The issue is RAM prices are going up. That affects expensive flagship and cheap phones alike. In fact, you may not be able to buy a cheap phone as manufacturers are going to prioritize selling the flagship phones first as that gains them the most profit.

I don't know where you live but where I live we have these things called "hills" where a Kei car might struggle. Especially when I have these other things called "friends" in the car with me. Back in high school, I had a Toyota Corolla which is larger than Kei cars. The first time I was driving with friends up a moderate hill, they were surprised when I turned off the AC so I could get enough HP to maintain speed up the hill. Because suddenly slowing down in lanes with 18 wheelers and huge ass trucks is what some would call "dangerous."

That's not the main reason. Kei cars are meant for specific purposes and destinations. The trucks are meant to be light duty work trucks first and commuting second. The cars are meant for commuting in densely packed urban environments. In Japan and other countries, there are specific regulations for them. Since they were made for specific countries, this is why pass they don't pass safety requirements of US roads.

Conforming to existing safety regulations would be a challenge, and it would be require Congress to write new legislation written just for them. Personally, I would advocate Kei trucks being built as farms, large factories, warehouses, etc could use them, and many that have been imported for that purpose. For example, a Kei truck could easily haul a round bale of hay. If it gets stuck in the mud, just get a few people and lift it out. :P

That is a lie. The Mx series chips use both software AND hardware for emulation. Specifically Mx chips have memory assist circuitry that assist in translating x86 memory instructions. Rosetta 2 software is still needed to make it work but without the hardware, it would be slow and inefficient.

Your argument is that somehow Apple was one of the few to have "insanely fucking fast" software emulation for x86. Seriously? Of all the past open source and proprietary software attempts at x86 emulation, Apple just happens to build fast emulation on their first try. OR being vertically integrated, Apple incorporated some hardware assist at the chip level to help them as they design their own chips?

The topic is emulation. You: NO TRUE SCOTSMAN!!!

So you admit using fallacious arguments and then get angry when people point that out to you. Your argument is gaming companies should ignore devices that generate twice the revenue of PC games because you call anything not PC gaming, "niche".

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.

" You are suggesting that people should have blamed Trump for COVID, which is doubtful"
the link i provided gave a timeline that included Trump's statements throughout. pretty damning out of his own mouth.
"You were complaining about Trump's efforts to overturn the election, they were complaining about the prices they see on the shelves every day"
so what are they saying now when their Dear Leader is saying that "affordability is a Democratic hoax" when a year ago he was saying he'd fix it all on Day 1?
I have long had a lot of issues with Biden and his policies & his often poor political instincts but i don't recall any ostentatious displays when people were suffering, not even on his birthdays.

Considering that for the one-time investment of $150 and a half hour of your time you could not have to do that any more? Hell yes, you're crazy.

Samsung is collection of several companies and if you've ever spent any time working with them you quickly realize that they all prioritize other Samsung companies below other customers. I don't know whether it's because of anti-trust concerns, or market strategy, or just rivalry, but I've never seen any Samsung company that operated any differently. I worked quite a bit with Samsung Mobile and S.LSI, who are even quite interdependent (though S.LSI depends more on Samsung Mobile than the reverse), and they constantly ignored and even dissed one another.