Ooops bad link.. . the correct link for Inoreader is this

Mostly for following several webcomic sites.
I'm using Inoreader. It's OK.

And to mention a similar axed Google product: It's so annoying that they killed the Podcast Player. It was perfect - it just worked and was synched nicely. Their proposed alternative (Youtube music) is a dark confusing mess of a player..

I believe that the math supports creating a biosphere that would persist on human timescales, just not geologic ones.

IE we could create an atmosphere that would last for 10K years, but would eventually be stripped in 1M years.

If that's worth the effort remains to be seen, but some do think that yes it might be.

I can play Xbox Cloud games on my VR headset, with a larger, curved screen than I can personally afford. I would keep my Game Pass sub before I'd buy a new Xbox.

As long as I can ensure that I have a cloud connection, I no longer need an xbox.

Boy, the billionaires are really, really glad that you feel this way.

Or maybe the employer could restore from backups. They do have backups, right?

Ascension hospitals' computers were taken down by ransomware a few months ago, and as far as I know, they didn't pay. Their computers were down for over a month though. Doctors, nurses, etc. had to work off of paper records. On the other hand, United Healthcare paid a $22 million ransom. They're an insurance company though, not a hospital.

Warp drives violate casualty so they can't be real.
However, if aliens develop a warp drive, and it fails, then we can get notified about it using a special type gravitational wave detector which do not exist yet but should be funded.

Nah. It probably found instances of modern women talking about how their abortion allowed them to secure wealth and a nice career for themselves, and then correlated that with ancient practices of sacrificing children before demon-gods for wealth, power, and a good harvest, and then generated the image.

I wonder if the most influential data sources can be extracted from the system. I'll have to ask later.
Anyway, I recall that research has shown that if you limit AI to giving answers that only confirm with a particular worldview, the quality and accuracy of results goes down dramatically.

> I thought Apple said No Porn?

If you have a headset, and you haven't tried VR Porn filmed with a 180 camera, you're missing out.

I've watched porn since the birth of the internet, always for free. VR Porn is the first time I've ever actually paid for it. A lifetime subscription, in fact.

The "full eye-contact" appeal has been mentioned, but let's not forget having the talent whisper in your ear while she sits in your lap. Mind blowing.

I believe that the killer app for VR is 3D spreadsheets.

Going from 2D (x,y) to 3D (x,y,z) allows you to cube your information density. You can go from tracking a single cause, effect, to adding a literal new dimension of cause,cause,effect.

And, it would lead to a network effect: if you weren't visualizing your biz data in 3D, you'd be behind the times and left out of the conversation. Everyone that wanted to look at the same data would need the same 3D app, which means a VR headset to do it with.

Also, in terms of graphics overlays, it would be fairly low demanding, so you could do it on basically anything.

This is code for straight-up Socialism or Chinese Style "Capitalism". Picking winners and losers by the Government.

I would instantly agree that we need to stop picking winners like we do now under Crony Capitalism, but putting that power more in the hands of Bureaucrats and Politicians is not the solution.

Along those same lines, Windows 11 is dropping support for older Intel Processors lacking certain features. Supposedly, it's to improve virtualization, but how much would it cost to just not support that virtualization as well on older processors?

It's a boon to PC manufacturers that push Windows 11. The big PC makers say "Works best with Windows!" on their websites and don't highlight or give you any price break on units with Linux installed. Didn't I read that MS requires that they get a payment for every PC sold, whether it runs Windows or not as part of their licensing agreement with the manufacturers? I know the manufacturers get a big break on Windows copies from retail.

I thought Apple should have bought Dell when Dell went private a few years ago, made PCs with no Windows advantage, pushed Linux and maybe even Darwin on these new PCs. I'm not saying don't sell Windows too. They could keep the Dell and marketing separate to not dilute the Apple brand. They would have enjoyed massive buying power for PC parts, screens, batteries, SDs. They could have gotten Dell for a tiny fraction of their massive war chest a few years ago. Could have had most of it financed, too, just like the deal to go private did. This idea might have faced anti-trust scrutiny.

Apple should have recognized that MS wasn't going away and as long as they are there, they are a potential huge competitor in many of their markets.

It would have also been revenge for the obnoxious remarks Michael Dell made back in the 90s when Apple was experiencing hard times.

Insomniac Hacker Releases More Than 1.3 Million Stolen Files...
At first I thought "Aww poor hacker. Can't sleep at night because of the situation? How nice of her to release all the data, just because she can't sleep and feels guilty"...