Perhaps they could establish a payment network for them or otherwise make them actually useful. File and pay your taxes for you.

I had a problem of the screen configuration resetting about a quarter of the time the system went to sleep mode or rebooted. Since upgrading to a newer version of Kubuntu that uses Wayland, I haven't had the issue.

I have a 1440p monitor paired with a weird resolution ultrawide, on a nVidia card. A few months ago I started running 2 GPUs. One monitor I have plugged into the integrated AMD GPU and the other monitor is the the nVidia card.

Wayland handled the weird configuration seamlessly. No problems with drivers. Steam games ran out of the box. I didn't have to even set the resolution if I recall. Maybe it's not fair to attribute this to Wayland, but I've used X11 on and off for 20 years, and had a lot more problems with it.

What happens with people like me who only have Bluetooth, WiFi, and Data enabled when we're actively using them?

I suppose it's the same thing as with "loyalty" cards - privacy is screwed if you do use them, wallet gets screwed if you don't.

That's because they're so used to their own shit-eating grins that they think people having feces on their faces is normal.

The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.

We don't need more military. In fact we need less.

The reason for the existence of the second amendment was to not need a standing militia. We DEFINITELY don't need both things.

Did they actually get it? I only saw it was proposed.

Will farmers actually get it? Farm subsidies are mostly claimed by large corporations.

They are understaffing on purpose not only despite the requirements, but because of their desire to not meet them.

This kind of thing can lead to insolvency crises which can affect you.

"If Beijing wanted, they could just send the PLA to occupy Siberia, and Putin couldn't do a thing about it"

China is not stupid enough to tip their hand. They will continue preying on Russia by doing sleazy business with them (like selling them the tires that got their advance stuck in the mud) as long as they can first.

The network hardware usually lasts longer than the servers unless you get unlucky. For example if you bought a Cisco Catalyst 5000 then you only had max 5 years before you probably got rid of it due to y2k issues. (The switches WOULD keep working after y2k, but logging of dates wouldn't work correctly.)

Yeah, that's how it works.

Sure. But is it wrong to refuse to do business with a regressive country? Should a nation be forced to do business with a nation whose goals run counter to their ideals?

1) the US promised to protect Ukraine if they gave up nukes
2) Russia still has nukes

Well I'm not an expert on this, but search results say "Monero, Ravencoin, Vertcoin, and Grin" are all still good to mine with CPU or GPU. Also there's no reason they couldn't introduce another coin or ten.

My concern is that the companies that bought them to run LLMs will become miners themselves to try to recoup some of the costs.

To some extent, it's always been the case that the value of just about anything is arbitrary, and varies according to context. But the underpinnings of what we call The Economy are becoming more and more divorced from any consistency or standards. Increasingly it's all a dirty exercise in what ranges from misplaced optimism to opportunism, extortion, and fraud.

There seems to no longer be even a pretense of fairness, or duty to society, or basic decency among corporate interests. My Slashdot sig was meant to be thought-provoking, and I used to think it was at least a little bit hyperbolic. These days, in light of stories such as this one, I consider it to be a straightforward and objective statement of fact.