24GB or 32GB will be just great for the 7-8 lifetime of the Mac.

This Lisa User sure wasn't! ;-)

The Lisa User I know buys nothing less than a Mac Studio. :-)

What does it matter. The CIA will just step up their cloud seeding efforts to offset anything the Iranians try to do instead.

I have no knowledge of any such plan by the CIA to use any kind of weather manipulation techniques to cause droughts in Iran, but you all have to admit that it sounds like exactly like the kind of thing they would do and based on what they've done to other countries historically is not outside the realm of possibility for them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't doing this as it's a great way to destabilize an enemy country.

You may want to source numbers for your claim. I looked at unemployment rates for the U.S., the UK, and Germany in the lead up to WWI and none of them had unemployment rates near 25% or any higher than usual. The Unemployment rates prior to WWII were much higher, but as a result of the Great Depression as opposed to any kind of mass unemployment resulting from advances in technology.

As another poster already pointed out, no one can perfectly foresee the future of the economy. If they could, communism would actually have worked as the central planners could predict where the economy will move. It doesn't matter that no one individual can predict this every time. All that's required is for someone to have an idea and a need for human labor and it will create jobs that previously never existed.

The genie is already out of the bottle. Nothing is stopping developers where from using AI and they will do so if it gives them an edge. Unless countries are going to start banning content (good luck with that in the U.S.) this won't matter. Nothing can force people to play games they don't want to anyway so if these human developers can't make something compelling they'll be out of the job regardless. Right now the AAA industry seems over saturated with people who shouldn't be there. They only drag down more qualified developers and waste everyone else's time and money.

There's a difference between being able to run a AAA game and having 120 FPS 4k with ray tracing and other bells and whistles. The integrated graphics on mainstream Intel and AMD CPUs can run most titles at low settings. The 30 FPS that you may get isn't considered acceptable these days, but back in the day that was something that often required a high-end setup. The integrated graphics are good enough that the low end of the GPU market no longer exists as it did two or even one decade ago. The built-in CPU graphics became good enough to eliminate those cards.

How many of those games need to be connected to anything? Unless it's an MMO or a strictly multiplayer FPS, I can do without the online component. It usually only exists to make the experience worse in my opinion. It's also often less functional than online capabilities of prior generation titles which allowed for LAN play or custom servers. Some games still use that model, but they seem like a dying breed.

Sure, but there's an additional problem which is that AI is very good at generating convincing looking PRs that turn out to be junk. The result is it can be quite a lot of work to figure out how junky the PR is. It kind of falls into the category of "and this is why we can't have nice things". There's nothing wrong in principle with submitting a PR with AI assistance, if the PR is sound. But unfortunately people looking to get their name on the kernel, for props or just frist psot will flood the mailing list with a tidal wave of slop.

It might be better as a result to implement something approximating an automatic blanket ban.

Employees are supposed to use AI, but get no corporate AI accounts. This is the result.

I need a 300 mile range

This exists.

range and a 4 hour turn around

You can just about do that at home on AC if you have a good connection. It's only a 32A 3 phase connection.

I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

You want a 300 mile range, right? If you're commuting 250 miles round trip and then another, say, 50 to the cinema, frankly you need to evaluate your life choices. You're wasting your life on the road.

I don't think you read the article at all as none of this is due to loans from China. It's people acting in their own economic interest because these products replace more expensive alternatives. Part of it is funding through carbon credits which is a separate sort of idiocy, but the companies involved have built a viable business model around supplying something people want in a way that they can afford. The only involvement China has is that they manufacture much of the hardware and it's not some government directed effort on their part. To them Africa is just a customer buying what they're selling and both sides are engaging in commerce out of their own benefit from it.

Unless you have some direct evidence to refute the claims in the article, you're just talking out of your ass.

What's a metaphor? And before you respond I'm not inquiring about the usefulness of Facebook or any of the other products Zuck is pushing.

While a similar setup makes sense in many places in the U.S. there are too many parties (private and public) invested in maintaining the status quo who will never allow it to happen.

It's good to see Africa figuring out solutions to their own problems. No one else was going to solve them for them without getting more in return.

I own several Apple products and wouldn’t take one of these if it were free. This is for the sort of people who would buy a Gucci bag or something like that instead of this. The people who bought this are the people who only bought an iPhone for the same reason: it's a status symbol.

People not spending money is bad... how? This doesn't slow the economy any,

The economic activity is the movement of money, broadly speaking. Without spending of money there cannot be economic activity, so not spending is literally slowing the economy.