Wow... This thing seems almost as obtrusive as that new smart toilet with a camera under the lid that analyzes your poo for health monitoring. Almost.

What he is complaining about is that things like Flatpak make Linux applications work more like macOS. He is mad because many Linux distros are making things more Mac-like to make things easier for users like you. The OP actually wants the prospect of dependency hell because he would rather save a minor amount of disk space than have redundant libraries.

Hey... I'm just saying that if the low cost bargain basement data center you picked for your backups had a sudden massive power failure, I wouldn't want to find out that my data was stored on a bunch of old Seagate drives that they shucked from consumer grade NAS units back in 2016. There is a fair chance that a third of them aren't going to power back up properly, and your entire storage array just went poof. No amount of hot spares and RAID is going to save you from failure rates that high.

It should make defeating your opponent easier, anyway. Just find out what LLM your opponent is using for their attack strategy, and ask it for advice on military deployment. Upgrade your defenses accordingly!

Apparently hard drives up to 10 years old as well. Doesn't really give me warm and fuzzy feelings about the reliability of my backups, knowing that they're being stored on spinning rust that's been running long past the end of the warranty period.

Yeah... is it just me, or does the new Magsafe connector on your Macbook go unused?

Now that most of my stuff charges via USB-C, I have zero interest in using yet another cable type in my charge cable collection. Just standardize on USB-C and be done with it.

Good luck. Health insurance companies won't pay for the drug, what makes you think that the government would?

Knowing Apple, it's because they want to make an even more expensive version of Apple TV later and they wanted to call that Apple TV+.

I guess that Apple TV++ was just one too many plus signs for their marketing team.

Hey now... it's not just teenage boys making dumb memes, it's people who ACT like teenage boys making dumb memes.

But, yeah, if you like video clips of Queen Elizabeth eating a bag of flaming hot Cheetos, you have a "wonderful" new source of content!

AGI has nothing to do with the current technology that OpenAI is selling. At this point, it is just a nebulous idea. Right now, AGI is just like what cold fusion was twenty years ago. If you had invested like crazy in nuclear fusion companies because you had high expectations for them figuring out cold fusion, you would have lost a lot as fusion is still just a research toy that in no way functions as a profitable business model. As it stands, we do not know whether the existing technology OpenAI sells will ever be profitable. AGI, like cold fusion, may just be a dream.

As someone who recently purchased a Meta Quest headset, I can confirm that most of Meta's VR content already feels like mass produced generic slop. I can't imagine that the content quality can drop much more than it already has.

While there are certainly valid criticisms of how Apple and Google have structured their app stores, blaming them for massive government overreach that they used their extensive lobbying power to fight against is quite a reach. What's next? Will you blame PornHub for the Texas age verification law because, after all, making porn available in Texas is just asking for it?

No, it was pretty cringe worthy and stupid. It insulted my intelligence, and it was 8 minutes of my life that I want back.

But... the timing on it is pretty good. Millions of people are getting notices on their Windows 10 systems this month that they're no longer supported, and they're probably going to get new computers anyway. Might as well be a Mac.

Does the IoT or Embedded versions of Windows 10 or 11 require a Microsoft account? I can't imagine that it would. IoT and Embedded product producers don't want that kind of overhead.

They should have included a single Python coder and given him the same data in csv files. That would really put Excel into perspective.