This is bizarre, not to mention terribly Boomerish.

They could say no. No-one is stopping them.

They won't because they care more about money than their long-term customers.

This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power. And won't be in the society that arises from the collapse of this one because we'll be damn sure to drum into the survivors that the merchant caste can never, ever be put in control again.

You Can Just Say No.

The only people who believe they have no choice are the ones who chase money at any cost. This is why such people should never be in positions of power.

I'm just glad we upgraded all our PCs over the last few years before the "AI" scam wrecked the computer business.

Well, this is it.

.. there is a button for YouTube history where you can disable it if you don't want them needlessly collecting data about your watch habits.

How do you know that merely doesn't disable displaying your watch history to you but they keep track of it anyway?

Yeah, with my old gaming PC I stuck to Windows 7 for years since it was pretty much only used for gaming and not browsing pron sites. But then Steam decided they wouldn't run on Windows 7 any more so I had to buy a new one.

Which wasn't such a bad deal as it would probably cost 50% more to build today. But with the downside that it has Windows 11.

Having set up two Windows 11 PCs in the last couple of months it's amazing how much work it takes to get a usable OS after installing it.

And who decided that moving the start menu to the middle by default was a good idea?

MBAs only care about the value of their stock options, not whether their ideas are nonsense.

And AI is The New Hotness right now.

A bunch of reasons, but the most obvious is that they want to tie your soon to be mandatory usage of their "AI" cloud to an account so they can store all your stuff on their servers and cut you off if you use those bazillions of GPUs more than they expect.

Also, Bitlocker seems to be tied to a Microsoft account because it appears they store the password there. I set up a new Windows PC recently and it decided to turn Bitlocker on without asking me, but ultimately it didn't seem to encrypt the disk because I'd set up a local account... it just flagged it as an encrypted disk but didn't run the encryption process.

I'm sure it must have happened sometime this year, but I don't remember the last time a Falcon 9 booster returned to the launch site. Everything I've seen recently landed on the barge.

New Glenn does have a better launch envelope by being able to hover to land in bad sea conditions, but the extra fuel cuts into the payload more. So there are benefits and costs.

According to what I read yesterday, it looks like one engine restarted then something went badly wrong. It would likely have landed or at least hit the landing pad otherwise since it hit the ground not far from the pad.

So they've done the first 80% of the job and now it's a question of how long the remaining 20% takes.

But as you say it did deliver the payload to orbit so the actual launch was a success.

People have been pointing out this problem for decades. No-one is going to want to take responsibility for building a car which will intentionally run over people, so all it will take to rob passengers in future is to stand in front of the car while your friends rob them.

This is particularly bad for self-driving trucks because they carry a lot of valuable stuff that can be looted South African-style.

Now, sure, there'll be video of the robbery and maybe you could put some trackers in the cargo to try to catch whoever stole it. But maybe being able to catch the thieves after the act won't be very reassuring for the people who get robbed.

I saw an interview with Linus Torvalds the other day, and he seems to think Nvidias getting better behaved with its drivers now (although my understanding is he's not as fussed by closed source drivers as others are in the industry).

Nvidia are shits though. I know they used to maintain a CUDA implementation for macs. Now? Nope...

As are the GPUs on both the mainstream major gaming consoles (PS5 and Xbox). AMD GPUs arent going anywhere, especially now that their AI picture is starting to come a bit more into focus

Eh. To some value of yes and some value of no.

The library aint nearly as large, but surprisingly a lot of it is there. But don't expect it to be equivelent to a frebreathing 64 core Ryzen 9 with 5090 GPU. Obviously.