The European Union's plan to ban new combustion cars starting in 2035 may be over before it has a chance to go into effect, if Germany's leader has anything to say about it.
2035 target was simply infeasible with current technology. While some promising new developments, like solid state batteries, are being worked on, they are not yet ready for mass production.
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but I am very annoyed at them for trying to take away the option of local-only accounts. Why do I need to let them be a third party to everything I do starting with logging in? Nobody asked for this.
At this stage, the best way forward is to apply the "Debian" patch to your system to restore local accounts, and strip out the all the daft AI guff
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.
Almost anything derogatory you could say about today's software design would be accurate. -- K.E. Iverson
