Last time this happened, right before the 'rona if my memory serves me right, the local coffee shop I frequent was so packed, the owner got tables and chairs out of his own home to get everyone served.
Never have I seen so many groups of friends having a good time since probably 2007.

Because this isn't the local bakery adding sugar to the bread and you deciding to walk out and go to the next one. The discussion is happening for the right to repair, already, but if all automakers start making "connected" cars, what choice do you really have?
Especially with all the laws pushing for EVs conveniently "forcing" automakers to make "smart" cars.

Correct me if am wrong, but the Steam Deck uses KDE, right? This might be a Windows situation where the hardware comes with a certain software by default, inflating its number.
I use KDE, myself. But I think the more interesting statistic would be who uses which DE by choice.

Not to discredit the lockdowns and how much they helped (Am a pharmaceutics bioengi, so I know the science behind it well enough), but I do wonder how many of these deaths happened, not because of covid, but because of everything else surrounding covid.
I know people who fucking burned their skin with excessive usage of bleach, people whose businesses got ruined due to covid, people who drank the fearporn koolaid by the gallon... And, to this day, online discussions have never recovered, with people flinging insults both ways and pulling stats left, right and center, often in topics that have nothing to do with vaccines or covid in the first place.

.exe, huh? Wouldn't have that problem if it was on linux.

Last year we had this story about facebook killing people's batteries. That and, I know that this is an Apple story, but plenty of makers actively throttle your phone's performance with updates to get you to buy the "upgrade", including battery lifetime.
The EU's battery grading is an amazing idea, but there is no point in getting better batteries physically if their life will be kneecapped on the software side, anyway.

What interests me is the details, here.
When he says "control mouse through thinking", does this mean that he thinks "Mouse go left" and it goes left? Or is it just hijacking a different function, as in "wiggle your left toe to move the mouse left".

The whole thing is of course a massive achievement, but one option is far more glamorous than the other.

From what he says, the first iteration took about 8 hours, and from there he just kept changing the animal asset and rebranding it. Considering how the "gameplay" is just pressing a button to make a number go up. Am actually curious how HARD it is to make such a simple concept for it to take 8 hours.

It's called "The Petrodollar" for a reason.
So much of the economy is depending on oil prices that if they were to fluctuate, the economy would flip over it's head in a day. Plus, you know, if the price goes up, the prices of goods will go up to match it, but if it goes down, nothing will go down with it.

It's not overpopulation. It's the "modern lifestyle" that's built entirely around constant consumption.
Africa's emissions barely compare to China's, but you know whose emissions compare to China? North America, despite holding half of Africa's population. And you could argue that China's emissions are really just the result of manufacturing that the 1st world doesn't want to do at home.

The Earth can handle more people just fine, as long as not everyone gets an Iphone to endlessly scroll twitter and facebook on.

The real threat to all these "content creators" isn't the copyright risks, it's the user's attention span.
These AIs promise infinite content, or at least the possibility for skilled individuals and teams to create more content and more easily. But users only have 24 hours a day still. They can only watch so much.
Streaming services ate TV's lunch and dinner, but armed with AI, every form of entertainment will be flooded with content. Who cares if it's infringing on copyrights if I, the user, don't care?

No, they are not approaching a problem. Rich families can simply afford to have a nanny for their children while, the dwindling middle and lower economic strata of society will be working as nannies for the rich. This is a symptom of a fundamental inequality that will only keep getting worse as a smaller work force will have to support a growing population of retirees.
That and you shouldn't discount the natural urge to have children. Your typical /. browser might not be a family-inclined man, but the desire to have a (relatively) numerous family is ingrained in our very biology. Natural desires not having a healthy outlet is what caused many of our historical disasters.

Interestingly, people in rich countries (both men and women) want more children than they actually have. Turns out that prosperity and education do reduce the desired number of children, but that "target" of how many kids they want to have comes short of reality due to how expensive and time-consuming children are. It comes at around 2.4-2.8 ideal number of children vs the below replacement line of most OECD countries.

What does this mean? Left to their own devices, people will in general have an "above replacement" fertility rate and the population numbers will keep growing. Modern society leaves that desire unfulfilled.

Steve Jobs said it best.
When a company first starts, it's the engineers who make all the decisions because their work is driving sales. But when everyone already has a phone/computer/laptop, it becomes the task of salespeople to drive up sales. They end up earning promotions, and the company ends up with people at the helm who have no idea what the words Design and Engineer mean unless they're used in a sales pitch.