It's not new, Windows has pretty much always been like this. The default install of Windows 95 came with a load of crapware and offers for dial-up internet. Which was actually kind of funny, because Windows 95 didn't have a firewall so if you did dial-up, you were pretty much guaranteed to have your machine p0wned within seconds.

Lenovo used to make some Xeon laptops with ECC I think. The main issue is that mobile CPUs usually don't support it. I think that's true even of Ryzen ones, despite the desktop models having it.

We have had the problem solved in the UK for a while now. Chargers tie in to pricing data, which is predicted a day in advance, and then delay charging until it is cheapest. Often the price goes negative, i.e. you are paid to charge your vehicle, if you are on a variable tariff.

Have a look at this website showing prices: https://agileprices.co.uk/

You can see that for 7% of April, prices were negative, and for another ~30% they were extremely low.

The changes won't just be needed for EVs, they will be needed for domestic solar as well. People are going to keep adding solar and batteries, getting to the point where they barely need the grid for much of the year, or at all. If the grid doesn't adapt to much greater changes in demand and lower unit prices, the operators are going to go bust.

They will need to transition from centralized generation to becoming distributors and offering convenience services.

If you read the summary, it points out that Google is in fact ready, it's the UK Competitions and Markets Authority that is causing the delay. Google's already-deployed alternative doesn't allow them to track you, all data is local and the API sites can use to target ads is properly designed to prevent it being used for identification.

I recommend you turn off third party cookies manually. This is just for the default off setting. I haven't noticed it breaking anything.

Probably just a case of them not really thinking about it, like we didn't before Snowden.

People seem to forget that most sites didn't bother with HTTPS and most apps send data in the clear before Snowden's revelations. That was when the push really started to encrypt everything by default, and browsers started warning about non-HTTPS etc.

China just hasn't had their Snowden moment so is like we were 10 years ago.

Yes and no. Automatically does sound like a step up, but the "and provide detailed info about the flight" is not a thing. You typically just give them your flight number and be done with it. I've been through this process a few times. The only time it has every been in any way complicated is when I was rebooked by the airline to a non-partner airline which then also turned out to be delayed and then KLM and TAP spent months bickering about who would pay me.

And yes there's lost / damaged luggage rules in the EU as well, maximum compensation limit is 1300EUR. That said this law seems to be more strict with its 12 hour window. AFAIK there's no legal mandate for delayed luggage in the EU, just lost or damaged.

The grid is not made of copper. You thought it was? Copper is for home wiring, if that. Up to that point, it's alumium, bundled with steel on major lines for tensile strength. Does it look like copper to you?

As for the article: grid operators don't build out grids on a lark. They do it to sell power, because they make money selling power. If people want to buy more power because they want to charge an EV, then that's more money available for them. EVs are a boon to grid operators. They're almost an ideal load. Most charging done at night, steady loads, readily shiftable and curtailable with incentives, etc. Daytime / fast charging isn't, but that's a minority. And except in areas with a lot of hydro, most regions already have the ample nighttime generation capacity; it's just sitting idle, power potential unsold. In short, EVs can greatly improve their profitability. Which translates to any combiation of three things:

1) More profits
2) A better, more reliable grid
3) Lower rates

    * ... depending on the regulations and how competitive of an environment it is.

As for the above article: the study isn't wrong, it's just - beyond the above (huge) problem - it is based on stupid assumptions. Including that there's zero incentives made for people to load shift when their vehicles charge, zero battery buffering to shift loads, and zero change in the distribution of generation resources over the proposed timeframe. All three of these are dumb assumptions.

Also, presenting raw numbers always leads to misleading answers. Let me rephrase their numbers: the cost is $7 to $26 per person per year. The cost of 1 to 5 gallons of gas per year at California prices..

You bought it Early Access. You don't get to consider your purchasing decision as a promise of the future. If you sunk more than two hours into playing it then you got some entertainment and your money's worth. Early Access is a risk you take to play an unfinished game. And there's no coincidence the abbreviation for Early Access is EA, both are equally likely to be turds.

No. If you want a finished experience, don't buy it in early access. If you are open to an unfinished experience then your ability to refund *after playing for a significant period* should be limited. You got what you pay for. You were entertained. If you weren't, well you should have refunded it earlier.

It seems like they did this only yesterday. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

I can't. None of them seem to give a shit. Which is why I as a boy get to decide whether to support violence and exploitation.

A common complaint which completely misses the point. The ideals exist to prevent Wayland turning into X11. A lot of the things given the WONTFIX treatment are precisely the things that architecturally were intended to be omitted from the compositor.

If you need XDMCP then by all means use the software that suits you, but the rest of your points are utter crap. Let's address them:

** You don't agree Wayland is stable? I've never had it crash once. Actually switching to Wayland when X.org was the default in Ubuntu solved a monitor resolution issue I had.
** Wayland supports all chipsets and systems I care about too. What are you are specifically missing? Saying something works as intended isn't a counter claim to something else.
** Wayland breaking apps is by design. Many of the apps that were "broken" required nasty workarounds to get them running on X.org. The overwhelming majority of apps don't care what system you run them on. DEs may care, all major ones have adopted Wayland. Again this was by design. The whole purpose of Wayland was to cut ties with the cruft of the past. This was a very welcome changed pushed forward by the very people who wrote the original libraries (much of the Wayland development team are ex-X11 developers).
** What are you missing in the app world that needs to be Wayland friendly? I have not come across a single app that hasn't worked on Wayland. Not one. Not now, not 5 years ago. I'm sure you have one, but really it's not a scenario common to computing.
** That guy's blog is a good one. It summarises why there are problems with porting and why they were the result of X11's legacy cruft. There are no problems with porting. There's just adapting to simpler ways of doing things, and removing functionality from compositors into external libraries and the DE which never belonged in the compositor in the first place. That blog even talks about how this is all a good thing.
** What needle did you want Wayland to move? It's the default on many major Linux distros and seemingly just works. Personally I'm tired of X11 fanbois who stuck their head in the sand because someone moved their cheese. The X11 people are completely obnoxious thinking that their way is the only true way of doing things, and pretend like the replacement system isn't already more performant while at the same time actively bitching about the very elegance that Wayland brought (just like you did in this post now).

*yawn* okay boomer. - Am I obnoxious? Yes, I treat people with the respect they treat others, and this is all the respect you deserve.

No Windows 11 does not "now" come with adware. That feature is old. It predates Windows 11 itself. Even Windows 10 was putting recommended apps (ads) in the start menu. And the toggle to turn it off and on dates from Windows 10 and was brought over in Windows 11.

I can't wait for the writer to go outside when it's raining and declare "after 40 years in journalism I just discovered water makes things wet!"

You sure you're responding to the right person?