You've forgotten that the Trump-loving chuds dominate the military, even after Biden's purges. In the likely event of a future civil war, they are likely to turn traitor, refuse orders and side with the traitors. We already saw this with the Texas National Guard refusing and attempting to close the border in defiance of federal court order to keep it open. Robots remove them from the equation and ensure that they will be loyal to orders from DC. And just imagine how hilarious it will be to watch them getting turned into pink mist by AI-piloted A-10s. Losers in 1865, losers in 1945, losers in 2025.

Remembering that in the business world, "unsupported" can translate to "legally liable" in the event something goes seriously wrong.

I have a houseful of PCs, but only one will officially run Win11 -- a low-powered netbook that ironically is the least competent hardware I own (its horsepower is on par with my laptop from 2003). I'll give it this -- Win11 does a good job of downshifting to match the environment it finds itself in; Win10 would struggle on that netbook.

Which desktops did you try, and what issues blew it for you?

I had a hard time finding a linux I could live with, and I first started looking over 25 years ago. It's only been about six years now since it's become sufficiently stable and complete. And implementations vary wildly. I prefer the KDE desktop as being the most functional (and least annoying), but KDE on Kubuntu is not nearly as slick as KDE on PCLinuxOS.

But at the far end, IMO current Gnome makes Win10 look stellar.... good gods, who thought a cellphone makes a good desktop??

Oh, the story has one good function. It points up how in isolation, such metrics are garbage.

Otherwise.... what you said.

Can Musk even define "intelligence"?

They have those things because we pay for their defense. Why we pay for a continent of wealthy democracies who have nothing but withering criticism for us and who block our companies and imports is beyond me. Let's stop it and buy nice things for ourselves instead.

Probably because in the 1950s, internal combustion engines were the modern futuristic thing and electric was old technology. Electric cars peaked in the 1930s when they were mostly competing with steam and horse powered vehicles.

Roku needs to add Keyboard support before they try adding Ads.

There is no reason to not support a keyboard for entering search

Did we watch the same movie? I watched it years ago and it stank. People just 'like: it because of the reputation, not because it's good. Like Citizen Kane.

I got the DVD, UK PAL release, quite some years ago. The computer/bomb scene you're talking about is definitely in that.

XP64 here. Same philosophy. Block the garbage, don't be stupid, glory in my lack of visitors, and remember that attack vectors are mostly discovered by reverse-engineering the patches. No patches, way fewer clues.

Whatever small risks are well offset by an OS that doesn't continually make me long to reach through my monitor and throttle a UI developer.

VLANS also work. All we need are layer 3 switches in the neighborhoods.

It's important to note that Weird Al seeks the approval of the artists he is parodying. Technically it's not likely in many cases he has to, since US copyright law generally protects parody, but he's a good faith actor who understands not everyone is going to want to be parodied. Still, the fact that he does seek permission gives him an extra layer of protection.

I have a 100% fix for the last mile problem.

Local Utility Company, that owns and maintains fiber.

All fiber brought back to a COLO facility where Vendors offer their services to the local utility customers, directly AT the COLO facility. Choice to the Consumer. The COLO and Fiber are maintained with fees extracted as part of the rental agreement between the vendors and the local Utility CO.

A consumer purchases service from the vendor(s) of their choice directly, based on their desires and needs. No Government needs to be involved. Increase Options creates competition.

Its a wonder smart people haven't figured out that Government Franchise Agreements has stagnated the status quo into doing nothing.