They thought they were outsourcing just production, but it turns out they have outsourced just about everything and have been left in the dust.

Unless they provide a seven-day battery life and an Android app.

I just hope it's not "RIP ARC" and not "RIP Intel Open Source"

It's my device and software, and I have full rights to use them however I want.

If I want to install malware ... according to Google, I should be able to do so. That's the biggest issue here. Authorities are not infallible. And they have been caught abusing their power throughout our entire history. Today it's an OK app, tomorrow it's outlawed according to the powers that be. /. just recently ran a story of Apple taking down a Torrent app ... outside of their own App Store. You must be a fan of that, right?

You can hide sideloading behind the developer option flag, but leave it be. Period.

What might be missing or underemphasized?

Here are some important angles the article doesn't deeply explore -- or only scratches the surface of:

1. Delayed adulthood and economic precarity among young adults

IFS doesn't discuss longer transitions into adulthood -- like living with parents, delayed employment, or economic instability -- which correlate with delay in romantic/sexual activity. Evidence shows sexual inactivity rose sharply in young men and women even before the pandemic. Economic dependence and lack of autonomy crimp both pairing and sexual frequency.

2. Mental health, anxiety, and burnout

The article doesn't touch on how rising anxiety, depression, and mental fatigue reduce libido or engagement. Other analyses link mood disorders and burnout to sexual decline, but IFS doesn't include this emotional/psychological dimension.

3. New sexual norms, consent culture, and gender dynamics

The article overlooks shifting cultural expectations around sex -- such as heightened consent awareness, evolving boundaries, or rising hesitancy among both sexes. A recent discussion in Wired (June 2025) highlights how social media, body image issues, politicized sexual norms, and #MeToo-era dynamics affect Gen Z's sexual activity.

4. Individual differences and sexual satisfaction framing

IFS frames sexual decline as negative but doesn't differentiate between frequency and desire or satisfaction. Not all individuals or couples prioritize high frequency; some might be content with less. As pointed out in critiques of the âoesex recessionâ framing, more sex isn't always better -- and satisfaction doesn't scale with frequency.

5. Conflict, workload, and emotional disconnect in relationships

IFS mentions tech replacing couple time, but doesn't discuss relational factors like unresolved conflict, work stress, parenting exhaustion, or emotional drift that erode sexual desire over time -- even in married couples.

6. Broader societal, cultural, and generational shifts

The article doesn't explore how secularization, changing religious attitudes, or broader cultural disconnection may influence sex. Nor does it compare cross-national trends, although declines are visible globally -- in France, rates have plummeted, with cultural and workload factors at play.

Authored by ChatGPT but I couldn't have said it better.

The Sex Recession: The Share of Americans Having Regular Sex Keeps Dropping

Nuf said.

This didn't work before, this won't work ever. Windows is a desktop OS that is often used when other people are around. You don't want to annoy them or let them know what you're doing. And don't get me started on how imprecise voice commands can be. And how you can do most things a lot faster while using your keyboard/mouse rather than trying to explain to a stupid AI what is that you really want to do.

is not, nor has it ever been, a monopoly.

It's simply the best search engine, hands down, and no one has ever prevented Yahoo, Microsoft, or other companies from creating their own. This lawsuit has no merit whatsoever.

Paying 15% of revenues is not the same as 15% of profits. Thatâ(TM)s a substantial amount. If their profit margins were around 50%, it would equate to about 30% of their profits.

With the promise of AGI/ASI, I think a better idea would be to invent cryosleep. This would allow us to send human beings almost anywhere with far fewer issues along the way.

Maintaining such a close-knit society for 400 years sounds outlandish. It's a recipe for disaster, from communicable diseases to people going crazy.

Been using it for over 2 decades and I have no plans to stop doing it.

Sadly, it's the absolute best RSS/Atom reader out there and it's dead. Its developer has long given up on it.

So, people deliberately shared their chats and made them "discoverable," and now there's a ruckus about it? Why?!

Why instead? Here's what should be done:

  * There's been a lot of discussion around developing plastics that degrade in just a few years. We need to fund this research immediately.
  * The amount of plastic packaging should be reduced as soon as possible -- and eliminated entirely wherever feasible. When was the last time you bought a gadget? Remember how it came wrapped in ten layers of plastic?
  * Here in Russia, back in the USSR days, many products like milk, kefir, and sour cream were packaged in paper-like materials or glass. You could return glass bottles for money. It was a highly effective system, and many people really liked it.
  * Implement policies that reduce the amount of plastic used in clothing and footwear. There is an insane amount of microplastics in those items.
  * Do something about the tires. I'm not a chemist or physicist, so I have no idea how to tackle this issue.
  * Single-use plastic bags should be either eliminated, or made extremely sturdy and equally expensive, or replaced with something biodegradable that doesn't turn into microplastics.

The funny thing is that the rich think they are immune to this, but microplastics have now been found in every form of life tested.

I wonder how they are coping with that.

And I'm pretty sure it's only gonna get worse, a lot lot worse before people on earth do something about it.

I've long suspected that most religious people don't actually believe in an afterlife or God, and how we've been royally fucking with this planet over the past 100 years is a prime example of that.

I know Slashdot (and Ars Technica as well) both deny even the possibility of creating AGI/ASI using current methods, but if, if these companies achieve it, these salaries will be nothing. They are trying to solve the universe.