We can't understand why you can't understand basic fundamental realities that these twelve year-olds you speak of are able to plainly see.

Dude Biden has been out of office for almost two full years. He is to feeble to sexually harass most women now and probably needs help getting in and out of the shower, so even his daughter is mostly safe.

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The problem here is the loss of trust. I have migrated almost everything I used to still use Windows for (at work left Windows at home behind a long time ago), to either MacOS natively or a Linux VM.

Microsoft made the experience of using Windows 11 so bad it was worth it abandon workflows with a decade or more of use to avoid it!

The very idea the find/search feature on the desktop should have ever searched for, let alone returned results from the internet prior to those found on the local machine and maybe possibly maybe some user identified data sources like attached network volumes and associated sharepoint / intranet resources in business environments was both stupid and malevolent.

Windows from at least 22h2 on through now is basically malware, by any reasonable definition and identification of characteristics. It literally does everything out of the box people once objected to BonziBuddy doing!

Sometimes I wonder if this is all a grand conspiracy to destroy federalism and make us 50 nifty little states..

I hope so

Anytime you convert from one time of power to another you usually incur a ton of loss. Charging the battery with the engine or running the motors with the generator output, mechanical -> electric only to go back to mechanical pretty much destroys any advantage you get from running the engine more optimally.

Yes rail roads do this, but it is not about (fuel) efficiency, it is about torque / tractive effort (not a rail way engineer so I don't understand all the details differences )

With automotive hybrids it is more sensible to capture waste energy regen breaking, and help the engine when it is outside its power band, use the motor to provide the extra power needed for acceleration etc.
Use the motor more as the prime mover in situations like stop/go where engine power is hard to manage effectively at all, and there is otherwise lots of idling.

Trucking though (long haul) is pretty efficent accross most of the US. You have large loads on engines with tall gearing, and everything runs at pretty stable speeds.

Most of our interstate highways, with some exceptions in mount regions have a fairly narrow range of again consistent grades.

A battery-electric boost where efficiencies of the main power train fall down, long grades in the mountains, any kind of stop/go situation due to accidents, road maintenance etc, and the last miles in/near destinations in a lot of cases, stands to pack a huge punch in energy savings. Without adding a lot of weight to vehicles that already place stress on roadways and structures, at least as compared to trucking around enough battery for the long runs.

Hybrids especially if you can put the hybrid tech into the trailer rather than the tractor, therefore making it possible to use cheaper lighter traditional trailers on routes where the hybrid tech offers less advantage, is pretty smart. It also sides steps the problem of not being able to operate if you can't charge for whatever reason. Substations do catch fire sometimes, storms / fires do take out major grid supports having a trucking industry entirely grid dependent is problematic because they may need to be delivering the very supplies and equipment needed to effectively repair the grid when needed.

I think the correct approach is the best of both here, use electric propulsion when it is more efficent, than the ICE drive line can be or can be alone, use electricity when it be generated with lower carbon foot print and deliver better cost per mine, use fuel where energy density remains key, be able to use fuel for any job if operating in stand alone mode become a sudden requirement.

At the scale of a commercial transport truck this should all be very do-able

My banks site won't work in Firefox. Oddly it says it does, I have not tried on Windows. Maybe it would on Windows but I don't know why that should make a difference.

Yeah,

I kinda like Disney+, my family and I do watch quite a bit of content on it. It has gone down hill some though. I don't really pay for the ad tier it is bundled with my wife's mobile plan (so yes I do pay for it) but that bundle includes other features/services/tethering rules we want and is still the most economic to get them, at least without completely switching carriers.

I don't think I'd be a subscriber if we had to pay 'full rate'

$20 for ad free
$15 for w/ads

Would free be
$0 w/MOAR Ads!

Or would it be a limited selection of content, stuff comes out first on the paid subs levels?

Something even more aggravating and dickish like the first 8 episodes of whatever free, but oh look you have to subscribe to get episodes 9 and 10?

Regardless of what youtube and Tubi etc might be doing there is psychology in play here that I expect is going to leave either subscribers or would-be subscribers feeling resentful about the model.

They are counting some combination of legitimate risk, FUD, and protectionism to ultimately protect them from the Chinese models.

The reality is at some point in the not to distant future it will be cheaper to put enough AI accelerator hardware in workstations to give most folks using Claude/Claude code and similar a perfectly acceptable degree of performance. It always goes this way - it is never cheaper put hardware behind the glass when it can go under the desk long term. The only reasons to do it usual boil down to management and wanting to do something more bleeding edge that hasnt filtered to commodity hardware yet.

Of course for online applications that need to scale, and for complex engineering or very large data volume tasks, sure "Cloud AI" and certainly for anyone who needs to train a model. However the idea these guys are going to get individuals and business to keep paying $200 for tokens to use some desktop AI assistant is unrealistic, and down goes the datacenter volume requirements along with that.

Again I am not saying there isnt a new industry / space here or that it is all a bubble but the current Anthropic/OpenAI/Grok business model persisting for a whole lot longer does not appear to me anyway to that it fits the patter of the last 25 years of White-Collar-targeted IT systems.

Let me caveat that I also think the sorts of people making big investments in Data Centers are not stupid and at least see this as a likely outcome as well, presumably they believe they can sell the space/capacity to other users for other applications. If so why not charge the Anthropics of the world with the VC money huge premiums to rush build outs while you can get them? As long the assets are still marketable after that business drops off, it is a win!

As much as I want to say, it might be useful to have Web Based E-mail interface that will work in a basic / legacy browser, I don't know this is really true.

Not much of the web works at all if you try to use it with anything not Chromium or Apple-Webkit from less than five years ago. YMMV with recent Mozilla engines.

The few places where I can see someone maybe wanting to use this are the very places that people definitely should be isolating from all things Internet, especially not exposing it to e-mail content, which even if restricted to being from the local domain could still contain something malicious accidentally forwarded.

I can certainly understand why people would want / maybe just like or prefer a range of other legacy mail client. I mean if you handle a lot of mail and have been using Pegasus or something for the last 30 years and its all muscle memory, sure I get it. Moving from OWA-lite to OWA though probably isnt much bother for most people. At some point it makes sense to drop software likely very few folks are using.

Exactly my concern here.

There is enough wiggle room from them to mark arguments like 'oh well software tools sure we trust our company stores to hold on to them but um trade secrets we can't leave that stuff with just anyone with a set a wrenches and coveralls'

So they ship and require to ship back some 300lbs of server equipment and the fee is $800 every time.. Force any independent shops to go back to court.. Will Deere lose again probably, but in the mean time they still lock out anyone not willing to fight about it, and still have any owner who needs his tractor fixed yesterday (which for commercial farmers all of them) by the short ones.

It will be interesting to see how impactful this judgement really is in practice. Which ultimately will probably come down to the judges own relative apathy or aversion to corporate BS.

Yeah, but that will happen with your Kodak scooter and Bell and Howell Fire extinguisher too, which are the same exact products

Sometimes I just want to look for stuff made by brands I want because I'm doing something somewhat professional and need the name brand to not be SHJWEHAS or I'll get made fun of relentlessly. Its the cost of being accepted and getting work sometimes. You over pay for the hammer to communicate something to the other people you're swinging it with. I don't like it, but I can't change it.