...when your brand new phone refuses to be activated on their network, even though you bought it from them> No activation = no connection = app is useless. Can't call them either because, you know, at that point the phone doesn't work.
And yes, it has happened to me.

For T-Mobile, that works great. You have a customer who's paying you and you don't have to provide service for.

Of course, I guess the other assumption is you have access to another phone or something - either your spouse or your kid, or a work phone. Or maybe a landline.

T-Mobile is on one hell of a downward spiral. It's actually impressive.

It looks very much like there were suicides as a consequence of a poor mental health system in the country. There's no logical reason to kill yourself for having to redo an exam. These cases nearly always have something far more significant going on mentally.

You realize a lot of these countries have the One Big Test(tm) that literally decides your fate, right? Basically at the end of your high school education, you take One Big Test and it determines your future. Do really well and you often get a full ride scholarship to an overseas university (basically any university you want to get to - UK, US, Canada, etc). Do well and you get a scholarship to a local university. Do OK and you might be able to get into university if you can pay for it. Do badly and it's either trades or that's it, you're a poor laborer.

It's often so big many of the countries demand complete silence while the exam happens - they will cut back traffic, cut internet access, stop flights, etc.

And yes, these countries have a LOT of teenage suicides. Many students succumb to the pressure - not just the pressure to do well, but pressure from family. In fact, many students have been known to be disowned by their family for not doing as well as they were expected to. (I.e., if you were expected to get the full overseas scholarship and only get local university scholarship).

Students will spend 18 hours a day being tutored and studying for the exam - literally all day and all night in the leadup.

It's one of the advantages of the American system - in that you get second chances. If you fail your university entrance exam, you can often take it again, usually the next year. Same with basically any critical exam - fail the bar, you can take it again the next time (6 months later, though). It's not consequence free - you have to wait for the next exam to be held, and you lose any time opportunities like jobs and such that might be waiting on successful completion. But you get second chances, because at least we've recognized that things happen. You might do poorly because a family member passed at an inopportune moment.

Many of those suicides happened because they put their work into studying for the exam - literally put their life on hold for a month or more and many cannot contemplate having to go through it all over again.

At least for me and many others I spoke to.

Go and use books to train AI.

Just don't fucking destroy them afterwards! Many of these are out of print, impossible to replace! How much of a douchebag do you have to be to destroy them ?

It's easy to blame Intel but that was a joint venture with Micron and Intel. IMFlash out of Lehi Utah. Micron was every bit as responsible and if I remember right still holds most of the patents.

You could even make the case it was Micron that killed it because they dumped the entire thing on Intel and sold off the Lehi fab. Without Micron sharing manufacturing costs and with scaling difficulties lagging behind traditional NAND bit density improvements, Optane became financially unviable.

You are so wrong. The country I live in now has it. It's not called the same, but it amounts to the same. Near impossible to sue the police here.

I'm pretty sure most countries have something similar on the books.

Apple used up their backlog of processors. It's why Neo shipment times have turned into months - Apple was shocked by how many people wanted the computers and sold way more in the first month than they expected to ever sell.

As a result their supply of processors has dried up.

It really isn't complex. Google does it just fine. You have an account picker in the upper right corner, and you choose which account you're using to interact with that app. No big deal.

Which doesn't really work as users routine confuse their accounts and upload files to the wrong account, and then confusion ensues when files are stored partially on a work account and on a personal account.

Microsoft makes it somewhat better because OneDrive ends up with different accounts show up multiple times. And YouTube started showing multiple profiles when you start it up, which is a better solution so you always log in to the right account every time.

The problem is it's hard to differentiate between accounts and you might be happily working away and then realize it was saving to the wrong account the whole time.

Of course, the fundamental thing still remains the same - even if those ex-Apple employees had access to confidential documents, they are still covered by the Apple NDA as those don't usually have expiry dates. So they're still bound to keep that information secret.

It's generally not the mass pulp that is much of a worry. It's the rare books that get digitized for AI then dumped

I mean, we have some of the largest AI companies digitizing books for their AI training sets. Imagine the human benefit if those archives aren't destroyed but kept.

Heck, it could even serve as an income stream for those AI companies to make books available for access.

Of course, we know when the bubble pops, all that data gets deleted and since those books were destroyed permanently which means some works might no longer exist.

The very least is we could have some of the biggest book archives be one of the legacies of the AI bubble that would be a positive for humanity.

Isn't limited to reddit. It's every social media site and almost every comment section online. I'm actually appreciative of the sites that don't have comment sections or require an extra click to view them these days.

Call centers have been absolute shit for 30+ years.

According to this, 26.06 LTS got a kernel update fix a couple of weeks ago in the middle of July

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...

Granted, 7.0 is no longer supported so patches are being backported by Ubuntu.

Isn't everyone patching 100s of vulns every month at the moment?

That would be fixed in the current tip of the kernel tree.

But there are multiple supported kernel versions, and many vulnerabilities are not present in the older kernels so those will not be backported. Either the feature doesn't exist in the older kernel, or it isn't enabled by default, or there's a dependency on a newer kernel.

Even if GOG finally released the Linux client today, and it had feature parity with the Windows one, it is because of Valve money that Linux has become such a great gaming platform.

I'll keep buying my games on Steam, at least for now: it is not just a matter of market dominance, but supporting a corporation that is giving back to my community.

The main reason to go with GoG is DRM free games. Every game on GoG is provided DRM free, and you can download offline installers for games and save them. If GoG vanished tomorrow, those offline installers will continue to work. If GoG was served with an order to remove a game from sale and to block people from downloading it, the offline installer will still work.

Steam will get money because there are plenty of games on Steam that will never be on GoG - many games ship with Denuvo and such and GoG will either never get it, or get it a long time later.

I shop at GoG first, but that hardly makes a dent on how much I buy from Steam. You can support both.

I'm fairly sure at least one entire department at MS is tasked with making sure people don't switch to other formats, that despite on-paper "open" XML it remains incompatible and no competitor software can flawlessly read and write it.

So no, unless you can hire a dozen people full-time to counter that, you don't have a chance to break through that.