Errr no, they very much do make technology. Quite a bit of it actually. Lots of what is marketed under Dolby Vision and Dolby Audio was developed by themselves and they spend a quarter of a billion dollar every year on R&D. Heck even the noise cancelling ability in video conferencing software along with music detection was largely developed by Dolby.

Just because you don't see their products on the shelves at Best Buy doesn't mean they don't make those either. They produce reference monitors for colour grading Dolby Vision content, they have an entire line of cinema audio speakers, and they make the rest of the cinema audio stack as well as a first party product, including multichannel amplifiers and audio pre-processors for Atmos content - a codec they also developed from the ground up.

The fact they sit on a bunch of related patents is just the nature of any R&D development.

Not just hardware, but drivers and software as well. How many Mac users run software with kernel level dumbfuckery like easy-anti-cheat or some anti piracy crap? How many Mac users update to a new GPU driver every two weeks? (Multiple of which have been subject to a recall / downgrade advice over the past few years).

What problems? If your system is going down every week then something is either fundamentally broken (maybe a good time to reinstall) or you have some dodgy hardware. Windows is by far less stable than the others, I'll give you that, but not to the "every single week" level of unstable.

Not dubious, just run of the mill, but also it goes beyond that. Most crashes you get are driver / hardware related. Apple does hardware qualification, users don't. Heck half the time not even the likes of Dell or HP test their systems properly, nor release proper drivers.

Also how many of those crashes are related to fast paced update of graphics drivers? NVIDIA releases a new game ready driver every few weeks, often buggy. Games are released in a dodgy state that often crash and due to their inclusion of kernel level fuckery frequently take out the system with it, or worse, have dodgy shit running in the background.

Apple doesn't just not have a mix of hardware, it avoids an entire subset of the most OS screwing field of PCs: Gaming.

Yes and no. Often it's driver related. That thing that users are doing may be as simple as running a set of buggy NVIDIA drivers, or a game with kernel level anticheat shit close to release date.

Its easy to blame the user here, but ultimately the user is doing normal user things. There's a lot of blame to be given to developers if a user is able to crash their system doing something they are supposed to be doing and should be expected to do.

(My last had crash to a forced restart was on a Helldivers II loading screen. That game is infamously buggy, and developers have patched quite a few crash related issues over the past year.

Nah, literally something that hasn't happened to 99.99% of users in the past 20 years.

Well there's your problem. Stop using Windows ME. It's very clear that if your windows is breaking to the point of needing a reinstall / repair and it's a "frequent occurrence" then my unfortunate sir, *you* are the problem. Not even TFA is talking about that.

OpenAI said they expect to spend $600bn through to 2030 on compute costs. That's $150bn per year in costs. They are projecting to make $25bn in revenue this year.

They try to get closer to making a profit like I try to get closer to winning an Olympic gold medal by doing a couple of pushups every day.

Hey as long as don't got pronouns all good!

While I agree with you in principle (it's a horrendously bad idea to dox your kids online), the concept of asking children for consent is silly. The entire legal framework we have devised is one of authority over children.

A better answer would be just don't do it, and ban them from doing it too (as a good parent should). Their opinion or consent shouldn't come into it.

Someone posted the court order you were looking for on reddit: https://i.redd.it/gln6bwoamx12...

Water use should absolutely be high on the list since much of the world's population is increasingly water starved. Even in places known for endless rain we are experiencing droughts, river level variation not seen previously, and water table droppage.

We can't stop pouring water on farms. That provides food to eat. But we can absolutely mandate the end of the use of evaporative cooling for datacentres which is not only a significant water consumer, but something we do largely only for cost avoidance rather than absolute necessity.

You say this as if this isn't a fucking scary number considering a typical query. Given you can't type something into Google these days without a query being generated, and that a typical conversation with ChatGPT can literally run from the 10s to the 100s of queries comparing it to a shower which you do once a day is just absolutely mind-blowingly silly. On top of that humans don't last long without basic sanitation, but we've somehow made it through the entire rise of civilisation without Gemini giving me an AI generated preview of something I could click on anyway. Showering isn't wasting water. AI is.

There's nothing "wild tangent" when we're discussing the resource requirements of datacentre. It's literally those two, and both are important.

CAPTCHA is a fundamentally broken system these days and is doing little to stop bots.

To be fair, owners of old accounts would barely recognise any of these sites anymore, so maybe ask if you really need someone to speak for you, or you would instead be begging for a convenient excuse to leave a dying spam filled platform behind.

Actually it explicitly isn't, with the exception of channels dedicated to just showing one show TV has historically always contained content to specific hour or half our periods, broken up by advertisements, and often a full week between serialised episodes.