You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

"We used to have super high taxes for the wealthy and corporations."

Did we?

Because what I see is a high marginal tax rate really only in the postwar years. ... And anyone who begins their economic model in the late 40s is a moron or a liar.

Remember anything important that happened, say, midcentury?
Something that may have left the US fabulously wealthy, particularly relative to all the other industrialized countries who were shattered & left in ruins by the same event?

Anyone who points to that time and stupidly says "durr, we should do it THAT way" conveniently disregards the (hopefully unique) economic environment resulting from multiple, cataclysmic, economy shattering wars and the luxuries available to those left standing thereafter.

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

You don't seem to understand the topic. That key is not something typed in regularly. It is the recovery key for whole disk encryption. It will likely never be typed in at all.

Once precedent is set, it will be open season to sue for damages unless they can show changes. Now, changes could end up just a disclaimer every time you log in, but "do nothing" is not an option.

Currently an M4 too. Before that Intel I5. Before that PowerPC G4. :-)

Intel NUC i5, only to run Win11. My 10+ year old i7 that's had one RAM upgrade and 3 GPU upgrades still worked and played games just fine, but it was stuck at Win10 during to the CPU generation cutoff.

All my PCs dual boot Windows and Linux, since around 1994.

I've been using Linux since around 1994. Even in the same family things diverge, Ubuntu and Debian for example.

Bespoke Echo Chambers? That's their new feature? Removing even the remotest possibility of an opinion differing from your own, what a great idea! /sarcasm

Don't care. If your shit shows me ads, it's not getting into my kitchen. Note to self: Don't buy appliances from Samsung anymore.

Yes, I am vocal in how much I hate ads. I believe the CEOs of advertising companies should get one hit with a stick for every time their ad bothered someone even in the slightest.

Exactly what I'm saying.

The fact that users and enterprise customers are not demanding better software from Microsoft with the same fervor their ancestors demanded that the witch be burnt speaks volumes.

And I'm specifically talking about operating systems here. Software can crash for all I care. I'm fine software quality being all over the place, the market can sort that out. But operating systems are natural monopolies and the foundation for everything else. We should not accept shoddy quality there.

AI curated Bluesky garbage is still garbage. It is a leftist echo chamber.

They have a king and a quasi institutionalized class system. What do you expect?

The PS3 was $600USD back in Nov 2006. That's the equivalent of $972USD in 2026.

You could say, Sony is going 20 years into the past for pricing.

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The funny thing is that Apple sometimes asks users to copy-paste a string they provide into a terminal. For example when creating a flash drive with an installable version of macOS.