You could just look it up if you want - "hydrogen global warming potential"

It'll leak all over the place. Hydrogen under pressure is too bulky to use in aircraft. It would have to be liquid cooled and it would leak all the way from the plant to the plane. Because as hydrogen warms up it evaporates and that gas has to be vented. Now perhaps we could vent / burn it safely, or perhaps we can't.

But the real question is why chase hydrogen at all when more viable alternatives exist - battery and synthetic fuel. Hydrogen is a precursor to making synthetic fuel and it requires more energy but at least it can be captured in a single place and not bleed out continuously.

It's merely 12x over 100 years, 37x over 20 years.

And "basic logic" is doing some heavy lifting here. To carry the amount of hydrogen necessary to power a flight of any length would mean liquid cooling it. Which in turn means off gassing as it evaporates. Not just in the aircraft but where it refuels. Not to mention leakage. Or the need to dump hydrogen in certain circumstances where it instantly heads into the atmosphere - as opposed to fuel vapour which is heavier than air.

If people are desperate to replace fossil fuels in aviation then synthetic fuels would be a safer alternative, where the fuel is carbon neutral to produce and stays mostly in liquid form. Or use batteries where possible. Or eliminate flights entirely where viable alternatives like rail could be used (like France does).

Off gassed hydrogen has ~ 37x the warming potential of CO2 on the climate. Not because hydrogen causes warming itself, but because its presence in the atmosphere extends the lifespan of methane by bonding with radicals that would otherwise break down methane sooner. It's not something we want to see any country or industry adopting.

How about we tax the hell out of OpenAI and other companies who have ingested and profited from IP and disburse it via a compensation fund. Artists, academics, scientists, journalists, authors, photographers, philosophers, theologians, statisticians, bloggers, movie makers, forum posters etc. etc. Anyone who has produced content that is hosted on a website or physically available that was used to train AIs should be able to claim compensation. And require these companies to disclose every single public source of information they've scraped, with what frequency and how they store the information so we know exactly who they've been ripping off.

Do you work for Samsung or are you just performatively being a contrarian?

You're right that PCs are just as bad but at least you can uninstall that garbage and even reformat the entire PC if you like. This is like Lenovo, Dell etc baking actual malware into the firmware that you cannot get rid of, only disable.

I had to set up a Samsung A56 recently, and 90% of the setup was removing shit Samsung put on there that NOBODY asked for or wants - Samsung browser, their app store, their fitness tracker, their payment system, their assistant Bixby, malware called "AppCloud", a bunch of placeholders for Microsoft Office, Onedrive, Facebook, X, LinkedIn etc. Just absolute garbage that has to be removed to make the phone usable and fit for purpose. Some apps can't be uninstalled, only disabled. Some of the Samsung backend services can't even be disabled either despite serving no purpose.

The worst app is "AppCloud" which is a trojan/malware that automatically installs "curated" software on devices without consent. It slips into the setup sequence asking for consent when people are already habituated to clicking through screens to make their phone work. Did I mention it was made by an Israeli company called ironSource? It's one of those bits of software that cannot be removed so it's always there and I believe many people do not know how to turn it off. God knows what data it is harvesting, or the risk especially for people using Samsung devices in countries that are not friendly to Israel.

Get Claude to read the Claude source code and produce a non copyright infringing functional equivalent to it.

I think these days I'd even shy away from MFC unless there was a reason that something like QT or even wxWidgets couldn't fulfill my needs due to licensing or some API (e.g. COM) it needs to use.

I've programmed Win32 for decades and while it was fine for the time, much of the user facing APIs are obsolete for modern GUI development and some of the non-user facing stuff too. But Microsoft really hasn't produced a credible replacement for it and has shat out a succession of technologies one after the other that devs are supposed to use before Microsoft abandons them for the next - Win32 (and layers on top like MFC), WinForms, WPF (and Silverlight), UWP, Windows App SDK / WinUI.

Some of these technologies are overlapping, but each was intended to coral devs into making Metro apps or Windows Store apps and burn their bridges in the process. It went down like a lead balloon. Now they're dialing back trying to make WinUI somewhat platform agnostic to the version of Windows its running on but who knows if it will stick. It's not the only pain point because Microsoft even extended the C++ language to deal with these APIs with new types like "ref", "partial" and hat notation to deal with garbage collected objects, auto generated classes and other things that also impedes portability.

So it's no wonder that app developers have gone for web apps (and QT) because it's makes it easier to write portable apps and acts as insulation from Microsoft's mercurial view of the world.

If "the problem is peer pressure" then the nicotine/tobacco industry should have NO PROBLEM with ads / promotions / marketing / sponsorship being banned right?

The reality is that vapes are in the same situation as tobacco in the 70s and 80s deliberately using marketing of people looking cool and sexy to get people hooked on this shit. The way to stop people getting hooked is to remove all prominence of the product and make it hard and extreme risk for a business to sell to kids. And to make the product less affordable by banning disposable vapes. And to make the product less attractive in terms of flavours and such.

These are all obvious measures. Will it stop all kids from vaping? Of course not. But it will stop a lot. And that's why tobacco / nicotine lobby REALLY want things to stay as loose as they are now. They need a constant stream of new addicts and anything that threatens that is detrimental to their business model.

Make the penalties of selling vapes to minors so huge that companies won't do it. And ban vapes from appealing to minors in the first place - zero advertising, zero promotion of vapes, a total ban on disposable vapes and limited flavours, i.e. they are not visible in stores, they are not advertised online or TV, they don't sponsor events / sports, they may not have a social media presence of any kind.

Everyone despises car dealers but they do perform an important role selling cars somewhere between wholesale price and MSRP. If automakers want to sell direct to the consumer then the online operation should be operate under the same terms and conditions as dealers. i.e. it might say "Ford" on the website, but it's really a separate siloed franchise that has to deal with Ford just like any other franchised dealer.

MacOS only runs on a handful of hardware devices that Apple creates and tightly controls. Windows runs on a VAST selection of hardware that Microsoft mostly does not control. So of course there is the potential for more crashes. Hardware and drivers aren't perfect and that increases the potential for things to go wrong.

But I'd rather have choice and the freedom to buy hardware that suits my needs & budget than be stuck in a golden cage.