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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.
Topics that do not have much to do with each other at the moment.
$900 USD is just not worth it for me for console gaming. I've already got a PC that works, and games I like for it.
I'm just going into a holding pattern for buying any computing equipment unless I absolutely need to. I suspect I'm going to be in the majority on that.
> The premise of a device having "one job" again is the position of a luddite.
No, it's the position of being anti-enshitification.
A refrigerator's main function is to keep food cold. That's the reason you buy a refrigerator. If putting a screen on a TV actually had a demonstrable benefit to that purpose then fine; but it doesn't. It actually has no objective benefit whatsoever, and the increased complexity not only increases cost but also reduces reliability. That's literally the definition of enshitification.
If having a computer screen in your kitchen, mounted to your fridge, is that useful... get a tablet and mount it to the fridge. Not only would that be cheaper, but if the tablet fails it doesn't make the refrigerator scrap metal and vice-versa and you can upgrade one without throwing out the other. Bonus is you can take the table off the fridge and put it where you need it.
I have a leatherman multitool that I keep on me whenever I'm out of the house. It does a lot of things, but it does none of those things as good as a dedicated single-purpose tool of the same kind. It's a good knife but it will never be as good as an actual knife. It's a good pair of pliers but it will never be as good as a proper pair of pliers. It's a decent screwdriver but I will always reach for a normal proper screwdriver if there's one available. Does it make me a luddite to not want a single item that does all things kinda shitty instead of many items that each do their one thing well?
=Smidge=
Zero crashes on my Macs since 10 years or more.
5 blue screens on my Windows 11 acer last 28months.
Minimum 10 times "windows discovered a problem, and needs to reboot now", often by two or even three reboots in a row.
Not even telling what the problem is
How do you come to 10x when you have on one side zero crashes and on the other side 2 dozens, depending how you count
Well, when I read it was all pounds, in Europe, I wondered how much that is in kg. As I am lazy, I just divided by 2
Then, considering that this is at the Swizz and German border, I wondered if they used forced workers, like the many refugees to get the container on the truck!
I am relieved to read, they used a crane!!
Now I only have to figure what exactly -half a thousand degrees Fahrenheit is. I guess I can google for an AI to find that out.
They created fusion.
At least they claim so.
It is clear from the article.
And they are not the only ones. We have plenty of definitely non scam fusion companies that do fusion.
The question is will it once be commercial viable.
NASA tested solar sails just recently: https://www.nasa.gov/smallspac...
Well, the JPL has the Vasimr drive, a plasma engine.
They are working to "upgrade" it into a fusion drive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However regarding the upgrade to fusion they are pretty silent since a decade!!
Some key researchers founded their own company: Ad AStra.
The key researcher a female Ph. whose name I forgot, vanished from publications.
So no idea what is going on there. No idea actually if JPL is still involved.
Fact is they have a working - pretty nicely working - plasma engine. Since over 20 years. I guess there is again some big industry in the US who wants that project to fail. For what ever reason.
The magnetic field is not really a problem.
The people who did more math on it, I read around 2010 about some scientests/sf authors, figured the vacuum outside of solar systems symply is not dense enough in hydrogene.
It might - just slightly - be possible to have a drive based on fusion and hydrogen capture inside of a solar system. Question would be if that is practical or if it would not just make more sense, to have refueling based ice from comets etc.
That globe had nothing to do with fusion
Users should never be able to do things that cause crashes in the same way that drivers should not ever be able to press any button or press any pedal that causes the engine to spontaneously burst into flames.
I don't have crashes.
I'm also a Mac user, but let's not boast here, shall we?
My personal guess would have been at least 10x. Did Microsoft bribe the study authors?
Dude, are you living under a rock?
These bands are creating new music. But the money that allows them to do so comes from their old music. I have bands in my collection that have been making music for 30 years.
And I'm pretty sure even small bands make good money nowadays from touring,
No they don't. They don't even make ok money. Tours are expensive and a lot of people, from road crew to venue security, take their cut before the musicians. The big guys, they make a killing on tours. But the small ones sometimes don't even break even.
In fact, a common wisdom in the industry is that touring is worth it not because the tour itself makes profits, but because it builds a fanbase and drives what is called "catalog discovery" - both old and new fans looking buying the albums with the songs they liked (and for the old fans, didn't know).
This study: https://www.giarts.org/article... says that 28% of income across all the musicians surveyed comes from tours. The share is larger for the rock/pop sector where it nears 40% but even that isn't easy money. And if you consider that only 20% of the rock/pop musicians make more than $50,000 a year, then it becomes a hollow statement.
Plus, it goes directly against your first statement - while on tour the band is not creating new music. So if you want to drive musicians more towards constantly creating (which most of them already do), then you can't make live performances the main income source.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
