Then there is the noise factor and the fact that the homeowner may need more electricity (electric car, pool, hot tub, etc).

I built my house. My builder pushed back on me when I asked for a 400A service. He said I'd never need it since I didn't have plans for a pool. Gave me a 200A service.

Now with 2 electric cars, a finished basement, and patio lighting I have two subpanels in addition to the main panel.

No mystery why Slashdot's active users are in the three figures.

If I operate a motorized vehicle on the street I need a license, insurance, registration and a street-legal vehicle. It's already against the law for an unlicensed little shit with no lights, safety equipment or common sense to suddenly dart out into traffic, swerve through screeching tires and near-misses and then do a wiseass pop back on to the sidewalk at 20-30 MPH. It's against the law to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk too.

Oh, and shout out to the Mensa members who do the same thing wearing dark clothing at night at busy intersections. Every one of those goddamn bikes comes with lights installed. Except yours. Right bro?

Get a license and insurance or get the fuck off the road.

I know they must be peeing into bottles and just doing isometric stretching to prevent leg clots, but those guys must really have it rough if 30 minutes every 10 hours is not acceptable.

On the other hand, these fuel consumption numbers assume appropriate temperatures. You make it a little too cold and the fuel consumption goes up dramatically. Tesla car batteries don't like the cold. Source: I drive Tesla since 2014 and have two of them currently.

"Imagine you're in the Arctic, a voice from a meditation video tells them, with snowflakes melting on your skin."

And you're too goddamn stupid to realize you're freezing to death. Maybe they'll ping your phone and find you in a frozen doomscrolling pose under 17 feet of snow. Public education is really lighting up that scoreboard!

The person who wrote this law must be one of the most utterly moronic person on earth. Or the biggest piece of shit. One of those clowns who want their every whim fulfilled at any cost, yet completely incapable of grasping the stupidity and impossibility of what they’re demanding. And this clown is making laws??

Bullshit.

Just a few years ago, an app with almost the same functionality as WhatsApp (though it wouldn’t have video or audio, since that wasn’t feasible back then on dial-up or DSL connections) wouldn’t have used more than 50MB even under heavy use. Nowadays, however, an app with the same goals easily exceeds 1.5GB of RAM.

1.5 GB of RAM for an instant messaging app. It was possible to run the entire Windows XP system plus user applications on 128MB of RAM... 256MB was a luxury.

And for those complete idiots who keep going on and on about how “memory that isn’t used is wasted memory,” I have two things to say to those clowns:

1) There is absolutely no reason to use 1GB of RAM for a task that you can easily handle with just 10MB of RAM. Just because your computer has 32GB of RAM doesn’t mean you have to use all of it just for your application;

2) Your application isn't the only thing running on the user's computer. What happens if the dozens of processes running on the user's computer all have the same idiotic idea of trying to reserve all the computer's memory for themselves?

A native Windows app uses Windows system libraries to handle tasks like communication and rendering, and relies on operating system methods to draw its interface, and so on. Basically, almost everything you saw being used in Windows 7. Whereas in Windows 11, what at first glance appears to be an desktop application is actually a piece of shit built on Electron or another “web container” whose purpose is to make a web page look like a desktop app. It even works, but with horrendous waste of CPU time and RAM.

Finally? I’m tired of seeing apps in Windows 11 that are an integral part of the operating system and should therefore be native, but were built with that total, complete, and absolute shit that is “web apps”. “Web apps” only make sense when you really need independence from the OS to the point of accepting a loss of performance and very bad resource usage. Web apps have absolutely no place on where they would never be used on another operating system.

Yeah, sure. Keep thinking that.

How about you chill out a bit?

Professionals put up with Windows because, despite its problems, it’s a reasonably stable desktop environment where you have a decent guarantee that your really expensive program - built for Windows 2000/Seven - will still work, whereas the Linux desktop is a total mess when it comes to backward compatibility.

But as you’ve probably noticed, that’s changing... And Windows is now becoming another shitshow, so we’ll end up with two shitshows to choose from unless Linux desktop vendors get their act together and stop fighting among themselves.

My guess is that Microsoft’s new developers only know how to build web pages and “web apps” (web pages that try miserably to pretend they’re desktop applications and fail spectacularly), and the developers who actually knew how the Windows kernel works have either retired or passed away. When the last of these “old-timers” is gone, Windows will probably collapse.

Delusional thinking has always existed. Religion, “god-kings” who believe they have a divine right to rule over everything and everyone, and most recently, narcissists who have decided they are women and want to force everyone to agree with them (It's like the people who think they're Napoleon, but now they want to force you to agree that they really are Napoleon).

I believe the biggest problem with this and “AI” is that many people bought into the hype that “AI would always be right about everything,” and so they think it's true when “AI” confirms their delusions.

The second is paid advertising disguised as journalism. After all, the guys who spent hundreds of billions making "AIs" now need to make everyone believe – no matter the cost – that everyone has to buy their services. Think about it, hundreds of billions of dollars are involved in the biggest scam ever created, of course they're going to try to convince you that everyone needs them.