Why are they killing civilians if they aren't targeting them?

Wishful "thinking"

Because you didn't see it, it didn't happen? Or you just weren't looking? Are you willfully defending anti-abortion absolutists? Because the alternative is even worse for you if you want people to take you seriously, i.e. you just pretend that things are true in order to support your arguments while doing zero research even though you have the same access to search engines as everyone else.

"Jesus" "says" in the bible that he's not there to refute God's law, but to confirm it. Yet somehow the same book also supersedes the old information in the same book? All the Christians are really supposed to be Jews, but they're too lazy to actually do things. That's why Christianity is orthodox instead of orthoprax, to embrace laziness. You don't have to do anything to be Saved, just pretend to believe something.

I did notice that. Since it has AMD graphics I thought I'd take a gander at Wayland for a moment to see what it was like these days. Under Wayland there was some slight pointer lag and windows had a problem returning to their prior positions. I have neither problem with Xorg.

Support is best for devices which are both desirable and easy to get into. They attract the most devs.

Claude Code uses up tokens like a donkey kong machine

They are far from the only people stacking dies, but more importantly, producing less heat is not a cooling improvement. It's a reduction in cooling demand. Cooling is specifically handling heat once produced.

Many people seem to feel the same way, but I still don't understand why. The only part of it that really irritates me is how few programs allow you to pin the size of the subwindow to the main window so that they remain related, but I suppose that could be enough.

What's funny about it is that it actually came from providing a superior alternative to other desktop operating systems, most of which did the same thing originally. e.g. on the early MacOS, you had only fullscreen applications with subwindows, and only Desk Accessories could float over them. On AmigaOS, each application had its own "screen" which could be raised or lowered, and you could pull them up or down the screen, so you could show the top of one screen over the bottom of another. Each AmigaOS screen could have its own palette, which was special; MacOS couldn't do that. Windows' MDI couldn't do it either, but you could at least treat those applications the same way you would treat any other window. But once we got 24 bit color, all that stuff was outdated, and everybody else was letting you just mix windows freely.

Was it "PutoIsACulo"?

All I could think of is that Tesla stuff is known to burst into flames, and Samsung stuff is too... ;)

"What originally turned me off from Windows, and I don't know that it is still like this, is that a "child" window could only appear within its "parent" window, rather than anywhere on the screen."

That has never been a requirement for Windows programs. It's called MDI and some applications use it and some don't. Some applications open multiple MDI windows, usually one per document, while others don't use it at all.

"Trade barriers have forced China to advance beyond the US."

They are ahead in battery and train tech. We abdicated both. They are behind even Intel in fab tech.

Not only has it been a police state all along ("Do as you're told and you won't get hurt" is a message for prisoners and hostages, not free citizens) but fascism is always unevenly distributed.

I recently got a MiniPC with a 8C16T Zen3 processor (5825U) and pretty low-end graphics (8 cores, max 2 GHz) and it came with Windows 11 and the fucking mouse pointer lagged, and not just a little but a whole lot. Slapped Devuan onto it (aside from resizing the Windows partition just in case I decided to care about it, mostly by hitting enter in the installer, after choosing to use the contiguous free space) and everything works great. All hardware was identified, all firmware was loaded automatically, everything works flawlessly.

P.S. Making Windows work without an account is still pretty easy, although it's a "secret" how to do it. (You can just google it ofc, but it's not available as an option until after you do the thing.) TL;DR: Hit Shift-F10 and then type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and it will reboot and then you can bypass that. I see there's also reports that "start ms-cxh:localonly" will work, but I did not try that.

Productivity is worse than worthless if it results in more work having to be done later because the work is garbage, and that's what using AI without knowing enough to evaluate its output causes. So yes, there are more important skills, and they include actually knowing things. If you blindly trust AI the highest level you can achieve is "fuckup".

So you answered your own question, knowing how to think is more important. But then you failed to think before writing the rest of the comment, which shows us you don't know how to think. So, who did you get the idea that AI needs to be used to augment human thinking rather than replacing it, and why don't you pay more attention to what they said?