Only because if anything goes wrong with the Macbook Neo it is easier and cheaper to throw it out and go buy a new one than to get it repaired.

You do realize that Hitler wasn't a communist right? He was on the OPPOSITE side of the political spectrum and is generally considered a Fascist.

Addressing claims that Hitler was a socialist
Political views of Adolf Hitler

And why is this a problem? Many people don't even need a "real OS" in 2026. Most of the things an average user interacts with are browser and cloud based. You don't need a full blown OS for that. I'm not saying that we should just scrap desktop OS's completely, it's they just aren't needed like they were say 10 years ago for many people.

Slightly different, but a few years ago in Canada there was a push for plant based meat replacements. The problem was not that I wouldn't be willing to eat it, it was the price. In fact, I was curious as one of my siblings is a vegan, so it would be nice if there was something we both could enjoy. "Beyond Meat" for example would sell 4 burger patties for $18. Whereas I could buy 8 ground beef patties for $15. When the company starts by charging double the price for a "meat substitute" it's hard to get people on board.

Sony already went down the "Console as a PC" road with the PS3.... and in time revoked the ability to do so. So any gamer who has half a brain won't buy a PS6 for that feature because they know Sony will just use it as bait and switch tactic.

The only way to establish change is to hit the primary contributors (corporations) to this problem where it hurts most their bottom line. Once they see that profits are declining due to their practices (through taxation, or full out bans of some products) only then will change happen. But since Governments are in bed with these corporations, it is never in their best interest to force change on them.... so it is always framed that "everyday Joe sixpack" needs to do better, never the companies that produce thousands of times the pollutants that of any individual.

Maybe you never need to touch the HVAC controls if you live somewhere like San Diego, but in Canada HVAC controls are needed. Not everybody lives where the outside environment is fairly consistent and you can "set it and forget it." as you say.

If suicide wasn't taboo, you think everybody would just be itching to kill themselves? I'm sure glad I don't have your worldview, must be pretty grim.

Titanic received Academy Awards for: Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume, Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Film Editing, Original Dramatic Score, and Original Song.

Tied with Ben-Hur and Return of the King for the most awards given to a single movie... It is also the 3rd highest grossing movie of all-time adjusted for inflation

Universally approved by critics, the media and viewers as a great movie.... but you don't like the love story, so it must be a horrible film.

• Schindler's List
• Titanic
• Ben-Hur
• Spartacus
• Gone with the Wind
• The Matrix
• The Sound of Music
• Oppenheimer
• Dances with Wolves
• JFK

All these movies are over 100 minutes long and all of them tell a pretty good story.

Many gamers are moving back to PC's... with a steam deck for mobile gaming... IMO the console market is dying. I don't expect another real console to be released. I think the next "console" will just be a connector to game pass or some other kind of online streaming.

Yeah, I realized this after I posted it... jumped to conclusions before reading the article in typical /. fashion. :P

Well that's it for trusting Wikipedia for information. I already knew to be skeptical of Wikipedia edits, but going forward Wikipedia will be edited by AI bots with little to no human intervention. It will just be an entire shit show of hallucinations or bias opinions based on whatever training data the AI is fed.

AI is going to send us back to the stone age. AI will create the next great war as the working population deals with massive job and income loss. In 20 years we will have a generation who are functionally illiterate and won't know a shred of history because nobody will trust any information as factual. Technology will be lost due to nobody being qualified to manage it. AI is going to make a society of idiots.

Are you new here? This is how many websites have authenticated over the last couple years. I'm with you, it's bullshit... welcome to the new internet...where enshitification is of utmost importance!

They can pry my RTX 5070 from my cold dead hands....

Fuck dummy terminals. This idea has been pushed by corporate elites for decades...