The option itself was what set people off.

Even if there is an offer to heated seats to be a purchase, having the OPTION to pay monthly made a truth obvious to the public that anyone can understand: You can't download seat heating. That's hardware that's either there or its not, and if you're charging monthly for it then its already part of the car that I've paid for and this car is already perfectly capable of performing the function - you just want more money to enable it.

People would have been pissed to find out that the heating hardware was there and just "turned on" even if it was a purchase option rather than a subscription, but most people would never think about it or notice. The subscription option though made that fact very, very obvious.

I actually agree with this. Car crashes happen, and are often accompanied by fire. There needs to be a way to open the door when the vehicle has no power.

I gotta admit - I don't even care about 4k. My main TV in my living room supports it because any large TV these days tends to be 4k, but I'm perfectly happy watching content at 1080p and likely will be happy there for my whole life.

Even 720p is mostly fine as long as the bitrate isn't set too low.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

Not gonna lie . . . I thought Hawaii was bigger than Maryland.

Realistically most open source software is going to be as permissive as possible but only to the point where it doesn't require extra effort on something that they're not motivated to work on.

For a long time Linux and *BSD were close enough that most software would work on either. They're not going to care where you run it. Over time though, as things have diverged, if BSD requires significantly more work to keep the system compatible, and none of them use BSD, then they're not likely to keep supporting it.

You're free to fork it and re-establish compatibility, but its simply not their priority. Particularly when even amongst BSD users, a very large percentage of them are focused on server use. Desktop use of FreeBSD is even more niche and this is most decided a desktop related application.

I grew up in the US and went to high school in the late 1990's (graduated in 1999). We were assigned "summer reading" every summer where we'd have 2 or 3 novels we were supposed to read over the summer and we'd be tested on them when we got back to school.

In general though I don't think you're going to convince kids to read novels when they don't want to. By the time I made it to college I'd discovered SparkNotes. I'm sure kids of today can ask most of the big AI systems for a summary of key points and get what they need to pass a test.

Its not the ram itself - its the production capacity. The RAM that the AI data centers want is not of the type that is usable by average consumer hardware.

When they can't monetize that RAM then it has little value on the secondary market and will likely just end up in a landfill.

I mean, my parents are in their late 60's and are watching more Youtube than regular TV these days. They're not particularly tech savy either.

The world is moving beyond broadcast TV.

Nerds tend to have a higher interest in security than the general populace.

Yep. "I can take this $11 million, turn it into $17 million really quick, then pocket the extra and make that series.". Then when the $11 million becomes $4 million the spiral begins.

I'll need to test it (its been a while) - I'm using an Intel Arc A310 on my rig where I encode. I've got an AMD 9070 XT in my gaming machine but I haven't really tested encoding on that one.

AV1 seems like a good codec - I'm always happy to use it though, even hardware assisted encoding is still a bit slow for me. If I'm reencoding videos for my own use I usually will encode to x265 instead, which has a good balance between file size/quality and compression speed.

Look, I'm not above using a bit of AI when I'm coding, but that's limited to asking chat GPT to bang out a short function or something that I don't feel like coding myself (ie, most recently "Give me a bit of TSQL to determine if a date falls on Thanksgiving"). There is no way in hell I'd turn it loose with the ability to actually modify files on my system.