What are you running Windows 11 on, a 30 year old machine? I've got a three year old middle of the line laptop--not particularly fast--and it takes less than a second to open a new Explorer window.

Have you actually seen the Windows codebase? I see posts from people all the time making all sorts of comments about the Windows codebase, yet they've never seen a single line of it.

Companies emit loads of greenhouse gas in the process of refining oil. And methane leaks in oil fields is another big problem as methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

You're forgetting the fact that producing and refining oil itself is very environmentally unsound. It's not just the consumers buying and using oil products.

It takes a lot of energy to refine petroleum, and that generates greenhouse gases. As does the extraction of petroleum products (methane leaks at oil fields are a big problem as methane is a much more climate-affecting greenhouse gas than CO2).

What you say sounds reasonable only if the power balance between employers and employees weren't so heavily skewed in employers favor. History shows that the only reason employers ever showed any consideration towards their employees is because of government regulation.

Go back to the latter half of the 19th century and the first decade or two of the 20th and you'll find lots of instances of employers not giving a rat's ass about their employees. Lose a leg in a steel plant due to the company being too cheap to pay for safety equipment? Tough shit! You're out on the street with not a penny from the company to compensate you for your loss.

Try to form a union to bargain for better better wages and working conditions? The company would hire strikebreakers and even get the federal government to send troops to break up the strike.

All of this took decades to change for the better. Every time Congress tried to legislate on behalf of workers, the Supreme Court (whose justices were often corporate lawyers who worked for railroad and steel companies for decades before being appointed to the Court) would strike down the legislation. It wasn't until the 1930s that effective legislation was in place to protect workers, but even then, the balance was still heavily skewed in employer's favor.

I was under the assumption that Apple had long-term contracts for RAM and other components that effectively made them immune to supply chain issues like the current RAM shortage? If this is correct, this seems like a transparent ploy on Apple's part to raise prices.

The Trump administration has entered the chat...

Tim Apple is too busy kissing Trump's ass every chance he gets to care about this, or anything else really.

Gates and Allen didn't code an operating system for the Altair They coded a BASIC interpreter.

I've seen a recent flood of AI slop channels that use the voices of long dead people like Richard Feynman and Christopher Hitchens to present political news (Hitchens) and science shows (Feynman). The voices are so close to the originals that it's easy to confuse historical content with this slop.

Does this guy think we're suckers?

Well, his name is Barnum, so of course he does.

Carter became president in 1977. How could he have had an effect on the 1973 energy crisis?

If your life is a misery to the point that only drinking can help, then you need to fix the circumstances of your life that're making you miserable, and not with alcohol.

Most cosmic rays consist of protons, which are indeed hadrons.

I'm probably older than most on /. and grew up reading books and papers that were primarily written in serif fonts, so I find it easier to read material using these fonts.

I certainly have no problem reading stuff in sans serif fonts, but still prefer serif fonts.