All this nattering about licensing and we haven't yet had one comment -

They do work at the User Data Extraction Factory, after all...

Regrading the "Killdozer" guy -

Those two things go hand-in-hand a lot more than I am comfortable with.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

So we can't afford renewable wave energy for powering peoples' homes. But somehow it becomes feasible to power AI bros' desperate money grabs?

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

A couple of million dollars to the TRUMP Ballroom Fund should clear any irksome regulatory hurdles posed by the ineffectual FAA.

/s ... ?

Dude thought he had bought a golden ticket skimming a % off the top on the securitization of bribery. He deserves to lose his shirt. And be in prison.

The Matrix was right.
Mankind did burn the sky. Not to prevent AIs* from taking over but to give birth to them.


* actually unreliable LLMs, we all know the score here on /. .

Trump has done more to accelerate the adoption renewables than anyone EVER by goading Iran into closing the straits of Hormuz.
Non-stupid countries read that signal correctly and will respond more-or-less rationally. To whit, get the fuck off middle east oil.

They know exactly what I've bought from them and when, so computing the tariffs I've paid through them is a matter of database queries.

They know how to give the money back to me - they send me a credit based on my executive membership every year, and that would be an acceptable and minimally painful way to refund the tariff windfall. They could give Costco store credit cards to non-executive members.

There's ~8 billion of us, if we eat one or two of these antisocial dickheads, that works out to be less than a gram per citizen, you won't even notice it. Less than a communion wafer or the rat hair in a hotdog. Part of your civic duty like going to church or jury duty.

Pretty soon they'd stop inflicting their stupid selfish ideas on the general public.

I hope you find something good soon.