One of the challenges with the most EU countries is that trying to create a startup is lot harder. Just consider the extra bureaucracy and stricter labour laws. These often end up playing to the advantage of establish medium to large businesses, who don't have the innovative drive needed in many cases.

If there was some carve out for startups then we could see a more dynamic IT sector, but right now it may actually be better to incentivise Canada to work with the EU to find a solution that works. I say Canada, since they are more aligned with the EU in a number of cases (especially after Trump America Inc) and the risk for creating a startup there is lower.

If I was one of the best devs, I wouldnâ(TM)t want to be regulated to vibe coding.

Maybe I just weird in that I actually enjoy solving problems and trying to think of the way things are put together?

They could simply do like other places do: make it a pay to own, where each month simply pays off the phone some more. If you cancel before you have paid off your phone, then you'd have to pay the difference.

In the case you arenâ(TM)t paying for the product I could agree. When you are paying for the product, then itâ(TM)s simply double or triple dipping on their side.

Given China has about 4 times the population of the USA and is a manufacturing powerhouse, to consume double of the US, means China is not doing too badly. In fact this probably shows how wasteful the US is in energy consumption.

Sounds like a variant of the journals model: get universities to contribute papers and then charge them for access.

Maybe it’s time for universities to have an open source distributed system for this sort of thing?

The price point isnâ(TM)t too bad, but it is another subscription. The main thing here is that the office related stuff (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) was available without a subscription or purchase, so Iâ(TM)m curious where this leaves them? Will they still be available without this bundle?

DCI : “Drones, Cronies and Idiots” policy?

Since were in the business of relabelling this, could we not just rename Mar a Lago to Greenland?

Consider a number of Microsoft products, such as VS Code, have had the AI on by default, leaving people looking for ways to disable it. So, it is not out of line for people to not catch that Microsoft did the opposite first once. And even then, people are going to be suspicious that it won’t “accidentally” become the default in a future update.

The problem I have is they are being shoved stem our throats whether we want them or not. In many cases they work out to an investor jerk-off feature than real value.

The marketing item âoeuses AIâ comes off as more of a bio hazard symbol to me than anything useful. I interpret it as a lot of hand waving instead of real value. If AI is solving something useful then sell me that point, otherwise itâ(TM)s going to signal to me something that is cloud dependent and potentially near future e-waste.

True, now I need to look at what research says. Is it CO2 only, or is there a combined effect?

Though at the same time, human heat engines will have some sort of impact on the environment. To claim otherwise is fallacious.

Imagine your house at 10C and you turn your 2000W computer on, then you'll be warming that space to above the initial 10C. If enough human made machines are generating heat, then the environment will heat faster than what the environment will be doing without our influence. In the end, it is the humans and the other living species that will suffer from the resulting climate change. To the Earth we will just be dinosaurs V2, to be replaced with major species V3. At least the dinosaurs could claim they didn't know better.

True. Should be mandating businesses to use metric or dual unit display.

A lot of this is probably still an influence of the US being a trade partner, but given current politics, maybe this is a good time to further push the missing metrification?

Right now GitLab is a potential alternative and you can even host it in your own network.