Yeah, I don't belive facial recognition holds up as it is vs people trying to trick it. In the future it will become even more difficult, as there will be more platforms that use it and thus more incentive to break it.

So: they'll start requiring us to show more stuff. Our IDs, our SSNs, etc. Even though I think bots are a big problem, there's no way I'll ever be giving them that kind of information just to use reddit.

"An US government directive can also lock out a whole country."

Yeah! This is why a lot of countries and companies are moving away from MS. In the long term it will mean MS's doom, but it will take a while. Nobody talks about it but some things need to be trusted, even if its just a tiny amount of trust, and MS lost that last year. You can't really get it back either.

Is it "Full self driving" as defined by the meaning of those 3 words put together? No? Ok then. Can you summon your car from anywhere and sleep in it while it drives across the country in difficult weather conditions, like he promised it would be 6 years ago? No? Ok then. Can you understand why people are tired of having this conversation with tesla stans? No? Ok then.

True! I don't feel bad feelings towards the average MS coder, they're cool and, I suspect, if someone put them entirely in charge, windows would become a decent OS.

Its deeply part of their culture to be hostile to their users, they know it, their users know it, its been this way for decades, continually getting worse. Even if they do make a few positive changes to windows 11, you know windows 12 will be worse. At some point they are going to make themselves obsolete though, nobody likes them, people just need to take that big step and install another OS, which is hard, but gets easier the worse Windows gets. I hope they require age verification with windows 12 so that young people will learn to use Linux.

If I remember correctly predict it predicted trump losing in 2016 winning in 2020 and in 2024. Although the 2020 one predicted Biden until November 3rd when it switched to trump for 1 day, which was kinda funny. I still remember how pissy the people who lost that bet were.

This looks very cool. I will check it out. Seems like its coming out at a very important time for decentralization.

Sorry, Microslop knows better than the userbase. YOU WERE ALL FOOLS FOR NOT LOVING CORTANA! And the way people laugh at Bing's mighty capabilities just shows how wicked and degraded mankind has become.

I wonder what % of times it actually comes true when people say they're going to do ___ thing in space. 1%? .1%? .01%?
Probably less.

What is the purpose of these laws again? Has it been definitly proven that social media is bad for kids?

I don't belive it has, there have been studies suggesting it is bad, and other studies that find very little effect. Personally I don't think there's enough evidence to make a conculsion but I do know that passing laws based on moral panics is a very bad thing, and that appears to be what's going on. Also it's very obvious the laws aren't just about keeping kids healthy but also about surveillance, control and monetization of adults.

If they can't do something simple and popular like get rid of daylight saving's time they probably can't do anything like balance the budget. Its like saying "I don't care if you're incapable of washing the dishes, I want you to design a nuclear powerplant."

Microsoft is especially fond of limiting consumer choice. It will just be a pretty sad product when it finally comes out, no question.

But...
A lot of people have a weird fixation for consoles. Like a WEIRD fixation. There were people who got online every day for decades and engaged in the very pointless "console wars" debate on twitter and elsewhere. There are people who just buy every product nintendo puts out. There are even still a few fans of the intellevision amico still waiting for it to release. I'm not sure why. Computers are overwheliming to people I guess.

So I'm sure people will buy the thing.

Windows 12... box

You might be right. Maybe Lucas should have sold starwars to some big anime company - they love that cowboy stuff and know how to do it. Not that anime companies can afford that kinda money.

Yeah I feel the same way, it kinda ruined starwars for me. It's story just couldn't be taken seriously anymore after that.