Drones don't need air superiority to operate, they rely on numbers to overwhelm. At a recent arms show there was a company offering cardboard drones. Cost in monetary and material terms is getting so low that the challenge becomes mass producing them fast enough to swarm the enemy. Low flying, disposable, and very difficult to stop.

The important part is that they are talking about dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), not the typical solar panels you put on your house.

DSSCs are attractive because they are very easy and cheap to manufacture, and flexible. But they degrade fast with UV light, and the expected gains in protecting them have not been made. If their life could be extended to a usable amount they would offer an even lower cost option than already extremely cheap conventional solar cells, and open up some new applications.

Sales force among others have given us hard numbers and they would be in deep shit with investors and the SEC if they were lying about that.

I can tell you that if I contact a company I hit a chatbot first and then if that doesn't work I hit a more advanced and more computationally intensive chatbot. I don't know how far up the ladder I would have to do to speak to a person but I suspect it's probably three layers at least.

Also if you're selling something scammy which a lot of sales is about selling things that are scammy then chatbots can often do better because they have absolutely no hesitation and no conscience. Good salesman also have that but there aren't a lot of good salesman so they tend to command a high salary.

I know there are a lot of old farts around here and I can pretty much guarantee some of us started in shitty customer service help desk jobs it just aren't going to exist anymore. You can't work your way up the ladder you're either born into it or you can go fuck yourself. With the exception of the occasional random freak of nature genius that the elites will rise up or just a random kid they pick for fun.

Because Russia can't get proper air superiority. America would have completely bombed the shit out of any country we attacked long before drones could be a factor.

The drones mostly do not take out even Russian planes. I get a notification in my YouTube feed when one of them does because it makes the news. The problem with the drones is that they make it basically impossible to do an occupation.

It should be noted that because of that if Russia ever does take Ukraine they will kill everyone there in a total and complete genocide. I think some of them of course will be shipped off to Siberia and what not for slave labor but everyone else has to die because Russia does not have the ability to occupy Ukraine while the ukrainians are still alive.

The real problem though with America is as our country and empire collapses we're going to start invading other countries just like every other failing empire does. We will start with Canada and Mexico and South America but it won't be long until we move on to Europe and eventually China.

And we absolutely do not care if you have nukes because any country crazy enough to elect Donald Trump twice isn't going to believe nukes are real. If nothing else we will convince ourselves that Trump's golden dome will protect us along with Jesus.

They were talking about unionizing. You're not even allowed to say the word Union anymore in Media. The right wing media just won't allow you to use certain words. Just like they won't allow you to quote Charlie Kirk

What happened was automation destroyed the blue collar working class and a lot of those guys moved to the right wing out of desperation. Meanwhile the Republican party was coming out them with bigotry and racism and they were primed to accept that because America is frankly a pretty racist country.

The Democrats then went after professionals in the suburbs in order to win national elections but they don't have the money and resources to do that on their own with their working class base broke because they've lost their jobs at the factory to automation.

Basically racism and automation all the real problems. We could sell both but it takes time to fix racism and as for automation that requires wealth redistribution of some kind and the Americans of the '70s through the 90s came out of the Cold war being told that that's the worst thing possible way worse than a genocide or Hitler or whatever other bad things you can think of.

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Support Windows 7 with security patches. No need for things like driver or feature updates, just fixes for known security flaws.

How do you not see this for the obvious publicity stunt that it is? You must have voted Trump.

But it worked, you got enraged and engaged with the content.

Congratulations, you're the problem with the internet today.

Oh, and I am aware of the irony of posting a reply in order to condemn it, so you needn't bother pointing that out.

It was never really about the capability of the hardware to run Windows 11, it was about Microsoft's desire to cut costs by not having to support it. Every supported configuration has to be tested, and if issues are found relating to 10 year old drivers, they have to be fixed.

What we really need is a law to set the minimum support term, say 10 years after the last official sale. For Windows 10 that would be 2031. Even that might not be enough though - both Microsoft and Apple are notorious for releasing updates that cripple performance on older hardware.

Jobs had it a few times, but he usually just had a backup device ready to switch over to. I recall it at least once with a Mac, and famously with I think an iPhone where be blamed the large number of WiFi devices in the room.

Is the world is more complex than your childish understanding of it. Also Trump fucks kids.

In general democrat-run states have better schools. There is however several factors that make it tough for them to be perfect. For one thing there is still a little bit of the old nastiness involved in funding schools through property taxes. And is a little bit of the old white flight and other bits of nastiness.

Now the Democrats could fix a lot of that but they don't generally get supermajorities they get small majorities and here in america, and I get it wherever country you're from you don't understand this, but we set up our system to make it very very hard for regular working people to improve their lives by requiring super majorities for just about everything so that the wealthy land owning elites (corporate nowadays but when the shit was set up they were landowning) could effectively exercise veto power and that the regular rank and file citizens would need a super majority in order to override The veto of the ruling elites.

This means the Republican party can and does sabotage anything the Democrats try to do even in places where the Democrats are technically in charge. Because the word technically is doing a lot of work there.

This is before we talk about the effects of automation and process improvement on middle class jobs and the tax base but I think that's probably a bit over your head.

I don't think you actually want to learn but if you ever do look up a book called The People's History of the United States. You have been lied to your whole life. Also look up newt Gingrich and the contract with America.

Or if you are you don't know our history. They started slashing the funding and all the other really nasty right wing shit after Barry Goldwater lost in the mid 1960s. That's when they figured out they could trade racism and bigotry for economic gains.

You're right we don't each get our own truth. The reality is that this is been going on for decades.

Donald Trump is the culmination of 50 years of right wing extremism and a slow descent into fascism and dictatorship.

It's like boiling a frog only the frog is actually smart enough to jump out of the fucking water.

And yeah orange man bad. He fucks kids. Generally speaking somebody who fucks kids is pretty bad to me but your mileage may vary.

Is from property taxes. Like a lot of things it goes back to classism and racism. It's a way for rich people and white people to avoid paying for the poors and/or minorities to have school.

The other 38% of your funding comes from state level and federal money. That money is there very specifically to try to correct what's wrong with using property taxes to fund schools.

As an added bonus it maintains the suburbs that do not have a large enough tax base to fund their schools.

I am guessing though that you are not in a very well-off School district because the better ones with more money have plenty of supplies paid for by the district. Better food in the cafeteria too.

It's not a scam but it is a little bit of nastiness leftover from darker times.

I think the problem is that you have state actors attacking repositories consistently. You've also got the professional malware guys floating around too.

So it's difficult for a bunch of hobbyists and college kids to push back against that. If we had a functioning federal government there would be some assistance coming but we very much don't. And it's pretty obvious that the current American head of state has some dirt that's in the hands of our enemies because he's acting like a little bitch and it's pretty much letting our enemies do whatever they want.

If you're going to reply with the troll post could you please do a little bit better than the equivalent of I know you are but what am i? I mean I'm sure Chad GTP can write something for you. Ask your mom how to log on to the internet and use it.