I'm to believe that this administration just let this go without getting paid?

Doubt.

There's more to this story.

I spent 6 months installing Pop!OS, Mint, and Garuda-Gaming on "obsolete" office systems and giving them away to people that needed PCs.

MS e-waste fault is a fucking travesty.

The required TPM chips have a unique fingerprint. This was never about security. It's always been about tracking, and up until last year, that tracking was mostly just to sell better targeting for ads.

Those fired engineers should have started a consulting firm and bent over the employers with their own games when they came crawling back.

I had assumed government would eventually start gatekeeping LLMs, but I had assumed there was at least a decade or more before we crossed that line.

We really are living in the future that the best scifi spent 100 years trying to warn us off of.

Keep pushing it right guys. Do any of the hardcore righties think they're going to be in power forever? You guys have torn off all the guardrails and made a big show of doing whatever you want.

This sort of thing is coming. It's going to have to be something along these lines, or complete collapse.

I've been waiting for bugfixes for 2 years.

Maybe now my Pixel will stop trying to protect my hearing by turning my tunes all the way down while I have bluetooth speakers connected.

LOL

It's crazy how the righties are still on with their shit while we watch their leaders completely abandon everything they're supposed to stand for and literally turn the peoples house into a gd circus.

In backwards upside down world we all love inflation, Clean coal, and $100 tanks of gas.

At what point do you guys realize you've been fooled? Minting a trillionaire while you pay $500 for groceries and subsidize your local datacenter with your energy bill still aint enough?

Maybe the next dumbass foreign war of choice will finally push them over the edge?

When technology fails to raise your children for you the solution is not more technology.

jfc

Turning off software suites over petty grievance really worked out, huh? Sure glad we've got a thin skinned man-baby thumbing every scale he can find.

Damn right the whole world is going to move away from US... EVERYTHING. We've spent the last year pissing in everybody's beer, flexing in the window, and slashing tires around the world.

It's a completely different landscape than it was a year ago- the assumptions are all different now, and US tech is no longer stable and reliable.

These are consequences the GOP can't ignore, and they directly fuck with the money. Going to be interesting to see just how much money-fuckery the money people will accept.

It probably reads your email to build a "state-of-the-art personalized targeted ad experience"

Small government.
Fiscal responsibility
Family values
Law enforcement.
Defense.

These guys are so far off the map they about to fall off.

Not really. A switch is a game console and does Nintendo stuff exclusively. It wont run Blender. It cant boot libreoffice, and Nintendo wont let me play playstation games or emulate my own collection.

My Steamdeck is a real computer with a real desktop OS. I can pop the SD card in for production work and dock it in my office for some light CAD/Polymodeling, and then grab the unit and plug it into my TV and drop in the emulation card for the emulation-station on the 70'' TV, then drop the unit into the art station dock and it's a jukebox/reference station. When I'm done I can grab it on the way out and bring all of this anywhere I choose to go. This lets me convert any screen I can plug into into a workstation, a universal retro-game console, or a passive entertainment device for youtube/plex without having to log into public terminals.

I have lots of computers, laptops, SBCs, and electronic projects all over the place, and I am super familiar with networking, RDP, VNC, and Moonlight. The unique use case for the steamdeck is that it can wear many hats depending on what it's plugged into and it's designed to be portable. The footprint is 1/4 or less of a laptop with the same features, and the internal storage of the device and SD card logic lets me have both swappable memory for specfici use cases while still having consistent internal memory for OS and utilities.

It's also a neat little handheld, and does all of that stuff on the tiny little screen in a pinch, and it's pretty good a playing video games too.

Steamdeck is a great little workstation if you can get past the form factor. I have a couple of docks around my house, and moving the system from room to room for specific tasks is pretty great. It's sort of like a laptop in this regard, only I can swap the SD card out for a different one depending on the "Current" use case of the device.

Pretty awesome utility, and I'm suspicious that this is the sort of thing driving sales. There's not a lot of devices with enough horsepower that can do this so seamlessly.

If i CAN be abused, it WILL be abused.

The question we should be asking for every single tech we develop is "Are we willing to accept this technology being abused?"

When we're talking about mass surveillance, we've got a TON of abuse history. Cops stalking girlfriends, bad actors using the tech to plan bad stuff.