That makes the narrative that data-centers are 'water hungry' very effective at causing unrest.

Which is probably why that narrative gets pushed so hard. You CAN build a datacentre with evaporative cooling and that will use a lot of water. You can also build one with a closed loop and radiators that doesn't use any water except for the original fill. You can even build one that's air cooled and doesn't use any water at all.

All of those options also apply to anything else that needs to be cooled, which is pretty much everything.

Scanning for Starbucks cups, flagging possible continuity errors, pose estimation and tracking for motion capture, inserting CGI, rendering, there are all sorts of boring tasks that could be automated or improved if already automated.

Tests are not objective.

People for passing tests excel on them, and fail in the job.
Normal people are bad in tests, and excel in the job.

Most people with an A grade, are good in making A grades, and that is it. Unfortunately plenty of school systems are set up to produce A graders, who know nothing.

I guess it was even more simple and primitive: the same drive was used by several cheaters, handed to them by the guy providing the data. And the professor simply realized: he had seen this and that before or the files were even named Student_surname_student_given_name.pdf or student_id.pdf, and there were several of them.

How can you tell how many red balls there are in the bin if you don't properly sample its contents?

Because I told you:

"a bin full of blue balls with one red ball in it"

If we dropped 8% of a system's capabilities each revision cycle, pretty soon there wouldn't be much left.

The argument that changes to support the majority use case compromise important minority ones is a reasonable one. You didn't make that argument. In what I presume was your effort to be pithy your brain cast "most" to "all" and you provided a single counterexample.

Solid state batteries are not 3D printed.

They are 2D pained.

A few layers of magical "chemicals" painted on top of each other.

Has absolutely nothing to do with your 3D printer, regardless if it spits out plastic or a metal alloy.

That's why systemd has been systematically making interoperability with grub and encryption more difficult, in no small part.

Oh cool so they fixed all the problems!

Simplification?

There was no simplification. It was all markedly more complicated and interdependent. That was literally the primary selling point of systemd, aside from "faster boot times".

What are the discreet benefits to the "1000s of containers at scale" scenario you mention which are satisfied with systemd which could not be or were not satisfied with init?

There was not a lack of uniformity before. In fact, it was more consistent and uniform before systemd at a system level.

The only benefit systemd provides is integration with eg. pulse audio - another one of this shmuck's horrible projects - and desktop integration. While that is potentially useful in and of itself, it didn't need to be done in such a massive, integrated, monolithic Microsoft-like fashion.

I saw a funny cartoon today. Someone pointed to a bin full of blue balls with one red ball in it and said "most of these balls are blue." Then someone else pointed to the red ball and said "what do you mean, there's a red ball right there."

It'd be nice if people would use all this excess coding capacity as provided by AI to clean up the human written bloat slop they've been churning out for the past 20 years...

It does. It requires that batteries be "removeable by the end-user" and that replacement batteries should also be availble to the end-user. The definition of end-user replaceable is as you say though.

It seems the EU thinks the ability to use basic tools is a reasonable requirement, unlike the average Slashdot user.

See, they found a way to get the support of the ones profitting from it.

The story makes pretty clear that they've been working this a long while, before at least the current hyped LLM was available.

To the extent "AI" might even play a role given their timeline, it was stuff that was pretty useless. People tried unleashing machine learning on these sorts of records and it just didn't do much.

Sounds like it's just a run at modernizing records keeping and access, which is fine.