I'm waiting with bated breath for someone to suggest an AI filter the reports so the human can work more efficiently.

No one needs to be able to solve anything with their own brain. It envisions a future where it will do all the thinking for humanity.

Just keep it deactivated and only use it on hump day.

Seems like many other smart devices become complete e-waste when their corporate masters lose interest in the venture. You can still use these as actual speakers, even with Bluetooth.

Takes too long to build out. Shareholders demand a return in only a few years.

You can buy a refurb workstation off eBay with an old i5 for the same and get better performance and higher-quality components.

Reminds me of that line from Contact (1997): "Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?", which was about government spending, too.

No one would be complaining if a Linux vendor released a commercial like this to promote their OS. Instead the comments here would be filled with I.T. professionals talking about the CrowdStrike event, and how all the Windows systems were dead in the water but their *nix-based ones were humming along.

I've seen enough posts on Reddit about someone getting their Doordash minus part of the food to not trust a third-party to deliver anything to me. At least when the delivery person is employed by the restaurant directly this seems to be taken more seriously, because it directly impacts that business's reputation.

I have no issue with people in the service industry getting a living wage. I think it's great. But it should be built into the price of the product. Right now you just have managers trying to fake their actual costs of business. The people performing those service jobs spend the same amount of time doing the task whether the customer is a tipper or a skinflint. Why should their income be dependent on how big a twat their customer is?

Red herring much?

Trump's friends are not buying all of TikTok. They are only (allegedly) getting control of TikTok operations in the U.S.
So Indonesia's disruptions of TikTok operating has nothing to do with Trump and Co. Literally a different TikTok at that point.

If that deal actually happens (will believe it when I see TikTok themselves announce it officially), it's only the U.S. operations they are buying.
So it will be kinda like how TikTok is a completely different and separate app in China itself. TikTok, USA will be not be the same as TikTok, SEA.

Sorry, I didn't write that last sentence very clearly. I wasn't saying I felt it was too late, I meant summit participant's intention to take action to avert disaster is very much a thing of the past. Years of having the fossil-fuel industry involved with it has seen to that. The governments of the world are overwhelmingly headed by people who don't want to change their lifestyle for the benefit of people they will never meet.

We've seen how much meaningful progress they have made in the last decade of the meetings.

Nowadays this summit is just poor countries trying to extract "reparations" from richer ones some the climate change is impacting then more and environmental concerns mean they can't have the same period of industrial growth others did a hundred years ago. China and Western nations pulling up the ladder behind them on a nation-building scale.

The idea of taking action to mitigate a disaster is long past.

Sounds like a bold prediction to make in 2025.