I only have one friend in Austin, and all she wants to do is GTFO.

Dropping Intel allows Apple to spend less money on development. There's zero reason it would actually cause performance improvements.

...but Fox said that California is bad! How many of the Fortune 500 companies now in Texas actually started in California and then moved to Texas and still have a substantial California presence? The game is called talent, and talent doesn't want to move to Texas, especially female talent.

My friend said, when he was a manager of engineers at Qualcomm, that he used calculus once or twice a week. He's not an "org lead" at Meta. He bounces around a lot but always seems to land on his feet and a position higher.

A government press release and a post on /. ain't getting the general populace aware. They'd just bullshit. "[P]eople with access to government, military, foreign policy, or sensitive economic information" should be regularly reminded by their employers of this issue, and should be subject to increased financial monitoring. Some post or public education campaign will do nothing.

My guess is, and I'm just going off of the obvious, that you don't know dick about what's going on or how to fix it.

This is obviously happening. Like saying that water is wet. The west does the same to the east in many ways.

Honey, Google already knows everything about you. Trying to avoid this? Best of luck!

Google actually made a useful feature.

If my phone is slightly larger but it lasts an extra 5 years, I will be happy. If my headphones are slightly heavier, that may be less nice, but I would love to be able to repair them when the battery dies, and there are smart engineers out there. I think this is good governance.

You usually need a subscription to get search results for your local AI. I don't usually see ads, but then I have ublock origin installed on every device.

I've used DDG for years too. I stopped using it maybe 4 months ago. Getting useless results got too annoying.

Traditional search quality has dropped to abysmal levels, and DDG is worse than Google. The old search algorithms cannot stand up to the flood of AI sites and search optimizations. Most of the time, I just go to the AI results and then, if it's at all important, go to what the AI uses as sources. The coming AI to optimize for AI search results is just part of the ongoing war of humanity against itself.

That was my second thought, yeah.

I'm surprised. I have a steam deck. I really don't use it. I find phone and PC gaming are much easier than holding that huge device.