What exactly are they taking home? Solar panels with a micro inverter they run an extension cord from the roof to a wall outlet to save money or a complete ESS?

Most of Kenya is connected to the grid. Batteries only make sense for the small minority without grid connections.

Electric scooters and motorbikes are a no-brainer almost everywhere.

You are misinformed. If you sign into windows with a Microsoft account it will automatically complete device encryption and send your key to Microsoft without asking.

You mean access their data.

Apparently they are "literally" there for more than just users accessing their data according to TFA.

This is a nonstarter.

Incorrect, for home users keys are automatically uploaded.

Prompting depends on edition of windows. Bitlocker (e.g. "Device Encryption") automatically uploads your key without asking for home users.

This is a baseless non sequitur.

I would ask what any of the above even means yet I know I'll never get any kind of response that is objectively coherent. FFS I'm still asking people to explain what "AI can't create anything new" means and nobody can even do that.

The article is even more inane than the summary.

If I were a customer of any company I relied upon for my business and I hear "hiring 20% more account executives this year" AND "Salesforce had reduced its customer support workforce by roughly 50%" this would be cause for concern and a signal I should probably be looking elsewhere.

LOL right on their home page in jumbo point text "Storage Is No Longer a Commodity"

"The storage market has moved from a commodity business to a strategic bottleneck, and for now, Western Digital holds the keys to the warehouse".

If there were a bar style phone without any dead space between the screen and keyboard. A benefit of physical keys is they take up less space than any on screen keyboard and so there is value for everyone because more is visible on screen while using the keyboard.

Where attempts I've seen so far go off the rails is in the failure to use up ALL of the remaining space for the screen. Having a physical keyboard has the downside that it gets in the way when keyboards are not needed. It seems people rather than trying to minimize the downside do weird stuff instead.

What is needed is something like Blackberry key 2 without the dead space below and above the keyboard and around the screen.

The interesting thing is AI doomerism itself works the same way. Probabilities of technology induced doom are at present based on inherently unknowable stipulations for which no objective foundation exists to make evidence based prediction. Given current constraints the question of AI induced doom is itself outside the realm of science.

Sometimes doomers are open and honest about this. The typical retort after airing the impossibility of an objective analysis of doom is of course more... .. doom.. "BUT... we can't afford to be wrong".

I would tend to agree dismissing evidence with derisive commentary is lame. Yet here we are faced with expecting someone to make an objective argument to refute something for which there is itself no objective basis.

If you have a brighter light you just have more photons. The energy of each photon is what TFA thought could have had an impact rather than the number of photons.

The modality isn't important. The idea is for accelerated particles to absorb photons and the detector to record the event.

Imagine you have two perfectly calibrated light sources.

A photon from each arrives at the same time interval with the same energy from the same direction such that a detector is unable to discern any difference when switching between either source.

One of the photon sources is down the hall, the other 14 billion light years away.

The detector now engages some sort of wakefield accelerator in its detection circuit that boosts the absorption energy of detected photons. Now it is able to discern the difference between the two sources because the 14 billion year old photon arrive at the detector earlier than the source from down the hall. This is what I mean by leaky.

Energy bends space. Parallel laser beams emitted from opposing directions have a (absurdly small) gravitational attraction.