Just shows that, if you have the money to not work a lot and stress yourself out on the daily, you can afford to enrich your life with those (expensive) things.
Like that stupid study that said that horse owners tend to live longer that ignored that the same 'horse people' have a lot of money for healthcare and leisure time.
Yup, another no-brainer here.

Nothing like making home ownership even more expensive, and it's built right in. Extra power consumption and cooling requirements all from the original plan. Might be better in a colder climate, where the heat generated could offset the cost of heating the home itself, but this is just another environmental disaster in the making. Exactly what benefit is this to the home owner? Are they getting compensated for the presence of such a power-hungry monstrosity living like a troll in their basement/attic/garage?
Better to have a home with a wind generator on the back 40 and panels on the roof where the power generated actually pays you and potentially charges your car.
Trying to sell the concept of data processing for AI as a new utility you can take advantage of is not going to fly very well.

In as much as ACAB, it's far more likely that ICE is tapping into things like that for their nefarious schemes. At least Apple seems to have stopped for the moment. I wonder what other chat and/or message systems they have their little worms running through.

Meant to post "ban something", but my brain skipped a few teeth again...

It's all well and good to bad something, but where is everyone going to get replacement hardware? What do home users get to use and just how much do those replacement cost? Asking for a few friends.

Besides computers, what supporting tech even exists? Where are the DVRs/PVRs? What services have full 4K support, let alone the bandwidth-munching 8K content? You think there's buffering lag now? Just wait until there's wide spread 8K media. Heck, there's barely reliable 4K supply now. Just try and find 4K media, let alone players out in the wild.

"I hear, if you put a hat on a snowball, it will last a lot longer in Hell."

So, what about those walking noise pollution emitters with their bluetooth speakers blasting obscenity-laced 'songs' featuring whatever topic they're promoting this moment? What about them, hm? Even going so far as to drown out the local muzak or people trying to hold a conversation at decent volume with someone near them.

That's what I want to know. Where would such a guide, with illustrative examples, fall in this quagmire of IP management? Surely the use (and understanding) of AI prompts will become more and more important as time goes by. Somebody somewhere is going to write a guide (if there aren't a slew of them already). How much of said guide will be subject to copyright and who gets the revenue?

The moment the big switch begins, we all know what will happen to electricity prices, right? The gouging will deep and very painful. How about making roof solar panels and small wind turbines a lot more affordable and tax free? That might just mitigate the need for bigger generating plants. In the end, electricity will be very much more in demand. Unless that can be an affordable resource, life will not change much.

The surcharges are B.S. and I simply wouldn't patronize such a place. Tipping has already gotten out of hand as it is. Adding other fees and charges simply drives the cost of eating out even further out of range for some of us.

One would think that, as public servants, they would have everything they say held up to the fire of fact checking, so that they can be held accountable? After all, the assumption that they, our duly elected official representative, will do their due diligence representing those who put their faith in them in the first place?

Maybe I'm just a bit too deluded, thinking that politicians, of all people, might actually be expected to be anything other than completely corrupt, corporately sponsored shills...

This was the exact same case at the turn of the century, if not the last 50 years, and it's only now getting mainstream attention? People have mortgaged their very lives for education that was supposed to let them pay off the student loans they took out to get the coveted education that ultimately earned them a minimum wage job at the bottom of the pecking order in bloated companies. Old news is still news, I guess.

If you're rich, you can bend (or ignore) the rules that apply to everybody else.
Just another example that screams "Privilege" in a voice loud enough that many people can actually hear.

They tried all this before and it bit them hard.
They seem to have managed to get a whole lot of companies to buy into their Office Subscription business model, so now they think their OS as a service will fly this time.
I'd ask how stupid people are, but I have been to Walmart, so I know already.
This is a great way to push people to Linux.