Or coffee ice-cream.

For a factory making instant coffee granules, huge.

Not only will they save the energy from not having to boil water, they'll also save it when freeze-drying the room-temp output.

Of course, that won't make it any cheaper to actually buy...

Actually, SlashDot will give you 15 mod-points at a time, as long as you've got good karma.

I'm not surprised you didn't know...

It's interesting to see the general tone of the comments here, mostly "Well, it's a beta, so...", "Why would you want Linux when you've got MacOS" and "Asahi isn't that good on Apple silicon anyway".

I'm sure the comments would be equally forgiving if a Windows beta prevented dual-booting of a Linux distro.

On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember when a beta of a sits-on-top-of-DOS Windows version threw a "not supported on DR-DOS" message, and the torches-and-pitchforks crowd got the federal government to invoke anti-trust regulations.

This time I'm not expecting to need the popcorn...

I'd be surprised if all the major players didn't have this capability in some form or another. In fact, I'd expect that most LEO GPS (or equivalent) birds would be able to broadcast jamming signals for "opposition" services.

I hope this succeeds in compelling game-makers to adopt "life after end-of-life" measures for their products as, once this precedent is set, we can do the same for hardware makers.

Yes.

So that there's no way for this decision to be overturned.

The annual operating costs for this network are so tiny in the overall scheme of the national budget that this must be driven by other, somewhat less noble, reasons.

It reminds me of a friend's toddler who would smash a toy they no longer wanted rather than give it to someone else.

And a good thing too, otherwise we'd have nothing to do or watch as Walmart, Home Depot and all the movie theatres are closed.

Oh, wait...

It had better be disabled by default.

It depends if they're able to convince him that he will own the equity stake, at least for long enough for him to forget about it altogether and focus on the next invasion/grift/scandal.

...we laugh when a Government says "We must have backdoor access to everyone's cryptography, it will be perfectly safe with us."

...instead of stopping the ship sinking.

...what about the cooling? Equatorial Africa is not exactly known for its temperate climate.

Worse, half the population of Kenya don't have access to clean drinking water, and low rainfall for the last year means that many areas are in drought conditions.

It's long past time that some decision-makers got a good beating with the clue-stick.

The local domestic electricity supply infrastructure is built out knowing that each household won't use 100% of their individual supply capacity, in the same way that ISPs have always oversold a neighbourhood's actual backhaul capacity. See also airlines, etc.

As soon as they add this always-on load to the local infrastructure, service is going to degrade.

In addition, it doesn't matter if the load is dispersed like this or all in one place in a DC - you still need to have the generation and transmission capacity to support the load.

Oh, and what about cooling?

Musk is saying he's going to buy Intel's 14A process for his own fab.

Intel is looking for customers for its 14A process, meaning customers for wafers produced using its 14A process in its own fabs.

Musk really doesn't understand the fab business, does he?