My wife recently bought a new laptop and, to both of our surprise, it was configured out of the box to save data to OneDrive instead of C:. She's not particularly tech savvy and one day Chrome complained that storage was full. She did a web search of the error and it recommended deleting data from OneDrive, which she did, assuming that her family pictures were only backed up there - not primarily stored there - and ended up losing important data as a result of this.

Thankfully it must have been that particular OEM that chose to do this. I had installed "vanilla" Windows 11 on a custom PC build and that didn't happen - and we just bought a new laptop for our new business, different brand, and that was the first setting I checked (not an issue).

Still... companies pushing this type of crap on users is just batshit. Offer as an option, sure. But fundamentally re-configuring core functionality that people who have been using the OS for decades take for granted is just madness.

"it is proving to be a source of controversy for other indie developers who believe it will distort players' expectations"

GOOD
$100+DLC+lootboxes+pay-to-win should NOT be normal player expectations.

Delete those and I'll go another 10%.

No it's not "obvious." My wife and I own 3 properties. One is commercial, the other two are residential. That might paint us as extremely wealthy but neither property is huge. We're fairly middle class. We use both residential properties interchangeably because they're not huge houses and we like our space. We could sell both and move into a single dwelling but we like things the way they are. Especially now that our daughters are adults in their twenties, who still live at home for the time being, but have their friends & significant others stay over quite a bit. I'm too much of an autistic introvert to live with that many other people in the same house 24/7 even if the house were a mansion.

The only reason I pay for the highest tier Netflix account is because of the number of devices allowed. Basically for my wife and daughters. I almost never watch it myself. Every time I open it up I feel like I spend more time scrolling to try and find something to watch than actually watching content. So if Netflix comes after us for "account sharing" I'm cancelling our subscription immediately without thinking twice about it. We're a single family, we just occupy multiple locations most of the time.

And our case is a bit more complicated than people who are talking about paying for a family account that includes kids who are away at school or camp or what-have-you. Or families who travel a lot. My wife and I are magicians (our commercial property is a small theatre and magic shop). This gets me thinking about families that travel for work. Army families or entertainers. Imagine being a Cirque Du Soleil performer - many of whom have kids ... they live on the road most days of the year.

The point is that there is no one-sized-fits-all "family" and it's more common for a nuclear family to occupy multiple locations than many would think.

Why in the world would you imagine that?
I would like to know how you assume comments against a fascist plan to subvert and co-opt the police force in cause of revolution as somehow being inherently anti-police.
Unless, of course, you believe that the proper job of a police force actually -is- to end representative governance and impose fascism. Only then would it make sense.
So, the question would not be if I or anyone else here is anti-police. It is why you are anti-democracy, and how you somehow came to the conclusion that the proper duty of the police is political violence.

Crypto-utopians do have something akin to a code, even if it is involves little more than justifying the exploitation and oppression of all those they consider inferior.
Also have something akin to cult - that these incels are racially, intellectually and physically superior to all others and therefore have a mandate to control everyone and everything.
They have a sick and broken culture, but it is a relatively complete cultural construct.

Plus doing so by ignoring elections and using the police. That is a dystopian culture war, not a school.
  This is a bunch of people too prissy or cowardly to join the Proud Boys or America First and show real swastikas -Still only Nazis, just too afraid to admit it.

Intel carefully launders the money through irreversible foreign LLCs and then successfully sues to get their shares back. The cash winds up in the pockets of the CxOs and Board as they wind down operations and convert to a patent troll that lives in a lawyer's filing cabinet.

They could put them to use, and they were.
The pretense that Dish could not use them was only that. Not a very good one, either, since they had already built out the majority of a very comprehensive network.
This was not a "beneficial use" thing, this was a "billionaires cozy with this administration" thing.

It was a shakedown. Straight up mafia stuff.
AT&T has the ear of the current administration, AT&T wanted the frequencies, and the FCC head wanted to wet his beak. That's pretty well it.
The stuff about not using the frequencies was a shameful pretense - over 20,000 towers had already been built out, and coverage and quality and every other metric was in compliance with the FCC demands. Everything needed for Dish to be a player in the mobile space was in place. Which was why the FCC had to put pressure on for a forced sale to AT&T now.
Rumor is that SpaceX is next up. They wanted some of the lower frequencies owned by Dish, Dish said no, so they have started cozying up to the FCC head.
Amazing how openly corrupt things have gotten now, and how little anyone cares.
   

A lot of us are old enough to have worked through the dot-com bubble and crash. The AI boom over the last year or two feels a lot like the late 90s leading up.

That said, if the market hadn't gone so all-in on the Internet and world wide web, investing stupid amounts of money into so many idiotic crackpot ideas that were doomed to fail, we arguably wouldn't have the Internet that we enjoy today.

In other words, you have to throw a lot of shit at the wall to see what will stick. 90% of just about everything we humans create is unremarkable. It's the 10% that we end up with that matters.

And we will get the 10% out of AI. Which is another way of framing what you are saying.

I've been a pretty big skeptic when it comes to the hype vs actual productivity gains, but that doesn't mean I haven't found a few areas where it has been useful in my workflow. LLMs are a cool magic trick. They can create some breathtaking illusions and are exceptionally useful at a few narrow applications such as searching and pattern matching.

While I don't want to see the ugly side of the crash (layoffs and unemployment), I am looking forward to when the hype train is over so everyone shuts up about their overstated fantasy and we can get on with doing actual work. The blockchain hype was annoying too, but since it wasn't obvious how blockchain could be applied to all types of work we didn't hear every single CEO at every single company talk about how AI is going to fundamentally change the way we work.

This is the Prius hypermiler thing again.

Babies are impractical. They're noisy and they smell bad, except for their tiny pink toes which smell delicious.

All of this is held up by faith in the standard candle, which has recently been thrown into question. Type 1a supernovae might not be as consistent absolute brightness as previously believed. Without that? Shrug. We lack a yardstick to measure this.

Not as long as there is money to launder.
Wash Trades are the only reason NFT's ever had any value, and as long as they exist, NFT's will.