When do police ever prevent crimes?

Would charging for access have stopped the work on Wayland?

Sony still makes a lot of professional broadcast gear.

Yeah you definitely don't live in an area of the country with winter or salted roads. A 20 year old car in the rust belt is a rarity.

I have no idea what graduates you look at, but this is not the case here (Europe).

Pretty much this. LLMs can be convenient, but they are not magic and that they make competent coders slower is pretty well established by now.

The problem with that is that external pressure to get better is raising, both from reliability requirements and from security requirements. In this case, stagnation means getting worse and worse.

Well, that is certainly what they are planning. Just one problem: The evidence is mounting that LLMs cannot replace competent engineers.

No surprise this idiocy is happening in other areas too. There is a special kind of mental disability you need to have (or acquire) to be an economics graduate: A total inability to see more than a few months into the future and a total inability to do any kind of risk management. It worked? Everything must be more than fine and surely we can do it cheaper, right?

That is why people with critical institutional and technological skills are not treated even remotely at their value, let alone critical for organizational survival. Tech history is full of big names that are not around anymore or only in massively reduced forms. And in most cases, it is because some "managers" did not manage to think.

Really just the last 6.

2020 was when the managed decline really began.

It could. But it could also be completely genuine. There really are people that badly defective and apparently not only a few.

I do not think Microsoft is capable of that. Solid engineering? Depending on and trusting in what others have found to work well? Admitting they have a severe problem? I do not think they can do any of those.

You don't seem to understand the topic. That key is not something typed in regularly. It is the recovery key for whole disk encryption. It will likely never be typed in at all.

New car sales is merely the convenient excuse that makes shipping and selling new inventory easier for automakers. But the reason the dealership exists, is service. Also known as the main reason we call them stealerships. Before COVID invented the MSRP+FU pricing model, dealerships made 90%+ of their profit from service. Not sales. Still holds true today.

Before society ignorantly cheers for the death knell of stealerships, try and remember what the cost is going to be when you’re forced to return a broken down car to the car factory to repair instead of one of the local service departments that used to.

No. You won’t be going to your local independent repair shop either. Even if they had the electronic access to ALL ODB2 ports and control and access to ALL parts needed (which they don’t), they will be SWAMPED with new demand after dealerships close.

When it takes people 9 months to fix a broken car they still make payments and pay insurance on, they won’t own one. Neither will the Uber driver who can’t afford the downtime either.

If people don’t like that “crony” capitalism of today, they might grow to hate themselves for cheering on an alternative not well thought out. Time is far more valuable when your transportation is disabled.

Parents have extremely broad rights to manage their children's upbringings. Kids have no right to use end-to-end encryption without parental consent, although I don't think a court has held that parental consent is necessary.