From personal experience, bots are repeatedly interrogating repositories, websites, and even bugzilla bug logs and collecting the data. This is tripling the volume of data moving a month. So much so it is causing denial of service failures for smaller web-servers and sites.

Further, many cloud hosted sites are charged by the gigabyte of outbound data usage. It is killing small projects with limited budgets.

And yes, they are ignoring the robots.txt file.

I you look at Tesla and other profitable EV brands (at least Tesla was), they focused on the components from beginning to end. GM has to do the same to eventually be profitable in the EV market. If they can do it with better less expensive battery technology, that's better for everyone. I'll watch for the estimated number of recharges on the new technology though. LFP, while less dense, can do about 5,000 recharges vs 580 to 1000 for legacy Lithium batteries.

Are electric cars the future, I think the EU and China have already defined that future.

I'd argue that swishing through Facebook, Instagram, and headlines only has killed critical thinking as well.

I'm pretty sure most Chromebooks have been rolled into public school systems in the U.S. All three of my kids used them in middle and high school. After four years, those devices were pretty much trash. You've got to remember, these things are backpacked from class to class by teenagers. Machines getting bumped off desks by someone clumsily walking by. They took an amazing amount of abuse and because of monitoring software, they degraded pretty quickly in performance. Nothing against Google or Chromebooks. In fact for school usage I thought the kids couldn't do better.

I purchased a couple for personal use by the kids at home. One was damaged beyond the value of repair and the other survived. I still have it running Mageia Linux on it. I had to remove the screw, then install a bios update, but after that pretty easy. It is an old Dell Chromebook 11 (way past ChromeOS EOL).

My guess most are trashed by the 5 yr EOL and definitely by the 10 yr EOL.

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I cannot speak for the rest of the world, but in the U.S. I'm not seeing a promising economy for 2025. With that being the case, I doubt we'll see a great resignation happening again in 2025. My guess is people, except the very best, will settle.

If you are talking about going in and adjusting the headlines downward permanently, good luck on modern cars. If you are talking about manually dimming, I usually do because auto can be a bit wonky.

My point is automatically tuning down the blue. The blue/white really is great for seeing more of the road and definitely the lines in the rain. But, it can be really blinding to oncoming traffic. That could be fixed.

My car came with the LED's and yes I get flashed and folks doing aftermarket or just have tall SUV's and Trucks are a challenge as well. I agree with sinj above on the same challenges.

I think it would be cool if the lights would alter spectrum to 2500K when cars are coming from other direction. I think that would be doable, since cars like mine can be set to auto change mode already, and would help everyone out.

seems like another Chrome OS or Netbook.

I definitely see this as meant for large corp's.

I'm on the east side of a timezone in the U.S. and used to live on the west side of the timezone.

Daylight savings versus standard time. When on the east side daylight savings makes sense, else in my summer is light at 4 AM. In the winter it might be light after 8:30 AM.

Like others I'd rather have the light in the evening.

On west side, staying on standard time could have worked.

Wow I didn't know that. I looked at Homedepot site just now. Most run on gas or propane.

Other than big commercial generators attached to buildings, where are most of these diesel generators?

I agree. Improvements in a healthy life span are more important that the length of life. At least in my opinion. Will we improve that side? Some, but not by huge margins anytime soon.

A lot of individuals bought PC's to work at home on during the pandemic, new and used. The used ones are about to have a major dilemma, not upgradeable to W11. The newer ones are probably already on W11. The need to stay supported will be the driver for purchases, not AI. While the AI function is cool, it seems like a gimmick, at least to me.

I do think we will see a rebound in 2025 as businesses start migrating to W11. They will likely flip machines rather than rebuild/upgrade.

For Linux folks, there might be a nice market of used machines falling on the market in ... October.

This may be an over-reaction to their reduced profit. If you look at the numbers they still produced $12.8B last quarter. That's a lot of chips.

I agree. Get rid of the penny, nickel and dime and just round to the quarter. I don't think there is much, in the U.S., one can buy even with a quarter. Other than a few older folks, most people wouldn't notice the rounding.