How much in additional taxes or airport fees are you willing to pay for that?

more than likely its the fact linux people more likely to use ublock, noscript, pi-hole or other equivalent methods that end up preventing from being reported to 3rd party tracking systems.

that phrase has no meaning, especially in this context. Who is dying of thirst in a desert and is forced to pay a huge premium not to die? Samsung should absolutely get as much money now as it possibly can, eventually the profits will reduce to a trickle, they will need all of this extra fat to survive, good for them. You can build your own memory manufacturing plant if you don't like the prices and think you can sell memory cheaper in this current market, go, do it.

Congratulations, they've now gated the security updates behind 26H2, because Dumbfuck Klanbitch Trump and the Treasonfuck GOP allowed them to.

Once a month it tries to force my browser default back to Edge. I tell it to fuck off.

A few times they've done it BEHIND MY BACK and I had to fix it manually after a fake "patch" to windows.

Before the days of Dumbass Fuckwit Trump and the Constitution Hating Treasonshit GOP, we had government entities that SUED Microsoft under Antitrust law for this shit.

Fuck the GOP. Fuck them for enabling this shit. Every crossburning Constitution-hating member of the GOP is a fucking shitrag.

The KlanFuckSix do not CARE about the Constitution, you Putin-Dicklicking GOP TreasonTrashBITCHCUNT. All of you KlanBitchGOPFucks are cockroaches, traitors to the country and we need some fumigation of your infestation.

but IIRC, Apple has iOS's iCloud backup on by default (and quickly runs out of space and then nags you to subscribe to a paid tier).

DUH. That's the play. They force you into a "service" as an "opt out." Then - oh, the free tier is insufficient. Or the free tier JUST GOES AWAY and then they're holding your computer hostage.

Retardican GOP failed utterly at governance, the government entities that were supposed to be watching out for us and enforcing antitrust law died under Trump. Every Retardican traitor to the Constitution helped cause this shit.

If not for Treasonfuck Trump and the Shiteating GOP who hate the Constitution, this would never have been allowed, and the Federal agencies would actually be hauling MS's ass in for antitrust about this.

This is pathetic. The USA is over and dead.

DeepSeek is designing a tensor processor. The instruction set is very simple. Mostly just lots and lots of parallelized low-precision multiply-and-accumulate.

I e-genuflect to thy digits.

The warnings then were of course unheeded by the public.

MSFT self-evidently prefers free market chumming to locking down registration thus driving away legitimate users.

That makes sense as exemplified by early Windows and Office 97 which killed off competition by the choice not to seriously control activation.

Now that Windows pwns the market Redmond had to change hardware requirements to coerce users away from Windows 10 which for the vast majority of users needed no major changes. No need to make registration onerous when the goal is data mining and sales are so easy to coerce by breaking what works.

Internet privacy is a contradiction in terms.

Do nothing on the web you'd greatly mind the world knowing.
Trust nothing and no one to be other than self-serving.
Have the least practical info on every networked device. If it's not airgapped it may as well be posted to 4chan.

LLMs and humans are both unreliable, but make different mistakes.

Use one to check the other.

Disclaimer: I have used Mechanical Turk many times, but not recently.

Except the summary says that earlier acquisition is more effective than learning "recently".

Most children don't learn a second language by choice, but because they are in a multilingual environment. My daughter is bilingual because from birth to age 10 she shared a bedroom with her monolingual Mandarin-speaking grandmother.

I had an RPN calculator in high school, so that made learning Japanese much easier.