Trump doesn't believe in anything except enriching himself.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. They'll pad his slush fund and the farmer gets screwed again.

Wait and see.

Sorry, that didn't work.

JFC. No wonder this site stopped accepting new accounts two years ago.

How do they know? I thought this stuff was theoretical at best.

But let's have it without the corp-sponsored surveillance and monitoring of employee life outside of work.

Minimizing energy use vs resources obtained is actually a very successful survival strategy generally speaking.

The rest of your post is a combination bro-flex and whining about "kids these days".

How many giraffes is this? I'm from the US.

I wish my mom had said she was moving.

Perhaps, but that is also a compelling reason why it should be included. Putting more RAM on the SoC has got to be a relatively inexpensive additional cost. The markup has always been high, but now it is both obscene and absolutely unjustified -- except when you factor in pure greed.

They'll still charge you an obscene amount for more than 8 gigs of RAM.

Where do you live where teachers are literally beating you?

Quote: "We'll have taken one more step into lowering our educational standards"

This ship has sailed. What you're talking about is even worse; It'll end up being AI-based learning, but only enough to do the jobs your overlords need you for.

Once education professionals (the real ones, not the ivory tower academics that publish bullshit then go on to shovel the same bullshit into classrooms as part of their personal ed tech companies) are completely out of the picture there will be nobody stopping the inevitable (and now standardized!) dual-level education system.

Public School will be for poor kids who need to know how to work at Amazon and their parents need a babysitter while working their three jobs. Real education will be entirely left for the rich.

We are going to FAR surpass it. Just as things are now. What the true consequences of that will be is going to be for our children to find out, and their children (if they survive).

So when do the normal people start benefiting from this 'free market' capitalism that I keep hearing about?

Oh, wait. Our politicians have sold out yet again?!? I am SO SURPRISED.

Remember, Reagan-boomers. You did this. Too bad your flip phone won't be $5 a month anymore.

1) Your data will be harvested, no matter what the terms or conditions say (they'll do it offshore).
2) It will most certainly not be sustainably reclaimed. Even the briefest look at those conditions existing RIGHT NOW related to e-waste reclamation suggests this is a joke.

They make a profit; you get a clean conscience.