Wrong interpretation of statistics. Backups are hard. Data management is hard. Literally every single person here on Slashdot will be able to tell a story of data loss that hasn't been publicly expressed in the media. Most users fuck this up.

Yet Google is a big public company so complaints about their service tends to get public attention. While quite a few prominent instances of losing Google accounts exists, in the context of 2 billion monthly active users it's an incredibly "safe bet" for your data.

Try explaining to people that drive/gmail isn't a backup first. Expect questions like "Why then does my phone say it is backing up to Drive?"

Not only is for most people the cloud their idea and concept of a backup, most backup software including Android and iOS's internal ones are telling them that. You're not going to convince people to backup their backup.

You're wasting resources approaching the wrong problem. The question you should be asking is: Do you have the spare time to dedicate to looking for that 1/2 written draft from two years ago and make an assessment on its value, knowing full well that simply having one photograph is consuming more space than 20 of those drafts.

Most people ignore text and email for good reason, it just isn't a space user.

True but has 15GB actually been useful? I don't think I know a single person who has less than 15GB of images/videos. I only know people who turned off syncing for everything, or pay for a higher tier.

But in retrospect when I read your post I'm reminded of one thing that may affect people: WhatsApp backups. With the modern world of everyone sending each other GIF memes it's amazing how quickly Whatsapp storage can fill up if messages and media are both backed up.

Don't conflate support with backporting new features. While I agree it's a Dick Move (TM) to restrict new features to new hardware, it is common in the entire commercial world (not just in tech). One can still support the 6700 while saying it won't ever get FSA4.1

But competition is good. AMD has basically given up the entire market at this point to NVIDIA so I suspect they are doing some panic work to make their offers more attractive.

That is just not true. There's a massive number of people who do things because of misconceptions or legacy decisions. Also wood isn't all labour, a good portion of it is just ... buying pre chopped pre dried wood from a store, or getting it delivered. Or buying wood based pellets for a central wood pellet heater. The study itself was looking at suburban neighbourhoods. While I accept someone on a farm or out in the middle of nowhere is moonlighting as his own lumberjack, the majority of wood heating in America has nothing to do with this.

You just have to go through the threads here on Slashdot to see people who talk about wood heating conflate multiple topics together. One guy talking about elite's having fireplaces (virtually all suburban houses with fireplaces do not actually use them for heating the house since it's a really bad and uncomfortable way to do it, wood heating being done though wood stoves which are not typically in any way the kind of thing you fire up to sit in front and smoke a cigar with your wine next to).

But in any case, this is just another reason to not burn wood in your home. As if the insane high PM2.5 and PM10 internal pollution in your house isn't enough. But then over 10% of adults still smoke cigarettes so you can't really expect people to make decisions in their own interest.

Okay you seem triggered, take a breath and think about what you said. You just citied us doing something in the past as a reason to keep doing it going forward. Great. All health advancements are elitist crap. Time to put the lead back in gasoline. Radioactive compounds back in chocolate. Cocaine back in coke.

Wood is usually the only thing some people can burn if they approach any solution very narrow mindedly. The reality is that we have many different ways to heat these day. Yeah if you make absolutely zero changes to your house you will still think wood is the only option. Speaking of narrow minded. Did you do realise this article is looking at suburban neighbourhoods right? No one is talking about your off grid log cabin in bumshart nowhere. I challenge you to find literally and suburban neighbourhood where wood heating is the only option. - Because after all lead is an exposure related risk and doesn't matter so much if it is released by one small cabin in the mountains or in a small farm somewhere.

Again, concentration matters. I know many people with wood fireplaces. Almost none of them use them to heat their home daily because it's a horrendously bad and uncomfortable way to keep your house warm. The "elite" using their fireplace go through a tiny fraction of the wood as someone who has a wood heating stove.

Actually technically if you install Windows XP right now you can't activate it. So even Windows XP doesn't meet the strict demands of the stop killing games movement.

This has nothing to do with support. It has to do with function. I still have a Windows XP machine here and it still works just fine without issue. Microsoft doesn't support it, and critically it *hasn't* been killed by Microsoft.

This is the bar you want to set? Let's set it. The entire stop killing games movement would have 99% of the goals achieved with a Windows XP style software cycle at this point.

Why 99%? Well technically Microsoft did kill their activation server. So ever 30 days you need to boot into safe mode and type a command to reset the activation grace period. To get to 100% Microsoft would have had to either open source the activation server or issue a permanent activation bypass so that users could install Windows XP without having to resort to dodgy patches to keep it running. But at no point is Microsoft required to provide any support.

If you restrict your idea of "games" to the 5 or so massive AAA titles released by a few mega studios each year then sure, it's on life support. You'd have to ignore many many hundreds of games which are released each year not only free of any server control, but also available DRM free, but you do you.

The "elites" control only a tiny tiny portion of your life. You'll continue to own nearly everything you have and they have no say in the matter. Please just look around you. *Takes a sip of tea from a DRM free mug*.

Not sure if you don't know anything about game development or just completely misunderstood what this entire movement is about. Reverse engineering a protocol won't do shit. These live service games usually have quite complex server side software in some cases being exclusively responsible for things like map creation. You won't get very far even if you did know how the computers spoke to each other.

Yes, because they don't rely on server side features.

The EU analysed this in detail and established that government subsidies amounted to around 15% of the price of a typical Chinese EV. They then applied variable tariffs per company based on a supply chain analysis which took into account subsidies. End result: Chinese cars are still cheap.

Chinese cars are cheap in Europe and yet all of those things are in place.

Have you considered not mining bitcoin? There's nothing normal about your bill.

We're talking about AI here, so don't you mean Goblins? https://slashdot.org/story/26/...

You don't know much about Europe do you. You'll find vehicles registered from every EU nation in literally every other EU nation, especially around vacation season. Some people (like infamously the Dutch) travel to every corner of the EU (and beyond) in their cars on long road trips especially in the summer vacation. The Dutch in case you were wondering also have the highest EV adoption rate in the EU. There's a reason that for example the Danish news will run traffic updates that include the state of the Gotthard tunnel despite that being 1300km away.

Sounds like a problem at your local beach. I've never had a queue at an EV. Though I'm sure it does occasionally happen one or two days a year in specific places.

Wow you've just added hours to your trip instead of just waiting for the 10 car queue to clear (by the way 10 cars in a queue at a typical Tesla supercharger would very likely have you plugged into and charging within 45min).

You should tell that to my friend who drove her EV across Australia (a place where charging infrastructure is even worse than America). She'll be shocked to know her trip didn't actually happen.

*Checks watch*. Okay I was worried I slipped back into 2010, but no I'm still in 2026 where EVs have absolutely zero problems what so ever charging at -10F so I'll just assume your knowledge of the situation is wildly out of date.