There are 5 Linux laptop at home. None crash. Except the one my wife uses, when she touches the screen. It just goes dark with a few bright pixels on the top line. Nothing in the logs. Last week I changed the inside screen cable... and the problem disappeared. Must have been some kind of short because the cable is twisted in weird ways in the hinges. So I don't think it was an OS problem !!!

Less this and more that users are using cheap/bad hardware more frequently with Windows then with MacOS.

Ever read The Last Ringbearer ? It's the LOTR, but see from the loser side ("History is written by the winners"). And it shows the orcs as some kind of industrial society (aren't they ?) and the elves as some kind of lordly rulling class (aren't they ?). It twists things around in a way that can give you cold sweats...

Simple, just ask the LLM to fix it, doh ! /s

Good news! Someone hacked it into existence.

It's done wonders for my addiction to Win 3.x games.

Yup. Nowadays there are some scam sites that scrape the entire content of others, change the stylesheet, put everything on sale at 50%, let the orders roll in and run away with the cash. Some even manage to stay up for years. One the ripped me off 20$ for a hard to find bike part 2 years ago is still up and running for instance. So good luck to those using AI purchasing agents, they'll need it !

I browse with ad blockers and JS blockers and increasingly more sites just block me outright or won't work ("Content available after you disable your ad blocker" "NO").

Particularly since the name is already taken by a revolutionary telescope... that will now take bad images thanks to all those fucking satellites passing in front of it !

Fraud. I'm talking about fraud.

When I say "destroyed the market for that model" I mean "the short-seller spread misinformation that severely and permanently reduced the value of the vehicles, such as falsifying evidence they were dangerous, from which the brand never recovered."—even if such deception were prosecuted (which, increasingly, under the current administration, it isn't) there is a massive temptation to attempt it, which is amplified by leveraging debt.

That is ideal. Economic growth is not an unqualified net positive for society, and lending is the root cause of most of its ills. With borrowing as it is practised by hegemons today, there are only two endings: either they must close the loop, using the dirty money to architect a revenue-extracting monster that milks non-borrowed money to pay off the debts, or the system collapses under its own weight, like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme in the 2008 financial crisis. Debt creates its own incentives to abuse the commons and impoverish the public.

Of course, not being content with abusing the commons, there are also implications for abuse of single wealthy lenders, too. It would also effectively outlaw short-selling, since that consists of borrowing assets—the items being traded—then destroying the price, and pocketing the difference. If you think about it, this isn't even adding value to the economy; it's just skimming value off the inventory of whomever you're borrowing from.

If anyone tried this with a physical asset the lender would be apoplectic: "You borrowed 50 cars from me, sold them, destroyed the market for that model, and bought them back at a pittance. Now my inventory of 1,000 cars of the same model is worth a thousand pittances! Why would I ever do business with you ever again?!"—it only works as a system if the lender assumes that the assets will recover value over time, but the degenerate gambler doing the borrowing is incentivised to outright ruin the assets they're borrowing beyond any hope of recovery. In a sense they're even less ethical than corporate raiders, since both the company who issued the stock and the lender are being abused.

In theory slippery slopes are a fallacy, but it's really something else when there are people out there actively looking for slanted surfaces and applying experimental lubricants to every single one they can find.

Yes, Polymarket is the most degenerate, nihilistic, accelerationist bullshit imaginable. At best its creators are willfully in denial about this, since they have tried to ban assassination bets, but more likely they are just trying to maintain a facade of plausible deniability.

In a healthy society, the case of Polymarket would be studied as precedent in an ongoing debate about the possibility of criminalizing the very concept of financial speculation, especially placing a bid with borrowed assets.

Let me just add that if you provide a way to copy files via a physical cable, there should be a way to find those files, no ?!?

Maybe locking down the filesystem makes sense on a smarttv (not sure about that one as I don't have one) or a car, but a phone/tablet is now as general a computing device as can be (you still need to copy your pictures to your PC, and copy your mp3 from your PC). I don't know about the Mac, last time I had one was in 2000 and I did not like it back then.

I don't really want to go back to that issue, but your first point makes no sense to me. What is a "device with no direct file access" ? There's a file browser. Apps save files. If the files are already on the device, what sense does it make to transfer them to a server on the other side of the world just so they can make it back. That's total bullshit.