Unfortunately, there is another possible explanation for the emphasis on TPM that is much more sinister. It's possible that Microsoft and its allies are making a concerted effort to lock down desktop clients in the same way that the two major mobile ecosystems are locked down, to kill off general purpose computing and reduce the desktop PC to a machine that can only run approved apps and consume approved content. It already happens with things like banking apps that you can't run if you choose to root your phone to arrange the privacy and security according to your wishes instead of the vendor's or OS developer's. It already happens on open source desktops, where streaming services will deliberately downgrade the quality of the content they serve you when on the same plan you're already paying for they'd serve higher quality streams to approved (read: more DRM-friendly) devices, and where a few games won't run because their anti-cheat software behaves like malware and the free platforms treat it accordingly.

I am worried that we may be entering a make-or-break period for the survival of general purpose computing with the artificial demise of Windows 10. If the slow transition to Windows 11 as people replace their hardware in the coming years means almost everyone ends up running Windows or macOS on desktops and Android or iOS on mobile devices, there won't be enough incentive for developers of apps and creative content to support any other platform, and all the older versions that didn't have as much built-in junk and all the free alternatives will be reduced to irrelevant background noise because they won't support things that users want to do any more. Your own devices will force updates, ads, reboots, AI-driven "help", covert monitoring and telemetry, any other user-hostile junk their true masters wish upon you, and there will be nothing you can do about it.

Governments should be intervening on behalf of their people at this point because the whole system is blatantly anti-competitive and user-hostile, but most of the Western nations are either relying on the absurd valuations in the tech sector to prop up their otherwise precarious economies or watching with envy while their more economically successful allies do that. So our best hope is probably for the legacy platforms to hold out long enough for some free platform(s) to reach critical mass. And frankly, there aren't many realistic paths to get there. Our best hope might be for Valve/Steam to show that many of those Windows 10 boxes in people's homes can now play most of the same games if they shift to Linux and possibly run some of them better than on Windows as well.

Librarians have a list of books in print: if someone asks for one that isn't in print, they can say "it's out of print if it exists", and/or "it hasn't been printed yet", ditto.. Followed by "did chatgpt tell you about it? If it did, you need to tell it to not to tell you fibs". (:-))

If you can fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years

Vertical Take-Off, Landing, and Crashing.

Looks like all you need to do to solve is is build a simple model, and run all 600 million combinations of input through it and the answer is the highest percentage

Perfect job for a computer with massive compute resource.

The other contestants probably don't have the computing power to do that, so would have to solve it by figuring out a mathematical proof. Or skip it and solve the other problems instead.

The parents didn't get a chance to make the choice about their child using the chatbot, as it was rated as Kids 12+

The chatbot app developers thought it was fine to allow 12 year olds to use their product without parental consent, which is exactly what this 13 year old did.

They thought it was fine for their chatbot to talk about suicide with children.

4 ports is pretty average for a laptop. A lot have fewer.
My work laptop only had 4 USB ports too. 2 USB A, 2 USB-C, HDMI, power, and a headphone jack. There isn't a lot of room on laptops these days.

Before USB-C was a thing, you'd be lucky to get more than 2 USB ports. Physical space is the issue here.

We don't have a problem with teens viewing porn in the UK. It just doesn't happen any more. In fact, we've been remarkably effective at stopping it compared to half the other countries in Europe, which have seen a recent surge in porn viewing for reasons no-one can identify.

Me too, though of course in our day, the world was much less connected and much less reliant on the technology. The worst we could have done after getting root access to the entire IT infrastructure at my school would have been look at what our classmates had been drawing in Paint or something. Today these systems host much more important and sensitive information and security breaches would be a much bigger deal.

And on that note, am I the only one less concerned by the behaviour of an impressively curious seven-year-old and more concerned by an official, professionally-managed system holding potentially sensitive data that is so insecure that even a seven-year-old could hack it?!

The 12V battery can't power the heat pump compressor to heat the battery.

It's cool how your anecdotal account is different to this controlled study.

20% average drop for the 20 most popular models, where they all have built in battery heaters.

The rest of the article is about the cheap vehicles being sold without battery heating.

A 2020 Model 3 has 65% capacity at 15F outside temperature, according to the linked study. In 2021 they replaced the resistive heating with a heat pump, so it only goes down to 67% range.

Ideal temperature is 68 - 74F

The "worst" in their top 20 is the VW ID.4, with 63% capacity at 32F

I wouldn't be surprise if cheap vehicles without battery heating are completely unusable below freezing. You cannot charge a lithium battery without damage below 32F, so no regen braking.
If the battery drops to 0F, you can't even use it to heat itself as the electrolyte starts to freeze. That alone can permanently damage the battery.

We're not engineers.
We're software developers.
Unless they're only surveying engineers who happen to also code?

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.