We use to be a country that at least pretended to like free markets. We sure liked them plenty fine when China was buying our stuff. But when it becomes "adapt or die" suddenly industry goes running for Daddy Government.

FTA:
"Right now, Chinese automakers are dumping subsidized vehicles with connected software and hardware around the world," Bozzella wrote, adding that China "is capturing market share" in Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, Mexico and South America.

Oh no, "connected software and hardware"! You don't say? GM and Ford and BMW and Mercedes and Infiniti and Honda and Toyota and Kia and Hyndai and Genesis would *never* do such a thing!

"Woa woa woa, you want us to actually INNOVATE? That wasn't part of the deal."

The way Reddit mods are and given the age of the account, this would be extraordinary if it was only 1 or 2 subs.

My current account is a shade over a year old and I got a ban like three months in from an asshole mod in the Google Voice sub for participating in a conversation about spoofed GV numbers.

I got another one in an investment sub because they use bots to check your history and I had made a comment in a Vanguard sub.

Very arbitrary stuff there.

I wasn't comparing, mere stating a reference point. But since that's the way you want to go, I'm not in IT because I retired in my 40's.

Keep working, fucko lol.

Ah yes, we must have read the same review a couple days ago....."Neo vs three budget PCs" or something like that. It wasn't the absolute best on performance, but it was in the neighborhood (this is a handheld device CPU that failed its core check after all). The build quality of the Mac versus the others was what really stood out.

Yea, I can't think of a time where throwing less hardware at Windows was an "answer" to any question worth asking.

Yea, these are all things that I too believed after 20 years in IT. Then in fall 2024 I tried a Macbook Air for myself.

All I can say is you're listening to an echo chamber propagated by annoying neckbeards that haven't actually used a Mac or MacOS in at least a decade, probably longer.

If you like the current Gnome layout, you'll find plenty to like about MacOS. And believe the hype on Apple Silicon.

Exactly what I was thinking. You have to have your head examined anyway for enabling network connectivity on a TV today anyway. But especially now is motivation to "nope" on out of all that.

Of course many if not most of the users of this tv probably used the embedded apps so they're all fucked anyway.

Yea, if the dude were still in Russia at this point then it would be time to.....I don't know.....be getting the fuck out.

.....we had all .com era Superbowl ads. Bigger, better, funnier. And generally gone by 2002.

FTA: "Jack said he was driven to act by ranchers who were concerned that solar companies were outbidding them for land they had been leasing to graze cows."

Huh. Ok.

"After negotiating with solar developers, Jack eliminated the land use restrictions while preserving provisions to prohibit tax incentives for solar farms on private agricultural land and to create standards for decommissioning projects."

Ah, so to "fix" that they 1) limit what uses private land owners can charge for, and 2) make the land leases less valuable thus reducing the potential profits of the land owner.

I thought conservative Republicans were for freedom, private property rights, freedom to contract, free markets, and other things those cock suckers claim but no longer stand for.

Yet they won't have their kids engage in any metrics or testing for comparison. Even as recently as three years ago most home schooled students did not take the SAT or ACT (at that time approximately 3 percent of all students were home schooled versus less than 1 percent of ACT / SAT takers who claimed home schooled status). And the comparisons that we do have are flawed as the home school test takers are self selected versus the public school takers where ACT / SAT is more widespread and in many places compulsory even if the student isn't college bound.

There is also a compelling body of research emerging about how ineffective screens and remote learning is in a K-12 environment. Granted not all home school parents use just screens for instruction, but I would submit that many if not most do as those are the curriculums that seem to get the most advertising and exposure.

And the replacement will be ass. Big hairy nasty unuseable ass. Proprietary ass, that didn't work well out of the gate and will only get worse with time as GM "shifts strategic direction" and within four years abandons the system with no upgrade path.

It's why my current car is a 2016 Infinity. That seems to be a sweet spot for infotainment as it's before they started putting giant fucking tablets in the console. That also means the major functions still use physical buttons.

My next car is probably going to be a custom electric conversion. I'm thinking a mid 1980's red Porsche 911 Turbo.

Meanwhile Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 were just dogshit. After install I spent weeks tracking down various bugs and making basic stuff on my systems work. It felt like using Linux on the desktop circa 2001 again. To say nothing about the noticeable step down in virtualization performance from version 18 to 22.

This is why I left Ubuntu. Say what one wants about Redhat and RHEL. I don't agree with all their tactics in the past or their decisions on CentOS. But from a system usability standpoint they generally don't have these issues on initial release. That's probably because they dedicate the time and resources to actually test their software!

OpenAI going to content creators and demanding they opt out whomever they don't want to appear in videos is the most on-brand silicon valley Chutzpah move this year. Say what one wants about the U.S. intellectual property system, but that ask isn't anywhere any time reasonable.

Now if OpenAI were offering some sort of payment per use as a compulsory license subject to certain content guardrails, that might be a different story. But that wasn't the case either. Instead the "offer" was we're going to use your IP and actors' likenesses for free. You can request that we don't use certain ones but there's no guarantee.

As with just about everything these tech bros do, OpenAI wanted all the benefits with no obligation to pay anyone anywhere anytime. And that's just not going to work.