Not really relearning. It was always a necessity. Armed forces historically were always trained to repair and did have spares on hand. Just like there are battle trained medics in the field, there was also battle trained technicians in the field.

How it was left to get so bad I don't know. I suspect the Pentagon had little choice. It would have been politicking as usual. Now the Senators have also realised there is more than employment handouts at stake.

It'd be nice to see right-to-repair of this level reverberate wider than the military and have an impact on the throwaway culture that has evolved in recent decades.

I wonder if maybe recent Ukrainian experiences has driven home the direness of the situation for the Pentagon? Maintaining employment numbers isn't any help to an inoperative force.

and Slop Awareness 101.

Wikipedia certainly doesn't need any type of Internet, nor anything even close, to be useful into the future.

Followed by Meta deletes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. And the world celebrates.

They don't use 3D acceleration so will happily run on vanilla Wine.

User tracking and its algorithms already has. There's a difference. Take away the tracking and it all reverts back because advertising won't find the web so attractive any more.

Hallucinations for scientists instead of geeks.

Lull maybe better name. Wells are usually associated with the stronger acceleration effects.

A distinct shift in who messed up. The AI can't be blamed.

M$ is now gleefully collecting up everyone's actions on the desktop and sending them off for automatic psychological evaluation.

And, I'll just add that free market capitalism knows no bounds without strong regulations. When the greed is unbound, it's a race to the bottom.

is going to linger me thinks. He certainly did a great job of poisoning any good will.

How's the saying go? Privatise the poor, socialise the rich.

It's the ultimate in hypocrisy.

First poster, rsilvergun, is right though. These companies like OpenAI aren't the ones to suffer from this. And they know it. When they go belly up, it's all the investors that'll loose their shirts. Sadly, that's every Joe average's retirement funds.

The hype reaches out and takes from all. :(