> a 30 TB Iron Wolf Pro HDD is ~$1 600.

And that's at AI Bubble prices, not the prices these people would have been paying. I bought some 20TB drives last year and they were about $300 each... so for $2000 they could have had a local RAID with more than 50TB capacity.

Backups are only difficult on Windows because apps store data in random places all over the system instead of in your Documents folder. If Windows was a real operating system you'd just backup your home folder and that would be everything you might need.

I moved all the user folders from C: (a small boot SSD) to d: (an 8TB SSD) and it's insanely hard to stop programs still writing to C: because "obviously that's where the user files are".

And whenever you have blind hiring based on merit, it turns out to be RACIST because companies mostly hire white men.

Equality is obvious nonsense, but the left will cling to it to the bitter end because their entire ideology is based on the false claim that people are or can be equal.

I presume it's because Muh Rule Of Law says that Trump can't ban them but can put tariffs on them.

"Rule of Law" makes everything stupid.

Doesn't Microsoft now make almost all its money from "The Cloud" (aka renting out servers)?

Windows only matters to the extent that they can steal your data and force you to rent servers from them to access it.

Intelligent people have warned for decades about the perils of exporting industry to hostile countries. It's the midwits who thought it was great to ship everything to China because Muh Efficiency.

Trump is trying to bring that manufacturing back, but it's far too late. The 'elite' are far too corrupt and far too incompetent to actually rebuild a working society.

> You're skipping the step where the failing empire undergoes a period of rapid military expansionism in order to fill its coffers by looting other countries.

Did you miss the last fifty years?

We're past the military building phase of collapse and well into the loot-the-treasury phase. There's no way to unite America into a massive military buildup because half the population are immigrants who would leave and the other half have no desire to fight for the Epstein Regime.

Yeah, I bought the Airtags because my girlfriend keeps losing her keys, so when she was in another city recently she emailed me to ask why something was beeping in her bag, which is when we found out that Airtags have this retarded 'feature'.

I didn't know this beforehand because until now I've been using cheap Chinese clones off Amazon which don't. So you can either pay $5 for a Chinese "AyrTag' which doesn't do this or $40 for an Apple AirTag which does.

It's retarded and it doesn't work because anyone can buy compatible devices off Amazon for less money if they want to stalk someone.

"Because 0.1% of people abuse this, we must make it useless for the 99.9%!"

Retarded, like I said.

This has always been a thing and maybe we need SSL for WiFi. Let's get Let's Encrypt on the case and Apple and Google throwing up big scary "Do you trust this Wifi?" for all non-certified Wifi hotspots and slap on a Certified label.

Do that retarded thing Airtags do where they start beeping if they don't see your phone for a while? Half the point of these things is to track stuff if it's stolen, which is completely invalidated if they start beeping so the thief knows where they are.

You can piggy back on the civilian infrastructure without ever exposing devices - just require all devices to access anything beyond the local network via a specific router, which pushes all traffic over a VPN, and nothing goes out over the naked internet as its all dropped if its not going over the VPN. Then all you need to ensure are thoroughly audted and hardened are those routers - everything else cant hit the internet.

I was saying this 20+ years ago when I was studying AI and its history back then, long before LLMs existed.

AI is, and always has been, exclusively nothing but exponentially-increasing requirements for logarithmically-plateauing results.

Any mathematician will tell you what that means in the end.

Big AI is basically making itself irrelevant with its push for "Safety" at this point.