Of course, if they thought about it a minute (not their strong suit), AI would be gone in a flash since THEY are the ones best replaced with AI.

The desire for a lower friction less of a pain in the ass economy. The desire not to waste all that effort and energy across the whole economy? A sense of fair dealing and basic honesty? A desire to keep Mr. Haney from Green Acres firmly in the realm of comedic satire?

Not to mention I can easily get a replacement phone if the one I have breaks or just fries from old age. I can get it at semi-competitive prices. No OEM replacements for a car come at even semi-competitive prices.

Also, auto makers have a long history of really sucking at software.

The information they had clearly showed that the kid had a bag of Doritos. My argument is that since they had the picture, they should have looked at it on the way over.

You admit there are plenty of neighborhoods where people don't call the cops. That leaves a vacuum that will inevitably be filled with vigilantes. If you want vigilante justice, that's how you get it. If the police won't improve the situation, perhaps they should get out of the way. But a much better solution would be getting rid of the morons (especially the ones at the top) and training cops in basics like verify your target, protect and serve, and that old parental favorite "use your head for something besides a hat rack". A dose of what we learned in Kindergarten and/or Sunday school might also help. When you screw up, say you're sorry. When you harm another, make amends.

Meanwhile, I'll call 'em as I see 'em. Don't want to be called a moron? Don't act like one.

Lol mickeysoft dildos with mod points

It's inertia, largely from government, but also institutionally. When businesses originally adopted Windows (3.x) there was a massive cost difference between Windows and anything else capable of doing the job of allowing users to run business applications, and in many cases the software simply wasn't there. Putting everyone on a Unix workstation would have cost 3x as much or more, even if the software existed. Putting them on X terminals and using centralized systems to support those would not have saved any money vs. Windows, at least not up front, and required a strong network.

Today they could switch, but now would have to face the cost of switching itself, and they would also find themselves incompatible with government in a number of cases.

Which word confused you, not-a-car-guy-coward?

Oh my poor sweet summer consumer.

You don't "purchase" games any more, you don't get a "copy". You get a time limited license that expires when you stop paying the ever increasing monthly fees. That's on top of the $100 entry fee per game you get charged.

This is why publishers hate Steam so much, it's not that the 30% is onerous, it's feck all for handling the transaction and customer service components, what they hate is that Steam doesn't enforce a subscription model.

There is no driver facing camera. It doesn't do it in response to the driver looking away from the road - it just pops the message up at random intervals.

And remember folks, it's got absolutely nothing to do with a violent gun culture that the US refuses to admit could possibly be a problem.

Corvette is no longer a sports car. Some would argue it never was, it was just a muscle car with better handling. But now it's a supercar, and it needs to be bigger. A smaller car doing the speeds it will do will be unstable. You need both some wheelbase and track, and you also need the wheelbase to be significantly greater than the track, or you will have a twitchy deathtrap.

If you live in the USA and want a sports car, the answer has been Miata since it was introduced. It used to be 240SX, but nobody knew, because Nissan is shitty at marketing. (You needed more power, but the stock "truck motor" used in the USA would do 300hp with a turbo on stock internals reliably, and there is a shitload of room for engine swaps in that vehicle.) The 240SX used to absolutely dominate autocross when it was in the E/SP class. Then because they won too much the SCCA moved it to D/SP where it had to compete with M3s and other shit with twice the power, which was some absolute clown shit. Nissan never brought us the S15 Silvia which would have been the post-1998 240SX, so the Miata has been the answer ever since unless you want AWD, then it's been Impreza. They still have a model or two with a stick.

When you load an Explorer window in Windows 10, the window loads and then it loads the stuff that's supposed to be in it. In Windows 11, in an apparent attempt to hide how the sausages are made from the user, it loads the stuff that's supposed to be in it before it draws the window. That way it's usable shortly after it appears. But what happens if you have a network failure? Now the explorer window no longer appears until after the network timeout passes, even if you open e.g. "explorer c:\". This means that you cannot use Explorer to load local resources during a period of network failure without waiting for at least a few minutes. If I want to open a local document I therefore either have to load it from within the application (which itself may have a variation of the same problem related to file dialogs not becoming usable until the network timeout passes) or go find and "start" it with the CLI.

While I'm complaining about stupid by-design fuckups in Windows 11, I used to use Notepad as part of my workflow in Windows 10. Not only does all text appear the same with no formatting, but it strips formatting, so if you paste something into classic notepad and then C&P it out later it goes without any of the text formatting. Sometimes this is exactly what I want. Windows 11's notepad breaks both of these things by supporting RTF, and by having a shitty autosave feature which you cannot disable. You can stop Notepad from loading its prior state on launch, but you CANNOT disable autosave. If a network share goes away while a document is open, NOTEPAD HANGS. If it doesn't come back before the timeout is exceeded, THE DOCUMENT IS UNLOADED. It literally just closes the tab, ALONG WITH YOUR CHANGES.

Microsoft has always been incompetent but this is well beyond the pale. This is beyond amateur hour level bullshit, this is a new low of incompetence even for Microsoft. And since their servers are pathetically fragile and need to be rebooted once a week or more for something simple like file services to even work reliably, this is causing me real life problems which result in less work being done.

When your preview function can compromise the user, you know that you've fucked up. Again. Why is anyone trusting MickeySoft with their business secrets? I'll never understand that. They are literally known for making insecure crap.

I guess the "features over everything" attitude somehow does vibe with the right market segment. Which I fear has influence on purchasing decisions far beyond what their competence justifies.

My current vehicle is a GM - a 2017 Chevy Colorado. If this is the case I won't buy another. I have no desire to be locked into a proprietary system.

And you can't disable from the settings menu either. You can disable the warning that you might have left your kid in the backseat, but you can't disable the "Don't take your eyes off the road." message that is likely to pull your attention from the road.