Yes. And Yes. Low-information users will implement and click all kinds of crap if malware does that for them or some AI or YouTuber instructs them to do so.

They cannot have the luxury of choice, because they cannot be trusted with that choice. I'm sorry. Home users don't get to turn off automatic updates just like schizos shouldn't get access to firearms. For the same reasons.

If you REALLY need that AND know what you're doing, you have a pro version where you can switch automatic updates off. And even then you only need that for very - VERY - special use cases.

Remember that the damages through hacks, exploits, cyber attacks are at least 20-50x higher than the damages through failed patches. It's very unlikely that errors from "failed patch" can ever reach the level of risk that "not patching" can reach.

The gap between "home" and "pro" users is the reason. "Home" must - by definition - include the lowest of the "low information users", and - man, do they get low these days. I'm serious. IT is now at a point, where it's everywhere and for everyone, and the level of competency between people varies WILDLY. Orders of magnitude between people. People that are centuries and milennia apart in self-domestication, IQ, cultural norms and cognitive development are now living together on the same block. And all of them have to use IT, which of course cannot be the same IT for all of them.

That said, you MUST have seen the reboot and restart notifications of Windows, Teams, Edge etc. in a business environment on screens of other people. High-information IT users, even. They just don't restart their program for the security update - ever. Literally all of them will tell you they've "got this big project due tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki" and they're afraid of their Japanese management techniques and so they can't update "right now" and "right now" means "forever" and "I will update later" means "I will update never before the sun burns out".

So yeah, you HAVE to force updates on the average person. Unless the new update gives them a few new emojis for their favorite rainbow religion or other treats drip fed to them, they're not going to install them.

If you never encountered users that are this resistant to upgrades, good for you and say hello to the guys at the lab. But everyone not a guy AND in a lab will not update their stuff and they get the forced update. Sorry. It's how it is.

Americans don't WALK across their cities because

You know why.

You know exactly why.

The entire urban landscape of the USA can be explained by a very very very simple thing. It started on Dec. 18th, 1865 or much earlier, when they all were brought to the US in the first place.

Everything and everyone wants to get away from them, paying any price they can or driving as far as they need to.

Every day, some "immediate family member" sexually abuses their children. So that point is quite moot.

Children are not the property of their parents and the parents shall not be allowed to reanimate the dead, either.

Would you be ok with the parents reanimating their dead adult children, nudify them and earn money via OnlyFans? No? WHY THE HELL NOT?

Same thing.

Our society is predicated upon the notion that we honor and respect the dead. No one has the right to change that.

You remember that one group that has been using one of their kid's diaries for political pressuring the world for 80 years now.

What group do you think did the ridiculous stunt today?

Things like this will lead to very hard legal limits placed on what AI will be allowed to do or asked to do.

Do we allow digging up corpses to use as halloween decoration? No? Why not?

Then why would we allow digging up corpses to dress up and use as talking heads for whatever agenda or product?

Reanimating dead people with AI will be a highly punishable offense very soon.

If it becomes permissible to use deepfakes of dead children to parrot whatever you want them to say in order to further a political agenda, then anything is possible.

And while they're at it, they can use the same deepfake AI to have the same dead child recommend a beer brand that the AI thinks this child would have chosen if he grew up to be old enough to drink beer.

It is the most disgusting form of actual necromancy. Digging and dressing up corpses and using them as talking puppets.

I always knew that America is morally corrupt, but holy moly is this a new low even your them.

Reviving dead children as puppets to make them parrot your own chosen political message is a disgusting piece of brainwashing.

It's a far cry from using photos and placing them next to political messages.

But making it look like the dead themselves are back to life to tell everyone about a political message chosen for them is impossible to endure.

If you disagree, please tell us: Why not have a lifelike AI-based replication of famous murder cases appear in advertisements for car insurance or medical products? Have them laugh and joke about their own death a little, recommending the viewer to take medication X instead, so they don't end up dead like them. Why not? Let's have some AI-generated advertising where George Floyd and Geoffrey Epstein recommend vacation resorts on private islands in the Carribean? WHY THE HELL NOT?

Why have any amount of decency when you can instead further your own agenda with anything that works?

Just wait a few months, it WILL be the entire Western internet like this.

They are currently trying to ban and censor and block the entire internet for the entire West, by any means necessary.

Too many users on too many platforms have been noticing about who actually controls the West and banning individual accounts or entire platforms is not going to curb that anymore. So they ban the entire internet for the West.

The introductory tutorial involves cartoon caricatures of Donald Trump and Elon Musk meta-explaining the features of the AI animation program.

*It does not get better from there.*

The entire project feels like they distilled a Family Guy Knock Off TV Series Production Executive Who Isn't Even Allowed In The Writer's Room into an AI.

It's just... *that fucking bad*.

Verdict: Absolute dogshit. Not even in a "so bad you'll be ironically entertained" way. Just in a "this is abhorrent and everything it produces is soulless and unfunny".

Corporate culture x boomer mindset.

Boomers usually buy the cheapest thing if it is generic, but boomers recoil in existential horror from dropping a trusted brand name.

Corporate culture amplifies that risk aversion 100x so that even other gen people fear making a switch like this somewhere.

Try getting a person over 60-65 to change their phone or ISP contract, drop cable or landline, buy a car from a different brand or whatever. They will protest loudly and probably refuse to do that.

And that generation currently owns the most money.

Vendors have recognized that and are now bleeding them dry before they finally leave the corporate offices for their retirement.

Tire particulate
Microplastics small enough to breathe them (broken and rubbed off from all the plastic products all around us)
Microscopic particles (printer toner, very fine dust)
Inorganic materials with very sharp points (of which asbestos, glass and rock wool are the main sources)
Pet and animal dander
Fine organic particles and soot (of which cigarette smoke is the main source, also coal dust, coal and wood smoke)
Radioactive particles (of which radon gas is the main source outside of catastrophes and war)

People are hugely, insanely UNDERestimating the effects of radon gas on their lungs. 80% of people you tell this never even heard of radon gas and 15% of them might only know it's a colorless, odorless, radioactive noble gas, but only about 5% know or think about how this gas simply seeps out of the ground, collects in basements and ground floor sleeping areas and is almost as dangerous as smoking for lung cancer.

Because lung cancer awareness campaigns always focused on smoking, people did more or less disregard other highly dangerous lung carcinogens over decades. Radon is the main carcinogen beyond smoking and asbestos - and after that comes the group of all organic dust, soot and very fine particle sources. That is: coal and wood fires, barbecues, coal dust, grain dust, printer toner, plastic particles, particles from normal tire wear on public roads, dander from animals.

Breathing in anything except air is more or less carcinogenic, and normal air can contain radon gas or ozone from natural sources.

Get a radon detector and estimate your exposure to radon gas in your sleeping area over a few months. If the results are low risk for your area, you can sell it second hand. If the results are medium risk or higher, you know that it's necessary to take precautions and renovations for your home to avoid that. Sealing the ground in your home or against radon is possible or at least ventilating the basement and sleeping areas to prevent build-up of radon.

Avoiding tobacco and radon means avoiding two thirds of all lung cancer cases.

Pin-pointing a laser onto a moving target is getting progressively more difficult the faster the target is. Targeting optics need to be progressively faster and more precise to hit the object for the time needed to have the intended effect. And all the effect the laser it has is proportional to the energy it deposits per square centimeter onto the target. With more air passing by the object, even more energy is dissipated and with the faster speed, the total flight time in range of the laser is progressively shorter.

That's what makes hypersonic weapons so dangerous. They're too fast for defensive missiles to counter. There's less time for detection and identification overall, less time for a friend-or-foe decision, less time to align the laser spot on the target, the laser will be less accurate on the target, depositing less energy per square centimeter and second, the while the projectile dissipates more energy per second to the air around it and the laser system will have far less time anyway to destroy the incoming projectile before it impacts the thing it was supposed to defend.

Look at the few leaked videos of hypersonic missile impacts. These missiles are so fast that there's barely a 1 or 2 seconds between the missile appearing and impacting. Current lasers have AT BEST a 10km engagement distance and that doesn't include the plasma shield that air forms around the HGV due to air friction at that speeds. At Mach 12 and ideal conditions, the laser will have less than 2 seconds time to deliver all its energy, through all atmospheric distortions, follow the HGV's potentially unpredicable flight path without instantly and permanently blinding all humans near and around the defended area.

Atmospheric dust and smoke will quickly render that even more impossible than it already is. So even if the first few defense shots MIGHT be effective, every subsequent shot will become harder and harder because there will be more and more dust and smoke in the air around the laser. If lasers become too effective in the future, then you will see the attackers firing whatever they can find to increase smoke and dust in the atmosphere around the laser or reengineer their HGVs to release insane amounts of smoke when targeted or destroyed so you can at best destroy the first few of them until there's far too much smoke around to do anything with lasers against the next wave. Or they wait with their attack until there's fog or dense clouds over the target, forcing the defense to use MASER or similar things that could penetrate clouds more easily, but who knows what disadvantages that brings. And the Chinese leveraging their most prominent strengths, you can be absolutely sure their HGVs will be mass-produced in ridiculous numbers and through economies of scale become ridiculously cheap as well. They will then simply spam them over the target so that no amount of laser technology will be able to counter them, because you can't reasonably concentrate the amount of energy needed to defend against all of them. Even if you had 100 or 10000 lasers of the required intensity (1MW or more), there simply won't be enough Watts / Joules around to feed them all.

There is very little defense against mass-produced, reasonably cheap gliders at speeds above Mach 4. The attackers can distribute production and stockpiles of gliders over their entire country and produce and stockpile for years, and mass them on any single target. The Joules needed to produce them can easily be transported to the factories, because there's enough time to do so. The defenders would have to place enough lasers near all potential targets to counter a massed attack on any of them. The Joules needed to fire the defense lasers would need to be transported immediately from everywhere to any one target area or stored everywhere in a way that's currently totally unfathomable to us. And even if we managed to do that, HGV production would profit from these advancements as well, bringing more and cheaper HGVs down on the target, immediately nullifying that advance right away.

In short: defending against cheap(er) mass-produced HGV gliders is literally, physically, theoretically and even ontologically impossible.

If you want to read further, look up "Hobbesian trap", "Fermi paradoxon" and "Dark forest hypothesis".

The first thing that ages in all laptops is the thermal interface material between heatsink(s) and processor(s). Once the TIM begins to dry / age / pump out / degrade, it sets off a positive feedback loop where the chip gets hotter with TIM aging, which in turn gets the chip hotter still and aging the TIM even faster and so on. A little lint and dust in the heatsink will kickstart this even higher.

LCDs didn't have a CCFL backlight prone to aging in a while, and they also mostly avoided OLED so far, so they don't have the other age-prone display technology.

If the laptop is of any value whatsoever, it is built in a way that allows the heatsink / fan to be replaced by a service tech in one hour or less. Most gaming laptops are built that way and many business line models, too. Business laptops have enough spare parts available for cheap, so they win in that regard.

The published MTBF for a part are rarely relevant for laptops and you shouldn't rely on that. Since laptops are carried and used in the full variety of human behavior through the full variety of human environments, their wear levels are varying wildly. For a server HDD, you can assume server room environments with controlled temperature and vibration. For laptops? No way. Some were used stationary in air-conditioned offices, never moved and not even typed directly on them and some were trotted around every day on construction sites in the desert.