I want it for a computer that can't take Win11, but is perfectly usable hardware otehrwise. My plan is to convert it to a dedicated Steam game machine and have the SteamOS features included, and I'd rather it be actual SteamOS with Arch instead of Bazzite (on Fedora) or something else similar that's more likely to get abandoned by the maintainers down the road.

As of former DSO and prison guard I can say with some authority, it isn't record keeping that causes recidivism. More likely is lack of opportunity, lack of education, and a severe sense of being indoctrinated in the system. Many of these guys don't KNOW how to act on their own and without supervision they go off the rails. I don't know how you categorize a generally likeable person who makes the worst possible choices in life, frequently, other than convict.

"Try the European system of treating criminals as human beings, not as a profit making workforce.
Put efforts into rehabilitation rather than being highly punitive"
Genius Idea. For profit prisons are an abomination in any country, the US included...

That makes the narrative that data-centers are 'water hungry' very effective at causing unrest.

Which is probably why that narrative gets pushed so hard. You CAN build a datacentre with evaporative cooling and that will use a lot of water. You can also build one with a closed loop and radiators that doesn't use any water except for the original fill. You can even build one that's air cooled and doesn't use any water at all.

All of those options also apply to anything else that needs to be cooled, which is pretty much everything.

Scanning for Starbucks cups, flagging possible continuity errors, pose estimation and tracking for motion capture, inserting CGI, rendering, there are all sorts of boring tasks that could be automated or improved if already automated.

How can you tell how many red balls there are in the bin if you don't properly sample its contents?

Because I told you:

"a bin full of blue balls with one red ball in it"

If we dropped 8% of a system's capabilities each revision cycle, pretty soon there wouldn't be much left.

The argument that changes to support the majority use case compromise important minority ones is a reasonable one. You didn't make that argument. In what I presume was your effort to be pithy your brain cast "most" to "all" and you provided a single counterexample.

I saw a funny cartoon today. Someone pointed to a bin full of blue balls with one red ball in it and said "most of these balls are blue." Then someone else pointed to the red ball and said "what do you mean, there's a red ball right there."

It does. It requires that batteries be "removeable by the end-user" and that replacement batteries should also be availble to the end-user. The definition of end-user replaceable is as you say though.

It seems the EU thinks the ability to use basic tools is a reasonable requirement, unlike the average Slashdot user.

The United States started restricting export of computers in 1949. When the G4 exceeded the performance limit to be classified as a mulition in 1999 Apple ran ads about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"Advanced computations required for frontier AI" sounds better than "adds and multiplies faster than our arbitrary limit" and way less stupid than "now that this is a munition we have discontinued the translucent blueberry and frost white color option in favour of a more professional 'graphite' color scheme. Mirrored drive doors will be an option in the future."

The same cold war ideas as ever.

1. Find or make a boogey man enemy to scare the population
2. Profit

Yes, OceanGate tried to wiggle out of safety regulations at every opportunity. Transportation regulators are very familiar with maneuvers like that. OceanGate accepted money for services. In fact, the whole company was set up to do just that. You can call your customers blueberry pancakes if you want, but it doesn't matter.

That's why you can't, for example, take your buddies flying with your private pilots license and let them pay for gas, or make a profit from taking your friends out on your boat.

I've seen enough of your posts to know you're an America Hating, Constitution Hating Inbred Cunt, "RigntwingNutJob" you Neonazi Shitbag.

The bigger problem is the number of old devices lying around with a ton of open vulnerabilities. Full disclosure to users of the EOL date, and preferably legislation that manufacturers HAVE to provide security updates for compromise vectors, would be a better set of fixes.

OceanGate was offering a commercial service. Pretty much all commercial services are regulated for good reasons. Operating an uncertified submersible as a passenger service is no different than operating a cab that hasn't seen a mechanic in a decade, or an passenger air service on a homebuilt plane.

The difference is that you don't like the people who died.

The heat and especially pressure make good espresso makers big and expensive. Ultrasonic emitters are cheap, small and plentiful.

You're an Inbred Dumb Fucking Traitor to America, RightWingTreasonTrashBitchCuntbag.