I think you just described humans. WE are the danger to this world, and provide no value to it :)

No one eats viruses but quite a lot of species depend on mosquitoes to survive, or eat the mosquito-eaters to survive.
You don't have to kill any mosquitoes, just replace them with a genetically modified version that is resistant to parasites?

Quite a lot of animals feed on insects, and then some carnivores might feed on them.
If you overfish sardines, anything bigger than a sardine may also suffer a population decline, as it is a staple food for lots of yummy fish and also marine mammals..

It's software. Apple can just offer to help them reset their phones to get the malware off. Apple doesn't have to do any more than that under their warranty obligations. They're not going to lose millions of dollars because of idiots who have that happen to them.

At some point you have to make users responsible for their own actions. Apple can put warnings and confirmation dialogs up on the toggle that allows sideloading and force the user to confirm that they're opening their phone up to possible danger. If people still sideload malware after that warning, it's on them.

Yeah ok.

I do not know what world you live in but I have never seen a Linux desktop at work in my 30 years in the workforce. I have seen some ipads coming in for stuff like warehouse workers.

MDM like Intune or JamF is great for locking stuff down and rolling out apps on devices like tablets and even Windows desktops.

Until Excel, Quickbooks, Autocad, and every business software in existence gets ported Linux is not an option.

Crazy people still think WIndows is like Dos based WIndowsME/98 and thinks have not progressed in a quarter century.

If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?

Linux is not an option for 97% of people as their first time OS. I used to use Linux 25 years ago. Today I want to get work done and run games and have something just work. No nvidia wayland issues. Hardware accelerated smooth scroll and anti alaisgned fonts. Chrome goes blip blip blip on Linux when I scroll up and down. Multi monitor support is even worse. Do not let me go on about the insecurity and horrors of Xorg.

Before I get accused of being a MS fanboy and modded -1 to infinity I want to say I chose this username name back in 2000 as I was a MS hater like the rest of you when I was young. I grew up.

I hate all operating systems now including WIndows BTW ... but for different reasons :-D ... since I am old and middle aged.

Linux is great and useful for dev and cloud stuff. Windows is great for multi monitor setup and boring win32 business apps. Android/IOS for content which does support smooth scrolling and fluid animations and fonts like we are in 2007 and later. I do not want linux as a host OS or a desktop or troubleshooting my own system every weekend trying to get a proton port of a steam game.

WSL is amazing and gets the job done. Without it I would have no tools at work. We must use Windows on our desktops.

The great thing about bloated frameworks and interpreted languages like nodejs and Python is more flexibility and quicker development time.

Electron yes we love to flame, enabled the cool integration of debugging and add on support of visual studio code as an example. The editor and ide could not do what it does without an interpreted language to change at runtime with something like C++

And everyone is using a VPN these days, often from another country with favorable peering for their activities. On the internet, no one knows I'm a dog posting from an IP address on Mars.

I keep hearing about miracle breakthroughs whenever researchers need money but they never go into production.

The tournament was for a few thousand dollars, if you think that Elon only getting $750 instead of a thousand makes any sort of difference for someone remembering something three decades later, I have a bridge to sell you.

The fact of the matter is that even if it was a small tournament, coming in second place is coming in second place, and it was the first professional Quake tournament, so to call Elon lying about it after finding proof he wasn't lying about it just shows that Jobst has negative integrity.

I don't like lots of people, I suppose, but I don't just invent lies about them.

If you want to call yourself some sort of reporter as Jobst does, you can't undercover conclusive evidence someone wasn't lying and then still say they're lying if you have any integrity at all.

Jobst ran a video accusing Elon of lying about being a good quake player here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And in the video it turns out that Jobst did, in fact, find conclusive evidence that Elon did in fact come in second place in the first professional Quake tournament. Which is all Elon ever claimed. But Jobst still claims, somehow, that Elon is lying because it was A) a small tournament, and B) Elon had a fast internet connection from working at a startup. So what? The claim checked out. The fact that Jobst still calls it more or less a lie tells you everything you need to know about Jobst's intellectual honesty.

>This is clear evidence that the problem is not that people are no longer interested in having a night out watching a film but that Hollywood is having real trouble making films that are popular.

Yeah. Since the pandemic I have seen: Dune, Dune 2, and the Super Mario Movie (for some reason). That's it.

And what I've noticed is that when I'm out of theaters and not getting theater promo reels, I'm a lot less aware even of what movies are out there, so I don't go to them either.

From what movie trailers I have seen none of them interest me, and when I walk past posters for movies at the mall none of them catch my interest either.

I watched literally every Marvel movie except one before Endgame, and have seen exactly zero Marvel movies since then, since they all seem to have gone into the toilet in terms of writing quality.

I think it's mainly a matter of Hollywood not making good movies.

Nobody knows what Napster is, try buying Crunchyroll and turn it into a 3D experience.

Why would I need a cryptographic ledger thingamabob, whatever the hell that is, in order to buy and own an image? It's as if people didn't buy and sell images all the time, for instance in stock photos websites. Not that I am terribly fussed over a wallpaper image being used by someone else, legally or otherwise.
When will reality catch up with the cryptobros?