Or more accurately stories like that get you blue balled in the force. Have you ever worked somewhere where everyone hates you and doesn't trust you? It's not pleasant for anyone but the most narcissistic arsehole.

There is a brand new entrant into the industry and they are selling RAM at a higher price than Samsung per unit. So clearly the only thing driving up RAM prices is the shortage of RAM and the insane backlog in orders.

Also there is no monopoly. One company doesn't control the market. The word you're looking for is oligopoly.

No one outside of Slashdot cares. Windows 11 has a large market share. SteamOS while great is still a pittance of the actual market. The idea that millions of people are going to switch to Linux for reasons that only a bunch of Slashdotters care about is a fantasy.

It takes 10 years to enter the market. CXMT has been going full steam trying since 2016. Also the shortage is more like 2 years, not 10.

Sure if you ignore AI and market dynamics you would think that. You'd be wrong though, but then it suits the rest of your fantasies quite well.

I guess even you can eventually say something correct if you write enough sentences.

That's the sort of curious thing about this announcement: at least in theory(I assume things are uglier in practice) the X1 parts that they shipped for windows-on-ARM/Copilot PCs already use UEFI/ACPI in line with what MS wants for booting Windows.

That obviously doesn't mean that there's a working GPU driver; or that naive power management doesn't cause the system to run at 90% of maximum power and hammer the battery flat; but the theory was that the last gen was already doing the "big kid ARM that has embraced PC standards" thing; very similar to the 'standards base' that ARM encourages ARM server part vendors to use.

I'm always a little curious what the thinking/strategy is with the Chinese outfits. I don't necessarily expect much from the OrangePi guys; they ship a surprising number of different SoCs, including multiple architectures and multiple vendors, for their size, so are likely to be mostly at the mercy of the SoC vendors; but is the situation for someone like Allwinner such that people who want linux to work on their stuff could be a resource for them and they are just not taking advantage of that very well; or are they actively annoyed by GPL-related claims and really just want to shove minimum-viable android out the door as cheaply as possible to win cheap tablet tenders and really do not want to hear from SBC hobbyists.

SOP at Qualcomm. It has been literal years of hammering on them by Google and basically every Android handset OEM to even keep parts that ship with android support in support for more than a few years(I think the current timeline, at least for 'snapdragon 8 elite' flagship parts, is a princely 8 years from release; and that is with the 'project treble' stuff that attempts to reduce the number of changes that might potentially need to be supported). Especially with the, um, raging success, of Copilot+ AI PCs they are probably ready to pretend that X1 never happened and call it good. I'm not even sure how long the windows support on X1 is expected to last.

What a strange comment to make given the story literally two stories above this one.

OpenAI's autonomous agent literally just hacked a government and there's nothing that can be done about it because the laws don't cover AI agents. It's a perfect example.

Nope, it's only important to people who don't want to do anything about it and instead try and blame someone else. See also: Not doing shit about global warming because China something something.

Sure, if you want to be completely wrong you can make that claim. In reality Waymos are not under human supervision. They contact humans for support when their self-driving system disengages. That's a very different thing. There is no single human responsible for Waymos and this has been an ongoing issue with law enforcement who have been unable to issue any tickets to cars without drivers. Where Waymo has been punished, it's been under specific provisions of specific laws created for self diving vehicles - which is exactly my point.

You're probably thinking of Tesla, who very much do still supervise their shitty substandard products.

No it's not. In virtually all jurisdictions traffic violations apply to the person driving the vehicle, and not the vehicle itself. You don't need to take my word for it. Just look up how many traffic violations Waymo has committed and how many fines they have had to pay as a result.

While true it has no bearing on this case since it was the Australian government and their laws involved.

Unfortunately it does nothing at all of the sort. Generic bragging may sound like intent but needs a mountain of evidence to link it o any specific act. Criminal law simply isn't remotely as generic as you want to frame it as. In fact it's often so specific that people who actually do commit specific criminal acts sometimes get away with it on technicalities.

FTFY

Yes they do, for the same reason that self driving cars get a pass when doing an illegal u-turn. The laws as written currently do not cover a situation outside of direct human control and intent.

It shouldn't be the case, but to fix this we need new laws first, and laws don't get to be criminally applied retrospectively in Australia, so yeah they got a free pass this time.

Use them?! First: why would I want to be locked into Meta's proprietary APIs? And second: it doesn't even include a near-infrared swimsuits mode. I can't believe they omitted such a basic feature. (Zuck, you call these perv glasses!?!)

Besides, from a style perspective, they just aren't nearly gargoylie enough. Whatever perv glasses I buy will have erect antenna(s) (not integrated into the frame), much larger aperture cameras for astronomy, and lots of blinkenlights (including a cool-looking Locutus-style laser). It doesn't surprise me at all, that the more style-conscious sex isn't buying them.

Meta's specific product is ridiculous. But I nevertheless defend the overall tech.

Because it's not a problem that needs solving? Election fraud is so insignificant it's never impacted an election in the USA. Why throw out a system that works for something that has some very serious flaws:

It's anything but. Anyone with majority control on the chain can modify the ledger. Unless you're going to get the weight and might of the entire world to secure your ledger it wouldn't take much for a major international power to spin up a mighty mining system and start tampering with it.