This IMO is the crux of the problem - you pay a one-off price to buy what you think is a perpetual licence to a game, only to have the publisher stop supporting the ability for you to run the game at a later date.

Hope this is the core of the issue at hand as a perpetual licence should not require manufacturer support to enable the product at a later date - I should be able to install the product on a different device and be able to get it working.

The thing with the big Chinese brands is that they've been making cars for decades for local consumption, with no notable exports until recently, eg: GAC, Geely, BYD. They've also added numerous sub-brands more recently for different markets, which makes it difficult to work out just who is owned by what parent, plus of course the other brands they've bought out (eg: Volvo/Polestar and MG). At this time I wouldn't want to make a call on reliability of these cars simply due to the lack of data for these in western nations. That's obviously improving, but I'd still be steering clear of the lesser-known brands for a good half decade or more.

They take many years to get to Earth and return in their home planet timeframe. If they can boost to a good % of c the apparent time is less.

Is there a problem with those statements, or is it because we live a measly 3-4 score and 10 years that a decades long journey is a problem?

Languished due to age and the manufacturer dropping support when it reached 10 years old (pretty good run TBH). While I doubt there's many of these left, there's still enough for the hobbyist developer to spend some time on them - and what better way to test AI than on something that's been optimised as much as it ever normally would be?
I'd also note that I've still got a few PCs and laptops of that vintage still bootable and able to run.

Concur. Some examples
- you need approval from finance to spend $$$. Solution - build that approval into the requesting process - that way you only get requests that have financial approval already. Bonus - cost centre is included and can be charged automatically.
- people request things for other people in the Justification field (which almost never had anything useful in it anyway). Solution - add field for who gets the service, remove the Justification field (they can sort that out with their manager offline). Bonus - can automate delivery to the person who is getting the service.

When you really break a lot of these things down to the constituent parts there are many that are an automation development blob from saving $$$$.

This is it exactly - the higher ups are too lazy/unqualified to identify and resolve business process automation so are counting on pointing the finger at CoPilot when things don't improve enough. I went from a team of 5+ to 3 (minimum allowed) after working through this in our group, and that started out as interpreting what people had free-text written on a printed-out form, and while at it also saved hundreds of FTE hours monthly further down the line in automated service allocation and provision.

That's what happens when you systematically reduce taxes on your rich.
https://govfacts.org/long-term-challenges-future/economic-transformation/economic-inequality-trends/how-80-years-of-changing-us-tax-policy-have-reshaped-american-wealth/
https://inequality.org/article/tax-the-rich-we-did-that-once/

Only Starlighters use Linux!

Deflation of your purchase power value is pretty cheap to pay for a product - typically you'd pay 20-33% of RRP annually in subscription pricing or maintenance, so 3-5% annually is quite cheap in comparison.

All these companies are having to develop ways to renew and deploy certificates on an ever-decreasing cycle time - eventually every month-ish in a few years. They should absolutely have the resources to add another product to whatever automated system will be needed to support perpetual licences with this dependency.
The other option is to remove the requirement altogether, so the software no longer requires any sort of activation.

I've seen this before, on some games I think. It's a good idea when you go EOL to provide this kind of thing, promotes brand value as well.

Conservatives trying to bring back the good ol' days, before suffrage allowed people other than white male landowners to vote.
That includes coal-based power and oil-based fuel for vehicles, and no need for any fancy schmancy catalytic convertors - time to roll that coal!

Why did the Irishman run a bug-checking LLM over his code before release?

To be sure
To be sure
To be sure

If it's still getting inconsistent results when run multiple times over the same code, the LLM needs more work.

They do have bigger concerns than that, because US judicial and legislative systems are currently bound to the executive branch, and their executive branch is locked under kompromat.

I didn't think there was this problem with the SoH a few months back - was Iran trying to claim it last year?