I don't think anyone expected water exposed to the atmosphere in a waterfall like fashion to be re-added to the public water supply. I'm curious where you live that you haven't seen evaporative cooling in person. Maybe you live in Norway or Iceland. The water that doesn't evaporate is recycled, and when the resivor drops below level X, it adds more municipal water to the system. I hope this clears some things up for you about 100 year old cooling system design

Water consumption doesn't matter much (or at all) near these places:
 
1. Colombia river basin
2. Mississippi River
3. The entire east coast from Virgina, south to Florida
 
There's no incentive to conserve water in these areas, access to fresh water is limitless. half to three quarters of data centers are in areas with no problems with water access; the hysterics around water use is being weaponized, rather than rationalized. If you have a data center in California or Arizona, water is more of an issue, but they often use more efficient cooling loops there.

It sounds like they're permanently destroying water or something. Many datacenters line the colombia river, which is both an excellent hydroelectric and limitless water supply, and then the other big cluster is in the SE near Virgina and into the Carolinas, which are frequently flooding,
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about the same water usage as NYC uses in 200 days
 
764.6 billion liters of water is about 8 days worth of water used by California agriculture

Even Sam Altman can't save openAI with his Jedi Hype Master Skills when they keep falling futher and further behind. Google and Anthropic are presenting serious challenges and while OpenAI is still in the top 10, the rest of the pack is quickly catching up, whatever secret sauce they had before, it has been discovered and they have yet to find something uniquely defining that nobody else has. Raise after raise eventually isn't going to make much of a media splash and they'll lose their influence there, too. December isn't over yet, maybe they still have a compelling product up their sleeve, but this latest media blitz is a lot more subdued than last year's Dec blitz.

Tokenization seems to mean taking an asset with value, creating a fake representation of it, selling that to someone in exchange for valuable money, and then laughing all the way to the bank. In the case of a bank doing this, the only difference seems to be that there is not as much laughing involved, because they are already at the bank. And in the case of a bank doing this with "stable" coins (that aren't actually stable), they're also skipping the "asset with value" step.

"And the presentation looks suspiciously like yet another WM."

Of course. Never forget the true reason many new users adopt Linux is desktop "ricing". Utilitarian considerations only matter to the tiny minority of utilitarian users.

Most computers are entertainment machines (which is fine) and that consumer demographic (like those who automatically like social media posts with cat pictures) are easy to please.

Linux adoption greatly benefits from the limited appearance options offered by Windows. If MSFT want quicker uptake of new Windows versions it would be wise to invest in easy appearance customization.

Understanding users as they are is key to giving them what they want. That need not be honestly explained because admitting love for trifles is uncomfortable for some.

I do not like this Sam-I-am, I do not like the JVM.

We might have cable tv, if that was the cheapest way to get internet in our house. I literally do not know, only one device is plugged into a coax cable in our entire house and that's the modem. I wouldn't even know where to look on my tv to see if they still come with coax connectors on the back, it hangs on the wall and there's a power plug, that's it.

Seconded on the Tapo line. I got a Tapo C120 earlier this year and they are surprisingly cheap (currently $28 at B&H) and fairly easy to work with. I found that I needed to initially connect it to their cloud service to get their app working with it, but once that worked, I removed its ability to phone home by blocking the MAC address from the internet on my router. I can still connect to it with RTSP and stream with VLC, replay video with their app, etc. with no need for internet connectivity. Just be aware that if it can't connect to an NTP server that the timestamp in the video will be off... but you can disable the timestamp. It also logs decent resolution video and low bitrate audio to microSD which is handy. I get about two weeks of archived 24/7 footage with a 256 GB card. One drawback is that it is limited to using 2.4 GHz WiFi, which I find to have more interference than 5 GHz in my location. Everyone's situation is different in that regard though.