Let's add to this that the US is still basically the 50/50 R/D split it ever was. Even with all of the issues of the day, the outcome of an election is still basically random.

But there is one vey important change about team D now. They have become completely impotent. They are unable to stop republicans from accomplishing anything, and they are unable to accomplish anything of their own. This goes not only for the things they say that they care about - and in the words of Hillary, there's always a public position, and a private position - they are less and less able to accomplish anything of their private goals, too. The only thing that they now care about is absolute adherence to party line and old guard, and this adherence takes away their ability to do anything about anything.

The only real success democrats have had recently is keeping Sanders from becoming president, and to a lesser degree, depending on if there ever was anything in her, domesticating AOC. Success in the sense that they achieved their goal, not that it was good for the country. Some people see things like that going on and conclude that the only real purpose of the democratic party is to make sure there is no left in the US.

Let's not forget the genocide cover up during Biden times, either.

But let us not forget that for a long time now, democrats while in office have not been turning back most of republican doing. This means they are basically okay with what republicans do, it's just that they don't necessarily want to be the ones doing it. So it is the state walks left foot, right foot, but the direction is one. This leaves no doubt in me that were republicans to inherit Trump's state machine, they would be running with it and advancing it, not rolling back.

The US for a long time now has never cared about the actual content of policy, only that the right party is in power. #metoo was great until it was against the outgroup. Once it turned out Biden was a creep that liked to touch little girls on stage, #metoo died without a whimper basically overnight. Freedom of speech was an age old democrat issue, until it turned out it now gave republicans an upper hand. So it changed hands and went to republicans, and now that republicans have secured media loyalty, it's not needed anymore at all.

In the end all of this was always going to happen, ever since Reagan ushered in the neoliberal era. Neoliberalism at it's core is a wealth reallocation program that takes from everyone and gives to the top. When everyone starts running out, there will come a point where you need to go a fascist police state, or the plebs will rise up and burn the place down. Make a peaceful revolution impossible and you make a violent revolution inevitable, and all that. Well not if the surveillance state and heavily armed police can do anything about that, and well would you look at that, which president is famous for doing the most for those, isn't it good ol' democrat Obama... And let's not forget the Patriot Act was originally written by Biden in '95 as the Omnibus Act, and it sat on desk until Bush managed to pass it. It's almost as if they knew...

In any case, the increasing popularity of playing Super Mario Bros in an indication of what's in store for the ruling class. So they are doubling down on securing themselves. Reigning in the journos de jure - they have been reigned in de facto for some time now, all that passes for journalism these days is fellating of ruling class - is an important part of that.

You are missing the point.

Any explanation of how a system works is not a replacement for an explanation of why that system exists, and is it doing what it should do.

The real estate maket supposedly exists to house the people. The US real estate market is increasingly not able to do that. A million people are on the streets, if not more, and gen Z is never going to own homes. Your answer to that problem is basically "go away", and to be fair, that is the standard US answer to every problem anyone has.

But I would argue a functional society is able to recognize a problem and do something about it. Does the system exist for the people, or do the people exist for the system? We never miss an opportunity to look down on China because of their repressive government that thinks it owns the people. Yet that very same China is able to make sure their people have somewhere to live, which really should be the most basic thing a government does. Yet even thinking about that is considered basically unimaginable horror in the US.

Chinese real estate prices are falling not despite of government efforts, but because of government efforts. They had a bubble where housing was getting too expensive for the people, so they went to deflate that bubble.

Which is exactly what should be done closer to home, too, but it's never going to happen here.

This is a great time to remind ourselves that a LLM is just a fancy autocomplete engine.

Now I'm a linux desktop guy for 25+ years now, Gentoo even, and I'm all for getting rid of the smell of piss in the subway.

That being said, the actual imaging part of the systems is not where the effort is. But gathering user requirements, testing out the hardware, fiddling with it to make work what does not want to work, and finding and funding replacements where needed... Then creating the imaging infrastructure and training the users... And most importantly, rolling all of that back once it turns out your users need some specific software to do their work, even if it's just some more serious Office use... Yeah.

And dual boot isn't really a temporary measure. Either you can go all in already, or you'll only be adding the complexity of dual boot without ever getting rid of Windows. You'll have better chances untying the Gordian knot.

So out of all of the options available to him... he picked the Starfield defence. Interesting choice.

Pretty much the same, yes

Boffin is basically a British word for scientists and the likes, that has taken a different meaning across the pond. But the Register is a British paper. Slashdot editors of course cannot be arsed to care.

This is slashdot... Once you hit a certain age, sex in your mothers basement kind of dries out, if it ever was flowing to begin with. At that point you'll find a way to make it make sense to you.

None of these issues are zfs specific though. All of them are bad ideas on any storage solution that you want to be reliable. Raid or not. Since zfs wants to be reliable, they are warning you about it.

Still, whatever zfs insists, you can do what you want. But if what you want is to use SMR drives for a raid, zfs or not, where data gets updated, you are doing it wrong. These drives are not meant for that. They are actually incompatible with that, and the information about that is not secret and should be common knowledge for quite some years now. Just don't.

There's certainly hostile intent somewhere to be found, you cannot expect to be in a war without the enemy shooting back.

TFA and the likes however, are nothing but porgroms, and they are a way to make more, not less enemies.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously...h

Was it newly created shares though? Haven't seen a quote on that yet. With all of the buybacks everyone has been doing for years now, Intel could easily sell the 10% out of their own existing stock.

Competence, sure, that they have missing indeed. They're a gen behind in tech and are now manufacturing at TSMC. 13 and 14 series high end was basically recall material. Theoretically they are trying to now skip a gen and come out on top again, but I have my doubts.

Their foundry business dreams have also failed multiple times over the years, denying them invaluable experience and volume. This is mainly because they clutch, I mean keep their cards too close to their chest and everyone has found them impossible to work with.

If this goes the direction it's going, they will end up fabless like everyone else.

"Ride sharing" is a taxi service that does not provide worker benefits, nor legal customer protection. It's a scheme to avoid any law and responsibility that applies to a taxi sevice.

Fintech, in the same vein, is a scheme to avoid any law and responsibility that applies to banking and finance.

Robinhood's promise to actually hold my stock is exactly the same as my bank's promise to hold my stock, or my money, or anything. Fractional reserve, baby, and with current reculations, the fraction is defined as basically nothing. I don't see how a bank run or any other similar problems are any different on Robinhood than they are on a traditional banking/finance institution.

All of the fine inventions of derivates, subprimes, CDOs and so on were invented by good ol' traditional finance sector. They don't get to lecture anyone on risk. We are still living in the 2008 world they created. Enough nuclear sludge to create a nation of Toxic Avengers. Lawless country, and nobody bats an eye. Now the new guys are avoiding responsibility via techo-mambojambo, instead of lobby-mambojamobo, and suddenly there's the end of the world.

On the one hand, the tokens not providing rights or safeguards is an obvious feature, just like it is for fintech in general. Exactly the same way how it is a feature of "ride sharing" and pretty much all of techbro business really.

On the other hand, exchanges complain that someone is eating their lunch... Cry me a river.