Yeah, Dell deserves the trouble that they're in now. My last Dell XPS laptop was a piece of plastic trash that started falling apart a few weeks after the 1 year warranty on it ran out. It also had terrible cooling, and it thermal throttled if you actually tried to do PC gaming on it. I ended up getting an Apple laptop after that, which was a much more solidly built device.

I also got my daughter a Dell G series gaming laptop (because you can't really game on a Mac), and it also had a flimsy plastic case that started falling apart around the time the warranty ran out. It also had weird driver issues that caused the brightness control to stop working after an Nvidia driver update.

Dell's consumer line is just trash, I wouldn't buy another one no matter how they brand it.

Free access to video editing hardware and cameras was probably really useful 20 years ago. That said, now you can record high definition video on your phone, edit it on your laptop, and post yourself to YouTube.

If you're good it it, you can probably produce better content yourself that what was available on most small public access channels 20 years ago. Sure, you're not going to be able to produce the next Ken Burns war documentary that way, but the barriers of entry are much lower than what they were before.

Someone has to look out for the retro computing community, no? There are dozens of "retro hardware" YouTubers out there who like buying these old Enterprise grade servers and running them in their garage just for laughs.

You're going to make their jobs a lot harder if you shut down the file servers for them, and force them to try to install drivers and software from CD's and DVD's. That media is likely missing critical hotfixes, and might also be suffering from bit rot.

Yeah... Reddit and Slashdot have a similar moderation system where you get to vote on comments. The only real difference is that Reddit lets you vote on everything, where Slashdot intermittently lets people have moderation powers.

Both systems get abused in a similar manner, where many people think that the -1 down vote option is the "I disagree with your worldview" option.

The LLM's that ChatGPT and Perplexity use were trained on data that's at least a few weeks old before a new model is released to the public.

It's not really meant to tell you about today's headlines.

Without the AI boogeyman, they would probably blame tariffs or the war in the Ukraine for the price increases instead.

I'm not sure how you make the jump from a war in Eastern Europe to Chinese and Taiwanese electronics costing more, but then I also don't have a Marketing degree. Maybe something about rare earth metals?

The AI post bot took the time to find replacements for paywalled news articles, it would actually be a big improvement over what we have now.

Of course, they'll still let everyone to bring their smartphones so they can fill social media with selfies with the new major.

We'll just ignore the fact that they're far more advanced or dangerous than either a Raspberry Pi or a Flipper Zero are in the right hands.

It didn't help the camera industry that an iPhone (or any good smartphone, really) can take pictures much better than any DSLR could 15 years ago.

Sure, the new DSLR's still take much better photos, but the iPhone has taken "good enough" pictures for most people for nearly a decade now.

But, hey... they just made 2 billion dollars just by making a cool tech demo video.

This is a prime example on how you make mad bank in the middle of a tech bubble. I hope that the developers reading this are taking notes!

I can't really tell what the point of the article was because (as usual) most of it was paywalled.

But... are we supposed to be HAPPY that US corporations have been outsourcing millions of highly skilled technology and healthcare jobs to cheaper Indian labor for the past 30 years? I guess that you would be if your last name was Kumar or Patel, but I kinda liked having my job protected from foreign H1-B invaders during the first Trump administration. It's too bad that Trump sold out to Big Tech for his second term and they now have the ability to replace US workers again if they're willing to cut the government a big check.

Yeah, this doesn't really help unless a bunch of DDR5 DRAM chips fall off of the truck somewhere. Probably one headed to an OpenAI data center being built somewhere that doesn't have power yet.

I don't know, I've encountered more obnoxious things recently... like a tech news site that constantly links to paywalled news articles :)

Windows 11 was a forced upgrade from 10 as well... assuming that your hardware was new enough to support it.

Yeah... we went from our favorite Sci-Fi series getting 25 episode season runs on network TV that you could watch with an antenna to 8 episode runs behind a premium streaming subscription paywall for $15 a month.

I'm not sure why the networks are stunned that people aren't subscribing to watch them, especially when there are 6 major competing streaming services with their own unique Sci-Fi content. If anything, I'm stunned that people have put up with this garbage for as long as they have.