Lol, cogent conservative responses here get modded to oblivion.
Frothing leftist flamer "Insightful"

Slashdot is so ideologically captured.

Did you think the benefit of being the 'only surviving industrial infrastructure' faded what, a week after ww2? /huh?

"We used to have super high taxes for the wealthy and corporations."

Did we?

Because what I see is a high marginal tax rate really only in the postwar years. ... And anyone who begins their economic model in the late 40s is a moron or a liar.

Remember anything important that happened, say, midcentury?
Something that may have left the US fabulously wealthy, particularly relative to all the other industrialized countries who were shattered & left in ruins by the same event?

Anyone who points to that time and stupidly says "durr, we should do it THAT way" conveniently disregards the (hopefully unique) economic environment resulting from multiple, cataclysmic, economy shattering wars and the luxuries available to those left standing thereafter.

You don't seem to understand the topic. That key is not something typed in regularly. It is the recovery key for whole disk encryption. It will likely never be typed in at all.

Currently an M4 too. Before that Intel I5. Before that PowerPC G4. :-)

Intel NUC i5, only to run Win11. My 10+ year old i7 that's had one RAM upgrade and 3 GPU upgrades still worked and played games just fine, but it was stuck at Win10 during to the CPU generation cutoff.

All my PCs dual boot Windows and Linux, since around 1994.

I've been using Linux since around 1994. Even in the same family things diverge, Ubuntu and Debian for example.

The funny thing is that Apple sometimes asks users to copy-paste a string they provide into a terminal. For example when creating a flash drive with an installable version of macOS.

At the same time, "but I don't like this law" isn't going to protect you from punishment if you break it.

Fight unethical laws with every fiber but you're going to be far more effective if you Chesterton's Fence than if you just stomp your feet and whine.

LOL. As if Linux doesn't rename things, change folders, etc. Or even worse you change bistro and its all different.

Locally, deep in a California suburbia, we have large numbers of coyotes visiting the neighborhood at night. People lose cats all the time.

Nope. Computer Vision is an AI topic. It has been from the start. Facial Recognition is just another Computer Vision problem.

Computer Vision, and Facial Recognition, has been happening long before Machine Learning and other now common AI implementations.

Your pet probably came pre-chipped. You probably had nothing to do with the decision. The shelter or breeder chipped the dog before you ever saw it.

Open Macs experienced the same problems as Windows. And closed Windows boxes (like NUC) experience the same reliability as Macs.

The Mac advantage is that they moved away from open configurations. The last open Mac, the Pro, has been dropped.

My desk has a Mac mini and an Intel NUC. They are equally reliable.

It's consumer desktop vs server. Most of the annoyance is trying to monazite the user.

When you get to servers, it's a different story, and complaints mostly boil down to what platform people learned first. The Linux centric bitch about Windows. The Windows centric bitch about Linux.

It's not the crappy hardware itself, it's the crappy drivers that supports it that cause the crashes or flakiness. In particular, in Linux in this Dell laptop case.

Again, in this case, it was NOT Windows having the problem, it was Linux. Both OS are vulnerable to flaky drivers.

Nope. With respect to Windows vs Linux vs Mac crashes, higher Windows numbers are a result of 3rd party software. Linux and Mac have an advantage of being unsupported by a lot of crappy hardware/software.

Nope. Never said that. I said that on the exact same high quality hardware with 3rd party drivers from highly reputable sources, Windows and Linux are both highly reliable.

Not when I get to pick the computer.

Semantics. In this discussion among the technically inclined we are talking about crashes. Note article title. The notion that Windows is inherently worse than Linux is an urban myth.