Everything must die, one of the few constants of the universe.

As for the internet, it's due for a change, it needs to mature as it's gotten old enough that acting like a 12 yr old doesn't cut it any more. It's been in our lives 30 years now since the Eternal September, that means it's now an every day part of out lives as the diffusion of innovation is complete, even the laggards have caught up, this means we can't pretend it can survive as a wild west where everyone can do what they want as you're going to get powerful parties attempting to control it anyway and without laws and regulations, well just look at what we have, hate preachers, lies and disinformation, peddlers of fake cure-alls... I mean it's not like we saw the same things with other technologies.

The internet is going to change, like it or not, you can either be the Luddite and reject the modernisation with your "hurr durr mah freeze peach" or you can be a part of it and help ensure that the internet stays a useful resource. If you want to pretend that a laissez faire approach will work, you'll guarantee that the worst monopolists like Elon Musk, the Ellisons, Murdoch, et al. will end up in control of the internet and they won't tolerate any speech they don't agree with.

That's the good thing about Sir Patrick Stewart, he was a serious actor that also loved to make us laugh, he was on quite a few British comedies including Ricky Gervais' Extras. He was never above taking the mick out of himself.

The difference is that the rich people expect their gambling losses to be covered by the taxpayer.

Imagine the outrage if someone poor who plays pokies/FOBTs/One Armed Bandits expected the government to pick up the bill for his bad gambling choices.

No problems... the financial regulations that financial businesses adhere to are designed to ensure that risks are sufficiently managed to the point where a serious loss cannot cause undue harm to customers... Let me just check where Binance is regulated... oh... oh dear... it's Abu Dhabi.

Which is an unfair comparison as people in developing countries often devise new uses for junk we throw away, that coke bottle can be turned into a water purifier. Devices made from discarded PET plastics are being used to create clean drinking in Africa.

AI execs on the other hand couldn't tell what's useful from their sisters left tit. Hence they're trying to sell the tit.

People just don't think of their own security. My mum is in hospital a lot these days so I've been running errands, this means paying bills as most of them are not set up to be done online so I now know her PIN because one of those bills was take $100 out of card A and put it on card B. She didn't even think twice about giving me the PIN (and it's a stupidly obvious number that gets given out a lot).

Fair enough that it's my mum... but people just don't think of security at all. In fact most complain about it. I've had to stop my sister from telling me her PIN in a crowded shopping centre before.

Just look at how many people donate to Trump whilst he screws them over.

We may end up having a shortage of many things, fuel, food, housing... but one thing we'll never run short on are morons. PT Barnum was quite the optimist to think there was only 1 sucker born every minute.

Most aren't affected, those that are, are just folding it wrong.

Are my servers on Alpha Centauri IIC are not fine then?

Will it be better if I relocated them to Wolf 359?

Commander Brainworm will just declare the germs to be helpful... eliminating the threat and any evidence to the contrary is fake nooz.

Lorry theft is a thing but usually is done by driving up, hitching a trailer you're not meant to and driving off. Sometimes they're as sophisticated as to mock up some fake paperwork to get past a gate guard. A few years back someone got away with £5 million worth of Jaguar/Land Rover engines by just driving up to the factory with some fake paperwork and driving off with a trailer, it worked so well they went back the same day for a second trailer.

Lets be honest, modern music is so terrible that quality reproduction is completely unnecessary.

The treble and middle are drowned out by repetitive bass (there are no highs and lows any more... just duf duf duf), little variation in timbre and pitch and in the rare event there is an instrument playing it'll be all of 4 chords (4... if you're lucky).

EA going bust... and nothing of value will be lost.

Some good will come of it, a large player going bust and all their servers getting turned off will finally force governments (well I mean the EU and possibly Australia and Canada will join in) to address the issue with ownership of games. No one will want to acquire EA as it'll have a load of potentially toxic debt in the form of refunds, class actions, et al. from games that are no longer playable.

Did you not play Mass Effect Andromeda?

It was a case study in how a game designed by committee is terribad.

Lets make a game that is as inoffensive as possible but also try to make it cool and edgy. Make a bad guy that looks like an overgrown infant and use all the same tropes from the previous game yet pretend it hasn't been done before. Also make the gameplay as fun as gouging your eyes out with a rusty fork but above all else we must not, never, ever, ever, ever, upset the most fragile minority of all... White Male Americans.

Graphics were eye meltingly great but the rest was pure crap. I hold it up as key evidence in my theory that graphics don't matter. You can't pretty a bad game into success.

Bioware was dead long before then, same with Mass Effect, we should really let it rest in peace.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha... tell me another one.

Consoles are usually using out of date hardware by the time of their release. The PS5 was released with a Zen3 CPU and RDNA2 GPU. Sure good biz for AMD but it Zen 4 was released nearly a year before the PS5, it was less powerful than a gaming PC I built 2 years earlier and I've just bought a new one using a Zen 5 CPU (Zen6 is just around the corner though). Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge, it's so old you'd need a tetanus shot.

This is true though, they generally aren't able to handle supply chain disruption but that is really true of any business using JIT supply chains.

The big problem is that the PS and XB hardware was always sold as a loss leader with the expectation to make that money back by ripping off the owners at every turn. High fees for publishers and developers, monthly fees for basic functionality, sub standard hardware that would regularly break (usually a week or so after the warranty expired, it's called the Sony timer for a reason). This worked fine for years but now belts are tightening both Sony and Microsoft are finding that they're not making ends meet by nickel and dime'ing the punter at ever turn as the punter is doing everything they can to avoid it.

So the next logical step is to stop selling the hardware at a massive loss, which both Sony and Microsoft are testing the waters on. Sony with a $900 PS5 and now MS with this.

Also, if you're looking for a next gen console, they're already here... have been for ages... they're called a gaming PC. With things like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine being targetted as "living room" machines, they are in a position to eat Sony's and Microsoft's lunch as there is no monthly Steam fee (not to mention GOG, Epic, et al.).