Dell can't match Apple because Win 11 wants 16 GB RAM to boot to desktop and 32 to be useable.

MicroSlop designed the os before the AI boom. They can't fix that without giving up their spyware and they're not gonna do that.

Mind you Apple really need 16 GB but that's still half Windows

This is what happens when you don't consider all the edge cases.

The edge cases break the law.

I'm impressed that you figured out something is wrong but you don't know what to do about it do you?

Honestly I can practically smell the fear on you.

Anyway if you look at the elections and supposed red States there are still one by microscopic margins well within the margin of error. Meanwhile we all damn well know what voter suppression is because we all got taught about the civil Rights movement. Not so sure about kids these days but us old farts could not escape it and it's one of the reasons the racists are so upset. They know that at any moment the center and the left could just do something about voter suppression and they become irrelevant again.

And we're not talking about businesses owned by rich people we're talking about businesses owned by billionaires. I don't think you quite understand what it means to be a billionaire. They aren't Rich anymore they are powerful beyond belief. They are God Kings. That's what happens when you let people hoard that much wealth. It stops being wealth and becomes power. And if you were paying attention last election, and I can tell you right now that you weren't, you would have noticed that they fully exercise that power for the first time in a long time.

Remember it's a big club and you ain't in it.

They would be giant revenue sources... unless, of course, they are given tax breaks.

It's extremely difficult to manipulate and voter suppress when the voters can just throw something on the ballot and pass a law. They will try to manipulate that process by either making it very very difficult to get something on the ballot or by changing the wording on the ballot measures to confuse people. I remember a bunch of states did those cigarette bands and they were all sorts of weird wordings and rulings and tricks and shenanigans to try and prevent them.

One of my favorite TV commercials of all time is a bunch of old people sitting around talking about something scary. They never once say what the scary thing is just that they're very very scared. At the very end it ends with a impassioned plea to vote no on propositions such and such, which was really just net metering AKA paying people for the solar energy they produce in excess. If I remember correctly the proposition passed.

To be fair though that only worked because the concept of net metering is a little esoteric. But something is blunt and obvious as how crappy data centers are now everyone knows we don't want them and it's just a question of whether or not we are still enough of a functioning democracy to stop them.

Billionaire corruption and voter suppression is how it became GOP controlled. There are no red states. There are some States where people are allowed to vote in some States where people aren't.

In the last election they were over 3 million illegal challenges to signatures and registrations. Every single one of them requires someone to drive down to the courthouse on a weekday during business hours and prove that they are who they say they are even though there is virtually no fraud except from Republicans occasionally casting their dead wife's ballot.

Meanwhile blue leaning swing states have multi-hour wait times to vote some as much as 7 hours.

Finally 90% of the media is owned by billionaires. Google the phrase sane washing.

Donald Trump said it himself, this is the last time you need to vote. Very soon they won't care what you think or say or do. And when you try to turn the violence they will just use drones to kill you

So a common way to make your resume stand out as a programmer is to contribute to open source projects. It's one of the ways open source projects get contributors in the first place. The problem here is you've got people doing AI slop trying to get their names on lists so they can apply for jobs.

So for years and years there was a shortage of technology workers and we didn't need a union to bargain for higher wages. We got Big heads because of that. What's more because people are so incredibly stupid around computers we tend to get really really big heads. That makes us want to avoid collective bargaining because we want to see ourselves as amazing rugged individuals who don't need no help.

So you have a combination of a period of time that has long past when we genuinely didn't need unions and the arrogance that comes from having a skill that for some reason the public at large has a tough time with.

To be fair video game programmers and artists are much higher up on the totem pole than code monkeys and project managers but they also suffer from the problem of being artists and artists really just want to do their art. They're pretty unhealthily obsessed with it.

Decades and decades of outsourcing

They are running at the absolute bare Bones possible to be a functional industry at this point. They're just isn't anyone else they can fire without not being companies anymore. This means that if you're looking to unionize they can't really credibly threaten to fire people because they are isn't anyone left to fire.

People are using this particular feature. I don't really understand why, but reports are they do like it.

Apparently even Debian is supporting it (despite the summary): https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a...

It turns out some people are using it. I don't know why, but from time to time they submit bug reports and patches.

So if people are using it, there's no real reason to remove it. If some people don't want it in their version of the kernel, a compile flag works fine.

The only thing that matters is whether people are using it.

If people are not using it, then remove it. If people are using it, leave it in. If somehow it still bothers you (I don't know why), then you can add a compile flag so it is not in your particular kernel.

This is a threat of referral to criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution is a government, not personal or corporate activity. What I say here is that such threats are empty.

People do get that wrong a lot though. Apparently even Microsoft, the FBI and US Attorneys these days.

If you build the kind of facial recognition network that can detect people like this woman then you are giving up your civil rights whether you like it or not. There are just some things that are mutually exclusive whether you like it or not.

I could care less about a dying old woman. I have elementary critical thinking skills. Would you evidently lack. Every time you see a story like this this is the authorities telling you that it's okay to give up your civil rights because look at this scary scary terrorist. The fact that this is the best they could come up with to encourage you to give up your privacy and civil rights shows how utterly fucking worthless it is for anything except screwing you over.

Maybe it's the American in me talking but those who would give up essential Liberty for temporary security deserve neither. Which I could give a fucking rat's ass about you or anyone else who isn't in my immediate family or friend group at this point you all can go fuck yourselves except you're dragging me down with you.

I really wish you would stop but you're not capable of it. This is why I think the human race is finished. I don't think we're going to make it another 50 years.

A terrifying terrorist?! Quickly eliminate all civil rights! Because that kind of crackdown and surveillance certainly isn't exactly the kind of thing terrorism is designed to cause because terrorists are hoping to create social pressure leading to further crackdowns that they are hoping will turn into some sort of magic revolution instead of a even worse fascist State because nobody understands anything...

Again you're trading a 67 year old woman who hasn't committed any crimes in decades for literally all of your civil rights. You already know that's not a good deal but you're taking it anyway. Are you really that desperate to hurt people?