Sites like alibaba have thousands of listing for these things...

I will not be surprised if many are not even genuine stickers.

Yes, I was also wondering why the "Texas-based supplier" was not also dragged to court, as I think they should also not be allowed to sell it like they did.

I also assume those labels do not come with any further legal material - so you are left to find out the rules in the masterful maze of Microsoft documentation!

Not saying she did nothing wrong - but I can also see how this can very easily be a honest mistake to think that it is a legal way to sell what appears to be "legal" product keys.

And, on top of that, its not like we haven't had dozens of movies and TV shows warning us of exactly that! Yes, its only stories... until it isn't anymore.

Don't worry - the Board of Peace have you covered /s

Pretty please !

We already see the effect from Microslop on how bad the software quality is when AI is involved (to mention one example), but I don't think we have seen what the cost to overall productivity is... or even how to relate and quantify it in terms of productivity. My gut feeling is that a lot of people will soon be required to fix all the damage caused by AI. We may only be at the very early stages of that phase. Either way - this must surely be a big productivity killer (wasted effort).

There are so many challenges to overcome first, and I just fail to see how that is possible before 2040. Just in terms of the electric grid and knowing how long these projects take, they should have already started building by now if they want to be ready by 2040. This is not happening now, so just on that one single example there will be already a huge challenge. So, even though electric cars might be cheaper to buy, they may be very unpractical to use. Also, there is a reason why vehicles like the Toyota Land Cruiser are so popular - they last forever, and can be serviced with a piece of wire, pliers and a hammer. If you can't get the same reliability and ease of maintenance from electric vehicles, then just forget about it.

Nice video on YT describing the details: https://youtu.be/EqH7KsaA_RE?s...

Seriously. My current instance on my work laptop uses just over 500MiB of memory. Just why? My gut feeling is that they will be able to boost performance by just focusing on the application optimization itself. Goes for basically every MS product.

Agreed - I was referring to that period of time when tumblr made that decision. Reddit was an easy alternative. I would say since the last year or so reddit is also getting worse day-by-day (my personal experience). AI slop is infiltrating everywhere.

It feels like everyone just moved to reddit after that. And look where they are now.

Don't worry, it's the Fringe team just doing their thing :-)

...there were nothing left for me.

So, I seem to have very particular interests and since last month I could not find anything new - so I canceled.

However, next year I will probably check back as there are bound to be something new, or at least new seasons of shows I watched. But in the mean time there is no point paying for something I'm not going to use.

I'm guessing I'll do the same with the other subscriptions - with one exception: Amazon Prime - since that subscription is more than just the streaming content. In fact, I did not get Amazon Prime for the streaming content - it's just a convenient extra from my perspective.

By the way, I recently also read comments in another news subscription (no link now as I could not find it again quickly) about the renewed rise in so called piracy as a result of all these streaming services. It would appear the market wants a unified service with a single subscription or at least a more limited number of options. But I get it - if you are a hard core content consumer, it's going to cost you.

I use DNA Storage :-)

Reminds me of this story.