I thought there were a lot of groups praising the repairability of the new Neo? Did they not consider it? or is it more a matter of it being a single model in a larger brand of less repairables?

There'd be no need to rescue a downed pilot if we hadn't started an unnecessary fight. The administration is taking credit for solving problems that they themselves are creating.

It kind of reminds me of the legal principle of "unclean hands", where someone creates a problem and then tries to get damages from someone else because they were harmed by the fallout of their own actions. Sort of a "I walked into the campfire and he failed to pull me out".

Though in this case, they TOSSED airmen into the fire, and then they rescued them, and now they want praise and thanks for saving them. Sir, your hands are unclean, you will get no praise from me for rescuing people from a peril you yourself created.

There was a time when the people who complained about soldered RAM (and I was one of those people) were a significant enough proportion of the community that manufacturers would pay attention. This was the age when gaming PCs were constructed from high end pieces from the wild-assed cases to the heavy duty PSUs to overclocked CPUs and next gen GPUs.

But overall, that segment of the consumer market has dwindled. Most folks just want to charge their new machine up, connect it to their WiFi network and get going. On the corporate end of things, save for pretty niche areas like engineering and R&D, a cube you can plug a keyboard, mouse and camera into and will last through a few upgrade cycles before it's sold back to a refurb outfit is all that is needed. Nobody in IT departments is pulling RAM chips anymore, particularly at RAM prices right now! Even the folks writing operating systems are starting to get it, and have rediscovered the glory of native apps that don't required bloated Javascript engines just to select a few radio buttons.

Yes, Windows 11 is really that bad. It's cluttered, slow, inconsistent. I've seen it on pretty high end hardware, and it's a dog. And that's before we even talk about how they tried to insert Copilot into everything. It's a shitty version of Windows and even Redmond acknowledges it. It was the impending EOL of Windows 10 that lead me to buy an M1 MacBook Pro, and I've never looked back. If I want to run Linux, I've got servers set up to do that kind of heavy lifting, but I have absolutely no need for whatever it is MS is trying to sell me these days.

I think they see a clear attack point. Big enough to make it worth trying it. It also helps that these computers are incredibly cheap to build not just because the leftover parts but because it's literally just a phone SOC.

Litigating each individual infringer is impossibly expensive for them. That's why they tried to go through the utility company.

For now what they will probably do is pick off a few people here and there to use as examples and use the full weight of the legal system to ruin their lives. Of course if you know anything about criminal justice harsh punishments are not effective deterrence.

So far the only reliable way to stop piracy has been to make a product that is better and have consumers that can actually afford to consume.

I mean based on the president of the United states? Those are rookie numbers. Come on Google you can do better!

Because he was the poster child for austerity politics and right wing economics in Argentina.

Argentina went a little crazy on the rent control without building public housing. Those two things aren't compatible. If you are going to do rent control you have to back it up with subsidies or direct public housing or you're going to have supplies shortages. Which they did.

On top of that droughts have absolutely wrecked Argentina's economy because it's mostly agrarian. It's a modern agrarian economy mind you but it's still in agrarian economy and basically the entire planet is in some stage of droughts thanks to that which shall not be named least I trigger somebody here.

So this means money was getting tight and it's easy to sell people on austerity politics when that happens. Basically slash government programs and services and promise big tax cuts and the miracle of trickle down economics. It's the same playbook we've been hearing since Reagan / Thatcher. Didn't work then doesn't work now but for some reason voters are always willing to try it again...

And for a brief period Of time it looked good. Cutting the rent control got some people back into the market that had pulled inventory off the market. And it takes a little while for the cuts to government services to show up in the economy meanwhile the tax cuts made everything look good and short-term deregulation brought in some capital investment and a little tiny micro bubble.

It didn't take long though for the bubble to burst and for the shit to hit the fan and when that happened as usual the right wing tried to hold down the power anyway they could. If I remember correctly they first tried to overthrow the courts and when that didn't work I think he was plotting an actual coup.

Oh God is stupid as he is I can't imagine he doesn't know that. If anything it would have been very very carefully explained to him by the other lawyers.

he's just corrupt. The Republican party has put a shitload of corrupt judges on the bench so that they could get them to rule in favor of large businesses and corporations against consumers and employees. Justice beer bro and that one girl that couldn't answer high School civics questions during her Senate hearing are probably the most famous examples but people don't like to think about how staggeringly incompetent they are. Clarence Thomas is another great example, George Bush was angry he was going to have to nominate a black man because he was as you might imagine kind of racist so he picked the most incompetent and corrupt black man he could find and rammed him through the Senate.

You are regulating them. That's why we have Las vegas. Dumbass young men can travel to Las Vegas and lose their short once or twice and then they have that barrier between themselves and their addiction. It also means it's much easier to regulate, serious addicts for example used to be able to contact all the casinos in Vegas and get put on a list and they would not be allowed to gamble anymore.

The problem with gambling is that it is legitimately and clinically addictive. Prostitution is a problem but again it needs regulation.

Basically you don't completely criminalize something because yeah it doesn't go away what you do is heavily heavily and systematically regulate it. You control access to it in a positive way that prevents the worst damage.

Problem you're having is you are stuck in black and white thinking. Everything has to be either on or off, all or nothing. Gray area suck and their unpleasant to think about so I don't blame you but still.

The fact that we invaded Iran because the senile old man didn't understand that they would and could close the strait of Hormuz is huge.

Unless Trump backs down in the next week or so we are going to have massive food shortages. That will drive up the cost of everything everywhere as everyone competes for a shrinking food supply. This is because so much of the fertilizer goes through the straight and we are in the planting season and we need to get going and we can't.

One of the problems with this country is people aren't very bright. They can't extrapolate even simple things. The majority of Americans seem to think at about the level of a 12-year-old. So they can't figure out the difference between news and propaganda and they can't understand that just because they could afford to eat this week doesn't mean they can afford to eat next week.

On top of that you've got a good chunk of people who are over that edge already and when you are struggling for your next meal it's hard to think clearly. So even if you somehow made it over the hump of thinking like a 12-year-old a few years of poverty and the stress that comes with it will knock you right back down.

Which is exactly why the Epstein class keeps so many people in that state. Idle hands are The devil's plaything after all...

It is what the Epstein class is actively trying to do. They may not achieve everything and all of their goals but they will achieve a lot of them and significantly reduce their dependency on your labor and therefore your quality of life.

Not everything has to be black and white 100%. You're thinking is too constrained and limited. Members of the ruling class think generationally not moment-to-moment. They aren't trying to survive until the next year like you and I are so they can think in ways you and I can't

If you talk to an actual farmer you're going to find out that there is literally nothing that robots can't Farm. The problem is cost. But remember when all of human history and civilization exists to glorify and uplift 500 people out of 8 billion money is not an object.

The Earth is a resort for 500 billionaires and we are all just staff. We are about to get replaced.

Did you do it on an app? If so then yeah, you are an innovator disrupting a space and a technology company so it's all good.

But that has nothing to do with the point the op made.

Preventing criminals from destroying private businesses isn't "structuring laws around business longevity". If you want that the complete lack of antitrust law enforcement would be a better example.

Private businesses are part of the overall infrastructure that makes your society work. So yeah when there is a attack on necessary infrastructure you do something about it or your civilization collapses.

I really hope you're at least getting paid to post nonsense like that. It would be sad if you were doing it for free...