"What originally turned me off from Windows, and I don't know that it is still like this, is that a "child" window could only appear within its "parent" window, rather than anywhere on the screen."

That has never been a requirement for Windows programs. It's called MDI and some applications use it and some don't. Some applications open multiple MDI windows, usually one per document, while others don't use it at all.

"Trade barriers have forced China to advance beyond the US."

They are ahead in battery and train tech. We abdicated both. They are behind even Intel in fab tech.

Not only has it been a police state all along ("Do as you're told and you won't get hurt" is a message for prisoners and hostages, not free citizens) but fascism is always unevenly distributed.

I recently got a MiniPC with a 8C16T Zen3 processor (5825U) and pretty low-end graphics (8 cores, max 2 GHz) and it came with Windows 11 and the fucking mouse pointer lagged, and not just a little but a whole lot. Slapped Devuan onto it (aside from resizing the Windows partition just in case I decided to care about it, mostly by hitting enter in the installer, after choosing to use the contiguous free space) and everything works great. All hardware was identified, all firmware was loaded automatically, everything works flawlessly.

P.S. Making Windows work without an account is still pretty easy, although it's a "secret" how to do it. (You can just google it ofc, but it's not available as an option until after you do the thing.) TL;DR: Hit Shift-F10 and then type OOBE\BYPASSNRO and it will reboot and then you can bypass that. I see there's also reports that "start ms-cxh:localonly" will work, but I did not try that.

Productivity is worse than worthless if it results in more work having to be done later because the work is garbage, and that's what using AI without knowing enough to evaluate its output causes. So yes, there are more important skills, and they include actually knowing things. If you blindly trust AI the highest level you can achieve is "fuckup".

So you answered your own question, knowing how to think is more important. But then you failed to think before writing the rest of the comment, which shows us you don't know how to think. So, who did you get the idea that AI needs to be used to augment human thinking rather than replacing it, and why don't you pay more attention to what they said?

I guess he's responsible for getting me laid, then, through inverting jello shots and prying them out of their little condiment cups with my tongue at parties. Thanks, Tom!

They are still multiple generations behind, as they have been.

They were already mockeries, invented to fool fools.

No, and most of us don't believe they're doing it now, either.

We're here in the same world we've been in, where they are multiple generations behind.

Yes, they are working on process technology, where they are again at least two generations behind. And this is a place they can't catch up to just by copying, because they don't have the equipment to copy, unlike CPU and GPU cores.

You're having your own personal jerkfest over some lukewarm accomplishments from China which if they are even real were developed by copying others' work as usual, and which are unverified by any reputable parties.

Also, who's "we"? Intel is flailing yes, for example they announced they are not going to be doing foundry services on 18A which can only mean that it's difficult to make working chips in it and/or yields are poor, though those things are related. And now we're supposed to believe they will do it with 14A when they said they would do it with 18A, and oh yeah, their prior processes too. But Intel is not the only competitor to China, and ASML is multinational and their core technology was developed from largely US-based research. Indeed, the entire world is motivated to compete with China on this, and is doing so.

It's true that the other sync options are pretty good. My fine summary stated that most titles will not receive major improvements. This sync option is better for some titles, as you say, which I see as positive. You also say it has positive effects for some titles. Thanks for agreeing.

AMD is doing nothing special whatsoever for cooling. It's got the same kind of intermediate spreader that people remove when they want the most cooling as Intel. What they are possibly better at than Intel is controlling creation of heat by throttling subcomponents, but that's not the same thing no matter what the well known troll author of the sibling comment to yours claims. It's in the same ballpark, but that's the most generous interpretation you could make of it. It's not just missing context, it's outright false.

We will all go together when we go...

Of course there are constraints. But they can address them with other constraints, for example they could permit high power use only during times of high solar production. Their central control makes it feasible. Or they could just tell other users to f off when they want to do some training.

That, and that they are or were also arcades, should be enough.

We have had numerous discussions about this franchise on Slashdot in the past.

You, sir, are the one who are lying, or at best cannot read. It says right there they're looking for graduates, not experienced workers They could get the same information they will get from them by training on the course materials.

He is 0wning our country. There is nothing more important going on in the USA than the Cheeto Benito presidency. But you know what's really crazy about this Trump shit? Epstein didn't kill himself.