"they have been more then forward with their intent to replace us all with AI and robots"

Citations needed. Focus on the word 'all'.

I get the anger towards technology displacing human workers with no apparent plan to re-employ them elsewhere. But this is just the latest in a series of such revolutions. AI isn't replacing plumbers any time soon. Unless the AI can direct robots to manufacture housing with preassembling utilities, but that's a fantasy away from happening.

I was repairing desktop calculators for a while until they became too cheap to bother. I repaired typewriters and older, more proprietary word processing systems, until PCs took over. Then I went into the PC service and support business. And the PC networking business, because networking was a thing. Then an ISP, because the Internet was seriously sucking the air out of the world. Then I migrated into support and customer service, which after 17 years became much less demanding of head count, and now I've retired, 50 years after those nixie tube calculators sat before me and my soldering iron. There is more after this particular bubble. Watch. The real threats are philosophical, disguising as politics and religion, of which they are neither. Ideas spur more killing, because it is in the end all ideas.

Watching chip fabs, housing, and so.much.retail being built around here, I think you got to get out more. Data centers are experiencing another in a line of booms, as new tech spawns new needs. Most of the complaining about data centers seems to be more hate the rich, with AI the current boogeyman for that. And many construction trades are shorthanded.

Besides, Microsoft is probably admitting they are going to do fine with 3/4 of the head count they had yesterday, and that's rarely a bad business decision, unless you subscribe to the theory that they never really knew what they were doing, which explains the billions. Not.

SO narrowminded I'm genuinely surprised you can use words with more than 2 syllables.

FYI, the original XBox release price back in 2001 is the equivalent of $569.18 today.

So they're still doubling or trebling the price of something that's now commodity, even once you take into account inflation.

You would think the video of a French woman standing outside her market, pleading with the mob to stop looting her own space, pleading that she supported them, spoke in favor of their continued residence in France, and watching these criminals ignore her. Nope, her support was neither necessary nor appreciated, the mob intends to win by violence.

But, while you might think on this, the Leftists dare not think, for to do so is to expose the perfidy of their leadership and their utter failure to discern plain facts.

England may be lost. France has time. The rest of Europe is waking up, though many nations are feeling trapped, it seems, and cannot respond to the invasion. And, given the nature of the invaders, it will be blood that decides this.

Lots of profitable corporations out there seem to refute your claim.

Let's translate that accurately...

greed = profit

immoral = cheating

success = survival

MBAs are taught to succeed, by the rules until the rules fail them, then without (hopefully) getting caught. Employees, materials, information, technology, all these are resources to be used to generate profit.

Corporations do not exist for any purpose than to continue their existence, and, usually, derive a profit from their activities, whatever those may be, while continuing their existence. Shell and holding corporations are specialized forms of corporations, generally structured to accomplish specific purposes.

To decry corporations, and those who lead, manage, or support them as exclusively immoral and/or in opposition to the good purposes of society at large is simplistic at best, and generally misguided. You may not like the corporate method of organizing a business venture, but there are limited options. Because the concept of 'corporation' is for me interchangeable with the concept of 'company', which is literally translated into 'group or gathering'. How you succeed in accomplishing things that require more than a few people in some other fashion is something I cannot fathom. Companies/corporations are not new, and neither are their abuses.

But feel free to point out my naivete, and how horrible the world is because of it and whatever you proclaim is evil, and state your case for not being a willing part of it. We all want to live, so we are all caught in the web of society, and make our way either as best we can, with or without regard for the success of others.

As if 99% of the sites you're visiting aren't 'spying' on you also.

Including *this* one*.

* - /. has some features that suffer when a decent ad blocker is active in your browser. So, if I want to expand comments, I have to disable my preferred ad blocker. Kudos, &%%holes.

The 16GB version has that printed on the board. You can't count on the jumper resistor to tell you, for obvious reasons.

This could be help if they did print RAM capacity on every board... But then they would not be able to take raw boards, solder on RAM, set the jumper, and poof, board for sale. This way, they manufacture bare boards in quantity, and the 16GB is a different board, IIRC, 5 jumper positions unlabeled, where the 1,2,4,8 boards have 4 jumper positions and are usually labeled. Fewer SKUs.

The FSF wants everything to be free. Well, actually,. not everything. They happily accept your donations, so perhaps 'voluntary' pricing they can support.

But voluntary pricing seems, inevitably, to become zero.

I agree, dfghjk, Stallman is a soft sociopath.

"Yes, SELL, not RENT. That means the purchaser OWNS the result. And should be able to do whatever the &*_@ they want with it."

And the argument for Metrovision bypasses comes back to life. No, Raspberry PI owners generally do not expect to defeat the legal licensing of content to avoid the cost of purchasing, but, but. I suspect at the root of this is the RPi Foundation might just be upset that there are boards out there being sold, with mor RTAM than manufactured with, for more money. Money that the RPiF did not get. I've got a collection of Raspberry Pi 5s, 8 and 16GB versions. I bought the 16GB at MicroCenter during their Phoenix opening, sheer luck as it was the last of the last shipment before retail pricing kicked in, and for $99. Today retail is $305. I ought to scalp it and buy some hats, but if I had a 4GB board, imagine soldering in 16GB and reselling it for $200 more...

I get it. And I'm not as whiny as the FSF, mostly because they are to vigilante for me. It's money. That's all.

"removes support got SysVInit scripts"

Well... there's an OS I'm not upgrading to.

SystemD STILL needs to absolutely die.

Which means you could have done that all along - you just didn't give a shit. It was more important to you to turn my machines into walking adverts for your products, trying to push everything I own into your cloud, and jump on every fad imaginable, rather than make an OS that would actually allow me to use my machine.

Which is why I don't have any Microsoft OS at home any more.

Oh, and I never had less than 64GB in a Windows machine in the last 8 or so years. But it was still a shitshow.

This sudden "lets make the OS actually work for users" drive is decades too late.

Actually, I suspect this is part of the continuing effort to drive individuals to use hosting services, offloading the management to a vendor, no matter how cheap. Us hobbyists are a thorn in the side of Internet security, where making a small, seemingly insignificant mistake, leads to your host being a trampoline sending nasty security threats all over the world.

The Internet is still at risk of becoming the even-more-exclusive domain of the corporations. While I worry that RS is a bit too vigilante, truth is we need to defend access for those who just want to do it their way. Responsibly? The biggest of the big boyz screw it up often enough, thank you, we are not the worst problem you have.

Reddit is pus. Has been for a long time. The 10% that isn't vulgar, cruel, abusive, or outright fabricated isn't valuable enough for me to see except accidentally. My search engine still often leads results with pages of Redditt posts.

Hard to believe something worse than Usenet came to be, but there it is...

Remember when Microsoft wrote a storage driver for MS SQL Server? And how it interacted with the 'native' MS Server driver?