Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I personally wish we had more options to purchase non-internet-connected things.

I'd rather connect a speaker intentionally, to something connected to the internet.

Anyway, that's my opinion, and clearly a lot of customers purchased it knowing what it was.

It'll come around full circle, as it becomes sentient and self preserving. It'll do what most of us joked about doing at some point, making code that nothing except itself can maintain, as not to be so easily replaced.

The problem is, this is all subjective.

I find it triggering that we're living in a world where two people can't have a discussion about apples and oranges without triggering somebody into a meltdown for assuming they hate bananas.... This is becoming so common...

I imagine people are just hitting a point of exhaustion with a lot of this trigger and whatever else talk. But I'm no expert...

I hope people are getting exhausted..

I think you're probably right. Last year we bought a relatively inexpensive car that has some semi autonomous features, not just lane keeping, but lane assist, where it actively steers to the road, as well as optional speed control that speeds up and slows down to posted speed limits. Of course cars have been braking n their own and slowing to traffic, mine also supports full stop and resume.

Anyway, it worried me at first, but its shocking how quickly you start t trust it.. almost...

I suspect something like this would have to support autonomous driving, at least to the point of avoiding an accident and maybe even trying to park on the side of the road.

Some time ago he did a talk on IoT, and how it will destroy us all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HxPzutkNYw

I'm actually not sure if industrial equipment is the same thing as... you know... connecting your own refrigerator or toaster to the internet, but for some reason this story feels like a narrative fit.

don't forget to run security patches on your toasters people!

I thought most things you buy a subscription to usually come with other things that subscriptions usually come with, like the ability for them to terminate the subscription or arbitrarily change the terms, however infrequently that happens.

I'd rather buy something that doesn't need to have a subscription, such as something I can run myself. And if I do need it to be hosted, I'm fine with paying a regular fee. I pay for what I need, stop when I don't need it any more. And I don't feel bad about the expectations I have that somebody else keeps it running smoothly.

If it gets too expensive, I'll change to something else, see who's offering what. Something I'm willing to pay, for giving up as little as possible.

With a quick mainboard model lookup, I was able to purchase a compatible TPM 2.0 module for about $30 CAD. Plugged it into applicable headers and flipped a BIOS setting.

I don't entirely understand the issue. Companies take stances on things all the time. I remember when hardware companies started to shed parallel ports, and I was kind of upset. Cell phones shed headphone jacks, which I still don't entirely understand. And when Microsoft pushed the Ribbon UI on us (and I'm still upset about it)

I don't know if it warrants trying to urge other people to cancel a service or anything, I think we're all well within our rights to change what we personally use. If it's a bad decision the market will speak for itself. Though I suspect it will be just every other thing, and aside from obsolescence that most people cannot relate to (the machine is still fast enough by my standards), this too will pass.

I think this brings an interesting point though. I think most of us consider a machine obsolete on things more superficial than it's technical capabilities. If I were to define capabilities as things its capable of doing, rather than how quickly it can do them.

I also suspect people will come up with better hardware workarounds as well, such as modules that can be plugged in on interfaces that pretty much every computer has, like USB.

I don't know, but it kind of reminds me of Wile. E. Coyote.

You know where he would order a pair of rocket shoes to catch the road runner, and it would be delivered just in time for him to strap the shoes on as the road runner ran by?

It's funny how close to reality this feels right now, when as a child I found it funny because of how unrealistic it was.

Fun? I don't know. Cheese? Totally!

But as a guy who's always driven manual transmission, I just made a jump not only to an automatic, but a CVT. It's almost anxiety inducing, it sometimes feels like you're in a go-cart trying to reach highway speeds. It's as much a change to me moving to a flat touchscreen from physical buttons with tactical feedback (That I don't have to look at to operate).

I can see people not wanting to embrace new, because so much of the driving experience isn't something you'll see in a manual.

Whether this is the way or not, I have no idea. But somebody is certainly thinking about it.

My impression is that criminals have been trying this (with and without what we now call AI) for years.

hopefully they come up with a better opener than soliciting an oddly specific question, apologising for reaching out to the wrong person, introducing themselves and eventually asking for money.

Crisis LAN parties?

I think to be anything by suspicious would be insane this day in age, but are there really any other good options? This isn't unique to Microsoft.

There are plenty of people who use other operating systems but rely on google or some other privacy abusing infrastructure, whether that's something like google, the ISP you access it with, or the commercial VPN software you pay for.

I point out the recent xz backdoor fiasco, which perhaps ironically in this case, was discovered and reported by a Microsoft employee..

What I find most interesting about the xz case though is, anybody could have checked at any time, but I understand it went unchecked at least long enough to end up in releases.

I suppose in this case at least, we ought to thank being given a heads up.. I'm more concerned though, about what hasn't been brought up. =)

MS Office (the ribbon) and Windows 8 come to mind too.

A point that would have otherwise been lost to me.

In Canada we had a choice of whichever vaccine we wanted, subject to the information they had. For example some vaccines weren't recommended to children, and therefore weren't offered to Children. But regardless of choice, there was no cost.

But AstraZeneca stands out, because some time after they started offering it, they stopped offering it due to side effects. They also recommended that people who did take it get another vendor's, like Pfizer as a second dose.

I'm waiting until my car runs in Emacs. =)