Good rarely comes of this. At least there is profit to be made off sale of the unused toner cartridges.

Imagine, you can do that now. You could have been doing that for quite a while using, at least, FreeBSD, or one of the OSes based on Illumos, and all supporting Boot Environments. The only thing stopping you is the price of a cheap "disk" and your own ossification. So you "like to customize", so try it. The water's fine.

Correct. But this is /., so you're screaming at the sky. Real tech news is down the hall.

The size of the comp is a good barometer of how far behind the competition the Zuck thinks he is. It's something out of Microsoft's playbook; they were always behind if you think about it. But, the lockins baby, it's all about the lockins.
Regardless of what you read in the press I think a lot of companies are going back to self-hosting their cloud*, and I think the same thing will happen with AI. It's not creating any new knowledge, just aggregating very quickly. If you're looking for machine sentience that will be as far beyond AI as AI is beyond Microsoft Word 5.1a for Mac's grammer checking. All extant AI patents wil be moot. That's why the rush.
(*Oxide Computing's backers seem to think so, even though I'm an idiot.)

Why all the way back to paddles and not, say, indexed cable brifters? I have a bike (one of two) that is 6-speed friction and I like the paddles but not on my always this bike bike.

You're a brave person, to post those two words out of the gate. The Larry-hate is strong here and engenders idiocy in what might otherwise be rational people. They rag Redmond too but tolerate that crap because, you know, muh games. Meanwhile the devs still chasing Sun.

Shoot that water.

I'm sure their grapevine is a bit faster than Slashdot's or yours. Don't lose sleep over it; the individual is known.

Only for the Earthlings.

Sweet Jesus and a side of fries, I was hoping somebody would post this. Like the old days, when this site was smarter and funner. Thanks mjvvjm. If you ever need bus fare it's on me (local only).

For whatever reason, the LADEE satellite's appearance in the NASA video instantly brought to mind the satellites in "2001: A Space Odyssey", just after the famous jump cut. Damn that Kubrick.

I think it sounds worse because most of the folks ragging on about it are morons with no input to offer. Do AOC & Bernie Inc. see any climate change from their private jet? Did Katy Perry see any climate change from her window seat on Semi-Spaceship Minnow? Did she burn her lips on the searing climate-changed desert sand when she kissed it? Hell, even Hendrix had the God given sense to kiss the sky instead of the dirt, and he was trippin' balls. Find a corner of your yard or some terrible parking lot and plant a few bee friendly plants. It doesn't take a lot; it takes a lot of people each doing a little. And stop listening to those f*****g charlatans.

fvwm is the Slackware of window managers.
All my menus right where they need to be: under the cursor, wherever it is.

Well Hell's Bells, all this time I thought Cronkite was saying STD.

No, you're thinking of "Pulp Fiction".