They should have hired Ukrainian programmers.

LOL many business may start rethinking buying new hardware when the 25%-50% tariffs get applied to their purchases of new hardware.
So don't count your Windows 11 chickens before they hatch. Windows 10 may be around longer than anticipated now unless something changes.

... it always takes just weeks or months to do.

If they actually read and understood what all that legacy code needs to do, and spent time to write a project plan or specification for an upgrade,
that would probably take a YEAR or MORE to accomplish.

Yeah, when you don't understand how something works, it always takes 'just a few months' to replicate it.

I prefer to use RI not AI

Or how about a flock of birds? Or locusts? Or a dust storm?

Damn you Elon Musk!

LOL. And FakeBook hasn't invented anything. Never. Ever.

Great. We have finally been able to get to the point where nothing you see online is real. It will all be AI generated. Congratulations to us. We have just destroyed the human race and given in to our robot overlords.

A parsec is a unit of distance, not of time.

Yeah spraying salt into the atmosphere above populated cities. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh please. Just buy a high end XEON CPU based windows box, ditch Windows, and run your favorite version of Linux on it.
It will be more powerful than any of those old dedicated UNIX workstations.

Well, Apple's tools for iPhone 12/13 cost at least $1200 for the custom set. That is the deposit they require to rent them.

And if I give my phone to you to replace the battery, I expect a NEW battery. Not some old one you found in another phone.

Apple right to repair video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More like buy some some stuff for $10, spend $50 to rent the tools, spend $50 for manufacturer qualified spare parts, spend half a day to fix it, and then sell it for $100. And come out $10 in the hole, not including how much you value your time.

They are starting to. But be careful what you ask for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Most home (or even professional shops) don't have the special tools to do the work.

From the article:

"Chaillan blamed sluggish innovation, the reluctance of U.S. companies such as Google (GOOGL.O) to work with the state on AI and extensive ethical debates over the technology.

Google was not immediately available for comment outside business hours.

Chinese companies, Chaillan said, were obliged to work with their government and were making "massive investment" in AI without regard to ethics."

So in his opinion we just need state control of technology, and oh yeah, fuck ethics too.