I just hope someone good gets InDesign if Adobe explodes. It's my favorite DTP software by a wide margin. I also hope Acrobat just ceases to exist. It's trash.

Monaco isn't on the table any more since this whole pedofuhrer thing has stained this country. Russia might be, though I would prefer to avoid that as well. Too bad. Good thing I don't have kids!

I think most people assign most of the blame for the clownstroke problem to them, and only a portion to Microsoft. They claimed they weren't using eBPF on Windows like they do on Linux because it's not sufficiently mature on Windows. So far I haven't heard from anyone who really knows whether that's true.

On the other hand, Microsoft has always been terrible. Updating windows has always been hazardous. Even in good times it would often scramble itself and stop updating until you did some magic bullshit, usually involving the command line that Windows users so frequently like to mock Linux about. Both systems sometimes require going to a shell, the difference is that it isn't shit on Linux.

Unless they're completely bananas, they will sell a device intended to be your display. Whether they do or not, lots of other companies will sell displays for the vehicle. It's cheap enough to do some adapter plastics for an existing unit.

You didn't understand that article. They've been doing that. It was computationally expensive. Now they've found ways to do it faster, so they are doing more of it.

That's only realistic if you expect this expansion to continue indefinitely. But it is almost certainly a bubble because it's unlikely that an advance in AI will come soon enough to justify all of the expenditure. (It's not impossible...)

Having to find and purchase property, get permits (even with substantial grease) and actually get everything lined up and in hand and made into a fab is a lot. If you can get it done in 24 months you're doing very well. And that's just the fab part of the business...

There's dime-a-dozen AMD UMA systems with AI acceleration, and their performance is pretty good, plus they all support much larger memory than most Apple systems. If all you want is AI acceleration, you can get that just fine. Apple's claim to fame continues to be their hardware design, which isn't incredibly better than literally everyone else, but really is generally pretty nice and almost always has been.

Please fucking do then, California is full.

Even more seriously though, California natives both more and less native than me (my father and I were both born here, before that the history gets Mexican, but that covered a lot of ground once) would be perfectly happy if the Hollywood and the tourism went away, and California's economy was based on real things — or at least virtually real things. People would still want to live here, because it would still have the best weather in the continental US. Parts of it are not great in that regard of course, but then that's because California has just about every kind of terrain but tundra. It's big.

As for residency, you don't not get taxed on anything simply because you're not a resident. California makes money on property taxes, it only ostensibly doesn't raise your property taxes dramatically unless you make significant improvements. If you want to own a lot of California, you're going to pay.

But once again, the billionaires can feel free to leave. California will make new ones, because it's rich land, and all wealth is derived from the land. But the reality is, they're not making more California. The last pieces of it which are pleasant to live in which haven't already been made stupendously expensive (on the North Coast) are being sold out now. Amazon is trying to come in at this moment. You're underestimating the value of a climate that's livable without air conditioning all year round. That's only getting scarcer.

Speaking only for myself, a 4xxx series card. Their Linux drivers used to be pretty good, now they are real bad. When I do a driver update it's about 50/50 whether they will break sleep. For once I wish I had AMD graphics.

It wouldn't be Android if you weren't fighting the UX.

I'd like it to:

- Honor autoplay off settings when hooking up to Android Auto. It doesn't. It always loads the music player, even after a reboot, and no matter what player it is, and how many "Do NOT fucking play my music unless I hit the play button" settings I've selected, it blasts music the moment I start reversing out of the drive way.
- Either put the navi buttons on permanently, or at least not hide them within 5 seconds of me sliding up from the bottom to bring them up. They won't change that, it's too annoying, from their point of view it's a feature.
- I'd like the phone app to actually act consistently. And maybe "Contacts" can display my contacts, rather than be an intermediate screen that shows the most recent calls? I know, I know "Nobody makes phone calls any more dumbass", well I do, jackass.
- Allow certain frequently abused functions to be blocked. Why are ads allowed to open the Play Store? That's fucking annoying. There should at least be a dialog along the lines of "Do you want to open the play store or just close this ad" when ads do that. (And if you're a marketing "genius" who thinks this is a good idea, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who refuses, permanently, to install an app from an advertiser that does this.)

I guarantee though Android 17 is worse than 16. That's been the pattern so far since Android 4, they're not going to stop now.

No, that's not how Android works. You can run current apps on Android 10 if you want. There is no obligation to run the latest greatest, and typically each Android release since 4.0 is slightly worse than the previous version, making you less inclined to want to upgrade.

I agree but that's not the issue here. The issue is a massive RAM shortage, because of the AI corps.

The solution doesn't involve guillotining trillionaires who make computers and charge what the market will bear, it involves guillotining trillionaires who own AI companies.

Made in Sunderland, batteries made in the UK too. EV tech developed jointly with Renault.

Most of the R&D in China is done with private money. The government does contribute, but it's more long term guarantees than it is cash.

In a democracy, policy can change ever 4-5 years. Look at the US, it's been alternating between pushing renewables to banning them to pushing them to banning them again, over the last 4 administrations. If you were a company developing renewable technology, would you have faith that your investment in R&D wouldn't be banned by the time it reaches market? Doesn't even have to be a ban, just an administration that is hostile to your business, and an electorate that would rather roll coal than see a wind turbine 20km off-shore.

The Chinese government said that EVs were the future and it would ensure that future came quickly and stuck around. It made sure the infrastructure was installed, and promoted them to consumers as a way to reduce pollution. Loans for development were made available. And it stuck to that for the long term, not just the next 4-5 years.

Democracy can do that too, but not in a two party system. Look at European democracies where coalition governments are the norm, where the system is designed to prevent any one party gaining complete power. Planning is longer term, and there is more certainty in future policy direction.

Capitalism doesn't care where the money comes from, government or not