Also, the older control unit may no longer be produced. Not always a bad thing if it had problems and they'll swap it out on recall. As a software defined vehicle, the 2025s probably don't get all the 2026 model year bells and whistles by default.

I was putting new brake pads in my 46 year old truck last week. The guy at the parts counter looked up the make and model and sad, "There's a note here. The pads for that have been discontinued. There's a replacement part number with a remark. The new pads no longer contain asbestos."

You're holding it wrong.

You know what they were banning? They were banning factual information that contradicted the official narrative. They were banning links to small, but scientific, studies that suggested alternative treatments, people talking about loved ones who got the vaccine and died of COVID anyway, hospitals putting covid as cause of death when it really was something else so they could get that government funding. Go educate yourself you ideologically blinded twit.

For those data centers, they are the customer. How much hardware do they sell? Pretty much just the XBox.

But that's the essence of wealth redistribution in a liberal society. It's not the poor who benefit as much as all those who have a finger in the pie along the way.

Which one?

Or Georges Lemaitre

(Sorry about the missing diacritic, George. This IS Slashdot.)

If the TV was appropriately cheaper for not having the smarts, the $30 might not seem like much. It's not exactly complicated to plug the chromecast into an HDMI input. The chromecast remote will be what you need most of the time since the chromecast itself can turn the TV on, select the correct input, etc and the remote also has an IR transmitter to handle the volume function.

Admittedly, assembling the Pi is a step up in knowledge many wouldn't manage.

Many people do manage to use a chromecast just fine.

It would be better to somehow ban enshittification, but even defining it legally would be a hard problem, much less getting the legislation past the gauntlet of industry lobbyists.

Microsoft isn't a hardware company. Their primary interest is to convince others to use the technology.

Everything is relative. That doesn't mean we should stop pushing society in the direction it aught to go.

Move along now. These are just more advanced versions of phone farms. Back in the old days, people used to get dozens (hundreds) of second hand phones and use them to generate SMS spam for telemarketing. These are just a more hardware efficient means of doing so.

Seized actual SIM cards? That's so last decade. These things are mainly eSIM now. Law enforcement tries to kick down your door and shut you down? The virtual SIMs can be moved to new servers across the country in a few milliseconds. Long before the battering rams finish work on your front door.

Anecdote: We have a few farms in a town near me: Bothell, WA. My telco (with a good sense of humor) identifies them on caller id as originating in "Bot-hell".

Shades of 2008. That recession occured because banks had over-invested in mortgage backed securities. Which collapsed in value, scrubbing billions off the banks capital balances and tying up their ability to lend.

Move forward 17 years and now it will be loans for data centers, power generation and grid improvements. All backed by the banks. And all worthless now. Because the value of an asset is based on its ability to generate revenue and service debt.

At least the data centers can be used to house the newly homeless. Just don't build camp fires on the raised floors.

Women weight less, drink less, and eat less than men. That alone is a reason to pick more women for an initial mission. The same reason no 270 pound body builder is getting a slot.

Sooner or later, we'll run out of consultants. People eventually retire or quit the industry in disgust and the new crop of vibe coders certainly aren't going to fill those roles.

That matches my (limited) experience. Just for giggles, I let copilot (on Github) have a crack at a function in some of my code. Its suggested improvement made some sense in a vacuum, but in context it read more like someone who feels they must 'contribute' something and that's all they could find. It didn't seem to understand that the function would always be called in the context of a transaction and raising an exception will roll it back.