Convince a woman to reproduce with you and you'll know most people don't drive to avoid the homeless, they do so because it's unaffordable to raise kids anywhere served by public transportation on a 5 figure income (really even 6 figure). They have to go far out in the burbs and again...while you might be able to get to and from work in 3h via public transportation, you have kids and loved ones waiting for you...I know given your history you might not be able to relate to that...but...yeah, fuck off.

People are driving because it's a direct route to their home and public transportation doubles the commute time, which they don't have surplus time to begin with...because they're decent people who love their wives and kids. Most people enjoy taking public transportation and as someone who takes it all the time, the homeless are not a huge problem in the last 3 cities I've lived in. They're not going to be your top annoyance commuting.

If you are OK with Microsoft backing up this information without your explicit permission, then fine, use a Microsoft account. I just pointed out how to avoid this backup (although you will be nagged to set up backups).

I assume that this backup will also include the GUID that was discussed a day or two ago, so even re-installing Windows won't eliminate this tracking.

This is why you use a local login, instead of a Microsoft account.

Microsoft has been making this more and more difficult, but I think that, after setup, one can create a local login and then remove the Microsoft account.

Windows 11 doesn't have an option to turn off updates, only postpone them.

The only way to prevent updates is by disabling the service.

Perhaps if you kept up on your Duolingo to keep your brain more limber, you might not have hallucinated an anti-immigrant rant. But hey...you can make baseless accusations if you like...does it make you feel powerful?...did you put me in my place?

And, what about alternative browsers? Do they send this also?

OK, so what is on the ngrok site that triggers this?

This data is COMPLETELY useless unless you factor for income and education. Stress kills your brain and body like nothing else and little in life is more stressful than being poor. Is this just a proxy for wealth? If you speak 2 languages, you either have a comfortable life where you want to travel and/or explore other cultures or you're an immigrant and in most cases, the wealthier half of your society. The majority of immigrants, especially from Asia, come from middle-class to affluent households. I think it's safe to say none of your Asian coworkers grew up in the slums and realistically, relatively few of the Latin American immigrants you encounter grew up in the very worst parts of their country. They usually had the resources and motivation to buy a plane ticket.

I know a lot of DUMB AF immigrants, especially from India where they probably are exposed to multiple languages in addition to what they speak at work and at home. I know plenty of educated Americans who can't speak a 2nd language beyond the 4 years they had to take in high school or college and forgot everything but how to order breakfast immediately afterwards. I definitely don't notice any correlation in brain age. By this logic, everyone working in my local grocery store should have young and agile brains...moreso than the many American-born businesspeople, accountants, lawyers, and software engineers I've met. Sorry, my American monolingual accountant neighbor doesn't seem any worse off than my Ecuadorian grocery bagger.

My monolingual American/UK/Aus coworkers tend to perform just was well and typically better than their Asian-born counterparts....and among the older ones, I honestly notice more decline among the multi-lingual ones...which again, I'd attribute more to the stress of their lives than languages spoken. This is another annoying story that gives incomplete data.

In fairness, I started learning Spanish more seriously after the pandemic, mostly for brain health as well as some cultural ties. I don't really know if it's helping, but it's like my vitamin. I take a multivitamin every day...it PROBABLY does nothing, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. At the very least, I have a fallback plan if the USA collapses :)

Not explained here, how is this information accessed remotely? Does Edge (or any other browser) send it in a header? Is there Javascript on some websites that makes the target send it?

You understand the XBox division has very little to do with the Windows division, right? It's like blaming Sony's full frame camera division because you don't like the new PlayStation update.

While the majority seem to prefer Nintendo or PS, MS has been very good to users. Games pass was a low monthly fee service to give you Netflix for games and you could pay slightly more and get them on PC. It was great. Their hardware is cheaper than PS. Their peripherals are cheaper. I fucking love my XBox. Fair disclosure, I've never owned a PlayStation, so maybe it's just as good or better, but it just fucking works. It's simple. It's a nice experience. I never have to troubleshoot it. My Nintendo switch is also nice, just not very powerful. But this is the problem, IMHO.

MS is giving it's customers what they want at the best prices in the industry. I love it, but yeah, I don't give them as much money as I would have to for a Nintendo. And you can't overpay your executive suite by giving the customers value for their money!!!!

Go is the worst language on the market. It's slower than Rust, C, Java, C#. It's a dogshit language, only slightly faster than JavaScript or Python. It has no reason to exist now that we have Rust. It's better at memory usage than Java/C#, but otherwise a LOT slower. Seriously...this shit is garbage. I've never been more disappointed with a language. It's not easy to use, like Python/JavaScript/Java. It's not fast, like Rust, C, or even Java. It's a legacy language that can't die fast enough. No one should start new projects with that garbage platform if there are any alternatives.

How do you feel about charging for on-device features, that work without an Internet connection, like this one?

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/...

Except that this feature runs entirely on-device. It works without an Internet connection. They want people to pay to use the hardware they already own outright.

When every tech company laid off a ton of workers and claimed AI, they were committing fraud to their investors, nothing more. They needed to lay these people off due to overhiring, these employees underperforming and needing to be fired (but they didn't want to risk a lawsuit), or economic headwinds and thought it made them look like better leaders. Do you really think they wanted to do last year's business with 15% less cost? If they had actual useful AI, they'd repurpose all of these engineers, if not hire more so they can 10x their output and crush their competitors.

We've seen job loss to automation before. It typically is pretty slow. It typically results in reduced hiring before mass firing. Most people get repurposed. In most cases, the majority of people are retained and the company focuses on increasing output or expanding offerings. For example, if you're DeWalt tools, you use automation to make power tools with less humans and start expanding to hand tools and ladders and tool storage, like they did over the last 15 years. Your net hiring usually expands. As the automation gets deployed, you typically retain a huge portion of the staff during the transition, just in case. It's a process that unfolds over many months or years, not weeks, like Salesforce.com, Google, Facebook, etc did. And to repeat...if these were useful employees, they'd repurpose them to expand offerings.

I don't know if these AI CEOs were ignorant and believed their bullshit or were lying. However, we've all used these AIs. They're not dogshit, but they're not magic either. They're definitely not ready to actually replace human beings. I use Claude daily and it produces huge errors every day. I use Gemini frequently...with very simple product questions "Which $x has features $y?" It fails the majority of the time. For example, I asked it "What's the cheapest 10' USB4 cable with USB-IF certification?" It returned results that were 6'6" and cables more expensive than the ones in my Amazon cart...yet it provided links to Amazon. Pretty much every product search I've ever made failed. My point being...I can't imagine and easier question for AI. I gave a length, I gave a specific token and asked for the cheapest...it failed on all 3 fronts.

This shit ain't ready to replace anyone. If you're paying a human being to do it today, you need more accuracy than today's models can provide. If you can tolerate their level of errors, you weren't paying anyone before. Sure...it can replace your old automated chat bots...maybe reduce your offshore outsourcing spend slightly...but no...it's not that they're humanitarians. It's that their technology doesn't work well enough to be evil.

AI is a lot more impressive and fearful in our minds than in reality.