Because this is the kind of data collection that strengthens the case that climate change is very much real and ongoing, which endangers the profit margins of their largest corporate donors who don't want to risk being inconvenienced by having to spend money to mitigate that.

Leaving the equipment in place risks a future administration simply turning it all back on again instead of having to spend years and millions of dollars rebuilding it all from scratch first.

All the AI garbage that's shoehorned in and can't be turned off wants system resources too.

With the ever-increasing shift towards online game purchases (be it through steam, the playstation store, xbox store, whatever) having a brick-and-mortar game store is a dying business model.
Gamestop bought thinkgeek in 2014 for 140M and basically let it all wither away. They'd certainly be looking for something else to diversify and try to survive, because if they don't there's no way but down. Can't blame them for wanting to acquire something with an actual viable business model.

Of course whether any money lenders or investors would be dumb enough to throw tens of billions of dollars towards putting Gamestop owners at the helm of anything is a different question altogether

As the saying goes: Jack of all trades, master of none.

FWIW, there have been native windows compiled versions for pretty much all the major linux commandline tools since forever; grep, awk, sed, cat, tac, wget, wc, uniq, etc.
No need to install any emulation or translation layers or dependencies like cygwin, just straight up individual native windows binaries that work from any command prompt or batch file. As long as it's at least a 32-bit executable it will work on modern 64-bit windows.

Only caveat is that windows command prompt uses ^ as the escape character, so syntax might be slightly different like having to use ^^ instead of ^ when using regex with grep.

When Apple Maps launched, it didn't have turn-by-turn navigation support at all, while the google maps that it replaced did.
Apple absolutely launched it before it was ready, taking existing functionality away when doing so.

...If the converter machine is powered by solar, wind or other renewable source, this would make a gasoline car carbon neutral.

Unfortunately, fewer and fewer hosting companies provide their own email services; over the past years most of them have migrated to 3rd party services like Microsoft's Exchange Online or Google's business email, both of which charge significantly more per mailbox.

When Godaddy did that a few years ago I looked at a lot of places, and the best option I came across was OpenSRS/Tucows, who has been around since 1999. they still only charged $0.50/month per mailbox or so. Only caveat is that they don't sell directly to end users, but provide services to 3rd party resellers. However, anyone can sign up for a reseller account.

Part of signing up as a reseller is paying $100, but that then gives you $100 credit for services in your account. At just $0.50/month per mailbox, that will last a long time. You do have the option to turn off your public reseller/online ordering portal and just use it for personal/friend/family.

Before it was widely known what he was like:

If you are applying for an office job and and see Dilbert strips posted everywhere, you should be concerned.

...But if you walk through their office and you don't see any at all, you should worry more.

Google pretty much had to support JPEG-XL, because the PDF association declared it to be the preferred format for embedded images in the latest PDF standard.
https://www.theregister.com/20...

If they want chrome to be able to show PDF files going forward, then JPEG-XL support is required as well.

This is the kind of thing that makes zero sense for regular consumers (for exactly the reason you mention), but it could be a great system for companies that operate a large number of cars internally, e.g. UPS/FedEx/USPS, or even car rental places, where a returning electric car can be ready for re-deployment in far less time than it would take to re-charge them the conventional way.
At least fleet cars would keep re-using their own batteries instead of receiving someone else's potential garbage.

Or those fun old "universal" phone chargers, which had one wallbrick with 10 different molded cables for Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, etc. Which were all slightly different. And then when a friend visited and asked for a charger, they needed standard #11 which wasn't compatible with the 10 yours had.

And remember that the EU didn't mandate usb c: they told the tech industry to figure out some standards on their own or else... . It wasn't until AFTER the Samsungs, Amazon's, LGs and Sonys of the world all started standardizing their stuff with USB c and it hit critical mass that the EU mandated everyone else should follow that. It could just as easily been lightning cables if that was the direction the tech industry had decided to go.

Just remember: Japanese cars and electronics used to be a joke too, until they weren't.
Then they ate Detroit for lunch.

There is no reason other countries can't pull off the same, and then some.

...Their rationale for only showing hours and minutes and hide the seconds of the digital clock in the system tray was to "save power" https://devblogs.microsoft.com...