I'm waiting with bated breath for someone to suggest an AI filter the reports so the human can work more efficiently.

No one needs to be able to solve anything with their own brain. It envisions a future where it will do all the thinking for humanity.

Just keep it deactivated and only use it on hump day.

Seems like many other smart devices become complete e-waste when their corporate masters lose interest in the venture. You can still use these as actual speakers, even with Bluetooth.

Takes too long to build out. Shareholders demand a return in only a few years.

You can buy a refurb workstation off eBay with an old i5 for the same and get better performance and higher-quality components.

I really hit a bullseye on this, didn't I? Replies are everything from "this is a conspiracy theory" to "this is bipartisan (and vaccines because why not)" to "I will DARVO you for this!" to "doctors can't be activists, and certainly don't want to have their thing get more money, and there's absolutely no historic precedent otherwise (please ignore massive amounts of precedent to contrary!)"

This is indeed a "conspiracy theory" in that it's a fact that is unpalatable for activists. It is indeed bipartisan in that activists included everything from "dollar signs in their eyes" doctors to soccer mommies who got a reason their Billy is not just SPECIAL, but SUPER SPECIAL, which makes her way more important than other soccer mommies at their next book club meeting. To the political activists who assumed that the more fake grievances they can generate in people, the more votes they can grab for their cause.

Yes, because "right wing conspiracy" stands for "facts left wing doesn't like".

Have a gander at a list of other "facts left wing doesn't like" presented in another reply.

Reminds me of that line from Contact (1997): "Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?", which was about government spending, too.

"Look at data (which I choose to call "facts" because I'm very smart). Don't look at context".

I award you "redditor on slashdot" award.

It's pretty well understood that current "let's get everything under the same umbrella so activists can claim they have more support" has been modus operandi for far left activists for a while now. Autism is one of those things: they bolted together "being quirky" and "can't be toilet trained, can't speak, constant random bouts of uncontrollable rage and violence" under the same umbrella. This enables former to claim victimhood and ask for political changes and resources based on the latter's situation.

When in reality, they have nothing in common. This isn't even diabetes kind of a situation, where causes are completely different but treatment is partially similar. This isn't even hepatitis like situation where treatments are different, but at least the illness is in the same place.

It's many completely different things, many of which aren't even an illness, all being grouped together for political reasons.

"Some" does all the heavy lifting in this one. Because tens to hundreds of thousands is not "some" by any reasonable measure, and internet is choke full of them now that bodycams have become ubiquitous, and youtubers know how to request them.

No one would be complaining if a Linux vendor released a commercial like this to promote their OS. Instead the comments here would be filled with I.T. professionals talking about the CrowdStrike event, and how all the Windows systems were dead in the water but their *nix-based ones were humming along.

Considering how many responses here miss the point and instead of going "yeah, we need to work harder on this" went full on "I got mine, it works for me, and fuck you"...

We're not going to have a shortage of those proclamations. In fact, abundance of those proclamations will likely be only matched by utter lack of install base.

Local account still needs to exist for a wide variety of reasons, so it's unlikely to go away.

What is increasingly going away is a way for a home user to install the entire OS using only a local account. Custom ISOs will likely continue to offer an option to enable local account only.