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billiam0202 ,

You mean like they did when Windows 7 went EoL?

Or when Windows XP went EoL?

Or when NT 4.0 went EoL?

This isn't the first time Windows has gone EoL in a corporate environment; what makes you think it'll be better or worse than previously? Some will begin the Win11 transition, some will pay for extended support until Windows 12, a few might switch to Linux, and the rest will run unsecured until circumstances force them to fix it.

billiam0202 ,

They didn’t just pop in a LiveCD and click “Install”.

Obviously not. In 2017, they would have used a live USB thumbdrive instead of a CD.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Hard core idiot?

I'm pretty sure this core isn't hard, but it sure is S3XY!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9cb013fe-b69c-4e82-a128-ffd949dcead0.webp

billiam0202 ,

It's kinda buried:

All of which makes the decision to get rid of senior director of EV charging Rebecca Tinucci—along with her entire team—a bit of a head-scratcher.

billiam0202 ,

He sounds like a true believer.

Which is the same thing, really.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

billiam0202 ,

No, the Daily Liar is already trying to push into mass entertainment. It's more likely to have Fucker Carlson and Alex "I need money to pay my civil judgements for my lies about Sandy Hook" Jones.

billiam0202 ,

coke

He's on ketamine.

billiam0202 ,

Will the ads have ads though?

Only when you pause the ad.

billiam0202 ,

After we've tried literally everything else. And even then it'll just be the government paying insurers instead of paying the hospitals directly.

billiam0202 ,

Hardly anybody needs an EV with more than 200 miles of range if they're plugging in each night.

Speaking of big IFs. Not everybody lives where a charger is convenient or can have one installed in their residence.

billiam0202 ,

Batteries, being containers for chemical reactions, are subject to the core concepts of chemistry. Namely, that increased surface area increases the speed of the reaction. You could make one enormous battery instead of multiple smaller cells, but you'd never get it to discharge fast enough to make it functionally useful.

billiam0202 ,

given that laptops don't -- that the phone would only be able to charge off one.

My personal Framework 13 can charge from either the left or right side USB-C ports, and my work Lenovo Thinkpad can charge from either the dedicated USB-C slot, or the USB-C dock port. Point is, as USB-C gains more widespread adoption, limiting a device to only using one port for charging is becoming much less common.

That said, Framework does point out that not all the expansion bays can deliver/receive the same amount of power and they recommend (at least for the 13) to only use the rear ports for charging.

billiam0202 ,

Ah yes, the autonomous cars that are limited to only cameras and not any other form of sensor like radar/lidar will be so successful!

billiam0202 , (edited )

God fucking damnit, I hate Wall Street.

We sold fewer cars than expected, lost money, revealed that even though we're making 1000 Cybertrucks a week we've only sold 4000 of them and had to recall every single one because we fucking glued the foot pad onto the accelerator pedal, and had our lying sack of shit CEO's compensation nerfed by a judge so in response we're gonna fire 6000 people.

Line go up.

billiam0202 ,

We could never sell those dirty ChiCom cars in the US! Can you imagine what would happen if those cars collected your driving habits and reported them back to Ford GM Stellantis Tesla Honda VW Toyota Hyundai Subaru Xi Jinping!?

billiam0202 ,

What is this? A TV for quarks?

billiam0202 ,

Who had options? Show your work for full credit.

Well Amir had a fully diversified portfolio while Stephanie had a 401(k) and Roth IRA with some penny stocks for fun, but Bob mortgaged his house to buy the latest crypto because he was assured it was only going up and he was getting in on the ground floor and this wasn't like the other 67 times he bought crypto and... Oh.

billiam0202 ,

removing features is innovation courage.

billiam0202 ,

I have an old 8GB Toshiba laptop that I threw an SSD into and slapped Pop_OS! on for fun. There are plenty of lightweight Linux distros that can breathe life into older hardware if you want to tinker with them. If nothing else, my old Toshiba is good for just basic Internet usage.

billiam0202 ,

You realize that just because things used to be worse, doesn't invalidate complaints about how things could be better now, right?

billiam0202 ,

The first HDD I ever bought was an 80 GB Maxtor. I have games now that wouldn't even fit on that drive.

billiam0202 ,

Isn't that how non-self-hosted VPNs work by their very nature? The VPN owner is always going to know where your traffic originates and where its destination is.

billiam0202 ,

Yes, but Tor isn't a VPN- the most distinguishing difference being when using a VPN all traffic from your device is sent to the VPN tunnel, while only traffic from the Tor browser is anonymized for the onion network.

billiam0202 ,

These bots aren't designed for that. They're designed to replace humans in human-form-factor job infrastructure. Think less "installing wind turbines" and more "replacing all the human pickers in an Amazon warehouse."

billiam0202 ,

So bots pay to continue what they're doing, but Musky now gets money for it?

Ray Charles could see what's going on here.

billiam0202 ,

I read that Tesla being Tesla reinvented a ton of very standard components that other car manufacturers have been using for decades

If there's one constant in "libertarian" philosophy, it's that they always inevitably end up reinventing the policies/laws/processes/regulations they tried to ignore in the first place.

billiam0202 ,

TIL!

billiam0202 ,

"Unified" only means there's not a discrete block for the CPU and a discrete block for the GPU to use. But it's still RAM- specifically, LPDDR4x (for M1), LPDDR5 (for M2), or LPDDR5X (for M3).

Besides, low-end PCs with integrated graphics have been using unified memory for decades- no one ever said "They don't have RAM, they have UM!"

billiam0202 ,

it’s still an indicator of an uninformed reporter.

My dude, you're literally in here arguing that because Apple has a blob for both CPU memory and GPU memory that somehow makes that blob "not RAM." Apple's design might give fantastic performance, but that's irrelevant to the fact that the memory on the chip is RAM of known and established standards.

billiam0202 ,

These responses are provided to adhere to the user's preferences and may not necessarily align with scientific consensus or reality as perceived by others.

That's got to be the AI equivalent of "blinking 'HELP ME' in Morse code."

billiam0202 ,

Whenever I see someone say they "did the research" I just automatically assume they meant they watched Rumble while taking a shit.

billiam0202 ,

Maybe they are pushing back, which is why Control Panel still exists?

billiam0202 ,

I only ever remember RadioShack selling prepaid phones, RC cars, and other consumer electronics, but apparently at one point in time they sold small-scale electronic components for hobbyists.

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    billiam0202 ,

    This has nothing to do with "walking back" the erosion of trust in verified accounts. As long as blue checks can be bought, there will never be a way to verify the account is who it says it is.

    What this really is, is an attempt to drive more engagement. He wants the try-hards to try harder so they will get the same features of Twitter without paying the eight bucks.

    Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

    Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

    billiam0202 ,

    Wait until someone invents a bot/AI script that watches ads for you. Then the whole "ads everywhere" will either implode or it'll trigger a war between AI ad makers and AI ad watchers

    Either way, it'll be entertaining.

    billiam0202 ,

    I've been using AdNauseam for several years already!

    Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)

    Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

    billiam0202 ,

    So uh... April Fools?

    billiam0202 ,

    Harvey Dent: You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself to become the villain.

    Steve Jobs: Bet.

    billiam0202 ,

    wonks/technocrats

    ...Knowledge Fight-like typing detected?

    billiam0202 ,

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

    No, not that door- the one from your shitty plane flying overhead.

    Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

    Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok. ...

    billiam0202 , (edited )

    All the while being fellated by feline feces, white nationalists, and dox-happy anti-LGBT bigots who celebrate the suicides of oppressed minorities.

    billiam0202 ,

    hyper-competitive marketplace

    Ah yes, when I think of "hyper competitive" I think of the one and only one cable provider who services my neighborhood.

    billiam0202 ,

    What do you mean "a whistleblower in the middle of testifying against Boeing's shoddy and unsafe construction practices decides to off himself in a hotel parking lot" isn't normal?

    Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts (www.cnbc.com)

    During a keynote speech in New York on Monday from the managing director of Google’s Israel business, an employee in the company’s cloud division protested publicly, proclaiming “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide.”...

    billiam0202 ,

    "Be Evil. Or Don't Be Evil. Whichever makes us the most money."

    billiam0202 ,

    Yeah, but none of that helps convince me I didn't buy a shitty truck and stave off the buyer's remorse for another few months!

    billiam0202 ,

    Yeah, I think turning highways back into methods of travel instead of "rolling warehouses saving Walmart a few bucks not storing anything on site" is a good thing.

    billiam0202 ,

    Honestly, this is probably true for any company once it reaches a sufficient size.

    billiam0202 ,

    The amount of people you have to exploit to make that much money guarantees all billionaires have some form of sociopathy and lack of empathy.

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