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>Honestly, do we need to politicize everything?

The FCC is a political organization, so yes, it should be politicized. It often makes decisions due to politics, and in this case the Republican ideals of business being more powerful than the government and monied interests and capital owners being more powerful than democracy and working people.

>I promise you that Ajit Pai did not personally

That's not how leadership works. They can't fail and then say "Oh well I wasn't reviewing every little thing."

I'm not sure why you're carrying water for a crony like Pai, but its not convincing in the slightest.

>Countdown until this thing is EOL?

I feel this device is too "on the nose" for what PC enthusiasts want. Its a Nomad, not an iPod. Its a Game Gear, not a Gameboy. Enthusiasts will just shrug at its lackluster performance and tiny screen vs just paying a bit more for a gaming laptop or desktop with several times the performance.

I also don't like the idea that if you want to play many popular games, especially those beholden to anti-cheat systems, you have to run Windows and now you have to go through the hassle of buying a Windows license and installing it on this machine. A lot of kids might be disappointed when their parents buy this and they find out they can only play stuff that works on Linux and that stuff may not include the big AAA shooters they want to play (mostly due to anti-cheat being windows only). Worse, Win10 costs $120, which is a pricey upgrade for a device that starts at $399.

I think its often in technology that the customer doesn't know what they actually want. They don't actually know how to ask to be surprised or what that surprise might be, afterall its a surprise! So they just ask for slightly better or tinier versions of the things they already own, which may or may not be the right answer.

Products that actually get successful tend to surprise and break expectations and introduce new concepts. This device just seems like its not doing any of that, but on paper its what PC enthusiasts claim they want, but I'm guessing won't actually buy. I don't know what its EOL will be, but its definitely going to be a super-super niche device, at bit like how Android tablets with things like full size USB slots were seen as potential iPad killers just a few years ago, but failed to get any real marketshare. You can still get an Android tablet, but its just a lackluster device compared to the competition and super-super niche. This device may also have a very long life as potential ammunition against Microsoft trying to seal off Windows from gaming again. It'll always be in production even as a loss because its so politically and economically important to Valve to be able to keep MS from locking them out with the MS store.

I remember old "snowy" tv and absolutely hated it. Bad analog is still a really bad experience, especially with audio. Worse, it never seems to be just "snowy" but the signal goes in and out randomly so it goes from bad to unwatchable quickly and somehow always during important parts of the show. ;) I think people tend to play up idealized versions of analog tv and downplay how bad digital signal issues can be, a bit like how people hold up questionable movie special effects from the 70s and 80s as being great but also think all CGI is fake looking.

I don't think asking people to run a proper antenna is asking too much, especially for all the benefits digital brings in.

Its crazy to me that a tech forum poster would consider the incredibly innovative years of 1982-1992 as nothing because his preferred OS didn't exist yet.

1982: Commodore 64

1983: Apple //e

1984: Macintosh

1985: Amiga

1986: 386-based PCs

1987: Hypercard and Acorn Archimedes

1988: NeXT cube

1989: 486 released. Deep Thought defeats its first master, WorldWideWeb released

1990: Power Processor, Gopher, EFF founded

1991: PGP, AM386, Python

and that ignores the incredible BBS and shareware scene that blossomed at that time. A lot was going on in the mid to late 80s in the PC world.

btw Futurama's writers were paraphrasing this:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

(of course in 1943 that was a totally reasonable thing to think considering they were the size of a small house and ran on thousands of vacuum tubes that needed constant replacing and started in the millions of dollars)

Because they're failing at capitalism, usually because their competitors are better than them at it. Not because of kindness to employees or somesuch. Capitalists fighting other capitalists as ruthlessly as possible doesn't change my argument.

Also capitalisms demands are just that, demands, its not a guarantee. If company x can't compete, it will quit. If it thinks it can weather a storm because it will be able to compete in the future, it will. Its not generosity. Its just profit-seeking.

Why? She knows the capitalism rat-race as well as you do, its just in her paycheck's interest to say these things just like you do capitalistic contributions for your paycheck. I think the idea that you lead an ethical work life and she doesn't is a bit out there. There's a lot of "but but my capitalism contribution is the only ethical capitalist contribution" in this thread. You're just as guilty as her of that regard.

Why aren't you doing the janitors job for a week everytime you think the bathrooms look a bit untidy?

>I'd rather have a happy safe driver than a miserable one at the end of his or her rope, all so I could save a dollar.

I mean, that's just you and your ethics as a person. Capitalism demands relentless and permanent profit, so capitalist culture is middle-managers doing exactly the opposite of you. Worse, they're in a rat-race against other middle-managers to see who can save the most money. So the system is designed to make sure workers don't get decent wages, feel safe, or happy. The system can't be for relentless profit and kindess to employees, unless pressure from the outside via regulations or collective bargaining. I think the idea that good hearted people at these companies should just generous is a little naive. The good hearted most likely don't get into positions of power and even if they did, they're still playing the same oppressive game everyone else is for their own paychecks. Its greed and short-sightedness, and oppression all the way down.

>Not his fault the tax rules are broken for the ultra-rich.

This isn't some accidental software defect. The rich write these laws to their benefit. He's part of the class whose fault it absolutely is and considering his political position as a conservative, he advocates and helps keep up the corrupt system he benefits from directly, even if he didn't lobby for this specific tax regulation.

I don't see that as working as expected nor do I appreciate having to hunt and peck through settings to find this setting. The default should be for it to a polite application like any other. Awful defaults is exactly the dark pattern I'm complaining about. Just because Microsoft generously allows me to not have this awful behavior if I manually find this setting is not the big counter to my argument that you seem to think it is.

>teams team

It still a little mindblowing to me that teams steals focus like it does at startup. Windows boots relatively slowly that I could be in an Outlook window or typing in a URL or whatever after a fresh reboot and then teams just steals my mouse and keyboard. I've trained myself to not do anything until teams starts (and being an electron app, it certainly takes its time) because I'm so annoyed by focus stealing.

On my home computer the xbox application does the same but at least it loads super fast. I am just bewildered that in 2021 that focus stealing like this is so common and accepted by anyone let alone Microsoft. It just feels like scammy 2000s adware.

Not mocking people with mental health issues isn't "PC nonsense" but common decency.

I imagine people like you during Turing's time would have built museums to "crazy homosexuals" to mock them.

Thankfully, saner minds prevail.

Yep this. The actual nose to the grindstone basic research work is often publicly funded but the VC fundraising bragging is often things like jets and swanky offices. The un-sexy work of doing basic research is not something capitalism handles well at all and we expect the government to subsidize it so the VCs can walk in, claim the work of their own, claim it was done via capitalism and the VC process, and then sell themselves as our saviors by creating media outlets that serve them. This is very dystopian and anti-government.

Yep this! How can you really beat SEO when people can just try new things all day and see if it helps their rankings? I don't feel there's a solution here. Everyone suffers under SEO types just trying to bring scammy things to the top of the results page.

Lithium-ion is something of an everyday miracle. I'm older and I remember previous rechargeable battery technologies and they were just terrible. Also, Gas and tiny portable batteries have nearly nothing in common. You're not going to be able to fit an ICE into my iphone. What's with the weird comparisons? I don't see how they are helpful. Its like when we talk about hate crimes or civilians killed in war, and other people bring out unrelated stats about car accidents or cancer. This is a common thing on the internet that almost no one questions. Its weird and frankly a dishonest rhetorical trick.

Also "go shop elsewhere" doesn't really work when all my favorite small shops are forever shutdown because they can't compete with Amazon. Amazon's real competition is other mega-websites like it, with very similar problems, like walmart.com or target.com. Anti-regulation types simply dont realize how much of the problem the are, which I find a bit depressing.

For me, Amazon used to be a bit like going to a mid-tier department store. Items were curated and higher-quality than, say, dollar store or clearance items and there was a certain level of trust with them as a retailer. I would buy something from a known brand and enjoy it, and rarely do a return. Customer service reps were a phone call away and I could google the model number and see other people's experiences with it as well.

Now I'm seeing so many sponsored results to brands I've never heard of and seemingly only exist for drop-shipping or rebranding some OEM product. Worse, the non-sponsored results would also be no name brands, where I'd gravitate towards the ones with high reviews. Then I buy the product and see a little gift card I could monetize if I was to review the product with 5 stars, so seemingly most of those reviews are fraudulent. Worse again, the quality on this product is below, sometimes even way below, a normal brand I could get retail locally but priced about the same. I must return 1/4 of the products I buy because of poor QC or later breakage from normal, if not, light use. Support or customer service for these brands is almost non-existent too and this brand will disappear in a year anyway, so why bother trying to build any sort of reputation. Amazon is always happy to do a return so it solves that problem, but its a still a big hassle and I'm sure the carbon footprint of all these returns is scary. Then I'm playing random OEM roulette again with a similar product that will also have fraud reviews and 5 star review coupons inside of it.

I also dislike the dark pattern format of the site, which shows sponosered results in very small text and puts it in between related items. I'm not sure what Amazon's Choice really is, but its almost never a product or brand that I would consider trustworthy and I imagine is just a product that is giving Amazon good margins. In a curated department store model, recommended items would be actually recommended by staff and taste-makers at the cost or benefit of the reputation of the store. If Macy's is recommending a Braun coffeemaker, then its probably going to be a good coffeemaker as Macy's wants to please me as a Macy's customer. If Amazon recommends one, its just going to be some in-house rebrand or random OEM brand with lots of suspicious reviews (tons of 5 stars but also tons of 1 stars, with not much in the middle) and with positive reviews being either "amazing i love it!!!" or referring to an entirely different product (bots?) and negative reviews being in competent English and verbose and detailed about all the things wrong with this product.

I think like with any capitalist endeavor, without proper oversight and regulation, it naturally falls into a race to the bottom and "low road" capitalist outcomes. Amazon has been left more or less alone by legislators and its, of course, gone as bad as it can and I imagine will only get worse over time. Amazon moving from the department store model to the random street bazaar model is good for the bottom line but every year it gets harder to shop there as no-name brands with no support and fake reviews dominate its marketplace.

I mean your cat could have chewed through your laptop cable previously.

Your mouse, if using USB-C, is only going to have the current it needs to run. So it'll be super low mw at 5v. Its not going to be doing 240w on it. USB power delivery isnt like your wall outlets, it asks and receives power depending on the need.

Also, I don't feel people talk about this much but gaming desktops tend to be noisy, ugly, and/or gaudy on top of taking up lots room. I'd love to just get rid of this box but I don't care enough about games to buy a gaming laptop, which just only slightly solves the ugly/gaudy problem for me. I'd love to just stream going forward and never have to put together another PC or buy another expensive video card again and having the ability to do this on a handheld sounds very tempting!

Maybe their soceity would have been more successful if it wasn't bombed to hell and back by the Americans then made a soft client state of the USSR and then boycotted by the West.

If left to develop its communist government by itself, it could be like China today - a superpower that's going to overtake the USA by important measures.

Lets stop pretending that years of war against a superpower didn't come at a cost for them and the US should have left them alone.

This is such a brilliant comment. Everyone seems to know what perfect moderation is because they see something they don't like and know it should be removed, which is fair enough I suppose, but if we wrote policy on all those events to cover them pre-emptively then they can probably kiss 50% of their popular streamers away, especially those who lean conservative (hatespeech, bigotry, and ironically Russian propaganda problems) and gamers (lots of n word drops, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, etc).

So youtube can do this but if they did it, the very same people who claim to want this would lose their collective minds. They don't realize they're baddies too on some level, and want only their own kind of baddies to have free reign in the media.

Great point about the governments too! Youtube can't fix what trillions in collective worldwide military spending can't fix. If dictators are this brazen and getting away wit this, as well as the American dictator wanna-be getting away with 1/6, sorry but FAANG can't help you. We're too fargone for tech solutions at this point. Fix your governments first.

Also this plane had a MiG-29 on its tail, and I imagine it was well armed. Belarus committed state terrorism and obviously so.

This also has something, if not, a lot to do with millionaire farmers, mostly funded by incredible and often corrupt subsidies from the government. So before subsidies and pork, they would have made a more modest wage, but the game can be abused pretty easily. If its not designed to be abused because what benefits big agriculture also benefits medium sized "family" farms. Family farms may actually be a series of a dozen or more farms where the owning family does no actual farming on their own, but still live a rural lifestyle (pickups, bud light).

Secondly, its also skewed by government workers on fat pensions who can become millionaires pretty easily due to these collectively bargained benefits but also inflated salaries, especially overtime which is often abused in government jobs.

Lastly, a lot of this is self-reporting. Some people like to put on a modest front for their own reasons. The author got to see their pickup truck and muddy workboots, but not their Florida vacation home or Wisconsin lake house. Or the Corvette under a cover in the 2nd garage.

So some of the advice is hard to handle and not applicable to most. You can sort of FIRE your way into wealth and live like a miserable miser or hope you were born into a socio-economic culture where buying a lot of farmland is possible or getting a public sector union job is possible.

and for all we know, if cars were still made with carbs and solenoids and old fashion-y tech, that manufacturing might be impacted by a pandemic as well. I don't think there's anything fundamental about chips that are causing this delay. A lot of it has to with cancelling orders and manufacturers winding down and then restarting a major supply chain takes time, especially if demand shuts down fast and then starts up again faster than expected.

>news articles synthesize about his statements as statements made by him

Musk promised the coast to coast drive in 2017:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13341100/tesla-self-driv...

Then admitted he couldn't do it in 2017:

https://www.autonews.com/article/20180208/MOBILITY/180209770...

This isn't the media delivering a dishonest commentary. These are his words.

>The 16 year old new driver texting and talking to friends coming towards you at 60mph has two.

My two analog eyes see this perfectly well, why didn't the AI?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33789/autopilot-blamed-for-tes...

I think there's a lot unfair criticism of human drivers in this thread. I don't think we're at the point where we can call machines better than humans when it comes to these tasks.

I believe Active Directory just stores the hash like it does for your current password. Yep, if you crack the domain controller or grab a copy of the backups and get those hashes then all the bets are off. You also get their current passwords because they're there as well, so its not like having the old ones makes anything worse. And of course, if you do have admin privs on the domain controller, you can do a lot better and easier things than bothering with those hashes anyway.

This is why the modern approach is something you know (password, PIN) plus something you have or are given (time code, texted code, face, fingerprint) for authentication. For environments with MFA, regular password changes seem like a solution that's no longer needed. Ours is a long password changed once a year and I imagine the mandatory change will be phased out eventually.

I have lc. It is borderline crippling. I can barely climb the stairs and terms like "brain fog" are comically inaccurate. Its like being drugged or having something like dementia. I've only somehow managed to barely keep my job by hiding this from my employer. I'm also usually unable to stay away the entire daya and have hard crashes in the afternoon where I must lie down and crash into a weird deep sleep or I might faint standing up. Before this I was active, fit, and generally a high energy person. This also isn't "stress." I won't tell you my life story but I have more mileage on me than most and I've handled serious stress without my entire body falling apart on me.

Secondly, the only thing that has helped was my first dose of pfizer, which made me very sick for a week but since then helped with my symptoms significantly. Its very, very clearly linked to the actual virus and how our immune system reacts to it and I'm guessing things like the vaccine may help our immune system recalibrate itself or help our bodies fight off resident infections we just can't beat.

Thirdly, post-viral effects are well studied. We see them in all sorts of infections like Lyme, SARS, or EBV. This isn't necessarily new, its just different per virus family. Doctors usually can't help because there's no real treatment, and write people up like me as CFS/ME and hope it goes away (which so far thankfully there are a lot of reports of lc going away after a 2nd dose of the vaccine). Lesser so, people without lc still have chronic issues with their lungs, heart, sense of smell, tinitus, etc. Its really all a matter of degree. This isn't the common cold where you just beat it and go back to normal. For many people normal doesnt come back for a long time and how bad it is in the meantime is the big question.

Lastly, I think calling people hysterical from your comfy armchair where you're enjoying good health is tasteless, rude, and ignorant. I hope you never get lc or have to help a loved one with it. I hope you also stay out of the medical field if you have such an ungenerous and anti-compassionate attitude towards sick people.

I believe this was just a money decision. You really can't run all those fancy tracking ads and other engagement/conversion tricks within RSS readers, or if you did, people would just switch to readers that didn't support ads and tracking. RSS was, mostly, just content that you could format and read as you like and that's a pretty big threat to operations like Google who rely so much on ads and tracking. Reading mode in browsers is the middle ground that sorta works. We still get presented with ads and tracking but get the option to view things in a sane format. Of course, we don't get the neat all-in-one aspect we had with RSS. We still, somehow, are using the bookmark system for visiting and consuming the web.

RT is Russian state media, thus its propagandist, its not a real news outlet. There is no "journalism" tradition there in terms of ethics, trust, standards, etc. It follows the party line and the Kremlin's needs, which currently are to make the US/West look as bad as possible.