Yes, and the absurd amount of time allotted is also almost always ignored. Any time I drive through a Caltrans project I think about how it would have been completed already in Japan.

Apple is sitting on unprecedented and unparalleled amounts of cash, to say nothing of their liquid investments, or their other investments. Apple can afford to fail for a long time before they hit on the next big thing.

I've had all of those things not work and more, some even recently. My motherboard before last had Killer ethernet that didn't work for quite a long time. My current bluetooth wasn't supported until a very recent kernel that my distribution still isn't shipping.

Yeah, they didn't need to exist, because we had ARM and MIPS.

They are. They just dropped a new proton beta (10).

Why would their beak becoming longer prevent them from putting it into a flower?

Unfortunately, that's not the show stopper it should be, while there's kickbacks to be had from the industry to force The People to underwrite the risk.

That's a very big job, and meanwhile Microsoft is making it less relevant by moving Office towards being a web app. Sooner or later they are going to retire the desktop version and only offer office as-a-service. Supporting those desktop apps is Wine's focus. What would ideally happen is that wine and proton would merge so everyone can get all of the benefits of both projects.

That's really not true, is it? Some people have outright said who they have voted for, and some have made it fairly clear in other ways. We don't know who anonymous cowards voted for, of course. Or if they are even made out of meat.

4k. Older titles are great at 4k even on a 4060 Ti 16GB, and with improved textures they can easily go past 8GB. Also, it's nice to just not have to care at all what else is running. There's no good reason to supply less than 12GB. I do use lower resolutions for some titles (Satisfactory with any kind of quality will punch this card in the nuts at 4k) but 4k displays are now pretty cheap and that's the direction people are going to be moving.

Also, if everybody is going to have AI everything (like it or not) more VRAM is better for that too.

Spain and Portugal grids are highly distributed, while that could have helped, just one would be useless... how many, where to place them and what tech (batteries, flywheels, gravity storage, etc) is something that will for sure be done. But exactly what to do is postponed until we understand better what happen and where and how it could have been avoided. The Australian case was simpler, they were not as much distributed, most population and demand lives near the coast in bigger cities. Spain and Portugal have smaller cities and towns, all over the place

do you know that the all the nuclear and gas power plants failed, but yet a couple of solar kept working (yes, most disconnected too, but not all).
This problem really will be studied for several years

did you know that even the Spain nuclear power and gas plants failed? And that some solar kept working?
yes, things should have gone better and improvements will be made for sure, but the main lesson we can take is that we moved from a huge central power station (with few connections to other regions) to a international highly interconnected grid, so a problem in one place in the past affected mostly only one region, but now it will affect multiple countries. Grids need to adapt and build newer protections and fallbacks for this new kind of problems

While they were producing lot of solar energy, excess lowers the price and Spain and Portugal hydro storage buy all that cheap electricity and pump water up... a few hours later, they sell that same electricity for 10 to 100 times more on the end of day, when everyone is arriving home, cooking, charging their cards, etc. That was why Portugal was importing 30% of their electricity from Spain, they were charging their hydro storage. Spain and Portugal have good power interconnects. Spain with France are somewhat weak (France is blocking more interconnects to protect their nuclear power prices) and with Morocco are even more weak.
But the collapse production of something dropped too much power that cascaded to the next production and so on, causing the full blackout

Exactly!!
free stuff is great when you are small, after a certain size, it doesn't matter anymore. More important is getting the card before other people, but that is a different battle!