Now they will be transparent too and I will hate them even more.

Really? I think it's much more probable that what will kill us is Natural Idiots.

Even without "overhype" they will have seen a massive influx of new users globally and with this lots of additional traffic due to it being in the news everywhere.

The sole reason for human-like robots is to being able to replace humans in work situations where humans work, and humans work increasingly only where more specialized machines don't.

They're not for replacing more specialized robots or other machines optimized for very narrow tasks. Nobody needs a human-like robot to draw the Mona Lisa when you can just print it.

I agree that there's lots of room for improvement here, but walking is highly important because it makes robots mobile, in environments that are optimized for humans. There's little point in doing anything of what you describe when the robot can't walk there and sit down at a table to begin with. There's also very little point in robots being universal when they can't walk from this job to another. In a fixed location there are much easier ways to sort screws by size or to remove a rice grain from a table.

Ironically I've just found out that replacing the daughter board with the USB-C sockets in my Macbook is quite easy and the board costs just $25, which is dirt cheap when it comes to Apple computer parts. It's almost as if Apple knew that this sucks...

I'd be totally OK with a mandatory deposit on cables etc.

I have often thought that ONE AI-generated comment to every article everywhere might be a good thing to do. Because often enough the actually human commenters are incredibly stupid, one-sided, factually challenged, emotional and outright crazy. Just defining a baseline of somewhat balanced, reasonable, elaborate, even "political correct" commentary may be just what the doctor prescribes, fully with pros and cons and bullet points.

Of course this is not what Meta envisages. Meta would use this to beat everything into a lather even faster and more efficiently to generate "engagement" and make everyone even more crazy.

Note: Only when your foam goes over the brim on command you're a good Social Media citizen. And foam is cheap and easy to make. It's easy to drown in foam though, it has very little carrying power but suffocates you perfectly fine.

I love the compatibility, but I hate the plugs and sockets. Half of my cables don't work reliably anymore and one of the two USB-C ports in my Macbook Air M1 isn't usable anymore.

With Lightning the only problem ever was lint in the sockets but the plugs and the sockets themselves were pretty much bulletproof.

And honestly I utterly hate the fact that we're now stuck with this by the type of socket and plug being mandated by a fucking government. But it could have been worse, if this would have happened just a bit earlier, it would have been Micro-USB we would be stuck with forever.

No, I think this is just cheap populism, especially since NONE of the companies that are suffering from this are from the EU. It like the old "Who can, does; who can't, teaches". The EU is like "We can't make smartphones and operating systems and whatever, but we can tell others how to do it".

And yes, I have a huge box with now obsolete cables and adapters, but while the market may not be perfect with such things I think it's much, much better with tech than a fucking government, of all things.

So, no. I'm not really a friend of all these regulations. I can perfectly deal with whom I give my money, thank you very much.

Sadly there are also countless perfectly nice people who have achieved absolutely nothing and never will. It's really not that easy.

It's just about European governments not depend on Starlink. Which is Ok I guess. But these 290 satellites won't be in competition to the 7000 Starlink satellites at all. It will be so expensive that you will only use this if you're mandated by law to use it. I guess it will be about 2000 Euros a month at least for end users.

And if it should be subsidized so much to be as cheap as Starlink is (and it won't) it will be totally oversubscribed. You can't compete with Starlink this way. It's just about government and military uses.