Into the hands of Trump supporters. Not until the facists are out of office and citizens demand the restoration of democracy and corporations be held accountable to regulations.

Not quite what I meant, but your point is valid. I was more meaning that discussing repairability without also considering reliability isn't as informative as it could be.

Surely how often repairs are needed should be taken into account? Anecdata time: 26 years without a fault in any of my laptops (they're Apples, but I hear Lenovo and other brands can be quite reliable as well) or either of the desktops. No iPhone (since 3G) or iPad that I've owned has ever gone wrong either.

Previous Dells and other cheaper brands that I owned last century weren't so reliable for me and I would have cared about repairability.

No, "law-abiding". Don't use a pejorative term for what should be regarded as the norm. All administrations should strive to be law-abiding. Not saying that they will always achieve it, but it should be the default.

You've got into the habit of not making any effort to obey any rules, whether your own or international (Guantanamo for example). If you regard following such rules as "legalistic" (ie excessive), then you really are doomed.

And at the same time ensure that everyone becomes more dependent on data centres, the cloud etc. So we don't own our own data, and so they can strip-mine it on the way into the cloud to "teach" their beloved word sausage machines.

Except for governments, rulers, elites etc, I presume. That is, perfect targets for this sort of malware.

Indeed. I've been using `uv` for a year and don't really want to lose it, but this is surely game over.

Also, why didn't OpenAI just get someone to vibe equivalent tools into existence for them? I sure ain't buying their dog food.

Moderated troll? So we're back to the dark days of Slashdot where criticism of Trumpster Fire was verboten? Cool, cool, cool.

And the toddler in chief just spat out his dummy, stamped his feet and screamed and screamed and screamed, putting a 10% tariff on all the nasty people in the rest of the world.

... AI stories.

We all know the emperor has no clothes. We know the "stories" are PR pieces from AI boosters. We know that autocorrect can't replace anybody whose job doesn't involve following an exact script or redoing work that already exist.

Just stop it. Stop promulgating the nonsense. There is no "I" in AI and there is no creativity in the autocorrect that they're pushing on us.

In the meantime we're paying higher electricity costs and having to hold off purchases of equipment or pay extortionate prices for RAM and disks.

All so some billionaires can add a few zeros.

I'm retired, no job to be replaced by the stochastic musings of an over-sold Excel spreadsheet. Just sick of the lies and marketing nonsense. Sick of the slop in the music and writing spheres. Sick of the "I made a C compiler from scratch" lies.

And yes, you can get off my lawn.

Too late.

Seven years ago for me. In a cold place.

I was going to spell it "ARRRGGGGHHH" but your way works just as well. When will the madness end? Either Trump or "AI" or preferably both.

It was a "targeted load balancing" change. Just like ICE's targeted operations, the new usage means "We fucked up but we're never going to admit it.

Big up to whoever modded this "troll". Maybe you could show your working?