Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.
The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.
Odd silence as Apple prepares to drop support for virtually every Intel-based Mac (with very few exceptions) later this year.
Do Apple users keep running unsupported OSes on older hardware, or do they rage and shake their fists toward Cupertino and install Linux on their unsupported Mac's?
When Win10 came around I was thinking I'd switch to Linux, but caved in and upgraded from Win7 anyway.
Are you still running the same hardware you ran Win 7 on? If that's the case, Win 11 isn't an option on your 15 year-old system.
Windows 10/11 install is no harder than any mainstream Linux install.
Every Win 10 computer that will lose support in October has the right to upgrade to Win 11, IF THE HARDWARE supports it. That said, the universe of windows users that are 'at risk' are those that either are running hardware that doesn't support Win 11 or that for whatever reason refuse to avail themselves of the free upgrade to Win 11. There are many, many Windows 10 users that could upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 but so far have chosen not to.
KDE is targeting used with computers sold in the last 15 years, that's well into Win 7 territory, and those are some very old desktops/laptops. (Windows 10 was released in 2009.)
"Windows 10 will degrade as more and more bugs come to light. With nobody to correct them, you risk being hacked. Your data, identity, and control over your device could be stolen."
The implication that merely by running a 'supported' operating system/software your "data, identity, and control over your device could be stolen" is at least misleading.
Peoples data and identities are constantly stolen from devices running a supported operating system/software - it may be 'easier' on an unsupported operating system/software, but you are vulnerable no matter what you install on your computer...
When we replaced our old car, we jumped a lot of generations. While I'm no fan of the giant touchscreen, the HUD is great. Need to turn? There's an arrow in your field of vision, to go along with the audible prompt.
Before that, sure, it was a map on the phone, but guess what, you can Mount your phone near your line of sight. Holding it in your hand, probably where you have to look down to see it? Yeah, not allowable.
You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.
Considering banks regularly receive taxpayer money to stay afloat, perhaps their business model needs an adjustment.
They need to adjust their business model because "banks regularly receive taxpayer money to stay afloat"?
WTF are you talking about? Seriously...
Define "regularly", and explain to me that you understand the banks get low interest loans to help them with liquidity issues, and pay the loans back with interest!
You were just itching to rail against bank bailouts because, well, you think the collapse of the U.S. banking system would only hurt 'the fat cats' and not little people like you, right?
How many citizens, roughly, have been deported since Trump took office?
Zero.
Next imaginary argument please...
Well, space travel in the U.S. is always a partnership between gov't and private sector, the question is the mix ratio.
Looking at Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs, were any of them built without private sector contributions? Of course not.
Right now there are a couple private sector options, Space X and Boeing. One has a great record of success, the other is struggling due to a very public issue (the two test pilots that spent how many months on the space station because no one knew if their ship was safe for return flight (spoiler alert, it was safe, but the only way to find out was to return the capsule).
If we are going to Mars, what are we going to do? Insist on federal workers building every component in-house or partner with an outside company? And if we are going to partner with some company, should it be a company that is five years late with the new Air Force one planes and hasn't had a an actual successful mission (yet)?
But Elon! DOGE! Oh No!
Please, spare me.
We can debate having a Mars mission, but don't shackle our Mars mission to exclude the most successful private space company because you have a political issue with the CEO.
Wikipedia lost its way a long time ago. I created and updated a couple of pages where I was fairly expert. Eventually, some admin type started complaining that my style didn't follow guidelines. The specific points were, IMHO, stupidly trivial and some were arguably grammatically wrong. I decided, if that's how they treat free labor, they could do without my help.
It seems that most of the casual authors have left. Wikipedia is to be dominated by people who live for nothing else.
It's still a good site for noncontroversial topics. Anything where opinions are divided? Discussion unwelcome, the opinions of the in-crowd are the only ones that count.
I can see how some people fall into this. The typical LLM is overly polite. "That's s great question!" "Great idea!" There must be something in the systems prompts requiring them to flatter the user.
I can see how some people fall for the flattery, and how it will self-reinforce as they interact with the LLM.
FWIW you can turn this off, or at least down, by asking the LLM to provide "no frills" answers.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another. -- Adam Smith
