The EV1 was all bespoke, expensive to build, unprofitable to sell. It was a test project to see if the tech was viable against gassers yet, and it wasn't.

All that would be a lot more insightful if slavery of those convicted of crimes wasn't still legal in the USA. We never abolished slavery, we just made it so you had to be run through the system before you could be enslaved, and we only allow the privatized prison industry to keep slaves.

IBM decided to be a services company instead of trying to revitalize their manufacturing business. Sega trusted Microsoft, never trust Microsoft. Blackberry is a pretty good example of failure they couldn't reasonably anticipate, but they had none of Apple's advantages.

Apple is not indestructible and certainly not infallible, but they can still flail about for quite a while before they're in trouble.

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.

It's going to take longer than that to teach Vance how to act like a human.

Flywheels, ofc, nobk.