Following on your thinking- how much CO2 are they releasing collecting, crushing, transporting, and spreading this rock throughout Brazil?

I boot the installer and dd | gzip the whole disk first thing. Then I can remain with Windows if I give the computer away at some point. Although, the last couple machines I have kept until they totally died. Disk space is so cheap now that keeping a 20gb image around costs less than buck.

Aha. But I have all my CSAM as ASCII art. Checkmate, liberegulator

Talk about complicated solutions. A doctor in France invented a device that works just fine over 200 years ago. It has no parts moving at relativistic speeds, and once built, operates for pennies per use. Perhaps we can tech it up a bit and add a neutral network that lines the neck up properly for minimal splatter.

I think this has a pretty clear answer. Once they start enshittifying the products to the point that people are no longer willing to ask, either because it takes 10 queries to get an answer, or because you will have to watch 60 seconds of ads to get your 2 line answer. While it is free, everybody is enthralled by the psychic. Once the collection plate comes out, most people will leave the tent.

Yes, but it is a useless metric. The most critical bugs can often be fixed with a couple lines of code in 20 minutes (once the problem is identified). How much does that cost per gigabyte? Cost per OTA push seems a lot more appropriate unless the focus is on the cost of the bandwidth.

I get that safety needs to be a top priority, but $1M seems steep for what could be a drive-by-wire system.

The advantage university adds is that the common rabble interact with the rich, so they have the opportunity to advance their position, if they brown nose the right a-hole. Same as it ever was.

Authoritarianism is bad for the people (and thus the economy), whether it is left- or right-wing.

No, it works. But it is just another tool that they use. The better the tools work, the more likely radiologists are going to find issues, and earlier. This means they are then more valuable for diagnostic work, and the demand is even higher. Until we start addressing the cause of high cancer rates, the need for diagnosis and cures will keep going up.

Don't forget about how bad their app is. It pretty consistently loses connection, and never remembers where to resume.

Their mice are very good, but I've never had any problems with them overheating.

Are you telling me Csaba Szabo is not an AI name?

The graph appears to be missing the "abyss of enshittification"

It seems like this will be subject to even more bit rot than standard tapes, since there will be actual bacteria trying to rot it. I have a 55-year old DNA tape that seems to have suffered some severe damage (due to an unrelated drinking problem). Can this straighten it out and get the processor running at full speed again?