My shell is a CLI so they replace enough stuff that Explorer is never running. If you want a file-management GUI thing you still have to run Explorer.

My desktop is just under 20 years old and still runs fine, meaning it sits at single-digit CPU utilisation most of the time and runs all the software I need it to. The burner I originally put in it is an LG, the second is something from a PC that was being scrapped. Software is CDBurner XP and something else (it's been a long time since I set them up). Storage is one copy locally and the second copy at a friend's place. It's pretty straightforward, just whatever works.

Exactly, we've demonstrated repeatability. Now all we need is A/B testing.

Unless you're running an alternative desktop like Start11/WindowBlinds, which has no Explorer stuff running. Be interesting to see if there's preloaded bloat after the next update.

I do the same, two copies on different burners with different software to different brands of media. Problem is the media is getting really hard to find, the few remaining types out there are branded but made God-knows-where under who-knows-what conditions.

This stuff doesn't work the way the dreamers pushing it have been claiming, and this has been known for over forty years. Here's one analysis. Here's one on OLPC specifically.

The semi-gibberish headline isn't exactly a model of clarity either... how about "nVidia responds to fears of Google catching up".

To raise the stock price of power companies. Notice how they mention the power usage multiple times but never give any actual performance figures. I could do the same press release with a really big resistor.

I mean a really big resistor.

Well I dunno, I think it's still fulfilling it's role. Notepad's role has always been to be the crap text editor that literally everything else was better than. Now it's been updated to be the enshittified text editor that everything else is less shitty than

Right, because Europe is all empty wilderness and not densely-populated land that's been built all over for millennia before the US even existed. And Asian cities are so sparsely populated that there's plenty of free land to run high-speed rail through too.

And here's what Grok thinks:

It's possible there may be some bias in that answer.

The reason why no-one's done it before could be because it's not actually practical. We've had geothermal power plants for decades, if this version is such an easy win then chances are it'd have been done before now.

Europe and Asia don't seem to have any problems with it. As the OP pointed out, the problem is political and social, not technical.

Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by entrenched bureaucracy. The IETF got taken over by standards bureaucrats years ago, you don't need any deliberate action by the NSA to turn things into endless bickering, red tape, petty power struggles and turf wars, and insistence on following arbitrary "procedure" to the letter, including making up the procedures as you go to make sure any alternate view is shut down. Unfortunately when someone like djb comes along with an engineering approach and sound technical arguments it clashes headlong with entrenched bureaucracy.

The fact that he doesn't suffer fools gladly, and that there's plenty of them to go around, isn't helping things.

I dunno, many of the YT videos I watch have thousands upon thousands of comments on them, that's more than most Fecebook/Twatter/whatever posts. And a lot of them aren't direct comments on the video but long ongoing discussion threads. It's more Reddit than a turn-on-switch-off video site.