Fuck you, Ivan. Putin and his orcs can fuck off immediately, you land stealing piece of shit.

False. Things such as firmware are almost always the responsibility of whomever executes the maintenance contract on commercial enterprises such as this. The customer has virtually no control over this.

What's the alternative? You're applying home thinking to large scale commercial enterprises. Not doing those "stupid" things becomes a problem that may not only be expensive, but could potentially also be unworkable with fridges potentially out for days or weeks due to lack of predictive / condition based maintenance, which typically requires close to real time data understood by people who know what the data means - i.e. you need to get the data out of the store.

Cheap is only one side of the coin, the other side is effective. As population and complexity increase the ability to manage something becomes far more difficult. Being able to predictively plan maintenance based on current operational conditions is almost essential when you have a fleet of potentially 1000s of commercial fridges across your stores in a city. Relying on locally identified problems and then doing a callout isn't just a case of being expensive, it's potentially unworkable with maintenance crews.

Routine maintenance / breakdown maintenance is the worst way to run any larger business compared to condition-based maintenance / predictive maintenance. Both of the latter require loads of data managed by people who understand data. The local store clerk won't have a clue.

Need is the wrong question. We don't need any internet at all for anything. It's a question of want. Centralised maintenance and predictive planning that is automated has driven down cost of ownership which is critical when you're running potentially thousands of fridges in a city.

Define the difference between mess and works. AI makes messy code, but compared to some of the rubbish that low quality human coding farms put out, I'm not actually confident I can say which is worse.

Standing up or laying on your back?

And one damn thing I wanted AI to do for me was to make lovely documents for me so I didn't have to try doing it. So far it can't really do it. If I really screw around with it I can get it to do it but then I could have just done it myself.

And that's been my experience with AI so far. If I really screw around with it I can get it to do what I wanted to do but I could have just done it myself in the first place. And since I have to check all the work it's doing it's just not worth the effort.

I've been told if you put a bunch of effort into getting it to work it will work but what the hell is the point of that? Meanwhile eventually it's not going to be cheap and unless I want to spend 3 Grand on video card that can run one of the models I'm stuck paying through the nose...

I'm not sure I get what Torvalds is saying here either. Did I misread it? He said he gave AI The prompt and it did it but it was horrendous. Implying that it was worse than the work he did himself. What's the point then? If it can't solve the part I don't want to do and it's incredibly expensive doing that badly I just don't see the point... I guess it takes people who can't do a thing and makes them feel like they could do the thing. And I guess if you're a business man that's a good thing because you can theoretically expand the number of people you can hire to do a thing or just get rid of them all together plummeting wages.

But again, I don't see how that's a good thing either. Especially in a world where if you don't work you don't eat and people tend to start wars when they can't eat...

Even before AI they cranked out nothing but slop for fortnite. Skin after skin after skin and they only started making anything else when fortnite skin sales started to drop and like every publicly traded company on Earth they have to grow endlessly and at the exact same or better rates than they did last cycle.

Our entire economic system is built on endless highly rapid growth to keep the Epstein class fed. Basically we're all running from the dragon hoping it eats The Hobbit before it eats us. And it's looking like it's done with all the hobbits and we're next on the menu...

The genocide of the midianites?

If Putin keeps sending drones into Poland then NATO is going to send troops all right... Into Russia.

It's true that NATO is there to contain Russia. If only Russia wasn't a continual aggressor, it wouldn't be necessary.

The big spammers in Russia are government sponsored, and the government hates competition.

"The real problem with modern nuclear is its just expensive and extremely complicated to get running compared with the cheaper energy from solar, wind, etc. But. the Environmental dangers? We solved that issue decades ago."

Who is "we" here? Certainly not a failing country that will absolutely cut every corner.

The ruling class has decided AI is going to replace us. One of them just casually spent close to $300 million on the midterm elections without so much as a second thought. Your individual purchases are completely irrelevant to the face of that.

This isn't something the free market can solve. It is a fundamental shift in human society and culture. Rugged individualism can only take you so far. And it turns out you can't actually pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. That used to be a joke but we took it way too fucking seriously...

They transferred a different fab. Your citation also doesn't show they actually built the fab in question. Got one that does?