Plus, we've read this story on Slashdot many times before. It usually ends with Microsoft "Generously" offering discounted or free Office licenses to the next IT executive in order to bring them back into the fold.

Yeah... Apple is finally going to have charge time estimates on their home screen, something that most Android devices have had for the past three years. Such "innovation"!

I'll answer your question with another question... does it really matter that the Trump administration thinks about this problem? AI probably isn't going to take over the majority of jobs by 2028, so it doesn't really matter what the Trump admin thinks the "solution" for this is. Sure, unemployment caused by AI takeover will slowly increase over the next few years, but we're probably not talking 20% unemployment rates like it was the next great depression.

This will likely be a problem for the next administration to fix, or the one after that.

Looking at their sparse and weird product listing, I can see why they might be in financial trouble. You would think that a store called "American Science" would have a good selection of solar panels for experiments, but when you do a search on that, you only get one real option for a 100mA panel and a handful of solar flood lights.

Likewise, I did a search for 3D printers and found NO printers available and only one roll of filament. But... they have a selection of lawn statues. Why, I don't know.

I can't imagine modern Linux versions running KDE running on 10 year old hardware is going to be a great experience. Especially if they're still using a PC with a hard drive for storage.

Sure, they're probably used to a horrible UI experience by using a Windows 10 PC loaded with years of bloatware, but this isn't going to seem like much of an improvement to them.

Of course, this is Frontier we're talking about. Their incompetent customer support department couldn't resolve billing issues or connection issues for their customers 90% of the time, so what makes you think that they would do any better when it's Universal or Sony making the demands for assistance?

These were likely the same corporate executives who tried outsourcing their IT, development, and tech support to foreign counties in the 2000's to cut their costs and improve their bonuses. That didn't work out well for most of them. Hell... I'll bet that many of these executives are still trying to defend their decisions to outsource their data centers to cloud hosting providers in the 2010's. Those AWS and Azure bills are getting pretty big, though... time to start using AI agents in the 2020's to try to cut costs again.

Hey... they're still better than Google's smart home products. Not that you really need to try very hard to beat the voice recognition of a Google Home device in 2025.

I'd imagine that the next important thing will be cleaning up all the security and performance issues caused by sloppy AI enhanced "vibe" coding, which seems to be coming all the rage in 2025.

They're also killing off security updates for Windows 10 this year, insuring that thousands of more systems will be added to these botnets soon!

Sure, but he owns 13.5% of Facebook and has more than 50% of the voting power. Good luck getting Zuck to vote himself out of power.

Well... that and world pirates the stuff made in the US. Many countries aren't paying for our music, TV, movies, games, and software... they're just stealing it.

Downside of basing your economy on "soft" goods instead of physical items, I guess.

Did they figure out the specific people who's idea it was to quadruple VMWare VSphere licensing costs? I sure that there are plenty of people who want to leave a flaming bag of poo on their doorsteps.

They've sold millions of Quest 3 and S3 headsets as well. They were kind of a "hot" item for Christmas 2024, but something tells me that most of them are also collecting dust as well. I know that mine is. The controls are still too kludgy for AAA gaming titles, there really isn't much in the way of productivity software for it, and the simple arcade games like Beat Saber get boring after a few hours.

You kind of sound like my 8th grade math teacher, who told me that "you won't always have a calculator available" to do math problems like 473x284.

He was wrong, very wrong. I had a calculator in my backpack all the way through high school and college, and then I had a smartphone with a calculator app on me at practically all times after that. Guess what, ChatGPT is now on there as well. While I can certainly write a basic e-mail on my own without help, at this point it's becoming foolish not to validate what I'm writing with a AI peer review if it's something important.