I use my desktop with 2 - 3 monitors, a large keyboard and trackball any chance I get. This has to do with how horrible input devices are on both laptops and phones. I can't stand typing on a touch screen. I can't stand pointing with a trackpad. Or clicking, since I click the wrong button 50% of the time, without the tactile feedback. Aging/vision decline also makes small screens unsuitable, both phones and laptops..

I have so many electronics that have lasted much longer. I have >25 year old AVRs still working, for example. The things that tend to fail are those with mechanical parts. My SACD changers have all died for that reason. VCRs - yes I still have a nice converter one, actually got it repaired, it typically for $1000 on ebay despite its clock ending in 2015. 100% of all HDDs I had in the 1990s failed eventually after years of 24 hours use in BBS, also. My DDS-4 tape drive is still working, and tapes are fully readable. I have had multiple floppy drives fail. I still have a working USB FDD, or at least it was working the last time I used it. My 1990s eras LSI and Adaptec SCSI controllers still work - had to plug them in to restore the tapes. Even OS/2 still boots on my 2016 Z170-AR motherboard.

The power switch on one of my large HAF cases has failed, and I can't repair it. I switched the reset button to the power button as a result. Everything else mechanical works.

For more modern parts, I have a SATA-2 64GB Kingston SSD from 2010 I'm still using in production. None of the SSDs I own have ever failedI have a big stack of smaller SATA ones, Kingston, Crucial, Corsair, Patriot. No failures. For NVMe I also have a pair of Crucial NVMe 2 TB, another pair of Adata 1TB, a pair of Samsung 2TB, Five Teamgroup 4 TB. None has ever failed.

I have 8 x 14 TB HDDs on my NAS, bought in 2019. Still completely SMART healthy, no funky noise,

The only parts I have had fail recently are two Bequiet SFX-L 600W power supply that were bought the same month in 2022, running at 0rpm for 4.5 years, with a 3 year warranty. I replaced them with some 2008 era Raidmax I had in a drawer, that run at a few hundred RPM.

For strictly solid state electronics, I have had one GPU failure in 32 years of building PCs. I have had a few sticks of DDR4 RAM fail. Currently have about 400 GB of DDR4 sticks, all working, many from 2015.

My 20 year old Roland MIDI equipment still works, with the exception of a converted 25 year analog organ pedal. The contacts failed and result in repeated notes, making it unplayable.

I still have a perfectly working Note 20 Ultra. Only in a drawer because of lack of security updates.

So, I would say it's total BS about the short life span of most consumer electronics. I have so much evidence to the contrary. And I didn't mention any of the 700 smart devices. I expect most of the 230 LED smart Wifi bulbs will have about the same life span as the previous LED bulbs, most of which were put in service 10 years ago based on the date on the sharpie, and all still work - I just don't know who wants to buy 230 used LEDs.

You're welcome.

Maculopathy called., and want solid colors back, no gradients.

Yeah. I can't even read anything on dark background with the maculopathy.

It's "Beep beep", actually.

Or, as the captions on Youtube road runner cartoons state : "Beat me".

Because stupid humans might wrongly entrust AI agents and let them manage critical things like the power grid, water systems, weapons.

TFA has the correct headline. TFS does not.

I use an Optoma UHD65 4K projector. It doesn't have Wifi. It has Ethernet, but strictly for remote control. Otherwise, HDMI and VGA. It can't phone home.

Exactly. I can no longer solve them. I always use the audio now.

LLMs used as chatbots are fine. LLMs hooked up to harness agents that can perform actions is a different matter.
Since the agents are not legal entities, legal responsibility falls on those who operate them, ie. corporations or individuals.

If corporations aren't getting criminally charged, and no one is personally going to jail, perhaps everyone who is running agents should be setting up a corporation. I bet there is a market for liability insurance for unintended agent actions, too.

Liquor sales are not allowed after 2am in California. Bars close at 2am as a result. There is an increase in drunk driving accidents in the following hour as a result. I got a power outage at 3am Sunday morning. I knew it had to be another drunk driver knocking down a power pole. The final e-mail from PG&E after the outage resolved confirmed that it was due to a vehicle.

Not again with that disproven shit.

SkyNet.

And never put it back. It's unconscionable. These features will not be back. I'm sticking with Musescore 3.