I see that there's a difference between writing a document and understanding what you wrote and the use of an illustration image in the document.

If I use AI to generate an illustration image and specify that it's AI generated but the text is purely my creation then I don't see any issue.

Dell consumer products and dell server's are very different in construction and support.

That's good to hear as I really hoped they would be more careful with server gear. I just have no info in that regard to know.

That's really hard to believe. Six month lifecycles?

Most of them were failures of the power connector on the laptop (the power supply was fine). She does have to bring the laptops into work a few times a week so they gut plugged and unplugged, but at most once or twice a day, some days just left plugged in and she's not rough on laptops otherwise (the Mac I gave her for personal use lasted five years or so without any failures).

A few were trackpad failures. Maybe you could chalk up some of those to really being Windows.

All I know is in every case she got a new laptop.

Yes it seemed insane to me also.

Our current system allows criminal fraud by corporate actors. A class action suit will cost less than the profit made from intentional fraud and Courts love to claim that a corporate shield protects these actions.

Perhaps it shouldn't.

Until it does don't trust any corporate promises without preagreed consequences.

Since you as a customer owns the data it could also mean costly court cases if the data isn't released so it's easier to just waive the fees.

It all seems really nice on paper but how would you like to be the poor bastard in charge of keeping that many Dell servers operational.

Maybe Dell servers are built by different people in that company but my wife has to use Dell laptops from work and they've so far had to be replaced about twice a year.

But broadly Panasonic seems to be undifferentiated products in a lot of segments

I agree, I was thinking and there's no form of appliance or consumer electronics where I would go looking for something new, and actually seek out that brand.

Maybe just being a solid maker of products and living in the middle of the market is a workable approach, but maybe not after all these moves. Maybe a company needs at least a few tentpole product areas where they are clearly leaders, to help bring consumers to other things they make.

Samsung I would say is a great example of this.

Sorry, this is a reinstall of Windows 11 Enterprise that isn't using the Dell system and that doesn't matter in this case. This could happen to any installation linked to intune.

I can't choose to not use intune in this case since that's decided above my level.

I beg to differ. If Britain's Ofcom classifies Wikipedia as a "category 1" social website pursuant to the Online Safety Act, Wikipedia could become unavailable in Britain. See "Wikipedia Legally Challenges UK's 'Flawed' Online Safety Rules", citing a BBC story.

And before most people had an Internet connection at home faster than the 0.05 Mbps of v.90 dial-up. If you exclude ad-supported and subscription websites, you end up with mostly websites operated as a hobby. I'm not confident that having only hobby sites around will sustain a market for home broadband Internet access.

It would be nice, but it's far, far more likely that the web will become - literally - nothing but ads cleverly (not) disguised as "content."

And if you think about it, part of the reason for doing just that would be to reach the ultimate goal of having your advertising on a site spit out the other side of AI that crawled your pages, so that AI is the one broadcasting your advertising to a wider audience.

AI is very naive, it seems like it could be tricked this way, using similar approaches that people take to poisoning AI today.