Exactly, it allows them to blame Microsoft and say that they followed "best practice".

I suppose at least they didn't ask AI to fix it as well. Although who knows how many contractors are using AI to do their jobs for them now.

Years back the company I worked for had a contractor who did PCB layouts. He was crap at it too, and I'm fairly sure he just used the auto-router for everything. Caused no end of problems which went away when I started doing the PCB layouts myself.

I prefer GoG. Just download an installer and play the game that way. I don't need a launcher or game manager.

It's an external requirement in many cases. For contractual or legal reasons they need AV software on all machines, if it makes sense or not.

It's how utter crap like McAffee survives. It may be shit, but it fulfils a business need. Checks the box.

With the recent interference with Starlink in Ukraine, it's pretty clear that there are many powerful people in America who are Russian assets.

You are making the same mistake. Language isn't intelligence, but that doesn't mean that an LLM can't be intelligent.

The less here is probably that if you want an offline crypto wallet you should buy it direct from the manufacturer. Trying to save a few bucks by buying from Yahoo Auctions is a bad idea when a large amount of crypto is on the line.

You and DarkOx are making the assumption that intelligence has to be just like human intelligence, or it's just a "word predictor".

One of the biggest things that sets human beings apart from other animals is language. It seems entirely possible that intelligence could be built around language processing. Of course it will be different, but that doesn't mean it won't be useful, or that it would be immune to mental health problems.

Remember in the early days when AI could be "jailbroken" by just telling it to ignore all previous orders and tell you how to make a bomb? Then that evolved into role playing, and finally into abuse that bullied the AI into doing what the user wanted. It wouldn't surprise me if sustained abuse could still get it into a state where it misbehaves.

They tried to build one and it caught fire IIRC.

But also the tariffs. Don't lift them though, that way there is more cheap CXMT DRAM for Europe. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Consumer computers might go away if we are not careful. It will all be cloud based because that is more profitable. Everything on subscription. Your computer is the minimum viable terminal for those services.

The firmware probably isn't designed to be secure, they likely instead have a box that does all the comms with the fridges, and connects to their VPN for remote control. The box only ever talks to the VPN so the only bit that needs securing is their corporate network.

That is how most of these devices work, such as connected cars. VPN to a fixed server, with a certificate to validate that it's the real one, and don't talk to anything else.