So it couldn't possibly be that the new software simply isn't as good and lacks important or useful features?

I've worked on government software projects before and my guess is extremely little of the allocated funds got to the contractors actually writing the software. They probably hired one or two programmers maximum and gave them a two or three months to throw something together, then said 'oh no, the money ran out' and shat out what they had percolating.

$10M spent, maybe $50K in the developers' paychecks.

Nuclear energy is green energy. Just because the externalities of nuclear are more obvious than the externalities of wind or solar does not make those other options any cleaner than nuclear.

You'd have to convince the rest of the "green power" party, then.

So... no NatGas, no coal, no nuclear... what's the nation going to run on when one additional person decides to microwave a Pot Pie?

Solar, wind, and hydro aren't going to come close to 24/7 reliable power... we'd need a US-country-sized island of 'just' batteries to keep up with demand.

Did wind power for ships in the 1800's generate power? Let me know how far you can fly your electric Cessna or LearJet.

Well, considering I didn't number anything, so I can't reference number one or anything, this'll be rocky.

There's plenty of water to put out ICE fires, they also have fire-fighting foam for that issue... do they have Halon systems to extinguish your BEV? The minerals are still mined by child labor, aren't they? Should we be okay with that concept because it's something "we need"? And, I imagine there's lots of truck EV charging stations that are big enough for 120' trailers. I'm aware of how the trucks are contracted to haul a _thing_ (whatever it is). If we don't need to process crude oil to get gas or diesel, what's the point of drilling for oil? Couldn't we use that natural gas for heating and cooking?

I say: let the stupid data centers burn... do we really need them?

Does this 'green power' include NatGas power plants?

Viable biosphere? We've been well outside of that concept since like the 70's (probably earlier). Can't leave the oil in the ground... it has uses (how else does everything get from China to US, or how do you take your globe-trotting vacation?).

You mean like pollution-producing NatGas (a limited resource)? How about the minerals (a limited resource) that get used to make the solar panels? Those come from mines outside the big cities in Asia Major where the children work in the mines. Are the trucks that deliver the blades and nacelle and mast powered by electric? Do the BEV batteries totally get recycled locally, or do they get the aluminum can treatment (crush it here, send it overseas to be recycled)?

Do you have a Halon system to extinguish the battery fire when your power-wall catches fire?

Your utopia didn't turn out so well for Germany. Shutting down all their nuclear plants and going green. Only to need to pay inflated prices to import power from France's nuclear plants.

Then there's all the industries leaving Germany because they can't get reliable power to operate manufacturing plants.

The sun doesn't always shine, wind doesn't always blow, and extended droughts can cause water to not flow. There needs to be alternative sources. And modern nuclear plants are preferable to coal and gas plants.

These are going to be quick and dirty installations in order to power AI data centers for people that bribed trump. It's your taxpayer dollars going to finance AI slop. But that's not the real problem, the real problem here is the people who want these want them yesterday. They are not going to pay any attention to safety or maintenance they're just going to slap them up as fast as possible in a place where the people don't have enough political power to deal with the inevitable repercussions. Meanwhile we could power basically everything with wind and solar and do it safely and effectively but they don't want you to know that or think about that because while wind and solar is the inevitable direction we're going for power generation the Epstein class wants to remain in charge of your electricity and your access to clean water. And the funny thing is when I write it out even though it's absolutely true it sounds like batshit crazy insane conspiracy because well, it kind of is. It's like Gore Vidal used to say, I'm not a conspiracy theorist I'm a conspiracy analyst... And yeah you can have real conspiracies that are going to hurt you personally. Deal with it.

skill issue; i have never seen ads on my windows 11 installs, it's literally a google search and a single download away.

hell i've always had these start menu features on my win11 systems

so you can either complain for worthless feel good nerd cred (IE, about to be this entire fucking thread of people jerking eachother off about who can perform the linux humiliation ritual the most) or actually be a real user and make your system do what you want, the way users have made windows do what they want for decades

I noticed recommended content could be turned off in Win11 long ago. Maybe they are making it easier to do so, but its always been there.

Actually secure.

Because they don't think about what they're saying - it's just an automated, impersonal response with no meaning to them. They're just going through the motions. Which makes it even more rude.