For ~97% of the computer using population it is a hot new tech.
Compared to the state of consumer-grade Linux 5 years ago to today, it’s absolutely a hot new tech.
One cannot understate the impact that the Steam Deck and Proton had on driving consumer-friendly features to Linux simply from the demand of an exploding user base.
There was an experiment a couple years ago I remember reading about concluding that of all the jobs that ““AI”” could replace, C-suites were the one category where the computer outperformed humans in a statistically-significant amount
If I’m having a bad tinnitus day I put on a set of headphones and use a pink/brown noise generator, some will sweep between the two or other colours as well. An hour or so of that will usually soothe it out for a good while.
A couple bombs can take out a gigawatt+ generation plant. A couple dozen acres of solar panels will need much, much more, with each individual strike having far less impact and being far easier to repair after. On top of that, solar can be widely distributed and embedded in much smaller footprints, into civilian areas, and so on. Solar also has less infrastructure requirements such as access to water where destroying a dam for example can render one or more power plats inoperable.
The US has virtually no “emergency brake” option in government. In a Westminster-style system not being able to pass a budget immediately triggers an election, while government remains funded based on the previous budget.
This seems like more of an implosion, we should ask Stockton Rush what that sounds like… oh.
It wasn’t a big deal, but there was a lot of loud, stupid people making a lot of loud, stupid noises about it when it happened.
Jesus said exactly that in Matthew 6:5-6
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
His “donations” are to his own charity, that he then gets to use to reduce his tax burden. Billionaire philanthropy is another avenue of profit for them, nothing else.
That, and making heavy use of the 13th amendment to work the farm.
Barbara Streisand says: I had no idea this existed until now
It’s easy, you just have to replace all the air with helium, and off you go!
They don’t go through with anything because it would backfire monumentally. Alberta’s inclusion in the charter is mostly treaty lands, and to dissolve the province means the treaty owners get their land back. There’s not much of Alberta that’s not treaty lands, and the oil sands falls under that umbrella.
To top that off, the tribes who are party to that treaty have already already said they would petition to rejoin Canada
well, a couple provinces aren’t and seem to think that their contributions to the country are far more significant than reality indicates…
Might need to check out the people that were the victims of anti-LGBTQ+ violence in the last decade or so, should be a pretty short list still
Tech bubbles they’re re-starting the crypto bubble, there’s the AI bubble, the streaming bubble, ads on ads on ads bubble, cloud-all-the-things bubble, the centuries-old “use illegal foreign labour to keep costs low and profits high” bubble… that one isn’t really tech, but it has kept the American economy inflated for quite a while…
I think the next step is them re-starting sub-prime mortgages
Even with the lithium mining, an EV will reach “pollution parity” with a comparable sized ICE vehicle anywhere from 6 months to 5 years on the road, largely depending on what is powering the electrical grid (coal fired electricity being the 5 year), with the average being 1-2 years. That means that an EV from 2023 on average has caused less total pollution than an ICE vehicle of the same age.
On top of that, there has been significant progress made in recycling these batteries so that less lithium needs to be mined, as well as using other metals such as sodium, both sodium ion and sodium iron batteries are commercially available.
Software updates can be deployed regionally either based on carrier or by product SKU. If there are different SKUs for North American vs EU phones, which is almost universally the case because of differing regional requirements such as radio technology, target price points and so on. That means that phone model ‘X (NA)’ could have a different update schedule than ‘X (EU)’.
Why? money, of course. There is a small cost to supporting a SKU for updates, even if it’s the same software that’s already being deployed to another SKU. That increases if the two SKUs have different processors (Samsung does this). On top of that, longer update schedules means people aren’t replacing their phones as often, which means theoretically less sales - though I find that claim dubious as many people replace their phones long before they lose software support.
So yes, while it’s possible that a company might honour a 7 year update schedule outside of EU, it would be by their choice to do so.
and aren’t disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies
one of which is having HIV
I’m using KRdp for the first time in several years today and am BLOWN AWAY by the quality of the connection. It is in virtually every regard as good as Windows’ RDP.