Windows has been increasingly failing at being what an operating system is supposed to be. It's supposed to bridge the gap between hardware and software, and facilitate the launching and management of applications. Instead, it's spying on users, collecting private date, silently installing and running software by third-party accessories, displaying ads, etc. It is full of friction when trying to use it, for example, it can't suspend or shutdown correctly, it's full of vulnerabilities, etc. ...And then there's Copilot...

Every news article about Flock cameras seems deliberately incorrect. They are not LPR cameras, they are full-on video security cameras, combined with server-based AI to search for/recognize objects, people, animals, activities, etc. They do not just store vehicle and/or license plate information.

I watched a few minutes of one of his podcasts once to see what the big deal was. Rogan is a definition of a tool.

Flock cameras are not LPR cameras. They are regular security cameras, with server-based AI. They even show demos to potential customers showing how the their product can search for specific people based on clothes, animal types, children/babies, strollers, carts, etc. across the entire country from one web-based interface. It's all very Orwellian and I don't think this issue either starts nor stops with Flock as a company. This type of surveillance is going to be ubiquitous regardless of what company(s) show up for making money from it.

I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.

They can't. They will rehire/backfill a fraction of it back a year from now at lower salaries.

Yep. My wife was interested in watching the Odyssey. It would take ~5 hours, including travel, and about $75 for tickets, gas, and ONE snack and ONE drink. For that amount of money, we can buy pizza on the way home, buy/rent the movie, and watch it on our couch, AND do it again for a second movie, and still have money left over.

We are entering an age where impatience is a luxury. I can wait for the movie to be available for streaming.

My parents hit a deer at 40mph with their Forester and it turned into pink mist. The only "mass" left of it was just a head. I have no doubt the CT is not as safe as regular vehicles, but I don't think the outcome of object getting hit by something at 75mph is going to be an indicator of safety.

I don't care about hibernate, sleep, or fast startup. The main issue I experience is that when I click shutdown the computer does not ever go into a sleep/off state. It looks like it's trying to shutdown, but ends up staying at the lock screen and I have to hold the power button down to kill the power. It's been a fairly consistent issue I've had across three machines over at least 6 years. I only have the issue on my work machine now because I addressed it on my machines by installing Linux.

Because they are complicit. The two parties are not the same, they differ on a few dozen topics, of which the public is acutely aware. For the other 1,000,000+ issues, they are either in agreement or are complicit in Republican ideology.

He has set the precedent that presidents and their families can not only continue to run businesses while in office, but make governing decisions that lead to profit for those businesses. Oh, and getting payments for advertisements from the Resolute desk, and putting up paid advertisements on government property. Oh, and punish federal funding to states, companies, Universities, etc. for not following his executive orders, which are not laws, but are being treated as such.

The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.

That's a strange thing to call your partner.

Doesn't matter what his reasons were to wipe the device, that's the point of privacy, not to hide criminal activities.

Deleted my account I had since Digg v4 once they removed third-party app access. I was lurking occasionally for news and memes, but this has finally ended that. RIP old Reddit.

I think it's funny how all companies immediately shifted from customer-facing to business and wealthy investors as their new customers. They don't care about us at all, only that their stock goes up. A massive amount of former consumers are effectively broke, so businesses are relying on each other to boost their stocks. Not sure how that plays out long-term.

Linux desktop is in a great position now. I've been using it long before it was usable for most casual users, but it's finally reached the point where it has less problems than Windows for my purposes.

How old are your folks?

Sounds like we might find out how the courts will view it.

Yes. These can read license plates and identify people. They are mass surveillance devices and store their data in a massive centralized system.

First off, Microsoft clearly isn't reading the room on where they stand in 2026 with Apple hardware and Linux gaming gaining traction.

Secondly, isn't a Windows OEM license like $100? If it increases by "7-10%", wouldn't that just be $7-10? That wouldn't drastically change the price of hardware shipping with Windows at all, and that's if the manufacturers don't just eat that cost.