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Only took them 5 years to figure out the new taskbar was objectively inferior to the old one.

Unfortunately I don’t think that was the only thing keeping people from moving over to Win11.

I mean my game plan is to move over to Linux once the situation on Win10 becomes unmanageable.

So the secret is the BS the administration made up after they were told that they’d need congressional approval if it really was just a ballroom

Well that’s gross. I’m just thankful you have to explicitly opt into this for now, cause I’m staying the fuck away

While I personally believe using GenAI is unethical for a number of reasons, I can see why people might want to vibe code for personal projects - where if it breaks, it is what it is and only you bare consequence.

But wasting the time of the maintainers of important games preservation software because you’ve got GenAI and a big ego is fucking stupid.

If you want to vibe code on production, go work for Microslop.

Still, the current legislative progress in California has to be heartening for the Stop Killing Games movement, which has seen its momentum in the UK stall a bit after a UK Parliament debate on game preservation last November.

Having seen that debate, “stall a bit” is not the language I’d have used for what happened. Multiple impassioned politicians almost completely ignored by the Government spokesperson in an almost certainly pre-written speech asserting that the industry said this was too hard to implement, therefore we’re gonna do fuck all for game preservation.

I can imagine at least a few people are in a similar boat to me. I intended to upgrade this year and had even saved up for it - but the insane price hikes have completely killed any justification I could muster, so now I’m just waiting until something breaks.

… And both things cannot be true because why?

China is the bad guy in this instance because they’re the ones threatening the sovereignty of another country.

Nobody says it can’t be the US. I certainly think the US’s actions are deplorable when it comes to both Gaza and Iran. You need only check my comment history.

If I were Taiwan, I’d make sure to have a deadman’s switch on TSMC - so if China every tried to take it, the whole thing would suddenly become very worthless to them.

And I’d make sure everybody in the room could hear that, so the world knows what they’d be losing if China ever went for it.

My question here is what does that bike, or an equivalent model cost now?

Also, as others have said your maths isn’t very fair to the bike - as cars have a whole lot more regular maintenance and legal/admin costs to them than a bike ever will, which really need to be factored into this.

Like others, I suspect that would shift things in favour of the bike by quite a lot, even despite the battery cost being a hard pill to swallow.

In the latest episode of Trump leaving his allies out to dry, it looks like Trump is trying to trade Taiwan to China for Somethingᵀᴹ

I genuinely feel terrible for Taiwan that they’re stuck in this horrid position of being constantly threatened by China for merely existing, and essentially having to bet on the global value of TSMC to keep the otherwise apathetic US around.

It shouldn’t have to be that way, and its abhorrent that it is.

I’m thankful that the EU managed to (mostly) step in for Ukraine, but Taiwan is simply too far away for Europe to properly defend - so if the US doesn’t stand up, I doubt anybody will.

By that calculation, even on the lower end of only losing $20 billion that’d still be 10 years before it’d cost them anymore than this rancid business decision did.

They’re so determined to not negotiate with the union that they’d rather throw away the shareholder’s money than give it to workers… And that’s just this scheduled strike. If talks fail again, I bet you there will be more to come.

Samsung might have a difficult time explaining that one at their shareholder presentation next year.

Weird isn’t it. He’s a darling to autocrats, yet talks down to his own allies for not being appreciative of all the nothing he does for them (or in the case of Iran, dragging us into bullshit nobody asked for to distract from him being a pedo)

What?! A soulless megacorporation pocketed refunds for tariffs that they never actually paid (because they forced the end user to eat the cost)??

I seriously hope this lawsuit works, because it’d set one hell of a precedent for future lawsuits.

Probably - because the amount of money they’re about to lose was probably less than what actually negotiating with the union would’ve cost them

Weirdly enough there’s a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won’t be done.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, daily losses could approach 3 trillion won ($2 billion) if fabrication lines are paused entirely. Professor Kwon Seok-joon at Sungkyunkwan University previously estimated that the 18-day walkout alone would cause 10 trillion to 17 trillion won ($17 billion) in direct losses, while JPMorgan has projected total losses of up to 43 trillion won ($28 billion) when factoring in labor costs and extended production disruption.

Wow. What a huge amount of money to lose just because you won’t pay your highly skilled workers more.

As @osanna@lemmy.vg said, you really have to wonder how much it would cost Samsung to pay their workers more if they’re willing to tank a potentially $20-40 billion loss instead of giving the union what they’re asking for.

Yes - not because I particularly like the idea of bigoted speech, but because like most Governments have already started to demonstrate over age verification, any tool of censorship you allow to be used against your enemy will eventually be turned back against you

Yup. If the infinite growth machine can’t make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won’t be fixed.

No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.

Yeah… In situations like these, you kinda just have to do whatever you can do.

Unless you’re someone with the power to actually influence policy of the country you live in - in which case what the fuck are you doing reading this, fix your shit - then you realistically can’t do jack about these issues.

If you try to fight every battle that’s coming our way, rally behind every issue, you’ll get burnt out - and that’s exactly what those sending them to you want to happen.

While I’m not going to say its over, it sure looks like Google is about to make it a whole lot harder for people to escape their influence.

And the worst part of this is it would seem even the most “privacy conscious” governments are on Google’s side.

Because locking everything down and removing our privacy is good for the children… Just never mind the rich pedophile cabal that almost nothing was done about other than slapping the wrists a few very high profile scapegoats.