The article is about a highly accurate (orders of magnitude) INS system.

We can make energy from renewable sources.

Fresh drinking water is finite, especially in the desert.

Politicians are cheap

Doesn’t matter, their audience isn’t intetested in accuracy they only want more things to feel outraged about

It would only take one regulation to fix that:

Datacenters that use liquid cooling must use closed loop systems.

The reason they dont, and why they setup in the desert, is because water is incredibly cheap and energy to cool a closed loop system is expensive. So they use evaporative open loop systems.

I can only save myself.

I have successfully converted a friend to Linux though. I walked him through an Arch install becacause it’s easier to teach about the boot process when you’re required to manually install everything.

He quickly discovered EndeavourOS, apparently manual Arch installs are not to his taste…

… and don’t get me started on the “birds”

I setup a Windows 11 laptop for a friend yesterday, I cannot believe the amount of ads built into the new user experience which are disguised as installation options.

I had to find the tiny, low contrast skip button to avoid signing up for more cloud storage, a Copilot subscription, and an Office365 subscription before I was even able to see the desktop.

The entire left side of the start bar seens to be a news feed which shows ads, opening an Office app requires closing a Copilot ad unless you disable it (individually for every application), it’s impossible to create a local user account, it looks like the user folder defaults to their cloud storage so just saving things into your document folder will eventually result in scary “You’re almost out of space, buy more here!” ads disguised as system promots, and your bitlocker recovery key is saved in your Microsoft account.

That’s just what I noticed in the first 20 minutes.

I’m so glad I ejected from that dumpster fire of an OS.

No, but it can function as an OS, a spyware library and a targeted advertising vector.

I can blame the user for believing the marketing over their direct experiences.

If you use these tools for any amount of time it’s easy to see that there are some tasks they’re bad at and some that they are good at. You can learn how big of a project they can handle and when you need to break it up into smaller pieces.

I can’t imagine any sane person who lives their life guided by marketing hype instead of direct knowledge and experience.

It’s a lot of people not understanding the kinds of things it can do vs the things it can’t do.

It was like when people tried to search early Google by typing plain language queries (“What is the best restaurant in town?”) and getting bad results. The search engine had limited capabilities and understanding language wasn’t one of them.

If you ask a LLM to write a function to print the sum of two numbers, it can do that with a high success rate. If you ask it to create a new operating system, it will produce hilariously bad results.

Yeah, well Google Execs also assured me that email would be replaced by Google Wave which has very good integration with the future of social media: Google Plus.