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They used to have agreements to make it difficult to do so. I don’t know if that’s still the case but it’s pretty awful. I think OEMs had to pay licenses for every machine shipped regardless if it had a windows license.

The other issue is that oems have a large amount of compatibility and support built up over the years for windows. They also know their customers can deal with Microsoft for “support” and ignore driver and support costs for whatever distro of Linux they were to choose.

Sure an OEM could lead the way and show everyone else the path to freedom but think of the shareholders

$1600/mo, but they raised it to $2600/mo a year later. I moved out.

That was about 10 years ago.

10 years later and it’s back down to $1600/mo.

You’re right about domestic production but I think the situation is much worse. We’ve tried to make advanced chips domestically and we can’t do it. Taiwan has had decades to perfect the resource allocation, supply chains, knowledge, and work culture to make those damn things.

It should be an executive order to make them domestically, and put up with the years of failure and low output. It’s a matter of national security to be able to create and maintain computers and other advanced tech.

They’ve been phasing it out for years.

Ai helped me figure out what you’re saying.

Yes, scam. The internet has lots of resources for this type of scam.

How does this work:

He’s not yet granted access to the US, so laws don’t apply to him.

He destroyed evidence, so laws do apply to him.

How can both of these statements exist at the same time? Why not just turn him away?

Even if they turned him away, he could get back in line with his clean phone and give them a working password.

Since this snuck into a bunch of folks index funds a whole lot of people just paid Elon musk.

As population numbers fall, we won’t have people that can extract those resources.

We won’t have people to defend global trade routes. We’re seeing this already. The mighty US navy can’t prevent Iran from using cheap drones to choke the world of oil. Oil is used to make everything, and already there’s barely enough to go around.

Countries will enter unrest and devolve.

The next 25 years are going to be really bad.

At scale, global instability leading to supply chain breakdown, leading to disruption of things we don’t think could be scarce like CPUs, medical equipment, defensive weaponry.

It’s not going to be enough.

Birth rates aren’t going to magically turn around, immigration isn’t going to magically fix it.

I’m not anti-immigration. Immigration is not the fix for how the world will deal with declining birth rates world wide, leading to a large gap between the number of available laborers and the number of laborers needed to keep things running smoothly.

Immigration only works if one country has more people than jobs while another country has more jobs than people.

What we’re headed into right now is more jobs than people by a LOT.

Also, Japan is a country that hit this problem early on (they culturally don’t have much immigration) and found that it’s also possible to export your dumb jobs to other countries that also buy the things they are making, keeping only the ones they are really good at in-country while scraping all the revenue from their exported labor. This only works because other countries were a little slower to run into this birth rate issue.

Most of these problems fall back to WW2 and the massive amount of babies that were born afterwards.

Not really. No country has all the resources to make or assembly all the critical items we all consume. We need people where they are so they can continue to make/produce/assemble.

Young people aren’t having babies. This is a growing global problem. It’s going to get so bad that we won’t have enough people to do all the work needed to support retirees.

It’s going to lead to unrest in many countries as normal services become unmanned and unreliable.

It doesn’t need to be nukes. Hydro, solar, wind, and any other mix of power sources is fine, including fossil fuels as an alternative should it be a cloudy, windless week.

It’s pretty easy to regulate this:

• Closed loop cooling
• grid upgrade built into design plans, paid for by the datacenter.
• cleaner power generation

I hate this the most about my iPhone. I’m currently on my 3rd Apple device, but you don’t get more storage every time you buy one. So if you have an iPhone and an iPad you’re still stuck with 5gb, and it’s shared with you backups and your cloud-based apps like photo sync, message sync. That 5gb is gone pretty quick.

It’s easy enough to sync photos elsewhere, but not messages. So the $1/mo storage upgrade becomes really attractive.

I hope this opens up their backup service but I doubt it.