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The major issue is lack of electric load carry capacity; specifically the HV transmission lines and sub-stations at the local local level. You're not going to offload literal pipelines of hydrocarbon BTUs worth of energy to an already overburden grid. If anything, you'll have fleets of trucks running on natgas due to energy density and ease of distribution. It's basically hydrogen, locked up with carbon so you don't have to worry about transportation and energy loss from cryogenics of liquid hydrogen alone. Speaking of, the industry is predicting a 20% to 25% increase in US electricity by 2030 just from datacenter usage alone for AI !!! The Houston Chron reported a few days ago this: ERCOT reported earlier this month that peak power loads on its system would rise 6% by 2030 to 94.3 gigawatts — with the caveat there was an additional 62 gigawatts of additional load asking to connect to the grid. “Some of (the 62 gigawatts) will come, some of it won’t,” he said. “But even if it’s just one third of that, in five to six years time that’s shocking.” Dominion Energy supplies power to Northern Virginia, which has the nation’s largest concentration of data centers and is known as the “crossroads of the internet,” and is predicting power demand across its entire territory will grow at a rate of 7.4% per year over the next decade. There won't be one monolithic AI, at least not in physical form. They will be connected with edge-AI performing NPU hardware. In many ways, this will mimic biological brains where regions have specialized functions, only these will be networked together. Density and locality will come later if/when needed. As for the "enshittening", absolutely! Refinement comes later. What matters is creating deflationary forces in the economy by cheapening the labor pool. Obviously this is a bad thing, but I won't digress there. But I think you and I are on the same page with regards to that.

Gasoline will never go away due to how products are fractioned from crude oil in the distillation process. In fact, the gasoline engine was developed specifically to "consume" what was once waste dumped into rivers and oceans in the 1800s. "Edwin Drake dug the first crude oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859 and distilled the oil to produce kerosene for lighting. Although other petroleum products, including gasoline, were also produced in the distillation process, Drake had no use for the gasoline and other products, so he discarded them. It wasn't until 1892, with the invention of the automobile, that gasoline was recognized as a valuable fuel. By 1920, 9 million vehicles powered by gasoline were on the road, and service stations selling gasoline were opening around the country. Today, gasoline is the fuel for nearly all light-duty vehicles in the United States." -eia.gov So yes, due to the way crude oil is refined, you must do something with the waste (aka, gasoline). That's not to say you can't bias your refining and processing to reduce the amount of gasoline produced, but there will be a substantial amount to deal with. And, it will take a lot of investing with the existing refining infrastructure to do this. Everyone will be driving ICE for the next 100+ years. It might make more sense for something like AI to assist in bioengineering life to consume and sequester CO2 instead rather than deal with the gasoline problem. It's more than just "autocomplete". There's utility in the structure with the results it provides. In 5 years or less, there will be massive layoffs as people are replaced with AI. It will be global, and there will probably be treaties to regulate due to the economic upheaval it will have. AI is no joke.

From fire to water. During bankruptcy, liquidation can be part of that process.

There was probably a minimum quantity they had to order and expected to profit from low volume with high margin. That's a very bad idea when dealing with a enthusiast market with high turnover in technology. In this market, you need both high and low volumes. High volume for market share, stability and to keep your suppliers happy, and markup the high-end because you're also catering to a very noisy enthusiast market; you want brand recognition. These guys fucked up in a multitude of ways.

If so, this is a rational way of migrating to a new codec. At the moment, only the Apple M3 and iPhone 15 Pro support hardware AV1 playback. I'm sure some Android phones that support too, but at the moment all AV1 hardware decode is a premium optional feature.

Alibaba is looking like a good option about now.

YT caches popular content locally with CDNs, no? Are they really hurting for bandwidth? If devices struggle to playback AV1 in software (dropped frames), the experience would probably be worse than if they streamed it over a simi-congested network at peak viewing times.

When it's all said and done, there will be thousands of LLMs; each heavily biased depending on the nation and politics in which they're curated for. The toothpaste is out of the tube. People need to get used to shilling biased AI models. It will be a propaganda minefield out there of information overload more than it already is.

Is it the content creators or YT that plans on re-transcoding these to AV1? Because of the limited hardware decode user base, would make sense to relegate AV1 to 4k and higher first. The vast majority of people don't watch 4k let alone support AV1 when watching YT from a mobile device.

I agree; hence why I mentioned 'intent'.

There's the idea that ignorance is no excuse for violating the law, and, that effectively the purchaser is basically an accessory to a crime. But as with anything in law, intent usually matters. So, maybe the judicial system is more lenient for an honest mistake, but not for those looking to resell them??

If this is a new build, then I highly recommend running Memtest86 for at least 12 hours with as many passes as you can. Just crank the pass count up so you can at least run it that long. Don't worry if you can't finish them all. What's important is that of the passes that it completed or is working on doesn't throw any errors. You'll know if you have any. https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm Don't ignore memory errors. At best that can crash a game, general apps, or the OS. But the worst is when data in flight gets corrupted and written back to the disk. You might not know how badly your files on disk have been corrupted until it's too late.

It looks to be a well balanced system. I think the only concern is if it's been stable with that memory. Other than that, be sure you're running at least PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives; specifically one in the first M.2 that connects lanes direct to the CPU. The the M.2 slot through the X570 chipset will work too, but it's shared bandwidth.

lol, so Laptron was generating with a keygen?! Yeah, those are very version specific. So the algo gets rotated upon the next version release so only legit keys work, and the pirated ones from the keygen program are invalid. This cat-and-mouse game is very common in the software world that uses activation keys.

There was old issue with AMD systems and USB (Zen 3 and older). A BIOS update will fix that. However, the stuttering could still be cause by a failing piece of hardware throwing an interrupt storm to the CPU. Thermal, power, and a component failure are usually what causes this. A failing HDD or SSD can do that, and usually you'll find a bunch of drive errors in the Windows System event log. As for a program that can help you track down the issue, the only good one that I know of is Latencymon; link below. https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Who knows, maybe in Windows 12 they will remove Edge. Because the new way will be browsing from the Explorer.exe search bar. Why have a separate browser when it's part of the OS?

If you have a legit activation for Windows 10, then it should carry over to 11. I've never see it otherwise fail. Thought you do have to link your Windows 10 product activation to your Microsoft account first. So that means if you're logging into Windows 10 with a local account, you'll need to convert that to an online account so the activation syncs to the cloud at https://account.microsoft.com/. Once done, you'll see your computer listed under 'Devices' on the left side menu of the MS account portal. As an extra precaution to keeping your license, I recommend upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 11 after you've completed the above step first. Then later you can format and reinstall. Once you sign into Windows 11 for the first time with your MS account, activation should carry over. Detailed info and instructions on how to link Windows activation status to your MS account below. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/activate-windows-c39005d4-95ee-b91e-b399-2820fda32227

Upgrades don't typically break things badly, specifically when going from Win10 22H2 to Win11 23H2. But you will find oddities of certain things not working as expected or outright missing in registry. Windows 11 24H2 this fall is going to be the "big one". A relatively mature and rock solid OS now, but with additional enhancements and features. For this, I recommend a clean format and install. That's exactly what I plan on doing too.

From a policy (Local or GPO): Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Data Collection and Preview Builds. One in specific is called "Allow Diagnostic Data". Once you enable this object, from there you can turn diagnostic data off. And yes, you have to enable so that you can unhide the option in order to change the behavior of this item. (Strange concept to enable to disable, but that's always been that way with GPOs) If you want, you can block via DNS with the listed records listed here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-windows-diagnostic-data-in-your-organization#manage-diagnostic-data-using-group-policy-and-mdm Also, here's a link specifically about managing telemetry via GPO and MDM. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-windows-diagnostic-data-in-your-organization#manage-diagnostic-data-using-group-policy-and-mdm FYI, GPOs just control the registry in their own way. But at the end of the day, they're all registry changes and enforcement to those changes. If you prefer, you can do this manually using a 3rd part UI app called O&O ShutUp10++ as it can provide more granular control. The toggle switches are just UI way of changing the corresponding reg values in the background.

This is a non-issue. You can still change the default browser in the Windows Settings UI. Alternatively, setting by GPO should work as that's also an official method for deploying and enforcing OS level changes throughout an enterprise network. Remember, there are many ways to hack and modify Windows; and then there's the official "Microsoft way". MS is limiting to just their way, but there still is a way to change the browser defaults nonetheless.

lol, maybe that's the solution I've been looking for: just don't connect the damn TV to the internet... at all! Guess I can have my "Dumb TV" after all

Just to make my position on this more clear. In a **perfect world, I'm not opposed to an official ID. However, there's three outstanding problems I take issue with. When the SSN was debated in Congress, it was forewarned it would be used carelessly and abused. This turned out to be correct. SSN are being exposed with regards to how Personal Identifiable Information (PII) gets secured; or the lack thereof. It rewards false intentions, if not outright lies when being legislated by our elected officials. This is a moral hazard where the ends don't justify the means. If there's going to be a national ID, there needs to be stricter regulations with how this is applied, accessed, and stored. Though it's a bit late when over 143 MILLION records have been exposed from one of the three largest CRAs (in this case, Equifax). **We don't live in a perfect world, so I'm exceedingly skeptical that this wouldn't be abused; either willfully or through negligence. Identity theft is a big deal. I quote SSA.gov in bold per the PDF linked above from page 1. "We don’t give your number to anyone, except when authorized by law. You should be careful about sharing your number, even when you’re asked for it." Uh huh, about that...

^ LOL, you just described the US Gov. The SSN is one giant moving goalpost in terms of scope-creep. How We Got Social Security Numbers | HISTORY

You're missing the entire point. The SSN was never meant to be a primary form of identification. But now it has. "The Social Security number (SSN) was created in 1936 for the sole purpose of tracking the earnings histories of U.S. workers, for use in determining Social Security benefit entitlement and computing benefit levels. Since then, use of the SSN has expanded substantially. Today the SSN may be the most commonly used numbering system in the United States. As of December 2008, the Social Security Administration (SSA) had issued over 450 million original SSNs, and nearly every legal resident of the United States had one. The SSN's very universality has led to its adoption throughout government and the private sector as a chief means of identifying and gathering information about an individual. How did the SSN come to be, and why has it become an unofficial national identifier? This article explores the history and meaning of the SSN and the Social Security card..." https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v69n2/v69n2p55.html

100% agreed. You should have a government ID, but it should never be used for tracking outside of finance and government. And yes, I'm in favor of anonymity and pseudonyms. Once everything is tied to a RealID, it will take milliseconds for an AI to data-mine and profile you based on everything tied to it. In fact, over time it would probably know you better than you know yourself.