Re: Bad news indeed
Agreed, especially when, on at least my HP Microserver, there is a USB port inside the case on the motherboard, which you can use as the boot device. Probably HP put it there with exactly that use-case in mind.
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WinPython - available on the Windows Store, though I don't recommend you install this version; and on winget
Visual Studio - available on the Windows Store and winget
Thonny - available on winget
Notepad++ - available on winget
Firefox - available on the Windows Store and winget -- Winget offers more options for different versions
LaTeX - MikTex is available on winget, TeX Live you would have to download
Doxygen - available on winget
Non product experiences - marketing gumph, product documentation, their online store
user-facing product experiences - web applications
authenticated - you have to log in with your Microsoft account password / 2fa
The only difficulty is in tying a wallet address to a real-world individual. You can obviously do that at an exchange where they are switching to/from real money.
If you are cashing out crypto that has come from a tumbler service, then it is very likely that you are cashing out the proceeds of crime. The only difficulty is figuring out which crime they are the proceeds of, but they can do other forms of investigation to figure that out.
"The media was full of statements about how shelves would be empty, house prices would crash, millions would be jobless."
Well house prices haven't crashed yet, but it it is only a matter of time given the increase in mortgage rates...
Shelves are empty, and the number of people in employment has fallen by millions.
My father could apply for an Irish passport because his grandparents were Irish citizens. But because he didn't do it before I was born, that means I can't become an Irish citizen by that route.
Ireland in the 1970s wasn't anything like as good as it is now, and he probably couldn't have imagined there being any reason to want to move there.
I would always advise anyone to get any citizenships/passports they are entitled to, unless the country is so bad that having it would be actively harmful to you. Ireland was never that bad.
And that is why HP is not on my shortlist when considering a new printer.
I got a Canon multifunction laser just over 10 years ago in the Black Friday sale. I replaced the black cartridge for the first time last year. The colour cartridges have about 40% left in them. When they run out, that will probably be time to replace it with a new one.
I mostly use it for the scanner. I print 1 or 2 pages every other month, then about once a year I print out a much longer document in the hundreds of pages. So a monthly page allowance just doesn't work for me.
More frequently, I print out 1 label from a sheet of 65 labels. So that one label sheet will go through the printer 65 times before it is used up. So it is one page in terms of ink actually used, but HP would bill it as 65 pages.
Where I live in England:
Rubbish collection is carried out by the local council using council-employed staff and vehicles.
Water and sewage are "provided" by a government-sanctioned organised crime gang
For electricity, there is a monopoly cable provider, but I can theoretically choose which billing company I want to use.
Same would apply for gas if I had it.
For telephone, there are two companies that operate cables along my street - BT Openreach and City Fibre. Both of them allow me to select which ISP I want to access over those cables, and there is an actual genuine difference in the service the different ISPs provide. Other streets nearby additionally have the option of using Virgin Media cables.
There are 4 mobile providers + a load of MVSPs who use those providers networks
There is a fixed wireless provider
+ there is satellite, but probably not worth considering given the alternatives that are available.
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Ultimately LLMs are processed using the same boolean computer instructions that have been around since at least the PDP11, probably earlier. The training data is used to compile billions of IF statements that determine what the output is going to look like.
I pick on the PDP11 because it was the first computer to run Unix. Most computers these days run some sort of Unix or Unix-like clone. The exception is those that run Windows, which is different, but not in a way that is relevant to this discussion.
Video tapes were a device that could be used to make and watch recordings from both legal and non-legal sources. If you set up a market stall selling video recording from non-legal sources, law enforcement would shut it down.
ChatGPT / CoPilot / etc don't give you the choice of which training data to use. They are the market stall selling access to material from non-legal sources.
It is possible to install Google Play on it. The only issue I had was, if you use a Google Workspace account, you have to go into admin settings to allow users to disable authentication requirement when waking up their phone, because that doesn’t work in WSA, and isn’t needed because you are already authenticated to the Windows desktop.
Which is why the EU mandated CCS for all electric cars, including Tesla.
That bit isn't a problem. The problem is the 15 different apps you need to get all the chargers to work, and that a mobile signal isn't guaranteed to be present at the charger site.
And also the fact that 6 chargers per service station is nowhere near sufficient. Every single parking space needs to have a charger.
I do agree that transport works better when run by a regional rather than national government.
Compare for example the trains in London that are the responsibility of TFL when Boris John was Mayor of London with the trains in other parts of England + non-TFL trains in London when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister.
Social care: I think the biggest problem is the split between NHS and councils. Councils can save money by cutting spending on social care, but that costs the NHS more, about 20x times more, than the council saves.