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It probably consumes as much energy as a family house for a day just to come up with that program. That's what happens.

In fact, I did a Google search and didn't have any choice but to have an "AI" answer, even if I don't want it. Here's what it says:

Each ChatGPT query is estimated to use around 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search, with a single query consuming approximately 3 watt-hours, compared to 0.3 watt-hours for a Google search. This translates to a daily energy consumption of over half a million kilowatts, equivalent to the power used by 180,000 US households. 

However, an area where "AI" can beat Atari is is on energy consumption. "AI" will consume much more energy only to be mostly wrong. What a feat!

I'm not a cable expert by any means and can't answer all the questions, but I can tell you that the protocol used by cable is called DOSCIS. So it might guide you into some of those answers.

And the coax cable itself doesn't go very far now because it's connected to a fiber network somewhere in your neighbourhood.

Just leaving this here.

Henry Ford is an American icon who was also a Nazi sympathizer with rabid anti-Semitic views. Under his leadership, Ford Motor Corporation became the engine of the American economy and one of the nation’s most iconic brands. Likewise, history books celebrate its founder Henry Ford as one of the nation’s greatest industrialists.

What a nasty question! Very nasty!

It became untenable well before that for certain people. It's all stuff that can be changed or disabled but the Start Menu in Windows 10 with the tiles, and its default search on Bing was infuriating. I do tech support and some clients just don't bother to deactivate it. There is also the whole thing about Microsoft removing parts of the old Control Panel and its utilities.

But another aspect of why they may also be losing market is how bad they have been with other architectures, like ARM. Windows for ARM seems to be lacking a lot. Even though they have been slowly getting better with emulation, they are still very much behind macOS and Linux. And I'm just a level 1 tech, but it seems like ARM devices and other low power architectures will slowly replace the old home desktops. They may have made a big mistake there.

But they still hold the corporate world and governments by the balls so, it's gonna be interesting to see.

Badgey?

I'm always a bit amazed of how things have progressed and on what Linux can still run.

This is an extreme example, but it's also possible to run a modern Linux OS on SBCs like a Raspberry Pi Zero, and still have something somewhat usable depending on your needs.

To have a computer half the size of a credit card with more RAM than my full tower rig from 2001 is amazing. And it can even run software from that era with dosbox or wine.

My 15 years old laptop is still supported and can still read 1080p on YouTube, using Linux.

Linux devs just recently decided to drop support for 486 CPUs and some early Pentiums.

There's just no competition.

In a dark dark town, there was a dark dark street, in the dark dark street, there was a dark dark house, in the dark dark house, there were dark dark stairs, down the dark dark stairs, was a dark dark cellar and in the dark dark cellar... Three skeletons lived. But not the ones you're thinking about.

Maybe it's their neighbours.

The high commissioner for childhood, Sarah El Haïry, said the “no-kids trend” amounted to “violence against children” but that her target was not couples who decide to remain childless, but adults who do not want to be disturbed by other people’s children.

Sure, sure. Violence against children. What a fucking ridiculous thing to say.

EDIT: I'm not from France but I speak French natively and was looking into more information about this person. From her party's website, apparently:

I don't understand her point at all. She says that because some places are not accepting kids, it's putting pressure on parents and force them to show videos to their kids instead of interacting with them.

Lady, nobody is telling you that you can't fucking bring your kids to Disney Paris just because some people would like to have a hotel nearby where they won't have to hear your kids. She's so fucking entitled. She equates not wanting kids nearby to forcing parents into plugging their kids on screens. And violence against them! Is asking your child to stay quiet is also violence? Are quiet train cars violence against people that would like to shout their lungs out?

C'est ta putain de responsabilité d'empêcher tes enfants de grimper sur les étrangers dans le train, mais t'as pas forcément à les mettre derrière un écran pour ça. C'est pas la faute des passagers autour si tu sais pas t'occuper de tes enfants. T'as pas à leur imposer. Ils peuvent être des enfants qui lisent, qui dessinent, qui jouent à des jeux de table... C'est pas parce que t'as des enfants que toi et toute ta famille avez le droit d'empiéter sur les autres. Non mais quelle stupidité.

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With boot disks. When installing an OS, it was common to have the installer ask if you wanted to create a boot disk in case anything happened to the MBR. They also came with the OS if you bought it prepackaged.

There was also a trick that would boot a Linux system from DOS using loadlin.

Back in my days (late 90ies), smartphones were not a thing. I had to dual boot into Linux, face a problem, reboot into Windows, search for a solution or a package, then reboot into Linux. A second computer was very useful. But now, yeah, most issues can be solved using a smartphone.

However I tried to format a micro SD card with an OTG cable and image it for a Raspberry Pi using my smartphone lately, and I never succeeded. My phone doesn't have an integrated micro SD card reader nor the option to format one. All the apps I found that were claiming to format SD cards did nothing but show me ads. Just another Raspberry Pi would have been more useful than a smartphone at that moment.