Yeah that was kinda my point

I mean if that’s where someone’s head goes when improvising a thanks it’s kinda telling…

Well, that’s kind of intuitively true in perpetuity

An effective gate for AI becomes a focus of optimisation

Any effective gate with a motivation to pass will become ineffective after a time, on some level it’s ultimately the classic “gotta be right every time Vs gotta be right once” dichotomy—certainty doesn’t exist.

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn’t even aware of the problem

I was thinking the same, I’m 99% certain Trump required his name to be included in the welcome back message as a condition for not implementing the ban.

It’s very poorly written theatre

Of course they do. This was always the trajectory.

The idea of everyone being able to have a job is rapidly coming to an end.

The increased competition for the remaining work is going to drive wages and salaries down.

All of the wealth generated by the automation will end up hyper concentrated amongst the new aristocracy of capitalist conglomerate owners.

We need a new economic system yesterday if we have any hope of avoiding this particular flavour of dystopia

No UBI is not the solution, it’s a last resort to be used to quell violent revolution when three quarters of people can’t afford to exist.

And no, the luddite approach won’t work here either, Pandora’s box was opened long ago

What was that 12h?

Is trump even president yet?

It’s called Microsoft 365 now

Office 365 was when it was just a business productivity suite

They renamed it when they pivoted it to a general subscription and started adding things like clipchamp.

I mentioned in another comment though that I agree it would be silly to mess with the professional skus, but the home & family ones would make perfect sense to offer as an option at the very least (just as they’re offering 365 without copilot for the time being).

I’m also not saying get rid of the independent subscriptions for Xbox, that would also be silly.

Just that a merged one would make a lot of sense for the people out there paying for both (which I reckon is a good number in the family subscription category at least)

Sure and it would be silly to mess with the professional tiers

But personal and family subscriptions are fairly squarely positioned towards non-business users as their main demographics, from what I can see.

If they actually bundled a game pass subscription with it and made a proper Microsoft complete subscription they could have softened the bad press they’re getting on this (and giving customers something they’ve wanted for a while)

That and the fact that they’ve nearly doubled the price of the subscription to add a limited credit based feature just looks pretty slimy

Yeah, 9v at the very least, but 15V would be a useful option too.

I’m also just now realising USB-PD doesn’t spec for 12V which feels like an odd omission

Edit:

From the article:

Sure, it wouldn’t be much harder to add support the other voltages offered by USB-C Power Delivery, but how often have you really needed 20 volts on a breadboard? Why add extra components and complication for a feature most people would never use?

My friend, you write for hackaday, this is a weird take

A large number of Americans generally seem to grow up with a main character complex thanks to all the individualist & jingoist propaganda people get bombarded with over there.

The search for something “exotic” as you put it is just an ego-driven search for the piece of evidence that they are, in fact, more special and unique than everyone else.