It wasn’t AI that decided not to hire entry level employees. Rich should be smart enough to realize that, and probably has employees of his own. So go hire some people Rich.
They can justify _their_ decisions all they want. It’d still their decision, not AI’s. This is pure cost cutting nonsense that’s par for the course for poorly run corporations.
No, this is not it. It only worked when there were a small number of buyers for used hardware, who were largely enthusiasts. The moment it becomes mainstream you're going to face the same scarcity in the used/refurbished market as well.
Or just buy a MBP and use MacOS and not worry about any of these problems. I use Linux for everything but my laptop, but I’m not about to deal with a subpar experience when decent laptops are already so expensive.
The doctors offices want none of it. It's all FoodTV and HGN.
There is no utility in pissing off 75% of your customers. I'm thrilled that my kid's doctor doesn't even allow patients that aren't vaccine schedule compliant.
Being medically stupid isn't a protected class. You can refuse service to anyone you want to otherwise. It's not an ER, it's a Pediatrician, and they value not endangering their other patients who actually follow medical advice.
No one said people aren't dumb with their money, but seriously look at some of the numbers that prime time CNN pulls. Twitch streamers have a large audience than prime time shows. There is a reason why cable has been dying and cable news has already dead.
Luckily I haven't had any emergencies. But in Thailand recently there's been flooding in the south, many people stuck. And in eastern part many people have been evacuated due to border tensions with Cambodia.
I live in the north-west Thailand, close to the border with Myanmar. An area known as the Golden Triangle [0].
About once a month or so we don't have electricity for a about 10-12 hours or so.
I also experienced a quite big earthquake here about a year ago.
No one should be buying a SATA SSD in 2025 if they have the option to use a PCIE SSD, which every new motherboard has at least one spot for. This isn’t AI, this is the ending of a standard.
I get that for a boot / root drive but not for building a self hosted storage system. I'm not taking about cost of SATA SSD vs NVME; I haven't seen a lot of board+enclosure options that take enough M.2 disks.
The cheapest motherboard + CPU bundles at Microcenter all include motherboards with three M.2 slots. There definitely are full-size ATX boards that only have two M.2 slots, but these days that's usually only because one of the PCIe slots is wired for x4 rather than just x1. Being able to connect three NVMe drives is not a rare or premium feature on current consumer desktop platforms.
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