It affects a lot more than just Microsoft and their services. Imagine all the 2 factor logins where the code is send by mail, such as payment processors or other services with high security. They’ll still work but the users can get locked out. If this continues for a little longer, we’ll start to see some real consequences worse than just email being down.

Other mail providers are working, so we could just send mails through those, but with Microsoft having the majority of business market share, you probably shouldn’t expect to receive a reply from anyone using it. Just another way it is disrupting a whole lot of people who have jack shit to do with Microsoft.

AI sure does accelerate the shitty downward spiral of the last 20 years of new tech simply being more bloated crap.

I hope it (society/tech) will correct itself in response and return to sane levels of memory and cpu usage.

AI is like the last third of the human centipede. No taste and always hungry for more shit to make more shit of.

Car roofs don’t work well. The Ioniq 5 had them as an option. It could only charge a few miles daily, and doing the math it would never pay for itself over the lifetime of the car.

Roof panels on cars also tend to get damaged from rocks and pebbles just like windscreens, and when a solar panel gets a bad section it affects the whole panel.

Parking lot canopies is a better placement than on the cars. Not only do they produce electricity they, also keep the cars shaded so less energy is used on air conditioning.

Anyway for small scale personal use, I think the balcony panels are the best option in the places where it’s legal and possible.

Skate parks are good 3rd places.

Unlike other hobbies or sports, you don’t necessarily need to be a member of a club, get expensive equipment or be on a specific time.

Lots of young people just hang out. There’s a large overlap with various subcultures. If there’s a group of skaters, they’ll usually have a whole entourage of photographers, artists and musicians.

Sometimes it’s a little too succesful though. Some skate parks are build in isolated areas, which can attract all kinds of scum. Then it’s best to come when actual skaters are using it.

It’s usually very inclusive. Nobody cares about age, gender, race or abilities. Skaters respect anyone who goes out there and tries. This is also why random scum will usually fuck off when they realize that nobody gives them attention for reving up their moped engines or whatever they do to piss off their territory.

The vote goes to himself. No need for an online detour.

I paid my share by sharing.

Pro was not, but the earlier versions were technically crippleware. It was distributed freely with magazines and what not. There was no actual cripple though.

Back on in 2003 Adobe bought the freeware software called CoolEdit 2.0 and republished it as a paid product as Adobe Audition without changing a god damn thing.

CoolEdit was too good to be true. It’s only fair that the developers got paid, but I just wish they didn’t have to sell out to Adobe of all companies.

I hope this 2026 version of Audacity will finally be on level with what we had for free in year 2000.

Audacity is like a tape recording studio. It doesn’t support midi programming and VSTi as far as I know.

Everything is a DAW if you’re brave enough, and there’s no strict definition, but for something to be a full DAW, it should have both recording and virtual instruments IMO.

As of now, there’s very few free ones that does both and Reaper beats all of them as the cheapest paid option. However Reaper doesn’t do everything. Some paid DAWs still have features that Reaper doesn’t.

Crowbar stocks is on the rise.

I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

You won’t get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

Yeah BYD will survive, but smaller brands like hiphi, neta, nio, LI auto, etc. There are more than 160 different Chinese brands trying to enter the markets. Most of them will or have already failed in Europe, even if they are active in other countries.

Plenty of new European brands have also failed for the same reasons.

I do see some chinese brands on the road, but not many in comparison to other more established brands.

The thing keeping people away from chinese brands is the uncertainty of future repairs. The “flood” might come in a few years once people have more experience with how it’s handled. Currently, as people get their first EVs, they want to be able to take their VW to the VW shop, not take their BYD to the random no-name mechanic with a BYD sticker on their window.

Everyone is also waiting for the statistics from the EU inspections. Nobody wants a car that can’t pass the inspection in a few years time. Tesla has proven to be a huge failure in that regard, and I think that will scare people away from not only Tesla, but also the unknown chinese brands who yet have to prove themselves.

It also doesn’t help that these smaller brands pop up and go bankrupt in the same year as they scramble to find their markets.

EU brands might not be any better or cheaper, but at least they are better represented locally.

Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.

If I was Mark, I would require all company meetings to happen in the Metaverse, so I could change all their sad faces to happy smily faces.

Why have sad conversations when you can have “hey boss I think you suck and I quit! 😄😄”

We aren’t supposed to learn anything from the giga-fucks of data.

It’s the AI that will learn everything about you so it can invent new ways to throw marketing at you.

That’s half a word.

People do this too when they suddenly get a wholesale offer on stupid things. My friend opened a business and shortly after he had thousands of bouncing balls in a closet for no fucking reason.

The only blunder in the story is not being able to come up with a recipe to use the canned tomatoes. Panini/bruschetta etc. are pretty common in cafe’s.