By default Windows shows ads in my start menu. It also shows me ads in my notifications. I guess I could understand if it was free, but it's not.

And then there's Copilot...

* Also 2000, but at least they seemed to be aware that this too was Windows NT.

Anyway, I would stop short of saying "Go chose shared memory". They've always been clear that that's plan B.

SSDs know which blocks have been written to a lot, have been giving a lot of read errors before etc., and often even have heterogeneous storages (such as a bit of SLC for burst writing next to a bunch of MLC for density).

They can spend ECC bits much more efficiently with that information than a file system ever could, which usually sees the storage as a flat, linear array of blocks.

The last one is dubious, but all my banks have decided that the Android app may conduct online banking alone, and it may verify a desktop session; but not the other way around.

All of schooling breaks down to costs and society’s willingness and desire to invest in child nutrition, education, and training.

We simply do not even have the wherewithal to have the conversation about it, without getting blackholed by cultural minefields and assumptions of child rearing, parental responsibility, morality and religion.

(Not so)interestingly, the PR author even advertised this work on HN.

Windows kernel is not _bad_, but it's developed by far fewer people.

Linux also has systemd with its unified system resource management. I can slice and dice my system as I want between containers. Oh, and containers are also awesome (Windows has them, macOS doesn't).

Desktop environments are a matter of personal taste. I like my DE very minimal: status bar, quick launcher panel, and that's it.

Really my broader point is we accept the tradeoff between technology/freedom and risk in almost everything, but for some reason AI has become a real wedge for people.

And to your broader point, I agree our culture has distanced itself from death to an unhealthy degree. Ritual, grieving, and accepting the inevitable are important. We have done wrong to diminish that.

Coconut trees though, those are always going to cause trouble.

Unlike the laws of physics, human laws encompass deliberate ambiguity meant for them to be escaped (with loopholes) or to be stretched as far as possible, without raising any alarms at the time of instituting them. The main purpose of the courts is to interpret the laws somewhat consistently in the face of such ambiguities. I can easily see how this particular law can be interpreted liberally enough to mandate backdoors. Your pedantic interpretation is not something they are going to care about or abide by. In the worst case, they'll just take the 'shoot first, ask later' approach. They'll just do what they like an then try to justify their actions when challenged. This has been the norm with even non-authoritarian administrations for ages. But the entire EU has been demonstrably gravitating towards this dystopian reality with their attempted chat control law.

Do you want the Graphene team to ignore any such possibilities and just stay put? In which world does that make any sense? And what's your point in brushing aside practically everyone else's concerns?