AI companies lobbying to get this overturned in 3… 2… 1…

Robert Moses is knocking from the grave…

What if said manufacturers are funding this legislation so they can get it through as an opportunity to lock printers down? And what if this extends to 2D printers/scanners, and even software/devices in general?

What happened to free speech rights? They just don’t exist anymore?

Wouldn’t that depend on the format, too? Like I kinda doubt 8mm/Super8 and 16mm/Super16 is infinitely upscalable, ditto for 110 or 35mm half-frame.

The EU already has stricter licensing rules than the US, IIRC.

Those are typically carbon-zinc cells. Alkaline cells are a separate thing entirely.

How soon before they start doing this to Win10 installations?

The funny thing is, that ‘heavy duty’ badge is deceptive marketing, pick-ups at their heaviest are medium-duty, maxing out at class-3 with a GVWR between 10,001 and 14k lbs; true heavy-duty rigs are class-7 and class-8, with a GVWR between 26,001 and 33k lbs and 33,001+ lbs respectively, and those need a CDL to drive.

For further reference, the heaviest weight class you can get away with on a normal license in the US is class-6 with a GVWR between 19,501 and 26k lbs. Pick-ups are class-1 through 3 with GVWRs ranging up to 14k lbs, medium-duty chassis-cabs are typically class-3 through 6 with GVWRs ranging between 14k and 26k lbs, and heavy-duty rigs are class-7 and 8 with GVWRs ranging between 26,001 and 33,001+ lbs, which need a CDL to drive, like I said above.

But I guess selling pick-ups as their true weight class doesn’t move as much units as the deceptive ‘heavy duty’ badge on a light-duty or medium-duty rig.

Scam Bankrun Fraud. Sam ‘Madoff’ Altman…

Hell no, he shouldn’t use an LLM to finish what is basically his life’s work.

They’re using the fact that everyone else both already owns a Google or iOS device, and does everything on those devices, to punish desktop and alt mobile OS users.

The fact that this is going on right as AluminumOS is down the pipes, and right as rigged parts prices threaten to kill desktops as an option to begin with makes this especially sus.

The way things are going right now, I won’t be surprised if we see a computing future where you’re either on a Google or Apple-controlled device, or you’re on a thin client tied to a cloud subscription, and you won’t own your tech anymore.

Bezos’ ‘Give up your PC and rent from our cloud’ threat is sounding less and less like a threat and more and more likely to become reality.

How soon before reCAPTCHA-encumbered sites are blocked on desktops entirely unless you’re on ChromeOS or the upcoming AluminumOS?

• Anyone trying to get people onto alternatives, which don’t help given Meta tried to EEE the Fediverse with Threads.

It’s going to be hard to completely kill off the Fediverse unless you block all ways in which it can be hosted, to include meshnets and the dark web.

On top of that, it’ll be really hard if not impossible to kill protocols which by their design are independently governed and completely open like ActivityPub and compatible protocols; it’ll be easier to kill ATproto because it has a centralized plc.directory ledger which if that gets taken out, the entire protocol goes down with it, that and even if you self-host a PDS, you still have to interact with Bsky corporate’s centralized infrastructure at some point, where with ActivityPub, each instance is independent of the other.

Ever since RFK Jr. took over the health department. The guy very publicly hates AuDHD people.

They’ve threatened to put AuDHD people on a list before too. The US is dangerously close to causing a second Holocaust with how they’ve acted thus far to any minorities.

Very. It’s even dangerous to live here as a citizen now on multiple levels, let alone visit from another country. I’d flee in a heartbeat to a country that hasn’t turned into a dictatorship yet if I could.

Windows is already KYC’d by default since consumer Windows requires an MS account and setting up an MS account requires your birthdate.

Assuming PCs don’t get wiped out as a platform first, which between AluminumOS being a thing and parts being made intentionally scarce and expensive, I wouldn’t be shocked if that happens.

Can’t control what people do with their PCs? Just kill PCs as a platform in favor of thin clients tied to cloud subscriptions that you can control or glorified Android phones.