it is really more useful than Katie from Sales getting skin cancer on a beach in Thailand or that...
A large chunk of air transport is also freight. And business. And regular domestic travel for people going from A to B, travel that doesn't include holidays for Kate or that drunk dude in Mallorca.
And when you look at those uses, AI is still running a pretty distant second place.
It seems that every new release adds another layer of indirection (misdirection?) between you and the useful stuff you need to access. I use a third party utility to manage IP settings, and it's one click from its menu to get to the network adapter page. It takes me about 5 minutes of angry clicking around in stock standard win11 before I get to the same place.
The main one I use is the network adaptor settings, where you can enable/disable protocols and most importantly for me, where you can easily add multiple IP addresses on a network adaptor.
The Win 8+ network settings page is an absolute trainwreck. I particularly like how it doesn't warn about conflicting IP addresses now and just silently accepts your given address and provides an auto-assigned 169.254 address instead if it sees even the smallest hint of another computer out there using the address you want to use.
Guaranteed fun and confusion trying to access/ping things until you finally check the status of the network adaptor and discover the auto assigned address, thanks Microsoft.
Not everyone wants to use dhcp, which is clearly their preferred direction, and there have been bugs where Cisco devices trigger that flip to auto assigned addresses even if things are fine.
Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.
Which is why if you dig deep enough into Settings you'll see WinXP Control Panel UI elements. You know, the elements that are actually useful for power users.
each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts
This entirely depends on what energy source we end up using in 2050.
IF , you assume that by 2050 home solar and batteries are a common item, and consumer electric vehicles are predominantly charged at home via those sources , then claims of emissions becoming a concern are moot. Seeing that home solar/batteries are becoming more common now, with 25 years to go, this is not a huge stretch of the imagination.
Each individual vehicle has daily energy requirements that can be sourced relatively easily by local renewables, unlike datacentres which have huge energy requirements requiring energy to be piped in from sources elsewhere.
Apart from that , the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computer hardware is entirely dwarfed by the (handwave guess) ~20kWh/day usage of the actual electric drive system, where trivial improvements in efficiency can compensate for the 0.8kWh/day usage of the computers. Hell, improvements in efficiency because of the adoption of autonomous driving instead of leadfoot humans at the wheel might end up making all this a net positive.
I just got GPU temp monitoring working on my old dell laptop. "Heat management" for the GPU is pretty much just an extra chunk of steel tacked onto the heat pipe halfway between the CPU and its radiator, so GPU temps are always in the red.
I might as well just turn off monitoring and remain ignorant 🤷
It's a 1/4 wave antenna with a groundplane. Physics dictates the size.
Compared to the PCB antenna in your average USB dongle, this would have at least two to three times the range, and likely more than that, because you can put it somewhere more optimal than just poking out the back of your device.
entirely separate and much more sophisticated technology
Or some math nerd will come up with an algorithm for general AI that is embarrassingly simple, and before you know it the "but can it run Doom?" crowd are implementing AI in toasters and watching them have existential crises for the lulz.
Some of the biggest jumps in house prices were when interest rates were less than 2 percent and you could get a million bucks from the bank just by asking to see the manager and giving them a firm handshake.
I can agree Pauline Hanson is a problematic individual
So problematic individuals shouldn't be punished by the collective? You know what happens then? A few problematic people muddy the waters and generally make it very difficult to actually get shit done.
just for that one stunt with that burqa
There are rules in the senate. They allow for structured and robust debate, but there are limits. You don't become a "problematic individual" with just the one stunt.
Ms. Hanson is - in my humble opinion - a shit-stirrer presenting views stuck in the 1950s that do not mesh well with 21st century geopolitics. Those views are popular with a small segment of the population and she knows it. Stunts like this give disproportionate attention to that small segment at the detriment to everyone else.
I don't see that at all. Perhaps you are just projecting your own issues onto Lemmy at large. I think you need to have a good hard look at yourself and your internal biases and then come back and apologise to all of us.
Techbros won't let that happen, because they're all terrified that consumers will just shut off all the AI being crammed into everything and all their money will evaporate.
A large chunk of air transport is also freight. And business. And regular domestic travel for people going from A to B, travel that doesn't include holidays for Kate or that drunk dude in Mallorca.
And when you look at those uses, AI is still running a pretty distant second place.