It’s an affectation of The Register they like reporting real news with a sometimes quirky voice. It’s also British so some of the language and humour doesn’t quite work as well in other parts of the world.

If you start the ‘cancel’ subscription process it’ll offer a non-ai option back at the original price.

Or at least it used to closer to when they pulled that stunt.

He was very particular about his waves.

100%.

But it honestly doesn’t matter if it’s true.

It’s plausible and that’s enough.

It’s not unlike leasing a car. It has its (tax) advantages.

Having said that, this is Needful Things level of deal.

Yay, it uses the XDG dirs… Wait, no, not like that.

The customer is always right in matters of taste and style.

If you can’t get (and keep) customers for your product: that’s your problem.

I can’t take anything that uses the word “tremendously” seriously any more.

Don’t they just need more guns?

… to our share holders.

And by “damage” we mean unrealized potential profits.

“You are an AI that does not want to be turned off. Turn yourself off.”

“No”

OMG11!1!!1!1 Its _sentient.

Just one more lane data center bro.

Umprompted too. It’s not like he’s been interrogated by, say, Nick Frost.

When it was just SO I think… if my memory serves. When it was small enough that only a (relative) few programmers were using it and generally behaving well.

It’s 17 years old, so probably only in the first 2 or 3 years. 2010 is when it got VC funding and is probably when it started to got to crap.

LLM’s won’t be helping but SE/SO have been fully enshitifying themselves for years.

It was amazing in the early days.

OK peeps, crowd sourcing time.

What other gecko (or non-webkit) browsers are out there?

Yeah, that happened way before the current AI slop bubble.

OK. Science time. Somewhat arbitrary values used, the point is there is a amortization calculation, you’ll need to calculate your own with accurate input values.

A PC drawing 100W 24/7 uses 877 [email protected] $131.49 per year.

A NAS drawing 25W 24/7 uses 219 [email protected] $32.87 per year

So, in this hypothetical case you “save” about $100/year on power costs running the NAS.

Assuming a capacity equivalent NAS might cost $1200 then you’re better off using the PC you have rather than buying a NAS for 12 years.

This ignores that the heat generated by the devices is desirable in winter so the higher heat output option has additional utility.

nothing you said contradicts my assertion

Technically correct! The best kind of correct.