Yes, there are safety measure built in but I just give them a helping hand.

It's wild to think that we might be only 10 years away from that line in the sand we marked. Hopefully they are wrong but I fear they are not.

It was Terrance McKenna who said that the worst government is usually the one that is in charge, that is because they rarely tend to go back on what was put down before them. One could argue that in the US Trump is tearing down previous government work but also isn't doing it in a constructive fashion at all.

I pushed back on all these kinds of Bills and laws here in Australia and every time it was usually just met with the same boiler plate response of "We are enacting this at the advice of insert agency/person here."

I still do it but it sort of just feels like leaving a note to future generations that we at least tried to stop it.

The Preferential part is the most important, it means you can vote for who you want but also have the second preference get a vote if the first fails to get a wide enough margin. That first vote however will get additional resources based on vote tally with the next election cycle. If either of the last two majority parties fail to get the necessary votes to hold control and you have a hung parliament, they then have to negotiate with other parties to gain their preference.

Its not perfect but it looks like the best case system I have seen.

Greyscale can be very cool and easy to use if built for it. Just look at Mac's before they went colour as an example.

Alas, that doesn't always fly with the populace.

But when someone comes up with something simple but effective, it always looks so obvious in retrospect.

Alas, for many parts of society there is a large amount of people that would rather be reactive than proactive. It means it is easier today but harder long term.

Still remember the concern when Quake 3 would require a GPU as they were not entirely ubiquitous then. It was the right more and it helped the industry forward but it was a little pain point at that time.

"My game froze for 100ms on a one time shader compilation dropping... totally unplayable!"

I get it, shader compilation is a little pain point but it isn't that bad. Some compilation times are less than the frame times we used to play at in the 80's/90's.

Like I remember Doom running fine on my 486 SX 25Mhz, but looking back at it now, it wasn't that great. It took a top end Pentium to really get it into smooth-ish 20fps+ territory.

I agree with the ARM/RISCV stance that we should be cautious with what we ask. I have seen some RiscV providers in China are starting to push for a BIOS compatible boot system which is great to see, but there is no guarantee that it will be adopted or it will last for long.

Linux started Linux by himself, then others came along if they are inspired.

I know it is hard to do at first but that hard first step is what is usually needed.

I have been some folks try to say there is a limit of total Lithium availability and that issue seems to be wildy overstated. We are still a bit supply constrained but not because a lack of materials just a case of rolling out mines/processing facilities. So while production is coming up to speed, it is better to priorities its use for portable storage and use other types for grid storage.

Came down to, wide software support with x86, higher performance, UEFI, secure boot and storage standards like NVME slots. It was a fair argument but doesn't apply to everyone.