Those will die off soon enough, through forced obsolescence and an inability to compete with ad-subsidised junk that spies on you.

Holy shit, I am so glad I looked that up!

I still have my X6, with the modular numpad you could stick to either side.

Although nowadays I only use it for my test bench at home. That thing was truly ahead of its time.

My QNAP NAS is rapidly approaching 20 years old, I just dump media onto it and then use Infuse as the front end on my Apple TVs.

It does the trick for the time being, but I do want to spin up a HexOS system with a set of 3x16TB drives to eventually replace it.

For what it’s worth; the world will survive and adapt. Whether that means the extinction of humanity, is a whole separate matter altogether.

Our species entire existence is a mere blip compared to dinosaurs for an example.

Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.

Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:

Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.

I don’t know about you, but to me it sounds like a valid legal argument that Luigi Mangione’s lawyers could potentially use?

Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is currently valued at. ~$1.9 trillion USD.

They have a population of ~5.6m people.

They works out to be ~$340K USD for every man, woman and child in the nation. That’s a lot, but not anywhere generational levels of wealth.

Mind you, the above numbers aren’t perfect as it doesn’t take into consideration non-citizens living in Norway (who may not be eligible), as well as ex-pats living abroad (who would).

Pepsi? Partial credit!

It’ll be one of these, where you’ll also have to chase it around your house to turn it off - but not before successfully solving a multi-stage CAPCHA, yelling out the name of the company that is currently advertising, and successfully answering 3 questions about the product being advertised.

Get anything wrong, and you’ll be locked out for 2 minutes while another set of ads plays.

Oh, and it will only be available via a monthly subscription service.

Be sure to invite all of your like-minded friends, as well as that weird one uncle who still believes in QAnon - it’s hole -some fun for everyone.

Don’t miss out, it’s going to be a blast!

Oh yeah? Well, I heard that the real Epstein List, the one implicating the Clintons, Soros and Obama (and not the fake one that’s like 30% Trump) is buried under one of those trees.

Git your shovels, boys!

Dude’s being sarcastic, you know that - right?

I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employed, and entertained!

Shhh… quit trying to convince these people, let them have their inferior response times and colours. Less competition for the enlightened, means that prices won’t skyrocket due to an influx of demand.

This is literally the only valid reason for such a product, and unfortunately is also the loophole most vendors use in order for these to be legal to sell.

Edited to add: sorry, backbone was probably the wrong term to use.

The actual history of Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is actually needlessly complicated - primarily due to a (somewhat) successful sabotage attempt by our Conservative government in the early 2010s.

But basically, every single new home is built with Fiber to the Home, and every single metropolitan and suburban home either has Fiber to the Home (or Premises), or at the very least Fiber to the Curb through a remediation process to replace the Conservative-implemented Fiber to the Node boondoggle.

We also have a number of neighbourhoods stuck with HFC (again due to Conservstice sabotage) which while still delivering 100+ Mbit connections - are a bit of a technical dead end and will need to be remediated at some point in the future.

Basically, nbnCo serves as a national broadband wholesaler providing high speed connectivity (100, 250, 500, Gigabit) to something like >95% of the population.

The most remote communities are also serviced either through a fixed wireless option or satellite.

Basically though, unlike the US we don’t have a significant number of people still on dial-up and haven’t had so for a very long time.

Heck, even opting for median age over the mean would work in this case!

Blart

He’s actually a massive Kevin James fan.