toddestan

Youtube was founded?

Well, it definitely looks to have backfired on US government. The politicians figured that they could force Bytedance to divest TikTok using a ban in the US as a threat, assuming that TikTok wouldn't want to lose access to the US market and the 180 million or so (!) users. Instead of complying, ByteDance did nothing and the politicians and the US government were put into a position of actually enforcing a very unpopular ban.

The timing of course is interesting. This comes right at the end of Biden's administration, allowing for Trump to swoop in and lift the ban and take all the credit for that. Of course ignoring that is was Trump who originally kicked this whole thing into motion back in 2020 with his executive order to ban TikTok.

Unfortunately, it's the corporate standard. With that said, it's actually kind of surprising how little I use the Office suite on my work computer (other than Outlook I guess). More and more things are becoming web based.

I'm expecting pretty decent software support for Windows 10 for another three years or so. Sure, there will be things here and there that won't work, but most things will continue to work and many people who are on Windows 10 can just keep on using it for the next few years should they chose to do that. That'll more or less match what happened with Windows 7, where it wasn't until 2023 that I started to see support start to massively drop off. With that said, if Microsoft actually breaks Office on Windows 10 that'll really change things.

Also, I'd offer up 2001-2014 as a period of time where it was entirely possible to stick with one OS (Windows XP) the entire time.

I'd say traditional (linear) television. Still common enough, though even today it's clearly on the way out.

Unless something drastic happens, there will be a decent number of cars on the road in 20 years that are already on the road today.

"I'll show you the photos once I get them developed."

I didn't see it in a quick scroll through on that page, but I'd assume the answer has something to do with this.

Demand might be low, but on the other hand the cost to develop and manufacture a run of the drives may not be too high either.

I do have to say the increase in flash memory prices haven't helped. A year ago I bought the Samsung 8TB drive for $300 (US). If they had a 16TB model for $600-$700 I would have bought it.

That's why I would say that cell phones are fine. It's when they turned into smartphones where I would draw the line. I just get the feeling that we'd be a lot better off if mobile phone tech never advanced much further than the mid-2000's flip phone.

I'd say his first mistake was choosing Garland. Biden then made a second mistake when he didn't immediately fire Garland as soon as it became obvious that Garland wasn't going to do his job.

Subnautica has some nice scenery, though for a painting I'd probably go with something like the safe shallows where there's plenty of sunlight, or maybe the underwater islands or the kelp forest.

MInecraft would have a lot of possibilities, particularly with some of the new terrain generation for mountains as well as the cherry tree biome that was recently added. However, with each world being generated randomly, there's no definitive scenes that would be instantly identifiable as Minecraft. So you'd have to rely on making the painting sufficiently blocky and/or replicating some of the terrain generation quirks like the occasional floating tree or lava flowing out the side of a hill and things like that.