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Absolutely true. But I suspect the problem is that the thing is too expensive to make to be sold as a sausage, so if they can't make it look like tasty confection they can't sell it at all.

Yet another reminder that LLM is not "intelligence" for any common definition of the term. The thing just scraped responses of other LLM and parroted it as its own response, even though it was completely irrelevant for itself. All with an answer that sounds like it knows what it's talking about, copying the simulated "personal implication" of the source.

In this case, sure, who cares? But the problem is something that is sold by its designers to be an expert of sort is in reality prone to making shit up or using bad sources, while using a very good language simulation that sounds convincing enough.

What is really lacking is all the very specific communities centered around common interests. The more specific the harder, especially if it's not a traditionally nerdy subject. I mean, there's an obvious bias, and I won't pretend I am not part of it.

Those used to have dedicated forums, but Reddit manage to capture them all for convenience, and now very few subsist. A good part of what's left has been abandoned to AI spambots.

Part of this activity is now on discord, but the invite structure isn't great for those. It makes this content hard to discover and impossible to search if you're not aware of it.

Nintendo had games breaking at parts because of interrupted services, even games that are single-player or playable offline.

Some examples :

Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon has a shop that connects to the internet and is the only place where you can get an item required for a specific class promotion. I shit you not, the only reason it needs access to a long dead server is to check the current date, because the shop's content depends on the day of the month.

Similarly, Metroid Prime 3 and Metroid Prime Trilogy had an "online" component... Some of the in-game rewards could only be obtained by spending "friend credits". What happened is you earned a credit, you couldn't spend it yourself, you had to send it to a friend and have them do the same for you. This was the only way the games used the online service. Bonus, they rereleased Trilogy on Wii U, long after the server shutdown, and did not do anything to let you go around that.

And also on the Wii U, Mario Vs Donkey Kong Tipping Stars had a level designer. You could unlock parts for the designer with stars, earned by playing levels... Shared on miiverse. They shut down Miiverse, even before the end of the console's (short) life, and they even kept selling the game after that, with only a short message to warn "not all functionalities" were available. The truth is that without the miiverse stars you could barely unlock anything for the designer, so it was basically useless even for offline.

Also worth noting that people may have access to TPM through their CPU, notably AMD Rysens... And that some of those were plagued for a while with very bad performance issues when it was activated.

It's supposed to be fixed now, but only if you got the right BIOS updates. Not sure myself, I kinda gave up on TPM and Windows 11 on my current hardware.

The way things are going, honestly my next PC will probably have TPM because it'll have a newer motherboard, but I am not ruling out not having Windows on it.

I think it's that :

https://www.palemoon.org/

I briefly used a version of that on a legacy application that needed flash, because it still supports it.

Press X to JSON.

I refuse to believe anyone ever opens microsoft notepad on purpose.

Well that certainly explains why they want people to believe tracking users is an absolute necessity for advertisers.

Perpetuating the lie advertisers have been pushing for at least two decades that untargeted advertisement is absolutely worthless.

Without cookies, advertisers still know from where you're connected and what type of content you are currently consuming, it's not like they are completely blind. It was enough for any media that is not the internet.

Your former pile of fertilizer is now weed killer.

La Haye International Court of Justice, of course.