I don't disagree, but what are your options when a giant portion of the population uses O365 and outlook.com? How are you going to get them to stop using it, so that legit emails from user-owned servers are not silently rejected?

Most of them wouldn't even care probably...

I use a sending service. I would prefer not having to, but at least all inbound email goes directly to my server.

I've also been running my own server for over 20 years, but do note that the big players may block their senders from delivering mail to your server. This happened to me with GMail around 6-7 years ago, until I configured DMARC and/or DKIM and/or SPF to their liking. As far as I know, they don't do a press release when they update their rules.

I have a perfect score in google postmaster tools on dkim, spf and 0 spam reports. They still send all emails to spam. They will even do this if you are replying to the user who contacted you. Same experience for my friend running an indie festival. These days you pretty much have to alert gmail users by some other means (like if signing up on a website) that they have to check spam and whitelist you since it appears gmail would rather block legit emails than allow a single possible spam through.

It depends on the nature of the transaction. If the user needs the email more than you do, you just remind them Outlook deletes your messages, and they'll find a way, and in the long term usage of Outlook will decrease.

I expected electrical transformers, then Transformers with a capital T, but not this. (still, very very cool!)

Exact same thoughts. It’s cool, still a bit disappointing as I wanted to see a cool visualization of magnetic fields and inductance!

They'll just say economy was doomed because of Biden anyway, and that it's not their fault.

We're seeing "it's never enough" play out right in front of our eyes.

Then the problem is they don't have a real competitor. I suspect the government aided them in getting in that position because we export those machines, and the US likes the strategic position of being the source of everyone's farm equipment.

Hard to break a monopoly when the government considers maintaining it to be a strategic interest.

No matter how much the business makes, at some point their stock price comes up to the equilibrium with the rest of market. And since for CEO to get bonus he needs stock to go up, the businesses inevitably start applying dirty tricks at one point or another. That's just a system

> since for CEO to get bonus he needs stock to go up, the businesses inevitably start applying dirty tricks

Is that a system or is it individual greed? Every economic system has its own weak points that can be exploited by bad actors. Capitalism works. What doesn’t work is letting people get away with dirty tricks.

Thats why the covert sociopaths extend their dirty trickery on politics and public discourse.

That system really needs to go.

We'll never solve major challenges like the ever rising income gap, global warming and other environmental concerns and the inevitable cycle of enshittification without it.

The problem is that especially America views unrestricted capitalism as some kind of religion beyond reproach. They consider it a fact of life. But it is very hollow, it glorifies profit above all and has no eye for externalities.

As they currently control a lot of the world trade we're kinda stuck with that system. Trump voters are so angry because they've been getting the short end of the stick for decades. And he is alienating most of his allies meaning everyone is looking for ways to become less dependent on the petrodollar.

Unfortunately they voted for someone who will make it even worse. Instead of 'sticking it to the man' they're giving it to the man.

The system of capitalism works fine with one exception: it doesn't handle negative value. And this is what's being exploited here. You can lose customer's data and it's their problem. Borrow, take risk, lost money, and declare corporate bankruptcy - no personal loss. Destroy environment - say sorry and that's it. That's not free market. When CEOs have their personal assets taken, and kidneys removed to pay for the corporate debts - this is when things start changing

I mean, aren't a lot of sci-fi authors' predictions coming true? It might not be exactly the same as they predicted, but we're heading there.

Read more sci-fi. The dystopian takes are not the only ones. They're not even the majority.

Pick up an Asimov book in the Robot series, or any number of novels written by lesser authors in the 1950s. Fiction reflects broader societal anxieties.

From the 4th line in the article:

> But getting stuff onto it was tedious. I had to join its hotspot and open a little upload website in my browser. Yuck.

Anyway, very creative, I like the idea a lot.

You can get them that cheap, you just need a time machine. I built a few that were about that price including a free 128GB SSD in late 2024. The FSP500 PSU from one particular ebay seller was cheaper then too ($5-10).

Been really fun watching this go from e-waste to having mesa support and CU/CPU unlocks.

Also no display? What kind of games are we playing

It's got display port.

Sometimes I wonder if people are just writing these for the sake of having written something.

Had no idea it had ads. Thank you ublock origin <3

I just entertained myself with this for 30 minutes.