The answer is a resounding maybe. If you activated with a Microsoft account or if there's a TPM chip, the chances of it still working increases. There are different kinds of licenses, but if it fails, there's a better than not chance calling MS support and just telling them you had a hardware failure on your laptop and you need to reinstall, they'll get you going. Not a guarantee though. And I'll caveat and say this information is a couple years old (I don't work in tech support anymore).

I've seen AGI thrown around. Artificial General Intelligence.

Tbf, the way Republicans use the word to mean anything, even I wouldn't be certain what the word means in that context.

Ok, and we still create laws to combat it. I don't think "evil always existed, so let's not have the FDA because it's not that we're protecting citizens from bad food, but simply from evil."

This is such a weird "I'm 14 and this is deep" take.

yes the whole nation is in jeopardy because some warmongers arent getting their promotions... if this is really the case, then the military is being mismanaged way worse than anyone knows.

When you refuse to fill management positions, yes, it will become even more mismanaged. Moreover, this is still messing with people's pay and families as well. You can't really cut management positions in the military and expect it to function. Our readiness will absolutely be hindered.

You can hate the army, but they're also one of the biggest suppliers of aid to other countries. Their logistics and planning help save more lives than you ever will, plus they save more lives than they actually ever take in combat.

You're no better than a Republican who just wants to shut down and obstruct without offering any actual assistance or plans to move forward. You're a child not getting their way. Are you related to the Senator as you throw a similar hissy fit?

That's a horrendous comparison. You could have had an arguable point if other countries weren't already doing it.

The problem is that the efficiency is achieved through shortcuts and biases. It'd those biases people need to be careful with.

Glad it's circled, otherwise I don't know how I would have found the joke. Why do folks do that? (Just an open question to all, not a direct question to OP, unless they did the circling)

Didn't say they run it. The person who runs it can be simply another employee. It's just there are no outside investors and everyone has a vote on the board. You put someone in charge you trust but everyone as a whole has a say in big picture stuff with the person at the top being day to day and being held accountable to employees and not investors.

Capitalism fundamentally changes the relationship between workers and their work. One takes the value they create and gives it to someone else. One doesn't.

It's interesting that you're exercising your right to tell people to stop exercising theirs....

I don't understand this "them vs us" mentality. People are people. Outside of just yourself, you can never designate whether someone will generate quality content based solely on where they came from or what they did previously. If you want niche, joining an instance that literally designated itself as general purpose was a bad idea in the first place.

I disagree with the concept that there's a better place for anything. If my account is here, I will create a community/magazine here. I'm not going to segregate myself simply because of my location. You can argue that an instance should suggest naming conventions for localized topics. But it's up to the instance to require that. There's no real rules between instances at all. So I find the discussion that a community doesn't belong in a general purpose instance. If it doesn't conflict with the intent of the instance and the instance has no naming convention, it's first come, first serve.

Creating generic rules to apply to other instances aside from the protocol is simply not what the fediverse is about.

Edit to add: also, there's no default instance for a country either. Sure those that you mentioned exist, but there's no rule saying Germans need to put German specific things in feddit.de.