Other than nostalgia, why should I sign up for it? I didn't gather from the article what sort of innovations are they planning to bring in than would make it appealing to use
Got the same sentiment from the article - I think the value-case that is being implied is Ohanian and Rose leading the platform; not entirely sold on that pitch but interested to see what ends up happening with it.
I would applaud if FCC goes even further, and bans the robots from use in any business, which is required to accept calls
For example: government forces me to have health insurance, and health insurance is unable to satisfy my needs online - DON'T FORCE ME TALK TO YOUR ROBOTS. These don't typically recognize my voice, and frankly speaking "How can we help you? You can say anything" sounds like an insult to me. Many of the businesses don't even offer touch-tone navigation anymore. It used to be that "Say blablabla, blablabla, or blablabla" meant you could use "1", "2", or "3" respectively, but now even that is no longer working in many cases.
Hire f*ng human, or don't offer phone line at all.
No P&L, no cost/reward analysis, no numbers at all. Just emotional "omg need more green". Have the author ever torn down a single parking lot? Doesn't look like that to me. Why is this article even on HN at all?
Using the telegram bot - you just text it. You could have the bot running on some server and sync the tasks from there to your computer, but it's really not needed. One of the nice things about Telegram bots is that the messages are queued until the bot becomes available, meaning I can text my bot on the go and the moment my laptop opens all the files are created.
I've been a Linux user for 15 years. This works fine for me and [some of] my family. I still can't fathom regular folks using any flavor of it. Chrome and Android obviously disregarded.
What's really going to happen is absolutely nothing. People won't throw away anything because people won't even know or care that Windows isn't being updated anymore.
The landfill isn't the solution because there isn't a problem.
I don't know if I totally agree with this. Maybe it's not nearly as bad as how the article frames it but just doing a Google image search of "landfills of old PCs" returns some pretty convincing images.
Hardware does become obsolete at some point and people will get rid of them but the EOL of an operating system is not the reason for it. As long as people can boot up and do whatever they want to do with acceptable speed then most won't upgrade.
Unless a big pop-up warns and nags users about it, I don't see Windows 10 PCs getting thrown out anytime soon.
