Yes, you’re talking about right now.

In 5-10 years, if this ends up like many are predicting (and I don’t know if it will or not), you are going to see people by the hundreds or thousands appealing their property tax assessments, saying their land is effectively worthless if water is too expensive or unavailable. They’ll get denied but some of them will contest the denial and file suit. And eventually one wins in court. Then everyone contests and everyone wins. And the only land that can be taxed has water rights. And unless the farmer plans to get his alfalfa to market via helicopter, he’s gonna have to pay the taxes or the roads disappear. He’s proper F’ed.

If the price of water for residential consumptions rises too much, the humans would probably vote in favor of things that would make insane agricultural consumption unviable.

Property taxes that accurately account for the relative value of property with water rights vs those that don’t. Excise taxes on water pumping. Etc.

Be very, very careful.

Lenovo’s on-site service has changed into a massive security risk. They changed the terms within the last year or two. You have to give one of their contractors full remote admin access to your computer to “run diagnostics” before they’ll dispatch the onsite repairman.

This used to be a service worth every penny. But now: read the fine print carefully.

It’s a fine computer. “Tech Bros” say stupid things about low-cost Windows computers too.

If I had a complaint about the Neo, it’s the screen aspect ratio. The smaller the screen, the closer you need to be 3:2. Open a Google doc on a school-issue Chromebook. It’s laughable how little space is available for the actual content on those junk 16:9 screens. This Neo is 16:10. Better, but not a whole lot. A 13” iPad in landscape mode is ~4:3 and an 11” iPad is ~3:2. It’s not like Apple didn’t know, and it’s not like Apple didn’t have access to displays that are better suited to a small machine.

It’s kind of painful to type this, but: PowerShell. A follows-best-practices command/script has all the discoverability of MCP with all the composability and local execution of a CLI tool. And remember that when you’re chaining commands together, you’re passing typed dotnet objects, not text.

It’s amazing that MS GitHub copilot agents are so awful at MS PowerShell when running MS Visual Studio Code on MS Windows, but, there you are. Just don’t call it Satya Slop.