It was also useful for crappy sites that show Googlebot the full content, but paywall or otherwise hide the content when you actually go there.

Did you miss the part where I said "I'm fine with segregating matchmaking based on input device"?

I don't choose input devices for the primary purpose of gaining a competitive advantage. I choose an input device based on what feels the most comfortable in the game. Any advantage is secondary, and is easily handled by just making separate matchmaking.

I don't know how I feel about the notion of "games that support it".

Having used the original Steam Controller, and now the Steam Deck, it's actually pretty cool how well those work for playing games that were never intended for controllers. I'm fine with segregating matchmaking based on input device, but the notion that you shouldn't be allowed to choose the peripheral that you wish to play a game with doesn't sit well with me (especially if it's a game where one type of input device is clearly better than others - e.g. a mouse in an FPS).

I'm interested in hearing more about that. I'd figure that if anything, it would be more permissible to sell a kit that simply interfaces with a legitimate controller, rather than selling something that pretends to be a legitimate controller (especially if Sony can spin it as some kind of DRM so that anti-circumvention provisions would apply).

You can do both, since most if not all AP hardware supports multiple SSIDs. If your SSID is "foo", you could have your 5ghz radio broadcast the "foo-5" and "foo" SSIDs, and the 2.4ghz radio could broadcast "foo-2" and "foo". So legacy devices can connect to foo-5 or foo-2 as they prefer, while new devices can connect to just foo.

I wonder if it's an issue of in-warranty vs out-of-warranty work. EVs don't have as many parts that will wear and need continual replacement, but since they're still relatively new for most brands, you'll often run into assembly issues that would be corrected as part of the warranty (from TFA: "Tesla powertrains are now pretty solid for the most part, but Tesla owners report a lot of build quality issues"). My general experience tracks with that - a couple trips back to the dealership early on, but rock solid after that.

It's worse than that, because people will be tricked into a false sense of security. They'll assume that no watermark means it isn't AI, which just isn't true.

But why? Why does this need to be a web service? Why can't the entire app just be packaged up and maybe even open sourced? Why can't they just give us the firmware file and let us install it ourselves? This whole thing just reeks of creating problems that didn't ever need to exist.

There is an argument to be made that we should be encouraging remote work, for a number of reasons:

• Less emissions from transportation
• less traffic, less road maintenance, etc
• Helps stop massive CoL inflation in tech-heavy areas

There's more than just those, but I personally find it wasteful to make people commute for jobs that don't really need it.

There are plenty of reasons.

They're just not for the benefit of the user.

Road wear is generally proportional to the 4th power of vehicle weight per axle. It's big commercial vehicles that do the damage to roads.

But if you "don't drive a lot", you're not paying that much in terms of gas tax anyway.

From the standpoint of improving the schools, allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy would only fix anything if either the school was somehow on the hook for it (rather than the lender), or if lenders got to pick and choose which schools and degrees to give loans to (the scammy schools would be gone fast if nobody could afford to go there). It would even act as a force to encourage schools to help even more with job placement and such.

Not out of the box, but you'd certainly be able to do that in other browsers, not to mention you could just use a header editor extension to change whatever is sent to the server (unless google clamps down on that too).

This seems like a win for other browsers, because you could just pick exactly what kinds of ads to show. For people that are susceptible to advertising, they could just send bogus values so that they get irrelevant ads, thus aren't tempted to buy anything.

But what I'd really like is a setting to say "I'm fine with ads as long as they don't take up more than x% of the screen, otherwise they're getting blocked entirely".

Sadly it comes just a few years too late. We've already got a bunch of privacy laws predicated on the old model, and trying to get laws modernized is slower than tectonic plate movements.