Not sure what you are saying here. The compressors aren't single use, you can use them again and again. Or do you mean when you buy a new car? Because cars used to come with a spare wheel that fit them, i.e. you paid for one every time.

Uninstalling just screws yourself, it does nothing to prevent other people sending you those sound effects. Other apps have been able to do it for a while anyway.

Don't worry, nobody over the age of 14 uses it. Well, maybe you will, once you realize it can be used against telemarketers.

I asked it to recommend a PLL and this was the response:

I suppose technically it's true, but practically it's useless.

You missed the part about a responsible adult not paying attention for a moment. Batteries end up in all sorts of things, not all of them very well made to contain those batteries. They are small enough for babies to swallow.

It's well documented that Netanyahu has been funding and helping Hamas for years.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/...

Now many in Israel blame him for what has happened, both on October 7th and the shameful actions of the IDF that came after it. The main reason the hostages haven't all been freed yet is that if they were it would make it harder for Israel to justify the coming genocide in Rafah, which is intended to push the remaining Gazans out of the area so that it can be fully annexed and ethnically cleansed by Israel. Netanyahu won't stop until he gets all of "Greater Israel", which includes parts of neighbouring countries like Iran.

Google has entered the suicide phase of big tech companies. They see a short term downturn in the market and start laying people off, or get some bean counter in who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Successful and long lasting companies retain employees. It's partly self interest, long term employees have a lot of company specific and domain knowledge built up, and tend to be better at long term strategic planning. It's partly because if you want the best people, you need to treat them well, not discard them the moment some accountant says the numbers demand it.

It's a shame, but in time someone else will replace them.

I'm not sure it saved them any money, as here in the UK they come with a compressor and patch kit instead of the tyre. It's actually kinda handy since you can use the compressor to top up your tyres whenever you like.

I prefer it. I've never had a puncture and lugging around that extra weight, costing me money, doesn't seem worth it. Obviously if you are driving in areas where recovery would be difficult then your risk assessment may vary.

As an engineer, I look at something which can kill someone if the responsible adult's attention wonders for even a few seconds as a design flaw.

That said, I'm not sure this is the best solution. Nintendo coats their Switch cartridges with something that makes them taste absolutely disgusting. Reflex spit reaction, at any age. I suppose the issue is that batteries need to be conductive all around, because there is no telling where the contact is going to be with a coin cell, but there does have to be an insulating ring separating positive and negative.

We are likely to see energy being delivered in these standard container sized crates now. Hospitals that need backup power, stricken nuclear plants, mobile military facilities, disaster areas...

I suppose the other issue is how do you measure contributions? It's difficult to put a value on any particular patch.

There are trials of vertical turbines on ships at the moment, the advantage being that they are very simple to operate and don't need to be adjusted for wind direction. There have also been tests with kites that can catch wind at higher altitudes.

There's a fight going on between coal mining companies and wind energy companies in China at the moment. The coal miners are pushing for as much coal use as possible, but their product is expensive compared to wind power, and the pollution is a big issue even before you get to the central government's climate goals.

Then you have solar. The shear speed at which it is being deployed is incredible, and of course it all eats into demand for coal and gas. That's why they are 5 years ahead of their Paris goals, and enjoying huge economic gains from it. It's kind of crazy that we aren't doing the same, creating huge numbers of new jobs and vast new revenues from it.

I always thought that the idea of the client being a browser extension was a terrible idea too. If it's a separate app then at least it's outside the browser processes. In fact when Lastpass got started, Firefox was still single process and using the extremely insecure old plug-in system, and Google Chrome was brand new.

Windows XP was a security disaster. The oldest OS that could reasonably be secured without massive breaking changes is probably Windows 8, as that's when the driver model was changed to move the last critical bits out of the kernel IIRC. Maybe Windows 7.

XP ran too much stuff in kernel space, including most drivers. One security flaw in a 3rd party driver and your machine was 0wned. It didn't support Secure Boot either, so the favourite trick of malware authors was to patch the NTFS driver to hide their files, making it almost impossible for anti-virus software to remove the infection.

I doubt Microsoft will care about an old unsupported version of Windows getting hacked. It's not as if they didn't warn people. When companies get hit with ransomware, does the news blame Microsoft Windows for being insecure?

There is very little incentive for them to continue supporting Windows 10 for free. They completed their contractual obligation, and there is money to be made selling new OEM licences when people buy new computers.