This is exactly all I use Siri for.

"Set a timer for 15 minutes, please".

I also always add the "please", just in case the robots take over one day.

There was literally _zero_ technical reason for this change. It's pure greed.

My TV, which uses Google OS, which the TV manufacturer is already paying Google to use, has now disabled payment processing in the Prime and Apple TV apps, because of this. So now I have to go through a bunch of extra steps if I want to rent a movie from Amazon. I refuse to rent movies from Google, on principle, because of this horseshit.

Basically they added nothing, except the strong steer to divert all rental fees towards themselves.

2022 and no UTF8, eh?

Itâ(TM)s almost as if the philosophy of âoegot mine, fuck youâ is not a great way to run society.

You block transfer of patent ownership as a tradeable good. They're still free to license their patent to anyone they so please. They just can't relinquish their ownership of it without the patent falling into the public domain.

And they'll be coming to the Fed soon, cap in hand, to ask for money to cover the cost of their failures.

I'm still disapointed GNU coreutils hasn't added /bin/uncertain to complement the other two.

Letâ(TM)s not forget Brexit. Thatâ(TM)s factoring in as well.

Apparently this type of heart failure (hypertropic cardiomyopathy) in young people isn't all that rare, and is, in fact, easily detected during autopsy.

He has a well-documented record of all of those things. However, nowhere in that sentence is the China travel ban even mentioned. That's purely your weird reading of it. Many other countries have shut down travel between themselves and China, and for very good reasons which have nothing to do with Chinese ethnicity or phobia thereof.

if those works fall afoul of the same standards, then absolutely they should.

Actively calling for extermination of certain social groups, to advance your cause, is not exactly a universal crowd-pleaser.

No, itâ(TM)s happening because the moneyed class doesnâ(TM)t want the EU to dissolve their tax shelters and actually make those leeches on society pay their fair share.

In order to turn your eyes away from that, the rich folks foment they age-old âoeour problems are all due to dirty foreignersâ. The pickle here is that Western countries, for the most part, really need immigrants to keep the population growing and avoid a stagflation situation like the one Japan has been grappling with for a while.

Well, half of them, at least.

Lolwutnow? All high-bandwidth fiber optic communication systems use lasers (laser diodes). However, in space you're not bounded by the refractive attenuation mess of fiber and the significantly lower speed of light in glass. The only thing you have to worry about is having good aim and tracking.

Many, if not most, of those restrictions (DRM, screenshots, device count, VPN, regional restrictions, subtitles, display aspect, etc) are not coming from Netflix themselves. Instead, they usually come from the licensing agreements they make with the 3rd-party content providers. It's a lot easier, from a legal perspective and potential user-confusion, to just make all those restrictions simply apply to all content, rather than try to selectively enforce them.