Well, it did improve. Originally, I am very sure the search routine consisted of a single line:

"I saw you search for $whatever, did you mean 'how can I tell if my copy of Windows is genuine?'?"

Can I turn it off and if, how?

Both Ozempic and Wegovy are linked to severe stomach issues along with thyroid tumors, pancreatitis, changes in vision, hypoglycemia, gallbladder issues, kidney failure and cancer issues, along with hospitalization. Why not have someone make knockoffs wth little to no oversight? What's the worst that could happen?

Thank you. I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw the irony in Google thinking it could do better.

Fame, fortune, book deals, interviews, etc. He might also claim that since he created BTC he should have control over it.

We can't advance if we retain too much "knowledge" of history and keep looking back to it.

To advance we need to know where we came from. If people are offended that we can look back into history and see the many, many, many wrongs we did in the name of religion or how science showed previously "known" ideas were utterly wrong, they are no better than the Catholic Church suppressing science because it contradicted "the word of god". That does nothing except to retard our growth and keep us ignorant.

While it is debatable if every single web page which ever existed needs retained, it is not debatable that we can retain too much knowledge. One need only look back at all the knowledge lost at the Library at Alexandria or all the other papers/scrolls/books which have been deliberately destroyed in an attempt to hide that knowledge.

Yes, if you commit cross-border crime, you very much are subject to the laws of the state in which the crime occurred, regardless of whether you were physically there at the time.

Now, whether you'll actually get extradited is a much more complicated question.

Yes, that's what extradition law is about. This isn't surrender as per a EAW. Extradition requires principles such as dual criminality, where what they're charged with has to be a crime in both the sending and receiving state, and speciality, where the subject can only be charged with the pre-agreed-upon list of charges. Extradition involves a high degree of sovereignty of the sending state, vs. EAW which is more like handing off a criminal in the US who fled across state lines.

I have a Windforce 4060 16GB and the fans don't run most of the time, even for light gaming. It's not until I run something graphically intensive that they turn on at all, and they're still quieter than my system fan (stock cooler, system not overclocked) because of the blade design and the counterrotating fan not fighting its neighbor. I'm told that if you underclock and undervolt you still get decent performance and the fans only run slightly on very heavy loads.

You can replace pulseaudio (and JACK!) with pipewire and wireplumber. It also supports ALSA clients. Just install pipewire and wireplumber, chmod -x pulseaudio, and reboot. This is effective on probably any Linux system; I do it on Devuan. You need to keep pulseaudio installed for the client libraries. You can control system and application volume using the pulseaudio interface, so all of your normal desktop environment volume controls will work with it.

I agree that pulseaudio is crap, but you CAN replace it, even if you can't remove it fully from your system. It's not very big, so it's not a big problem to have it lurking.

Yes, they wanted to connect to the kernel in ways they weren't allowed to. Changes were made in Linux that forced them to comply. Nvidia made the necessary changes on their end in relatively short order, so short in fact that by the time I actually got a distro with an affected kernel the driver had already been updated, so there was zero impact to me — an Nvidia user. No question that it was sleazy, though.

I used to be an Nvidia user because I dual-booted, and AMD drivers for Windows are hot garbage (and before AMD, the ATI drivers for Windows were the same.) Now I am an Nvidia user even though I don't dual boot, because CUDA is required for some of my use cases, and ROCm only supports a small subset of cards. The AMD drivers for Windows are still trash, but the OSS AMD graphics driver for Linux is great so the only thing that needs to happen is that my use cases need to be less CUDA-dependent or AMD needs to get serious about supporting ROCm across all of their GPUs, and then I will start thinking about buying AMD GPUs which I have regretted every single time I have ever done it in the past. I have seen crappy drivers cause crashes with "their" (ATI's and then AMD's) hardware since Windows 3.1 and the Mach32.

Nvidia can't release GEforce drivers as OSS because they contain Microsoft code. This was part of the deal for getting their chip into the original Xbox. As you yourself state, they have released drivers for their ARM-coupled GPUs. You may not be happy with the way they released the sources, but they did release them and they are usable. Don't unpack them over the top of the prior release and you won't confuse yourself. If AMD were competent at software, then Nvidia would be far less popular. They aren't. That's why their Windows drivers still cause crashes. If you have a simple use case and only want to run Linux, AMD GPUs are totally viable and probably even your best bet. If you want broad application support for GPU acceleration, or if you want to dual boot, Nvidia is still the best choice by far. I use AMD CPUs exclusively, but I also use Nvidia GPUs exclusively. These days (and for some years now) the Linux driver keeps up with the version of the Windows driver. The only missing feature is interleaved SLI, which I no longer want to use anyway, so it's not bothering me.

Warranty does not cover asteroid collisions.

I got a debt collection letter for a whole ass [used] car once. The perpetrator had a driver's license with my name on it, because it was their name too. My FULL name is approximately the 400th most common FULL name in THIS country, middle name included. But that is not sufficient proof of identity to establish a debt. What the court in Nevada City, CA decided WAS sufficient proof was a check cashing card with my SSN written on it in pen.

Who knows which of the many identity breaches I've been "involved" with ("victimized in" is a more accurate description) or whether it was from Yuba College, which was transmitting student SSNs in cleartext over the internet until I implemented encryption for remote sites for them as a contract job, but they got it somehow and the court accepted it as proof of identity. This is, of course, a spectacular fuckup which destroyed my credit rating — I wasn't even aware of it for years. ANY state database system connected to the SSA would have revealed that the other party's DOB didn't match my SSN, but there were NO SUCH CHECKS.

The SSN was only ever supposed to be used for social security and tax purposes (which are intimately involved) and its use has grown out of all sense. The credit score system is fundamentally no different from China's "social credit score" in that if your credit score is low, it affects employability and access to housing directly, both rentals and purchases, plus has secondary effects on these as well since it affects your access to effective transportation (buying a car, that is, in a country with very few reasonably functional public transport systems) which in turn affects your employability again. The system is rotten from stem to stern and someone having an ID with your name on it is only a severe problem because of general government malaise and incompetence.

I have an employee benefit that lets me rent at approximately half price from Hertz. So I can choose between an affordable rental (with the benefit, the rental car allowance from my insurance comes within a couple of dollars of actually covering the rental car completely like they never do) or a potentially competent rental company.