The ACM is a quite large organization, with tens of thousands of paying members (like myself, for >25 years). They also take part in organizing conferences. Have you heard about the Turing award, often equated to "the Nobel prize of computing"? It's the ACM that awards it.
There are many other sources of income for the ACM. they have surely run the numbers and realized that, while not negligible, the income they got from individual access to magazine articles was not relevant enough.
I guess this will not affect too much their magazines' and journals' subscriptions. Some of the ACM's magazines, such as CACM (for the whole membership of ACM) and XRDS (for student members) are covered by membership fees; the journals, which are way more specialized and way more expensive, are often paid by university libraries, and I suppose that will not change with their shift to an OA publishing model.

This.

I have a large music collection too. I don'tlike to depend on the stream-willingness of companies I don't care about. 20 years ago, when I bought most of my CDs, I encoded most of it to Ogg.

I could re-encode to FLAC, but some of my CDs are no longer readable, some are lost... So, I'd be forced to decode and re-encode. As long as there is media player support, there's no benefit for doing so.

Is this in the Canadian constitution?

MS-DOS included GW-BASIC and BASICA (which of them depends on factors I don't really remember; BASICA was much better!)
It's a shitty language, but is absolutely Turing-complete, and you can write quite decent albeit simple games (or databases, although not SQL-driven) with it

Prisions are places where people are held to protect the population around them from potential harm, with the expectation that said harmful people will learn the consequences of their actions and mend their ways when they are freed.
If prisions were conceived as punishment, public lashing would be favored, as it is quicker and cheaper.
No, prisions are meant for protection. And to help the convicts to learn to better behave in society. They don't always succeed in this point (and it's the greatest room for improvement, but it is the ultimate goal.

Right. It is next to impossible to change an accepted term that has stuck with us for ~60 years. However, if it can get some people to separate Skynet, The Singularity and other Sci-Fi themes from the real advances in AI, I'll be very happy to have nudged the world in the right direction.

A friend of mine has convinced me to change the meaning I use for the AI contraction to "Apparent Intelligence". It fits much better the nature of AI. I invite everybody to do the same, so we can help demystify the concept.

This cannot be understated. I always (try to) point out fake points in "perfect" iphone photos. While it is not always possible, the photos you get from it are *not* the immediate result of what was in front of you. It applies some beautifying whether you like it or not.

Only if you live in a broken country that does not invest in its next generation.
I continue to be amazed even at the concept of student loans and debts. In my country (that is not a socialist utopia -- I grew up and live in Mexico), there are public universities that are essentially free. I was at the second-largest university in this country for my Masters degree in Computer Security, and it costed me approximately US$50 per semester; I'm currently doing my PhD in the country's biggest university, and I pay nothing. And as I can combine study and my regular paid work, I didn't ask for a scholarship (to which I'm entitled), which would _give_ me a modest income to live with.
Governments invest on people, people grow more talented and skillful, the society as a whole wins.

You are quoting it wrong.

I know the figures for UNAM, which is one of the largest universities in the world (>350,000 students). It surely is massive, but it is by no means enough for the size of this country; not even considering all public universities we have enough places to cover the demand for professional studies. Only around one tenth of the people who apply for UNAM are accepted after the placement exam. That is not "happy numbers" (it would be great if that 90% rejects found a place to further improve their level and have a chance of entering a university).
Of course, private universities have a lower threshold for admission (not that it's automatic, but it _is_ closer to "can you pay? come join us!").

That's interesting, and true from a certain angle. However, you should also read it from a different angle: the society will gain much more from adults that have a professional degree. It's not only the number of taxpayers that fund the learning of 18-to-25-year-olds, but it will get thtem a clear return of investment. A more developed society will not see so much quality change over this (because their markets are in a way saturated already with professionals), but it can make quite an impact in our society. So it's not just a matter of counting immediate dollars (or pesos) spent on the population.
However, of course, we could "futurize" the argument. What would happen if our population reached 40-60% titled professionals? Or how would you read this in, say, European countries that also have free (or very cheap) university systems? In countries where relatively high taxation is understood as investment as a way to make society "flatter", with less difference between the top and bottom earners, it is a way to ensure the less privileged do not fall _that much_ behind.

It often surprises me how expensive education can be in your country. Mexico, where I live, has many good, large public universities; I teach at UNAM, which has campii in different states, offers ~115 different careers, and is ranked clearly 1st in the country. I did my MSc at IPN, which would be between 2nd and 4th nationally, also a public university. Am currently pursuing an PhD at UNAM.
Tuitions are free at UNAM, and very-very-cheap at IPN (~US$50 per semester when I was there in 2015-2018). For all quality posgraduate students, you get tuition from CONACyT, our NSF equivalent, so students can work on their studies full-time living modestly.
There are private universities as well, of course; IIRC the most expensive ones charge ~US$2000 per semester (but I could be _way_ off with this number).
Education works. Yes, Mexico is not the USA, we do have differences and shortcomings. But the universitary system is solid, established and stable. And I could speak more or less in the same way about most (not all) of the Latin American countries. In fact, the social movement in Chile that has lead to the current constitutional drafting process started by... Demanding public education at all levels.

[disclaimer: I am a college teacher at a large Mexican university, UNAM]

That's something the teachers should work on correcting. While good textbooks are fundamental, there are often cheaper or free options. And even if not, writing your own is a great way to advance your career and get more recognized (given, of course, it is of good quality).

In 2015, I published with my university a book for teaching Operating Systems (https://sistop.org/). It is freely downloadable (and very cheaply bought); I know my students use it a lot. And I have received thanks from many Spanish-speaking teachers (both in Mexico and in different Latin American countries) that also use it.

College students should not be seen as money-producing machines. Wait until they land on a decent job!

I am very very very not into highly performant graphics but Xorg was terrible.
I switched to Wayland, and at least the casual YouTube video or Jitsi videoconference works quite well. I use Sway, that does 3D compositing (for a quite flat layout, yes, but it's 3D textures).
But I don't really know if I am using any of the Adreno cores at all.