Plenty of cities are not dirty, cramped shitholes. It's just that the US likes to make them that way. Loads of European, Australian and even some Asian cities are clean and liveable. SF is just suffering from what happens when rents get unaffordable, pod hotels are not new. Hell, it's been common in Europe for people to rent small M-F bedsits close to work and go out to their large, cheap country homes on the weekends for decades. SF isn't as big as London, New York or Tokyo but the fact the home owners there don't want to do anything that will let their house prices drop is creating the same problem.

So their option is not drinking or drinking at an establishment which is walking distance from home.

The longer term solution is to support politicians and parties who bring better forms of public transportation to their area. What would happen to these same people if they were to have an unfortunate accident that left them unable to drive (I.E. a broken leg or heart attack)?

I digress, the real problem with drink driving in the US is really the entitlement. A non-insignificant number of people believe that not only that they have the right to DUI, but they are right to do it. This is reinforced by the lax punishments and low chances of being caught and charged.

Also the US is not relatively unique in having large swaths of the country with little public transport. A lot of countries have the same issue (Australia, for example, even the places that have PT systems often shut down or become so infrequent after midnight they're effectively not there).

I firmly believe that alcohol interlocks are not useful, solely for reason #3... Here in the UK they're only given to the worst offenders and even then, only marginally effective.

However breathalysers in the hands of the police are a very effective tool. Australia had a huge drink driving problem in the 90's until the police started cracking down on it. You're right that they need regular calibration but this is taken care of by professionals as a failed or out of date calibration certificate is grounds to have every ticket issued by that machine invalidated.

People complain about government overreach but in most countries, breathalysers in the hands of police do the opposite. It forces the burden of proof to be higher for the police. No longer can a cop say "I smelled liquor on his breath you honour" and not have it questioned, now they have to provide the test results, calibration certificate and supporting documentation (and knowing a few Australian defence lawyers, problems with the documentation is how you'll get off a DUI ticket if you really need to). In Australia, which is still quite lax compared to Europe, if you blow under 0.08 they'll usually let you sit on the side of the road for half an hour or so and test you again. At that point you have the option of a urine or blood test, most don't as it will often have a higher reading than the breathalyser so most opt to cop the punishment (do the crime, do the time as we say in Oz).

The flip side of this is that if I haven't been drinking, there is no way for the officer to claim I had. Even if the machine gives off a false reading I can still opt for a urine or blood test (which is done by a medical lab, not the police). If you blow under 0.05 BAC it's a case of "on you way sir", even if you blow 0.049.

It's less about authentication and just getting data to train a model.

I'd be more concerned about flaws in the model as you're going to get very non-diverse sample (Latinos tend not to have light coloured eyes). But this is Milei's "anarcho-capitalist" society bearing fruit, a private company taking advantage of a very poor people to do something that's already been declared illegal in a large part of the developed world. I just didn't think it would happen so quickly.

I just hope these people cashed in their shitcoin quickly, I doubt it'll be worth $50 shortly.

This. There are a few games I've opted not to buy because they require a third party account and Steam tells you this in advance ("Requires XBox Live account" or some such). I don't care if it can be linked to my Steam account, in fact I don't want 3rd parties linked to my steam account.

The issue was at launch, Helldivers 2 on PC didn't require a 3rd party account and Sony changed this later in an "I'm altering the deal" type of arrangement. Steam being relative good guys said "Well, I'm refunding the arrangement". There's a reason I trust Valve (well more than I trust most game developers), they're not out to screw over the player at every opportunity.

Except to get access to development tools, you need to pay Apple. Sure you can argue that you might be able to hack some other IDEs to do it and at some point in the future be able to test it on live devices without Apple's say so but in reality if you want to develop for Apple products you need to pay Apple.

The problem you have is that the tablet fad is over, not just Ipads but all tablets, it's just that Ipads have further to fall before they reach the bottom.

People aren't buying tablets any more, most people who want one already have one and there's no impetus to upgrade as the one they have still works so most new tablet sales are to replace broken ones. TFA is right that a spec boost wont change that. I have a cheap tablet (Nokia T10), it replaced a 2013 Nexus 7, both pretty much had on purpose, they played movies on aeroplanes. When the T10 breaks I probably won't replace it with another tablet (or probably even at all). Looking around the cabin these days, the overwhelming number of devices being used are phones, you rarely see a tablet. When I'm not flying it lives in my carry on bag unless I need that backpack for another purpose.

Willing to bet there are a lot more tablet owners like me who use them so infrequently that it's months before we find out if they even still work than there are people who use them every day. Tablets were the worst of both worlds, the size of a small laptop with the ergonomics of a phone.

Tablets won't disappear, but sales will drop to quite low levels as only those who still use tablets will be buying new ones and they'll only be doing that when their current tablet breaks.

You are saying that like it's an accomplishment, I've an Asus with a Ryzen 5 and 3070 (both well known for their cool operation) that can easily go 15 mins without the fans making a noise (they're still going, but at a low RPM, the same will be true in any laptop)... Longer if it gets as much of a workout as your average Mac.

Of course my Asus has a light plastic body and is designed to be a gaming laptop, so built with plenty of airflow.

Never ceases to amuse me that Mac fanboys who've never used another laptop think normal laptop behaviour is special and only they have it.

I get the joke but it really annoys me when people leave out Win2000... Granted WinXP was Win2000 with a better GUI.

WinME was the last vestige of the dying DOS branch, Win2000 was from the NT stream. The two streams shouldn't be compared.

Also, yeah, I'll be waiting for Win12 hoping it fixes the travesty that was 11. I bought a laptop that came with 11 and couldn't get W10 on there fast enough.

And this is what should really concern people about the talk of a Tik Tok ban. What happens when Bytedance tells the US govt to go blow itself? Despotic regimes like North Korea, Iran and China are struggling to keep control of information despite having control over almost all the points of ingress of the internet, they've banned Whatsapp but people are still getting it. What chance does an open society like the US have. They might be able to force Apple and Google to de-list the app in their app store... but that won't really stop it. Any Android user will just side load it and I suspect there will be a solution for the iSlaves too (hell, they could just host a website outside of US borders for Americans to get their TikToks).

Any ban that western nations have tried to put on things (torrents, porn, et al) have been easily bypassed. Policies were nothing more than red meat thrown to a baying crowd (and as the parent mentioned, boy did they cheer).

Wouldn't a better legislation be "the stereo must be easily replaceable" so the manufacturer is off the hook and the customer can fit what they like... But auto manufacturers would fight against this even harder as the in car entertainment is part of the planned obsolescence and continual fleecing of the end user via subscription services.

This isn't something you should be able to opt out of... it should be something that shouldn't even be permitted to exist.

I'm yet to hear of another banking system that will provide merchants with your new card detail, in Australia and the UK it's clear that updating continuing payments is 100% the end users responsibility. The bank will not and cannot legally divulge any information about you to merchants. The closest we've got to it is that if I changed banks using the switching scheme here in the UK my direct debits and standing orders are moved over automatically, however those I can cancel completely from my end with no hassle. Any payments made using my card are my responsibility to update.

That's just because they stopped calling you because you refused to do anything but tell them to buy a new £1000 phone.

25 Mbps over any distance would be a vast improvement in Australia... thank conservatives for killing the NBN.

Yep, what kind of a fucked up system says "the doctor can't see you now because you won't help him get a 3rd home in the Florida Keys".

The odd thing is, I've met a few American medical professionals who've gone to work in developing countries because the hours and lifestyle are better, despite often being paid less or effectively public servants (a coroner isn't much in demand in the private sector, or a dentist might be expected to contribute x hours per month to public health). They all had lots to say about the US healthcare system, none of it nice.