Sure.

It's all good though. Animators in the West are, doubtless, fully on-board with kumbaya one world goodness, so they have what their virtue insisted upon. Enjoy your subsistence level income.

Should simplify the next layoff roster.

What a sad take. Because "enterprise" users chose to use half-baked code Linus must walk on egg shells? Linus has done exactly the right thing here: make the low caliber programmers fix their crap work. That's what makes Linus special: 99% of the species would have done exactly as you expect and knuckled under to incompetence.

Decades ago, there was an Italian music star named Adriano Celentano that came out with a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol". The lyrics were nonsense. He wanted to make a song that showed how English sounded to the Italian ear. It was his biggest hit.

Yes

I never agreed to be subjected to the last two decades of stories about idiots buying HP printers and whining about their problems.

Oh yes. Poor, oppressed academe. Can't just take their grant money and produce their narrative aligned results in peace. Someone on X might say something mean about it!

Is there some reason we have to pretend there will be some grand effort to educate, train and employ US citizens for this? They're just going to multiply F-1s and E1,2,3s and import a bunch of Asians. What are we even talking about? What constituency exists to hinder this beyond non-college whitey? The D's get lots more POCs to pander to. The R's get kudos and campaign bucks from their paymasters in industry. The chip companies get their visa slaves. The US gets it's fab industry back. What else is there to discuss here?

Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.

The front end is filled with sensors and cameras. The rear end is filled with sensors an cameras and fragile motors. Some of it is mandated by regulation, the rest is endless featurization. All of it is so close to one-year-only components it doesn't matter, so every impact is a $10,000 repair that can only be done at a dealership, because the technicians qualified and equipped to deal with this stuff are rare, employed almost exclusively by dealerships, and priced accordingly, and the components have to come from Japan or Europe or wherever and there are no qualified aftermarket parts for most of it.

Even with the right parts, the best technician and the correct diagnostic equipment, the repairs frequently don't take, so a cycle of rework begins, usually ending in a sale on the used market. The insurance company gets billed for some of it and the dealer has to eat some of it, and all these costs get amortized into the rates and prices of everything car.

Most of them are running Blink by way of Chromium. It's not the problem you imagine.

TikTok — for obvious reasons — is not as responsive to pressure from establishment thought police. That's it. That's what this is about.

The Powers That Be live in constant anxiety over everything that's said on social media. Nothing consumes more of their attention than what is being said about them and their policies on Facebook, TikTok, X, etc. While they can, and have, backdoor all the US based platforms and disappear wrong-thinkers, they can't fire off an e-mail from a quasi-government democracy saving pressure group address to some TikTok apparatchik and get the result they expect. So, in their minds, TikTok is evil and something must be done.