OK, I can accept security footage being overwritten after 30 days. Probably not the best idea, but I can see it. But no records at all? There was no work order? No documentation that this was performed? Do they just have random people show up and work on the planes and don't even write down there names???

No it can't. There's a little orange indicator on the shutdown button when an update will be installed, and clicking on it gives you the option to *not* apply updates during either shutdown or reboot. And when you apply updates during shutdown it will reboot the machine and then shutdown again so you won't even be surprised by your next startup. This has been the how it has worked for 3 years now.

Why do people comment about Windows in ways which are so obviously visibly incorrect?

This might be a case where you're technically correct, the best kind of correct, but people's lived experience is still getting caught by Windows Update when you don't want to. It happened to a high school kid in our robotics lab yesterday. What was meant to be a quick reboot turned into a 20-25 minute wait.

Power users might, but it's still missing the demographic of people like me (./er since 1997) and high school robotics programming kids, so I'd imagine it happens to the less tech savvy an awful lot.

Blue Orbit puts a human being suborbital in a capsule where human assisted experiments can be run. For $500k.

NASA has been launching sounding rockets since their inception and it still costs them $1m to send one up with an experiment to be recovered.

That's why NASA books seats on Blue Origin's private tourism ship.

Well, there are a lot of people who *do* value it, even if you do not.

How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?

Statement seems a little disconnected from reality. I honestly can't think of a NASA project to point to as a success in getting things done on a budget; unless there was a fixed bid private contractor delivering a large part.

When you let NASA be NASA you get things like the SLS and every Mars mission I can think of: Behind schedule and vastly over budget.

And that's the trick they use. An iCloud backup tends to be under 5GB (barely), which is enough to fill the free tier. But it means you can't use iCloud for literally anything else, and it also doesn't include things like photos that are what people really want to back up.

Anything that's "stored on iCloud" is not in the phone backup. That includes photos, documents, game saves, and all sorts of information that people really want to keep backed up. It's also what prevents you from using any other cloud service: that data can't be saved to any other cloud storage site. Only iCloud. The data that isn't in the backup is what most users really want backed up: their photos, their messages, their contact list, their documents. Which means that, yes, the OP's wife almost certainly does need an expensive iCloud tier, because the "backup size" is only a tiny fraction of the real amount of data stored in iCloud.

Apple preventing Spotify from advertising their lower prices is just part of the way Apple attempts to push you over to Apple Music. I seem to recall a recent story about how Apple essentially forces you to buy iCloud storage space. Well, they also bundle that with Apple Music. Oh, you're out of space on iCloud? (You will be, since Apple has never increased the available space since launch, just added new and more expensive tiers.) Well, for a small monthly fee, you can get enough space to back up your phone and Apple Music.

Oh, you don't want to pay for iCloud? Well, I'll just constantly remind you that you're out of iCloud storage space until you relent just to shut up the messages.

That in addition to things always launching in Apple Music without any way to change it. Connect your iPhone to a Bluetooth speaker and Apple Music will launch. Press the "play" button on said speaker (or Bluetooth keyboard or the like) and Apple Music will launch. Connect to a car, and Apple Music will launch. Doesn't matter if you're doing something else at the time, even if it's using Apple's own Podcast app, iOS will always launch Apple Music and interrupt it.

Apple is an illegal monopoly and should be treated as such. They're also a trillion dollar company. A $2 billion fine is nothing. It needs to be much, much higher.

While these are all good advice, the fact is for many people it is anything but easy. The one thing you left out is time. Make a meal from scratch takes a lot more time, both in preparation and in shopping as fresh ingredients go bad much faster. For many people (mainly poor people) that is a luxury they don't have. As far as expensive, generally it is more expensive to eat fresh. Fresh vegetables are generally more expensive that canned or frozen. There are some staples that can be done cheaply like rice, but overall fresh costs more. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with what you are doing, but the idea that everyone can do this is not obtainable for many people.

You can say whatever you want. You just can't do it on my property. It's really that simple.

How does the concept of "common carrier" even enter into the conversation? These are all things that are happening entirely within the private property of the platform owners.

And this is where the app is wrong. But adding diversity is an important part. The goal is if people ask for a crowd scene for example, they don't want a crowd scene returned every time of just white people. And that has been shown to happen quite a bit with AI and other programs like it because of how they are trained. Yes, returning something incorrect is absolutely wrong and I think they have acknowledged that, that doesn't mean the answer to remove all the diversity additions but instead to fix them.

This is great, but would never work in the US. With the US work culture, most companies already expect people to get 6 days work done in 5 days. Overtime is expected in many jobs so the idea of working less would be great for employees, but companies would never get on board with it. Hell, they are already walking back WFH, which has been shown to not decrease, and in many cases increase, productivity. Unfortunately, work culture in the US is entirely defined by the companies, who just want more work from everyone.

Why would this not be so? In ICE vehicles, the range extended by making more efficient engines. Are you saying there is no possibility of more efficient batteries? Or more efficient electric engines? OR more efficient charging? That seems silly based on the changes we have seen in the recent past.The biggest issue facing electric vehicles are charging stations, which is starting to increase now, especially with government pushing for more stations.

I've said this before, but I get the strong impression that the "Vision Pro" is intended as a tech demo, making it so that Apple already has apps and technology ready, so that when phones can emit holograms, Apple already has the technology ready to go. The only problem being that the 3D solid holograms that Vision Pro is clearly designed to emulate are physically impossible so the tech it's waiting on will never arrive.

This would explain why the Vision Pro "isn't" a VR headset and why Apple is so keen on insisting it's a "spatial computer." It would explain why the interface is based on hand gestures and not a controller. It would explain the dumb pass-through eye screen on the outside.

The Vision Pro isn't intended to be what it is, it's intended to work as a dev kit for something that will never come.

I find the concern about ad blockers and how people hate ads to be kind of hilarious given that people actively seek out advertising, such as these ads shown during the Super Bowl. I don't get it, I'm not going to watch any of those linked commercials, nor do I really care about any of the companies or products involved.

But the idea that people "hate advertising" is clearly false, because people routinely actively seek it out. The Super Bowl is as much about watching the ads as it is watching the players receive traumatic brain injuries.

What people hate are intrusive ads or ads that interrupt what they're doing or ads that are otherwise low quality, such as the surge in crappy AI generated ads I've seen on places where ads are unavoidable. But people don't mind advertising, at least when it's entertaining and not thrown in the middle of something else they were doing.