He's lucky not to have been killed, 1.6lbs of metal travelling at high speed is basically a small cannonball.

Who wants to keep typing a password like that into a device with no keyboard?

You're assuming that the gas line is longer than the line for the EV chargers.
Often there aren't many EV chargers, and if they're full you could be waiting quite some time for someone to leave. Eventually a charging point will become a standard feature of every parking space, but until then.

If you're paying a monthly subscription then there's ongoing revenue, while the cost of hosting the servers will decrease over time. Eventually it will reach the point that the cost of hosting the server exceeds the monthly revenue from subscribers.
But if there's no money to be made hosting the servers, then they should release the servers and allow users to host them instead for the few who want to continue playing or are interested in preserving retro games etc.

People still play pong today. In fact people still play board games their grandparents purchased in their youth.
A reasonable consumer would expect a game they purchased to continue being playable indefinitely providing the game itself has not been lost or damaged.

If a game is being provided as a service then it should be made clear up front that you're subscribing to a service, as well as making it clear when the service will be discontinued.

You're missing the point.

That's a user-initiated quality drop. It's up to you whether you drop the video quality or not, it's up to you whether you want to use the data or not.

The problem comes when they say "We're going to force you to have lower video quality, by limiting the speed of your connection when you go to certain video streaming sites who didn't pay us. We're also not going to do that when you go to the sites that did pay us."

GAH!!!! NO!!!!!!!

Why would you want to do that? "Modern" websites are terrible.

His site is one of the most pleasant I've seen. It's just fine as is, uncorrupted by the awfulness of CSS and JavaScript.

Yep. He's even worse at predictions than I am.

But yeah, he's been selling these bottles for a long time now. I'm reasonably sure that site was featured on Slashdot back when getting Slashdotted was still a thing. I know I've seen it here before. I'm too lazy to look for it.

A Laserjet 2300DN was the last one I installed that didn't suck, and the next to the last HP I ever installed. That printer lasted over a decade.

A year or so later, I installed a 2400DN at the same client. It lasted a bit more than a year, just long enough for the warranty to expire. I never installed another HP.

The firmware update broke the printer. Before the update, 3rd party ink worked, after it, 3rd party ink didn't.

Nobody is saying that 3rd party ink broke the printer. HP broke the printer.

Oh, it isn't. But Apple did just get smacked down hard in Europe, and Europe isn't done with them yet because they're playing games instead of actually opening up the iDevices.

I still can't understand what was wrong with the idiot judge in the US who let Apple win a suit that they should have lost. But Apple's days of customer abuse are numbered. Oregon just banned parts pairing, the FTC is going after Apple's monopoly.

Exactly this, there are clear advances in women's rights in the past few years and as they say - rome wasn't built in a day.
Saudi companies typically now have quite a lot of women working for them and often in fairly senior roles, women now drive on their own and go out in public without their hair or faces covered.

Despite no longer being a legal requirement, many people still choose to cover themselves because they don't want to suffer sunburn in their climate.

You can *be* whatever you want, you just can't practice openly.
The same is true of religion, you can hold whatever beliefs you like but you can't practice or display them openly while you are in KSA.
You also cannot consume alcohol or pork.

All of these things are outlawed by their religion.

You could go to Thailand instead, LGBTQ+ as well as alcohol and pork are all commonplace there. And yet, just like Saudi if you were to insult their religion or their royal family you could still face some severe punishments.

There are actually a lot of countries in the world where homosexuality is still illegal with varying levels of enforcement/punishment all the way up to death.

In Saudi it's also illegal to engage in heterosexual activity outside of marriage too. If you visit there with your boyfriend or girlfriend you have to book two hotel rooms and abstain from having sex while you're there (although you probably wouldn't be caught in the privacy of your hotel room and the hotel staff wouldn't report you). If you visit there alone as a gay man what do you think is going to happen? How would they even know that you were gay? You wouldn't be going there to find a date or a hookup any more than a straight man would, you'd have noone to engage in any sexual activity with. Everyone is expected to dress conservatively and be respectful of local customs etc.

Riyadh has a bus service, they even have enclosed air conditioned bus stops which shelter you from both the heat and the sandstorms.
They are also building a metro system in Riyadh.

There was an acceleration of the degradation of lack of respect for our fellow citizens. Now that we're all back in public, most of us have forgotten what respect for others entails.

Just today, I was stuck behind some [insert vulgar word here] who thought the middle of the one-lane road was their personal parking spot to run into Starbucks who brushed it off when I expressed myself upon their return.