Apple has made a fortune licensing the Lightning standard, in addition to what they've made selling their own crap. Every iPhone user I know goes through at least one every other month because they are junk, including the Apple-branded ones from their store. I can't quite verify that this is intentional on Apple's part.

I still have the mini- and microUSB cables from devices that have long since died and they all work. USB-C is new enough, and with only a few of them, I do not have sufficient data on the long-term reliability of them, but, without the vendor-lockin I should have some choice about which ones to buy if I ever need to do so.

During a recent multi-day music event, my friend received a bogus alert. Since she's been stalked IRL, this idiot alert was very frightening to her. No amount of tech sleuthing was going to convince her that it wasn't real.

When you have hundreds, if not thousands, of people moving in the same traffic patterns from camping to stage venue to vending areas and many of the attendees have these Apple stalker-assists (even if some of them are being used "correctly") in play, there are going to be false alerts. There need to be clear-cut, straightforward means to alert real stalking victims to these things, and to make it very clear when an alert is bogus (no, Apple's on line "help" did not, in fact, help), or these should be outlawed.

Compare and contrast the definitions for the words "bored" and "board".

Use each word correctly in at least three sentences.

No exemptions! The word "bored" is used in the summary.

I keep location data turned off, unless I REALLY need it, then turn it off again immediately after. On my new Samsung A13 (Android 11), it is right on the top level of "Settings". I also leave all of the "Connections" radios shut off, again unless I really need them. The annoying one is that SMS multimedia no longer propagates through WiFi, but requires mobile data access. That is different from my earlier 4.4 phone.

I will keep an eye out for the DDG app. I wonder, though, about its actual access to to all of the side/back doors. Generic Linux allows privileged users to tap the various networking streams, but I don't know if the kernel under Android has that enabled.

I have been living with wireless internet access since long before 5G and still do.

Parts of my security system use a cellular data WiFi bridge, and have done for several years. Other parts are still PSTN.

Cut my phone line, and the WiFi parts still work; jam my cellular data and the landline still works.

In addition, the WiFi is capable of streaming Netflix, although I don't usually run that on it.

The claim that 3G/4G cannot to that is either ignorance or propaganda. In either case, it is just plain wrong.

Last time I looked at the Linux kernel source, splice() did not allow this kind of transfer (wanted to improve some NAS performance). Inherently, though, the concept is very similar. With file descriptors for both the media data and the GPU memory, the CPU could set up the transfer and wait for the completion interrupt.

Of course, "minor details" like security need to be carefully considered, but the GPU memory should not be cacheable in the first place. The media blocks holding the data might have to be accessed through file system semantics to allow for privilege checking, but a separate partition with a different data management scheme could allow simpler raw block access.

Still more clicks so a waste of time and space.

My monitor is 1920x1200. The issue is that both the favorites list and in-folder file/folder list are clipped by the silliness above them.

One of my most common reasons to have more than one File Explorer window open is to "drag and drop". The existing idiocy of the menu bar already wastes usable space in the window, and now they're going to lose more with useless tabs.The clowns at Microsoft have spent every year of the last two decades making Windows more and more click-intensive, therefore slower to use.

Han did not shoot first, his was the only shot, but it did end the conversation.

I have it, too.

Although the vendors claim to have done some testing, there are too many variables in motorcycle configuration for them to have done comprehensive testing. Not every rider is aboard a full-size Harley-Davidson 'Glide or Road King. 300 cc sport bikes are popular, but those are available up 1300 cc, and the visual/lidar footprint of them varies; then there are the variety of "cruisers" from the smaller Suzukis to the big H-Ds and others. Throw in the some with sidecars, "classic" three-wheelers (two in the back) and newer Polaris (two in the front) and there's more disparity.

Additionally, while "lane splitting" was never illegal in California, it is now explicitly legal. How much testing have they done for that? Do any of their software design team ride?

For now, I'll stay out of the licensed areas until there is some real-world data. I don't need some half-assed, built-to-budget (in)expert system deciding that it can use the space I'm in for its next action.

Useful as rust may be for some things, the claim that rust is "better" because it allows "'allowed users "to build relatively correct and bug free software"'" is just silly. People that know what they are doing can accomplish the same thing in "C", while those who do not, can write crap code in any language.

There's a hundred miles of nothing between Salina and Green River, UT US. They plan a charging station between them?

Until the senior execs face some real pain. they are never going to budget time/money for proper security. Spending that would cut into their personal income from profits/bonuses.

There needs to be a law that would make a breach, inadvertent or otherwise, sufficient evidence of a federal felony with mandatory jail time. This would prevent having insurance, or a board decision, cover the cost of a fine.

My late wife and I both have a copy of "Demons and Wizards" (Uriah Heep). I bought mine in Germany, she bought hers at Wherehouse (typical vendor of American-pressed crap vinyl). Hold my copy by a pencil through the center and it is a flat disk, while hers looks like an umbrella. Americans bought a lot of really cheap crap vinyl: floor sweepings tossed back in the vinyl pool along with the dirt, over-use of production tools stampers and mothers, and very thin vinyl.

Despite the nay-sayers, I can hear the difference between under-sampled, both in dynamic range and sample frequency, "CD-quality" digital and upper mid-range analog gear I own. FWIW, flyback transformers (19 KHz) used to drive me insane if they were not properly secured. Higher-resolution digital is closer to analog, so that I sometimes cannot tell.

For years, everywhere I worked (usually as a "temp") had an internal wiki set up, with sections for each project, now or in support. These worked quite nicely. Now, we have to keep a Windows VM open to allow us to inundated with nonsense that just delays any useful work.