>So it would be good to know how much of this upgrade is really stuff that should be (should have been?) done by now regardless

No. You don't massively overbuild a grid for shits and giggles. That's a massive resource sink, and copper is neither cheap nor environmentally friendly to extract and refine. Not to mention things like transformers, concrete and steel structures needed to keep the wires up and so on.

>And nobody really upgrades a laptop.

Because it's almost impossible to do with unique form factor for each laptop. But a lot of people update their desktops. Because those are standardized around things like ATX. You can just buy a new GPU and drop it in. New memory and drop it in. New CPU and just drop it in. New motherboard, CPU and memory, but keep all the hard drives and GPU. Etc.

And so people do that quite a lot. For many of the nerdier types, our desktop is probably a frankensteinian amalgam of old parts and new parts. Desktop I'm typing this on for example has a sound card from early 2000s, several disks from early 2010s, and a case from early 2000s. Fans are from all over the time frame of existence of it, PSU is from 2010s, and the newest part being GPU is only a couple of years old. And all of this is living nicely together. And it's saved me a lot of money that I didn't need to throw everything out whenever a system drive, or memory or CPU died.

The goal of framework is standardizing laptops to be similar to desktops. That you can do to their laptops what you did to your desktop for a long time. And that's an amazing goal and I truly wish they can make it. Sadly I can't support them by buying their laptop, because they don't sell directly to Finland yet. But I am actually keeping an eye on them and when my current laptop dies, I'm very likely to get theirs if it's available here.

Specifically because I want to be able to stretch the laptop just as far as I stretched my desktop.

Gun nerds don't have any idea what that means. You're making mistake that IT nerds are the only nerds there are.

You can just use Wi-Fi and a VPN tunnel on your phone. No need for separate device. Logging in can be done via biometrics, another long solved problem.

>Until it spits at you, of course.

What if you fill it with perfume instead?

Not in this config, active time is less than an hour and fuel tank it comes with is tiny.

Rifle and shotgun will almost certainly have a different pattern of felt recoil (timing of recoil impacting the carrier and force of recoil impacting the carrier) resulting in more difficult recoil control rather than easier one.

They offer discounts if you need a "wolf pack". I'm not joking, that's what they're advertising bulk discounts as.

Inaccuracy and inability to handle recoil most likely. Robodog seems to be crap tier, so unlikely to produce any meaningful accuracy for a rifle.

Yes. It's 9420 USD. Free shipping in US.

It's not particularly special. It's just a low end robot dog with a low end gasoline electric flamethrower attached on top. It costs as much to refuel as gasoline costs at your location. You can also mix it with some diesel if you want a slightly smaller and longer burning flame. Mix needs to be gasoline rich enough to ignite with a plasma arc through, manufacturer recommends no more than 50:50 mix.

It's all on product page and in the manual linked on it: https://throwflame.com/product...

No one else can get one any more than I can. It's literally illegal. Green nutjobs made it illegal when in office.

Distinction without meaning for the purpose of this discussion. There are rights that aren't being enforced right now. Adding a little bit more right in the same vein will not change the status quo.

That's not going to change then.

So it's the same narrative that goes around the internets that has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with "intermittents can totally work, if only we discover some new utterly revolutionary technology in multiple fields to make them work".

Honestly, tiring to keep reading it. You're all repeating the exact same mantra as if repeating it will make laws of physics just go away.

Reading the story, copyright seems like an irrelevant hail mary in the absolute barrage of hail mary accusations. Her lawyers seem to be throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the case to try to make it stick, or more likely get a good settlement by making it hard to defend against so many different accusations.

Overall though, this story is so stereotypical it hurts. High level female manager gets on a promotion track. Does well. Gets into position where she's basically required to pull the work tempo of a high flying career at its critical point. That's the kind of a thing where you have to ration sleep, because you just don't have time for it from all the work.

And gets pregnant during it. Discovers that pregnancy really fucks with one's ability to be a high level manager, who needs to work long hours, be on call and ready to go 24/7 if they want to proceed with the career track. So the choice is between your own progeny or the career, and you can't really give any attention to your progeny if you want to stick with it. There's a reason why high flying men are overwhelmingly absent fathers.

So being a mother she fell off the career track at the end stage of pregnancy which ended in c-section on top of everything else so longer than usual sick leave at the end, and so leadership puts her into a more appropriate spot so her absence doesn't damage the team she manages. She protests that no, she totally can do the whole birth and newborn and career track at the same time, gets a "difficult to work with" label put on by those around her at work as a result. Gets shoved into the "difficult to work with" corner in the hierarchy and put into position where she will be fired as a result. When her termination becomes a foregone conclusion, she sues for discrimination for as big of a termination payout as possible.

Problem here is the very reason why this scenario is utterly stereotypical, and stereotype accuracy is the most repeatable, most proven theory in social sciences by far. Overwhelming majority of women in this position go through the exact same process, for the exact same reasons. Being a mother is not the same as being a father, and mother-newborn baby bond is one of the strongest bonds there are. No matter how much your abstract thinking systems believe that you can totally pull the whole high flying career and a mother of a newborn baby roles at the same time, reality is that unless you have a severe character flaw that makes you utterly indifferent to your newborn, it's utterly impossible. Babies don't haggle over their needs with their mothers. They demand and mothers answer. If mother intentionally doesn't for whatever reason, baby's crying tends to become psychologically devastating to the new mothers who will have that primal reaction to their feeling that they haven't done enough. This is not a bond you can mess with using just your abstract modelling skills. It's a primal thing that doesn't care about abstract mind. It will assert itself regardless of delusions abstract mind has about reality.

And reading between the lines of the claims of woman's lawyers about her co-workers reactions strongly suggest that this is exactly what happened. So she was on the way out regardless as a result, and she just wants her payout for her termination to be as big as possible. Hence the barrage of hail mary claims, designed to attract as much PR attention as possible to get Amazon to settle.

Frankly, the only question I have after reading the story linked in the OP is "what is the relationship between submitter of the story and this woman's lawyers?" Because the whole point of these lawyers doing the whole barrage of claiming everything under the sun is to get the case to become damaging to public image of Amazon so they can pressure for a higher payout in a settlement.