If it's still under warranty, I suppose you could return it and demand either your money back or that NVIDIA fixes your device. Their update has obviously broken the device.

If manufacturers would correctly and openly advertise to consumers which products were made with planned obsolescence in mind (including the planned duration until planned obsolescence made the product faulty) and which products were made to last, you would have a point. But I don't know of any major manufacturer who does that. Buying high price "deluxe" items is not a guarantee that the product lasts a long time.

After almost four years, my Android phone is about ready to be retired. And access to security updates and regular patches is a major concern for me. Apple wins that, hands down. However, I have also been using an iPad, and I find much of the Apple credo "my way or the highway" to be rather obnoxious. For instance, if I want to move a video from my PC to the iPad, I have to either download a video player app and move the video to the private storage of the video player (and then only that specific video player can play the video), or sync the iPad up against the Apple media library on my PC ... which does not exist, causing whatever media I have on my iPad to be deleted!

Samsungs new announcement may be the determining factor regarding which phone I will get next. Will have to look into bloatware on it, though. My current Motorola phone does not have much bloat, but it only just barely did two years of software updates.

UK has a population density of 271 per sqkm, compared to 34 for US on a whole. This makes it much more densely populated than New York and comparable to Connecticut which has about 211 deaths per 100k. Note that this is not a defense for Boris Johnson. He has a lot of huff and puff, but his response to this crisis has been obviously incompetent. It is just pointing out that the closer people live, the harder it is to contain COVID-19.

At least they made it less painful to modify PATH ...

So the Chinese documented it centuries before some European got the same idea? Fascinating, I did not know that.

This is not my area of expertise, so take everything I write with a grain of salt. And going through online resources is not really illuminating as it is hard to grasp which sources actually know what they are talking about. I did find a more general article from the Lancet.

However, the Danish health authorities has quite clearly stated that all restrictions also apply to everyone that has been vaccinated. This suggests that they think that there is an actual risk that the vaccine is not sterilizing. I will, however, agree that even if the new RNA vaccines are not sterilizing, it is likely that they will reduce the probability of transmission in a given set of circumstances.

As an aside, the online resources that I did find, noted that they actually did investigate if the vaccines were sterilizing as a part of their animal tests, see also the Lancet article linked above.

Also, vaccines are more like 200-250 years old.

It is not known if the vaccine prevents transmission, i.e. if it is a sterilizing vaccine or not. It could very well be, but the question has not been investigated. In your example, John may not get sick and may shrug it off pretty quickly, but he could be contagious, just like we have asymptomatic cases that are contagious.

Probably true, but litigation against a giant of Facebooks size is likely to be expensive. On the other hand, sending an official letter in law-language might actually get a human to look at your account and help you out.

A long crunch period has a tendency to indicate a severely buggy game. Just saying.

No, it is not. Competent project managers can adjust scope depending on progress and time available. Yes, they sometimes fail, sometimes spectacularly so, but if it is consistent pattern, something is utterly wrong. If I was developing software at a site where crunch and death marches account for a ½-1 year up to release, I would seriously consider finding another site. My mental well being is more important to me than covering for an incompentent project management team, thank you very much.

Yes, yes, yes, but will we get the toilet paper?

You can't move Christmas, but you can adjust your scope.

How many languages does the rule engine read?

They had 12 known cases of the mutated variant at 18:30 CET, almost all of which are in the quarantined area: Two were close to the quarantined area and a single one a few 100 km away. So, they are hoping to be able to contain it, or at least significantly slow its spread.