When most of the US was knocked out about two years ago, they claimed it was a software glitch

The F35 is a boondoggle, and the money allocated to it really fuels black projects. Those triangular planes that go all directions are very expensive.

I find it interesting that almost every scientific probe or instrument in space that survives the launch lasts way beyond the "suggested lifespan"....I suspect some scientists out thinking some bureaucrats, and for this, if I ever meet that scientist, they drink free.

And this is why my old tech tivos connected to an antenna still have a use case. Record, watch, zap ads. I see Cable TV at a hotel occasionally and wonder how this still even exists. The only person I know who still watches linear broadcast TV is 88 years old-and on the other side, my millenials think a TV is just a bigger screen for group watching.

It probably got cheaper for "one screen" instead of a dozen buttons and switches, with no changes when the facelift version comes out, just BNG on the screen...also tesla. I'm not a fan. A car should be controlled by feel as well....

I have cars ranging from 1st gen bluetooth only to current all bells and whistles CarPlay. CarPlay is over rated. Wow, you can cast waze to your screen ? Having all the possible types of in car, a smartphone clipped to the dash does everything you need. Stream Bluetooth and you get music too. The last thing I want is less buttons and dials, and more iPad as my car's controlling mechanism (Ahem Tesla and all the copy cats). Dirty secret, the guys who code in car electrics hate car play, it fights with their stuff...I often yank CarPlay and run the bluetooth connections and in car satnav....

Most of my macs "die" when they age out of software updates. I'm still using a 2010 (?) era mini for streaming. Other than the very lame mac keyboards, they last way longer than any windows machine-I have one windows machine for some specific software, but everything else is mac. Toss in time NOT spent fixing family machines for other reasons and the Apple Tax is worth it in time recovered.

Here you go, you just gave the Fauz nooz blatherers each a whole show !

I check my cell and ISP once a year, to opt out of the ad tracking. The ISP is sneaky though...the address is buried on the second page of a privacy notice that is designed not to be read, and the opt out link cannot be found on the company's website by search or otherwise...you need to keystroke it in from the tiny type privacy notice. I have one computer which isn't totally Shields UP !, and I enjoy seeing whatever product I've googled follow me around for a week....

I have a car which needs to phone home to Germany for things like getting a headlight replaced...and when they did, they remotely wiped my Active Lights because they weren't a US option. I thought buying a Tesla meant lock down. Mercedes requires Xentry, which is $35k to buy and then there is a leasing fee. If you want to fix Benz, that's the ante. Makes the $15k AllData subscription seem cheap. Benz will allow you to read the factory manual on the website, but the process is intentionally obtuse, almost malicious compliance. A friend with a late model Audi blew a fuse. He could only find the fuse box key on an enthusiast website. Gone are the days you could get a Chilton's or Haynes manual for a car....now it's an effing state secret where the cig lighter fuse lives.

I recall the Internet. It was a unique source of information, often with some informed content. Now, It is a wasteland of advertising, courtesy of the Amazon Affiliate Link. Now, the ad copy from the device maker's company website, copy-pasted to your SEO first 100 hits. Real information ? Buried in reply 49 or 78. Ads have clotted the whole thing. The internet is like radio. Crap on the channel is a feature, not a bug.

The Amazon Affiliate Link is what killed search results. Hey, I'm interested in THING. Let me search that for information. What do you get ? First 50 hits for THING claim to be reviews but are just copy-paste ad nonsense from the THING company website with "click my link at bottom". It takes work to find some sort of actual review, not just SEO ad copy. The fact that thousands of people now sit around and code SEO for Amazon free is not surprising....but that's why results now suck for any consumer product.

This is the same group that makes sure YOU have to fight for shitty private health insurance benefits while THEY have an on-site doc and free top shelf health care on your dime.

I recall early ATSC 1.0...it was beautiful. Then, they figured out how to cram 6 channels of HSN along the main broadcast, and now it looks meh. I'm not replacing the 1080p Panny plasma till it poops, because I also have to buy an AVR.

And a royal fuck-u to the nice folks at HDMI industries, working hard to stop piracy, even though it doesn't do more than annoy the law abiding.