Oh we know how. It's just that in the USA, the general public interest and needs takes a far backseat to the desires of corporations and them making as much money as possible.

One only need to look at the ineptitude of the US congress to get any sort of stimulus bill hashed out for many months for an example of this.

I already bought a Skybell video doorbell (better operational temp range than Ring) and an Ecobee thermostat (I really like the weather forecast). Both work with SmartThings, along with 50+ other devices throughout my home and garage.

Google burns too much karma for me to depend on their products.

Any podcast unavailable as an RSS feed that I can use in my podcast player of choice is dead to me.

First of all, The RasPi 400 is a rather different beast than the RasPi4. The 400 is a complete package, while the Pi4 on its own does not have a case or cooling or anything.

Regardless, a bit presumptuous of the OP to state such a thing categorically. Anything above spec is going to be "YMMV". My Pi4 can't go above 2GHz without locking up within a short amount of time, usually within an hour. Even at 2GHz I've had at least 2 lock-ups so even that isn't 100% safe. And I have heatsinks and active cooling.

Browser monoculture? What could possibly go wrong?

All these idiots who ignore the past and are all too anxious to repeat it. People never learn. Google is doing more "evil" with Chrome than Microsoft ever did with IE yet millennials and people with short-term memory loss are giving Google a pass on stuff that Microsoft got raked over the coals for. It's disgusting how many of my peers who should know better are die-hard Chrome fans and don't realize the harm they're doing by being a free Google shill and promoting it.

At this point I don't care if Firefox is better than Chrome or if Chrome is better than Firefox. The world needs Firefox to exist and be supported, for the sake of the future of the internet.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

Google doesn't care about music, and doesn't care about what its users actually want, so I don't care about Google Music (anymore) or Youtube Music.

I migrated all my music from Google Music to my Plex server and now with that, PlexAmp, etc I have a superior experience to what Youtube Music and Google Music could've ever dreamed of having. Now nothing goes away unless I want it to go away. Only thing that sucks is that I didn't do this years ago.

We actually started using it at my work (2000 or so employees). We found it very easy and useful, and it filled a required niche better than anything else. We were very bummed when it was taken offline.

Good think that Firefox on Android performs so well. Chrome can go fuck itself.

(not a particular fan of Google, but I hate Apple more, so until I can get my next Palm Pilot, Android it is).

I second this. Google Play Music was kind of nice. Youtube Music is a fucking dumpster fire.

I had been a Plex user for many years and knew about the music feature but had dismissed it since the metadata matching engine wouldn't run under FreeNAS. I revisited it and turns out that's been fixed, so a few months ago I started a big project to rip all my music into Plex. With that and the PlexAmp app, not only do I have a superior experience to either Youtube Music OR Google Play Music, but I can share with whomever the fuck I wish, even my dad who'll never make a Google account..

I love Plex.

I doubt they are sintered. That's just used for prototypes. Likely they're using Selective Laser Melting, which is different and fully melts the metal together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Electron Laser Melting is a similar process, but TFA does explicitly mention lasers.

I predict that, if you throw a sheet of paper into a fire, barring some extreme situation/intervention, it will catch fire and burn.

So: is that "fact" or just a "prediction" that is open for "opinion"?

Science is all about "predictions" that are based on actual facts and other, well, science. And as the facts accumulate and the foundation of facts grows, these "predictions" increase in accuracy. For example, the science of predicting earthquakes and volcanic eruptions has grown considerably and is now very useful and important. And science made all sorts of "predictions" about quantum-mechanical effects that allow for the components and hyper-miniaturization of the computer (or cell phone) that you are now using to read Slashdot. Some pretty impressive "predictions" there from good-ol' science. Maybe there's something to that "scientific method"?

But for some reason, people who gleefully accept the science that brings them TV and video games and fast cars and fast food... and that made us a space-venturing species... for some reason are quick to dismiss the very same science and scientific method as soon as it threatens their way of like and demands massive behavioral change (and money) from them. Then they latch on rabidly to things like the semantics of words like "prediction" and "theory" with willfully-ignorant disregard for what these words actually mean in a scientific context... which is quite different than colloquial layman usage. Any desperate thing they can so that they don't have to do anything, change anything, or spend anything.

The science and data that climatologists use has been rapidly improving, and the predictions dialed in. The real problem is that as bad as the predictions were, it's now looking like it's going to be even worse. Likely because of the disturbingly growing number of people who'd rather stick their head in the sand than change anything about their life for the sake of future generations. Short-sightedness and selfishness are some of humanity's worst traits, and will likely lead to its extinction. And we have short attention spans, causing us to be unwilling to grasp any concept that happens over large scales. Like my father, who refuses to understand the difference between "climate" and "weather" and every time the snow falls on his house will proclaim that global warming is obviously a hoax.

A loaded super-tanker can take over 3 km to come to a stop, and has a turning radius of 2 km. The bigger the thing you're riding, the longer the lead time you need to affect the future. Well, the earth is a rather big vehicle. Stupid humans look at the micro-fluctuations month to month or year to year, and decide that they're just random noise and discredit them, refusing to extrapolate this or even grasp the concept on how this then extends over decades. If you refuse to believe the iceberg is real until you can reach out and touch it, it's too late to turn the ship. I know of 1500 people who'll back that basic concept up, and that was over 100 years ago.

Plus, your average climate-change denier will proclaim that the earth hasn't already been getting warmer for decades. That's hardly a "prediction".

Now that the throw-away headphones have a $160 alternative, the cheap version has no place among the Apple-loyal. The whole point of owning Apple products is to try to project success and affluence, since you pay about 50% more for the same level of computer you could elsewhere for cheaper (and sometimes, even better-spec'd). You don't want to be the poor bastard wearing those cheap headphones when all your peers are walking around everywhere with their Airpods (or $250 Airpod Pros) and risk the social shaming and being outcast from your friend circles. For the same reason you want that unrepairable, non-upgradeable Macbook instead of the vastly more-powerful and cheaper Dell. Your chances of getting laid at college is directly proportional to how many Apple logos you can flaunt.

No surprises here. Apple and their religiously-fanatic and mindless customer base are extremely predictable and easily manipulated. Even the ones who realize it don't dare admit it and embarrass themselves... it's the collective version of the Emperor's New Clothes, with the roles reversed.

Then you did not have the same problem.

Agreed. I get that the genre is popular, but some variety for the rest of us would be nice.

I have zero interest in contemporary war/re-enactment games or sports games. Give me an adventure, puzzle-solver, RPG or the like.

Can someone please explaine to me Mozilla's boneheaded philosophy to versioning?

It seems every time they make 2 minor tweaks it somehow justifies incrementing the major version number. Every once in a blue moon they might advance the third dotted version (75.0.0 -> 75.0.1) but it rarely even gets to nn.0.2 before they decide that the latest bastardization of the address bar warrants yet another major version number bump.

When was they last time we had a Firefox version nn.1 ?

I swear every major version update in the last 10 years should've been an increment of the second number. I'm not sure when the last time that they eroded the quality of FF enough to justify a change in the major version number. At this rate we'll be at version 100 in 24 months, and it'll still look and function pretty much exactly as it has since 4.0.

Can someone with an ounce of sanity and experience please beat Mozilla over the head with a cluestick?

(Disclaimer: I'm a Firefox user because I think Google is behaving even MORE evil with Chrome. But I hate that Firefox is now simply the misguided and idiotic lesser of two evils as opposed to the browser I was proud of 10+ years ago)