Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

Oh, you want profit? This is a surveillance spyware wrapper around the entire MacOS user experience - so if you thought Microsoft's Copilot Recall was invasive monitoring, you haven't seen anything yet.

If Apple won't monetize a user panopticon and partner with governments to do it, OpenAI will be right there, to take the cash.

I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

and it's here today. No homelessness. No medical bankruptcy. No food insecurity. Affordable education. Decent places for everyone to live.

Didn't Jeep already show ads on the dashboard screen? I think they did.

Nvidia is therefore a bubble. This article is complaining that Europe is an obstacle to further bubble inflation.
No amount of Nvidia etching IP onto wafers is worthy of a 4.6 TRILLION market cap - bigger than the 4.2 Trillion market cap of the ENTIRE name-brand pharmaceutical industry.

"And then they came for me, and there was nobody else left to speak for me'

My only basis for evaluating the (public school) US K-12 education system is my own observations on the quality of teaching that was done to my kid when he was in public school, and contrasting to the education I was provided with myself growing up in Europe. The contrast was stark. Most of the 6th and 7th grades were for instance spent on rehashing the exact same subjects as in 5th grade without any significant development.
I was fortunate enough to afford moving him to private education starting in 8th grade, and that made a very significant difference.

I've cleaned the USB-C port on the phone many times, including using contact cleaner/deoxit. It did not make a difference.

The USB-C port on my 5-year-old phone is now functioning only intermittently. On a good day I can charge the phone. On all the other days I can't. And that is after going through a large number of power adapters and cables.
The USB-A ports on my 10-year-old laptop all function well, no issues there. Being used on a daily basis.

for enabling the heated seats? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's just, like, your opinion, man. :)

I like Firefox. I tried many other browsers, but I always keep going back to it. Yeah it could be better, but the same can be said for all other browsers many times over.

Enjoy the choice.

Firefox 141.0.3 on Artix Linux, no AI tab grouping either. Whew. Keep it this way.

I have. A few actually. It was on a music channel where the creator used AI to make imagery for her original music. It was tastefully done and clearly labeled as AI-generated imagery over original human-made music. It was also very easy to tell that it was AI generated.