4 ports is pretty average for a laptop. A lot have fewer.
My work laptop only had 4 USB ports too. 2 USB A, 2 USB-C, HDMI, power, and a headphone jack. There isn't a lot of room on laptops these days.

Before USB-C was a thing, you'd be lucky to get more than 2 USB ports. Physical space is the issue here.

We don't have a problem with teens viewing porn in the UK. It just doesn't happen any more. In fact, we've been remarkably effective at stopping it compared to half the other countries in Europe, which have seen a recent surge in porn viewing for reasons no-one can identify.

Me too, though of course in our day, the world was much less connected and much less reliant on the technology. The worst we could have done after getting root access to the entire IT infrastructure at my school would have been look at what our classmates had been drawing in Paint or something. Today these systems host much more important and sensitive information and security breaches would be a much bigger deal.

And on that note, am I the only one less concerned by the behaviour of an impressively curious seven-year-old and more concerned by an official, professionally-managed system holding potentially sensitive data that is so insecure that even a seven-year-old could hack it?!

The 12V battery can't power the heat pump compressor to heat the battery.

It's cool how your anecdotal account is different to this controlled study.

20% average drop for the 20 most popular models, where they all have built in battery heaters.

The rest of the article is about the cheap vehicles being sold without battery heating.

A 2020 Model 3 has 65% capacity at 15F outside temperature, according to the linked study. In 2021 they replaced the resistive heating with a heat pump, so it only goes down to 67% range.

Ideal temperature is 68 - 74F

The "worst" in their top 20 is the VW ID.4, with 63% capacity at 32F

I wouldn't be surprise if cheap vehicles without battery heating are completely unusable below freezing. You cannot charge a lithium battery without damage below 32F, so no regen braking.
If the battery drops to 0F, you can't even use it to heat itself as the electrolyte starts to freeze. That alone can permanently damage the battery.

We're not engineers.
We're software developers.
Unless they're only surveying engineers who happen to also code?

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

But not if you want to do something that allows you to profit off of your own data, and especially not if you get help from someone else to do it.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

Stupid? More than double the revenue per customer with only 35% loss of customers?

That's more revenue and even more profit.

Seems to be working out very well for them.

I pay $0 a month for HBO Max

In my part of the United States, both Kroger and Dollar Tree impose a surcharge for cash back on a debit transaction. Walmart still does not.

Consumers don't choose the drugs they're prescribed. Qualified, licensed, medical professionals do.

People should be going to their doctor and describing their symptoms. The doctor diagnoses the cause and prescribes something relevant to help with the root issue.

It seems entirely broken that this happens the other way around, where people ask their doctor for a specific drug.

The consumer advertising limit should be zero.