Send that guy the ambulance bill, we shouldn't have to pay for someone's willful ignorance.

They did.
Earlier windows versions didn't have this limitation, they introduced it in xp as far as i remember. Other systems also had no trouble formatting fat32 volumes up to 2tb in size, and windows would happily read such volumes it just couldn't format them.

They will almost certainly be used in chromebooks, and no reason they can't run linux..
But i doubt they will be able to match the performance/watt of apple's offerings.

Use the power to heat up molten salt and store it underground, using the heat to run turbines for baseload in winter.

Consumers are going to stop buying everything eventually. Because the enshittification isn't limited to a single vendor. And there does not seem to be any market pressure to provide more features and more services for less cost. We're on a direct route to rentier capitalism, and I'm afraid I have no suggestions on how to avoid ending up there.

Do you not do the classic date night: dinner and a movie?

Sure...

But these days its getting harder and harder to get out on a date without the wife finding out...

But I have no idea why people pay that much money and sit through the advertising just to watch a derivative summer comedy.

....to veg out and enjoy someone else's air conditioning during the extreme heat of the summer....?

These are the same people that insist "assault rifles" must be banned, despite being unable to define them beyond "they're scary".

Well, er...let's see...they're black!! And uh....when you pull the trigger, they go "PEW"....and uh....well uh...

Right?

Being in the firearms business without an FFL will make you a human doing illegal things. Even if you do it with a file and hand-crank drill.

Not federally.

It has always been legal in the US to make your own firearms for PERSONAL use.

You can make all the firearms you want, but, you cannot sell them, nor give them away....no serial number required, etc.

This has been the long standing right all US citizens have enjoyed since the country began.

It's only recently where companies made this a bit easier to do that some states started freaking out.

It is not rocket science

- Reduce prices on weeknights to get people in the door.

- When things feel over-priced, it greatly harms the experience and results in less return visits. Reduce margins on snacks. The prices are insane right now and literally out of reach for many families. Two parents and their kids with basic popcorn are looking at like $150+ to see a movie right now in some markets it is INSANE. If prices were more reasonable, then a lot more people would go and you'd make it up on volume, more importantly they would leave with a POSITIVE experience.

- Figure out other ways to lean into the experience. Partner with restaurants to offer "Dinner and a movie", and make the showtime conducent to that promotion (see next suggestion)

- Air family movies at times that make sense for families. I can not even count how many times we have not gone to the movies because the only options are either too early or too late. People in North America eat dinner between 5 and 7, movie theatres should be smart enough to plan around this.

Its right up there with excessive sugar in breakfast cereal for things we should stop tolerating.

That's typical in most countries. Famously in the UK, but also much of Europe. And this concept of Free Speech has arrived in the US. Well really, it's been like this in the US for as long as I've been alive, but I think people are starting to realize what load of hogwash the promise of free speech is.

Stuff that isn't compliant will be easily available anywhere near one of California's major ports. Many of these ports are significant foreign-trade zones that not only avoid Federal customs inspections, they of course completely side-step any California state regulation thanks to the supremacy clause.

A nation-wide ban might be more effective. But really, replacing your 3D printer's software with a different package is trivial and often a prerequisite to even getting it set up in the first place.

This law belongs in the dust bin along with California's age verification requirements for devices. It's bone headed legislation that isn't going to yield any positive results, at best it inconveniences everyone, at worse it gums up the economy and puts California beyond other markets.

"Recruit your friends, grab your 15 year old camcorder, edit in Sony/Magix Vegas, do the CGI stuff in whatever you can find"!

A home user these days has a LOT of resources/tools that will allow some great content to be made.

There are tools that only a few years ago were ONLY in the reaches of the $$$ corporations.

You can buy quality cameras for $2K or so range...you have tools like Davinci Resolve that actually has a FREE version that will do 99% of what a young filmmaker would need to do with reference to editing, VFX, Sound and color correction/grading.

RODE and DJI and others make perfectly usable mic systems the average user can use to capture good sound.

And with the AI tools coming on board....you can do some really special stuff, not full CGI, but I've seen transitions clips done with AI that had my jaw drop....

And no this will not put you in the poor house....yes you have to invest ''some" into equipment, but the main resource you need these days....is sweat equity, imagination and determination to learn how to use the tools at your disposal.

Nobody expects you to put out Raiders of the Lost Ark on your first attempt....but hey, good story writing and presentation go a LONG way, hell, just look back a couple decades ago and longer to see that that is actually what carried movies since the inception of the art form.

(And yeah, it was a fun degree. Just a BA :) Decided to go back to school for a second degree on a topic that had long been of interest to me)