100% ditto! My big workstation makes any laptop I use seem cramped for WORK work, so everything else is used a lot less. I've found a convertible chromebook to be a nice companion for odds and ends, like pulling up a recipe in the kitchen, or the occasional video meeting. The drawer full of old Android phones is depressing - really wish I did more with them.

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

Man, at this point I am thinking I should just disable all links in any email I get.

There is no reason why applications which choose to implement both types of interfaces can't do so. There's also no reason why users should be limited to one type of interface or the other. Both things coexist completely peacefully on Android. You can connect a mouse to your tablet (or even phone) and treat it like a desktop system with shitty storage (practically all phones, it takes a lot of power to have fast storage.)

The primary use case for tablet computers in olden times was data entry and acquisition, for example the military used their magnesium-case gridpads to do inventory.

> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.

Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.

AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"

You like many people in the US, have fallen victim to the poor education that the GOP attempts to create.

Capitalism is NOT about the rights of the wealthy. It is not about corporations or the government. Plutocracy is rule by the rich. They get to do what they want, everyone else suffers. That is NOT capitalism.

Here is the full paragraph that Google returns, because you lied about Googles results - you left out the second sentence proving you wrong:

"Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals or businesses own and control the means of production and operate for profit. It emphasizes free markets, competition, and minimal government intervention in the economy.

Those are the important requirements for capitalism that Plutocrats hate. They do not want free markets, competition or minimal government intervention. They want restricted markets, no competition - all enforced by the governments laws.

Plutocrats are not and never have been capitalists. They hate the idea of capitalism, just as the Mercantilists do.

If I buy something, I OWN IT. Not you. As I own it you do not have the legal ability to put ANY contracts on it. Your belief that you can sell it but still somehow prevent me from doing with it what I want is anti-capitalist plutocrat philosophy.

It is fundamentally anti-capitalism to let the people that 'sold' something to have control over it. That is the opposite of a free market.

Rental agreements are different, but nobody would rent military equipment - the likelyhood of loss is too great.

You are incorrect because you misunderstand Capitalism. You have spent a lifetime being lied to by the GOP. Capitalism is NOT about making you rich. Nor is it to benefit the wealthy, the corporations, or the government. That is GOP bullcrap.

Capitalism is about competition and free market. If you have read Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nation you would understand that.

There is NO special protection given to producers. The single most important idea Adam Smith came up was "everyone should be free to enter and leave the market and change trades as often as he pleases"

Free choice is the key. If I buy something, I own it and I have the freedom to do what I want with it.

If the seller attempts to put restrictions into that, that is not a purchase, it is a rental.

The corrupt anti-capitalist plutocratic idea that it is legal for sellers to retain control over things they sell is something Adam Smith would decry as wrong.

The people against right to repair are a bunch of anti-capitalists plutocrats. Capitalism = free (as in choice) market = no restrictions on repair.

The scum trying that crap on the US military should be forbidden from selling to the US government for 10 years.

Nobody wants your shitty iOS. People tolerate it on phones, because you taught them that it's ok for PCs to suck if they fit in one hand. But once the one hand constraint is lifted, people come back to their senses for some weird reason. You did too good a job of persuading people to treat phones as weird exceptions to common sense, when you should have undermined common sense itself (but that would have harmed Mac sales).

The biggest problem with Apple for users probably isn't any of their anticompetitive shit, but rather their bifurcated OS. Software which could be sold on both platforms is commonly only on one or the other. Tablets have enough screen and enough power to do real PC jobs but are prohibited from doing them because Apple wants to sell you both an iPad and a Macintosh. Android-based tablets can run emulators to get around these problems, or run full apps which can run on ARM Linux in Termux or another solution. TBF Google seems to have Apple envy and is aiming to lock down their systems more and not less so maybe they will throw away this advantage.

Do they also provide build tools and allow customers to build and install their own images?

You have to have punishments to stop the people who are stopped by the threat of them. Those people do exist. We don't think about them much because the existing deterrents work just fine on them.

But you also shouldn't waste your time either believing that they will deter everyone, nor that stronger punishments will deter statistically more people. There are always those who think they won't get caught, and those who don't care.

Somehow authoritarians always forget the carrot. The stick isn't invalid, it just isn't a complete solution, and you shouldn't be rushing to apply it in all situations.

What's stopping you? There's definitely people doing this right now. Around a quarter of the continental US is BLM land. Last I looked pig tags were free.

The problem with the Line and other such products is not that it is impossible to build, but it is an incredibly bad design. Someone came up with an image, then they decided to go with it, rather than thinking about what was needed and what the advantages of it.

A circle would have cut the travel time significantly between all locations. It would have enclosed an internal area that would have significant environmental and electrical benefits. A simple railroad could have connected circle with the other end of the "Line".

But no, someone in power thought "Line" and they planned around that. They figured out how to do it and told him it was possible. Then they calculated the total cost which was immense. But when the boss found out what he wanted was so expensive, he decided to make changes.

It may never get build the way he originally designed it - mainly because he was not a trained designer. He was a rich guy that thought is this possible rather than is this a good idea?