If I may offer a modification to your statement, it would be that car infotainment systems age poorly. Not the cars themselves. I currently own three examples that have aged quite well. All are near or over 20 years old. New enough to have OBD-2 and great reliability and repairability, old enough to be focused on real utility and avoid the invasion of useless (or worse) tech and complication. No $700 LED tail lights or $1500 mirrors with cameras, or everything-is-a-module-connected-to-the-canbus. Now get off my lawn! :)

And since people aren't tech savvy enough to host the data themselves, or don't have proper infrastructure to do so, where do you think all these repositories of data will end up ? Azure, AWS, GCP. Now instead of a free X account or Instagram account, I need to pay Amazon to host my stuff that Reddit fetches to display to people.

This is has been a problem for a long time. In an ideal world, hosting data from one's own personal internet connection, be it from one's phone, work, wherever, should not be as difficult as it is. And it shouldn't have to involve anyone other than one's primary service provider. We should be able to make direct connections, and receive email without a 3rd party service... at least no one other than whoever runs the connections along the route. It should be, by and large, private except to the sender and recipient with the exception of any routing data to get it the correct address.

But although this could in theory happen (and occasionally does from knowledgeable power-users with the right configuration and equipment), for the vast majority, it doesn't. And the problem is legion. No fixed IP addresses, NAT (even worse carrier grade NAT), DDOS attack protection, having to config a DMZ on a router, even just setting up a data source/website are some of the many, many problems. So of course, naturally all this gets offloaded to companies like AWS, Cloudflare, Google, and the big social networks because they make it easy. You likely have to pay, or pay by giving up your privacy, or both, but they take care of everything. You can find your own webhost, but again, it's like paying a third party to get your postal mail for you...because your mailbox is moving around, hundreds of people are trying to look through it or destroy it, or find a way into your house using it.

It doesn't have to be this way. But someone has to make it trivially easy to solve these problems without the big tech companies, and I'm not sure I see that happening anytime soon. Can we ban carrier grade NAT? Can we require internet providers to allow hosting and stop DDOS attacks? Is the cure worse than the pain now? I don't know what the answer is, but he has a point. We need to take back ownership of our data and the web

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

 

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

I hope the airlines lose and have to spend billions of dollars.
The customers would only get a small amount and the lawyers for the plaintiffs get the other billions but at least the airlines would be out an amount that makes them think next time.

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

Back in the days that home solar systems still mostly used lead-acid batteries - which in some cases of degradation could be repaired, at least partially, if you had some good strong and reasonably pure sulfuric acid - I viewed a YouTube video on how to make it. (From epsom salts by electrolysis using a flowerpot and some carbon rods from old large dry cells).

For months afterward YouTube "suggested" I'd be interested in videos from a bunch of Islamic religious leaders . (This while people were wondering how Islamic Terrorists were using the Internet to recruit among high-school out-group nerds.)

Software - AI and otherwise - often creates unintended consequences. B-)

It would only be a territory. hehe
Unfortunately its democratic loss would make the US even more fascist.
And it would confuse them about how the PM is elected, or more accurately not elected but more appointed-ish.

It's kind of surprising it isn't all squealing nonsense.

Give it a little more time. B-b

We had a lab known to be unsafe. A lab known to be performing gain of function on the specific type of virus that emerged in public. We have a lab in close proximity to the market where the outbreak was traced back to.

We also had rumors that low-paid lab techs supplemented their income by selling test animals they'd been ordered to destroy to the nearby wet market.

So current AI training procedures - which amount to "read all the internet you can" - fall for astroturf campaigns. Why am I not surprised?

There's also the "Detox" exercise of leaving your phone at home. and only taking it with you when it's absolutely necessary for example to work if you have to use a third factor authentication application to get into your computer)

Just switch on "airplane mode". No incoming calls, message notifications, or app push crud. (If you've got any apps, other than alarm/calendar notices for your schedule reminders which YOU set up, that poke brain-derailng messages at you, disable (or delete) them.)

Then get into the habit of not going to it for anything non-essential while in this mode.

Now you can use it for a key, or wallet, or whatever, if you must, without it constantly killing your attention span with interruptions. Yet you can always turn it back on to make a call, or in the timeslot you reserved for handling this trivia.

No incoming calls, though. (What a relief: No phone spammers!)

I used this a few times. I'm old fogey, though not an old fogey, and won't use SMS.
Does anyone know any replacements for people that don't see email?

I want to see these studies.
Did you just come up with gibberish that left-wingers supposedly say or have you seen real papers in real journals?
For every "bad" study you find I will find a study that right-siders do that is bad as well.
And in any case, what R&D would you want to invest in?