Samsung still has DEX (Desktiop EXperience) available for its phones. You can either plug it into a computer and use the phone like a program within a computer, or you can connect it to a USBC docking station with HDMI, mouse, and keyboard attached and use the phone in a desktop style.

It works decently well enough. I wouldn't want to use it full time but I've used it occasionally (typically when my home internet is out. My desktop doesn't have a wifi card since I use ethernet, so I can't really pair the phone as a hotspot - I just connect the phone and use DEX).

There is a concept in computing where a certain spec is good NOW, but will not be good in the future. Rather than replace the entire computer many would rather just increase the power of their current one where its lacking.

Also, by preventing outside ram installation, Apple is free to charge whatever premium they want on more RAM. If they're the only way to increase the ram on a machine then if they decide you're going to pay an extra $500 to go from 8gb to 16gb, then you're stuck.

Something isn't over just because it has peaked. While I wish there was more, compared to when I was younger there are a lot more shows available.

What I do kinda dislike though is these mini-abbreviated seasons that have been adopted on new shows. I know its due to expense, but 10 episodes feels kinda short for a season when the shows I grew up with would have 20 to 26 episodes per season. And while I can deal with 10 - a lot of shows have been trying to get away with "seasons" of 6 episodes or less. 6 episodes of TV isn't a season - its a long movie chopped into pieces.

Hell, my parents retired 3 years ago with 200k in savings. They still haven't touched it and are living solely off of their social security.

It all depends on what you want to do. Their house was paid off years ago, they cook all their meals at home, and rarely spend money on anything that isn't necessary. It just doesn't cost much to keep the lights on and food on the table.

I don't have an issue with using natural land for hunting or recreation. Hunting when bag limits are set and laws are guided by biologists isn't harmful to an area.

Humans are a part of nature. Our structures and creations are not. Us going out and walking in the forest or taking a limited amount of game (basically legally limiting humans to an amount of predation that is sustainable) isn't throwing the ecosystem out of whack.

Antarctica I'd say doesn't really count towards the percentage total. You'd need 30% per region, not 30% of all the land on the planet with a large percentage of that being just the land that isn't of human use.

Antarctica is damned near uninhabitable. Very little plant life and the animal life is relegated to coastal semi-aquatic animals. The interior is devoid of complex life.

Of course in global warming keeps up in a few thousand years it might be a great place to live - with everyone claiming to have "set aside" the nearly uninhabitable areas at the equator :).

Why should one have to forfeit it? We pay taxes for a reason. Any land that isn't already publicly owned and set aside for this purpose could be purchased from the current owners willingly (if they don't want to sell, buy equivalent acreage from someone who does).

Taxes are literally the way for all of us to collectively do things that it would be too financially painful to do individually.

It says 30% for "nature" - not 30% that isn't urbanized parking lot. The remaining 70% can be all sorts of utilized stuff that isn't really natural. EG farming takes up a lot of space. Its not natural, but I don't think anyone is too put off by a corn field or a peach orchard visually.

I mean in the US, the government already owns about 28% of all the land - most of that largely undeveloped. Its not really that hard to just say "keep that publicly owned land public and don't build anything on it". Or at least keep building to a minimum (eg hiking trails with an occasional bathroom along the way).

I've tried some of the AI coding tools. It works OK for some really basic stuff. If you need a quick 10 line function that does something very specific and you can describe that fairly accurately, its good. Anything that gets remotely complex though it tends to confidently spit out code full of bugs or even code that won't even compile.

Sometimes it even makes up calls to functions in a library that don't even exist (my only guess is that somewhere it parsed in someone talking about trying to call that function when they assumed it did, and that worked its way into its data as a function call).

Overall, it can be ok for some basic stuff, but its far from ready to just turn it loose on anything of value.

Our local Taco Bell isn't using this, so I can't really speak on accuracy there, but Bojangles is using an AI order taker and while I haven't intentionally tried to trip it up, I will say that as a customer just ordering, its been very, very accurate. Probably MORE accurate than a human order taker for me as it doesn't get complacent or ignore things if its tired and what not.

A lot of times though even at other places I've started ordering through the app, even if I'm already in the drive thru line, I'll pull out my phone and place the order and just tell them I'm picking up a mobile order when I get to the speaker. For this type of monotonous task humans are just very error-prone.

I understand his frustration, but realistically I think this would be very difficult to enforce.

There are positions that we've been generally interested in filling that takes months or even more than a year to fill, because of the lack of qualified applicants (either because they don't want to work in the middle of nowhere, don't want to move there without some type of moving bonus, or they don't like the salary offered).

I don't really care that much about this specific site - I'm not a Bluesky user - but it is very concerning that as these things start to stack up we're basically getting into a fragmented internet. If you're in a state with these types of laws, you're blocked from an increasingly larger portion of the internet.

And yes, it is easily avoided/worked around via VPN, which I have myself, but it starts to feel very dystopian when I have to go switch to my special "unblocked" browser or VM to visit a site.

I could say the same thing about the reverse - if you have a subscription keep up with it and go cancel it if you don't want it anymore. If it takes some effort well then . . . don't be lazy.

Realistically if we're going to prioritize where we spend effort, it makes sense to put the effort on the 1 time task (cancelling a subscription) rather than a recurring tasks (paying monthly for a subscription that you actually want).

Sometimes people lose access to their original accounts. My current UID is still relatively how, but my original one was almost half of it. It was linked to my college email that I lost access to so after I forgot that password I wasn't ever able to retrieve it.