Social media companies just don't want to self-regulate and at the same time don't want to be sued by parents. If no laws exist, self-regulating limits your marketshare compared to other companies who don't. When there are no laws and no self-regulation, parents will take liability concerns into their own hands and sue for things.

For the most part, 2.4GHz is the only practical WiFi band for smart devices due to wall penetration. But outdoor cameras with line of sight are a pretty good use case for higher bands. Though not many people have APs near exterior walls in every direction.

A real functioning prototype is the opposite of vapor. It may not be useful to know, but you can't have hardware ready to sell the moment standards are finalized by waiting.

In the real world, I doubt 320Mhz is practical. Too much overlap. It's like trying to use 80Mhz on 2.4GHz. That's been available for a long time, but practically speaking it might as well not exist. It's just there so they can but a bigger theoretical max speed on the box.

California, the place famous for mispronouncing all Spanish city/street names except for Rodeo Drive (which people are obsessive about specifically for some reason).

Regarding speech, I personally think it's a blend between Hollywood and colonialism. The Philly accent is an American one but it's partially influenced by post-RP pronunciation changes because of coastal proximity like a lot of New England accents. Most places around the world that speak English learn UK English but consume more American media in English than British. So they also would pick up a blend of accents and pronunciations.

Never log into the play store...and how do you install apps from major streaming providers, then?

You only quoted one relevant bit of text. Here is the other:

This virus doesn't go much beyond epithelial tissue until the infection has gone on for some time.

Of course not - but it is a long way from the blood and the heart.

Because mucus full of the virus goes down the throat. Epithelial spreading from top to bottom.

If the actual virus was getting to your heart muscles it's already a very serious infection, even if it is relatively asymptomatic. The lungs are the direct conduit to the bloodstream, of course, but what do you think causes the clotting? The binding of the spike protein to the ACE2 receptor. If you forgot the main point I was making, it's that the vaccine platform isn't the cause of the clotting - it's the proteins it produces that mimic the virus structure.

You think a good news source is people talking in a video clip?

I was reading published studies directly from the source before they even finished the trials.

The problem is people watching "TV" and thinking they understand a complex scientific topic.

To be clear, the base technology of the vaccine is not the likely cause, but rather the spike protein created by the mRNA that binds to the ACE2 receptor - an effect that also happens with the real virus except mostly in your lungs because it's not injected.

Going to have to disagree with you there. Mixing solutes in water is definitely a solution.

Bicarbonates in water makes it more basic. If it was going directly into the ocean, I'm pretty sure the oceans are more acidic than pre-industrial times. But rivers are probably already more basic from agriculture and industry.

I don't want to pay for an Apple TV, so I hope the Roku doesn't get worse for a while. And Roku supports both Airplay and Miracast protocols.

Personally, I can ignore content blocks that don't interest me. The only ads you can't disable are in a dead area of the UI that never had anything. Yes, they do have promotional background images and all that, but the UI hasn't been totally ruined so I will tolerate it until something better comes along.

The Google Home Mini was a decent speaker when it was $20 on sale. I think Google was going for marketshare with Assistant rather than trying to monetize the device directly, so it was kind of a win for me. The assistant is still useless (actually more useless than it was when I bought the speakers), but I can't buy the Chromecast Audio devices I really want anymore and the (non-Google) WiiM Pro is a lot more expensive for the same functionality. All I need is something that supports speaker groups with Google's casting protocol.

When Sonos is thousands for multi-room audio playing in sync, those cheap speakers can cover a whole house in the low hundreds. They don't sound the best, but playing in sync is honestly a more important feature for most than audio quality.