Mainstream country music has been pop rock with twang and even dumber lyrics (not that pop is typically profound) for decades now. Bo Burnham's country song really says it a lot better than anything else I've seen yet.

The font is a deliberate decision whether it's a bot or not, on which I have no firm opinion. A variety of accounts (how many different people are involved is anyone's guess) have chosen to set their output in monospace over the years here. I think of them like hipsters. Monospace is inferior for the majority of tasks (except arguably for programming, and for a few data processing tasks where the data is naturally columnar when represented with fixed character width) so they're making a decision to make you read their thoughts in an inferior fashion. You could of course override fixed width text but my recollection is that Slashdot uses the classic HTML for this purpose and not something you could conveniently override without affecting other text that you might not want to make monospace. However, I haven't looked at the CSS recently so you might have options there.

I handle it by simply not reading anything they write. As a speed reader I unfortunately sometimes read parts of their comments by accident, but otherwise I choose not to consume any of it. They want to make it harder to read? Fine, in that case I'll pass.

Developers of iOS native apps have to know what TLS is because the App Transport Security policy of iOS requires all web APIs used by the application and controlled by its developer to use TLS since 2015.

Domestic buyers have to have money, so they have to have jobs, etc etc. They have official unemployment over 5% and among employable youth it's over 13%. Cars which sit degrade. This is more true for ICEVs but it's still true for EVs. And actually it's more true for EVs if they aren't kept charged, but I was assuming basic maintenance (washes, waxes, fluid changes, battery charging) being done in both cases to be generous.

I agree that those two things should happen at the same time. But I stand by the vast majority of AC comments being trolling or worse (e.g. uncreative trolling) and the "feature" being a huge detriment to the quality of Slashdot.

I don't know many people these days, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. However, it's super common for people with fiber to have 2.5GbE to the routermodem. I also live in a BFE county that's just now getting fiber to ONE city, so even if I knew a lot of people, I'd still be the wrong person to ask. But I'm also not representative in general, so again, wrong person to ask.

2.5 GbE is cheap and common, you can find it on $100 motherboards. Switches are very cheap, even managed ones. There's simply no good reason not to use 2.5 GbE.

I'm not saying "don't buy a Chinese EV". I'm saying "be very careful about buying one that might have dangerous flaws because when it was made the manufacturer was scamming the government and didn't expect the car to ever be driven".

Your observations are part of a much bigger picture in which corporations the world over have far too much power, and are subject to far too little oversight. Unless and until the oligarchy is brought down forty or fifty pegs, that situation won't get any better.

Here in Canada our bills are plastic, so they last even longer. Sadly, our smallest bill is a fiver - we're stuck with coins for $1 and $2 denominations. I'd much rather have bills.

Canadian here. First off, congrats on getting rid of the copper, (or, in later years, copper-and-aluminum) pocket scourge. We got rid of them a dozen-or-so years ago and haven't missed them. They used to weigh down pockets, get tossed in drawers, and be the subject of binges wherein they were gathered in rolls and given to the bank in exchange for practical currency. Trust me - you won't miss them.

Second, fight to your dying breath to NOT have 1-dollar and 2-dollar coins. Aside from the fact that they're good in parking ticket machines, they're mostly inconvenient. They're large and heavy, so it doesn't take long for them to weigh your pockets down to the point where your belt starts to slip. For women - and some men I suppose - the weight in a purse adds up quickly. I hated our one-dollar coin when it was introduced, and I hated the two-dollar coin twice as much. They're a pain, usually a minor one but sometimes also a literal one. Don't go there.

OTOH, our plastic bills are mostly great. They take a "set" from being folded in a billfold; but their longevity, extreme resistance to tearing, and ability to withstand laundering unscathed more than make up for that. Also, I imagine that they retain less cocaine residue... ;-]

I have experienced this myself, but I have also experienced the reverse many times. There are also many games that won't run on Linux at all. Most of these have Windows kernel DRM, so I wouldn't buy them anyway myself, but I'm not the whole market.

You don't need to have a monopoly for antitrust laws to apply. Only you brought up monopolies.

And as counter-argument I'm supposed to trust an AC? HahaHAHHahaHahAHhaHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAH

Be very, VERY careful here. I've heard credible reports that MANY of these "excess" cars from China are made with inferior quality control and materials - including the batteries themselves, which is the WORST place for cost-cutting - because the manufacturers know that the cars are probably going to end up rotting in vast fields with truly gob-smacking numbers of other cars.

I'm not against Chinese cars per se; but some of the EVs that were produced to scam the Chinese government out of subsidies are such bad lemons that they may cause injury or loss of life even while just sitting in your driveway. Never mind what might happen while you're driving one down the road...

And that is, at best, a move from the fire into the frying pan. You'll get cooked more slowly, but you'll still be "done" by the end of the process.

Trading Microsoft for Google is merely a lateral move. Your privacy is still being raped, your control can be taken away in a heartbeat, if your data connection goes down you're mostly dead in the water, and the "deal" can be altered at any time.

The problems with fighting an addiction by substituting what is currently a kinder-but-gentler drug are well known. The "replacement" can easily become as harmful as the original drug, and sometimes you end up addicted to both. Painful though it is, the best course is to go cold-turkey. In this case that means moving to Linux, adopting LibreOffice or something similar as an office suite, and finding FOSS alternatives to the rest of the software you use.

In the beginning it may be necessary to run Windows in a VM for some applications, but the ultimate goal needs to be a complete rejections of Microsoft, Apple, and Google. These companies are not your friends; remember, they are PUSHERS and will always try to seek more and more control over your computing power, your data, your privacy, and your bank account.

Stop feeding that ugly beast that wants to own your entire existence!