Realistically the two things that will make it happen are

1. China is doing it
3. Billionaire joyrides

The Linux Foundation has what now?

I know it's a corporate front group but this is a whole new level of fucked up shit. Fuck the Linux Foundation.

It's been 10-15 years, and people still don't really understand streaming. "There are too many services" - too many compared to what? I'd rather pay $30 a month to three of five providers for an ad-free service, each of which providing way more content than HBO or Cinemax ever did, than $100 a month to one monopoly. "It now costs more than cable did", no, you can subscribe to just what you want, and supplement it with free services like Tubi or Pluto. Also basic cable may have cost $40 in the 1990s, but it's been a while since it cost anything close to that. Try way north of double that, if you're lucky, once the fees are tacked on.

Now, if we can somehow stave off or cancel completely the enshittification...

Reolink here too. They support open protocols and work locally with no internet access. Picture quality is decent. You can record to your own server, or fit an SD card, or both.

You probably should familiarize yourself with or, if you have an allergy to Microsoft, OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc. It's a good general purpose data manipulation tool. There are things it does badly, but other things that are better than anything else in its class.

I definitely wouldn't brag about not knowing it, that's like boasting you've never used a personal computer.

Gyre is a more official name for the Pacific Garbage patch, as there are presumably few kids in it

Not really IMO, moderation is broken by design at best

I don't see a rash of bans, but I do see the same abusers of moderation given all the mod points they can use every day.

You can thank student loans for that. Earlier generations got their schooling subsidized, but now people have to get loans to pay for it themselves instead. Colleges therefore could raise tuition. Then a bipartisan effort in Congress was launched to make sure we couldn't discharge those loans through bankruptcy like you can gambling or other personal debts, which was led by Joseph R Biden. I think we know how that turned out, forgiveness for a few of the worst abused players, and blaming inability to keep his campaign promises related to partial forgiveness for all buyers blamed on Congress while he went around them to fund genocide in Gaza.

It's common the world over. But one aspect of America's system really gets my goat: you can be thrown off a jury for saying that you do not automatically believe the police. It's literally a question in many jury questionnaires and if you answer that you wouldn't assume a cop is telling the truth, you might as well have said you're in favour of jury nullification.

At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.

Perhaps they could establish a payment network for them or otherwise make them actually useful. File and pay your taxes for you.

The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.

We don't need more military. In fact we need less.

The reason for the existence of the second amendment was to not need a standing militia. We DEFINITELY don't need both things.