Pithy quotes prove nothing and often hide deception.

Margaret Thatcher said that while more or less giving away a ton of publicly owned stuff to indirectly buy votes. We now have a massive housing and water quality crisis (among other things) thanks to the conservatives running out of other people's money.

For Google's legal defense it is good that it is written in law not to do that, but it should be common sense not to do that. But I suppose in a world where a jar of peanut butter must have a disclaimer saying "Contains nuts", some people do not have common sense.

First of all, it is not just Microsoft saying not to use iPerf3. The developers of iPerf3 says it is not fully supported on Windows. They recommend using the previous version iPerf2. Second, both companies "recommend" that you do not use it as it is unsupported. You might get it to work but the results might be suspect. Neither company is stopping you from using it.

Your "often" was predicated on you cherry picking a small subset in order to make a point.

Er what? Staging a political protest at a workplace should be a common sense thing NOT to do as an employee. I do not know why that should be considered "soul destroying". If the employees wanted to express themselves outside the workplace, they are free to do so.

The study in the article showing all the assumptions, methodology. I take it you didn't bother to read it. A simple Google search of UK solar power generation in 2022
You: "My 10 days in the UK trumps everyone else's knowledge. I talked to one guy and everyone else must be wrong."
Me: Your sample size is too small to lead to your conclusion.
You (triggered): How DARE you!!!
Let me guess, you want to speak to my manager?

Did you let the countdown hit zero? Try setting it to record an emergency video. Once it starts it usually asks for your password to stop the recording. Otherwise it must be a OnePlus thing.

I guess it's different in the US where the cops immediately point a gun at you. So again, it depends on your threat model.

I tried to read the first wheel of time and just gave up. I enjoyed the TV series way more than I was expecting.

You implied no-fault divorce means that you cannot divorce for cause.

I did not. Whackadoodles will remove no-fault divorce which then leaves them open to attack what constitutes "fault" piecemeal until divorce is practically impossible.

Japan has a long history of taking issue with VTOL aircraft, specifically US military ones stationed at bases in the country. There have been some accidents and the public isn't fond of them.

Flying cars will never happen unless someone invents anti-gravity, because of the noise. And again, noise from US air bases and VTOL aircraft in particular is a long standing issue over there.

The enemy pilot will have to get on the radio and talk it to death.

The problem with that reasoning is that it would seem China needs to ban Apple products, Microsoft products including Bing, American movies... But they don't, they just require that anyone doing business there sticks to their laws, which is what most countries do.

The real reason why the US wants to force the sale of TikTok is because it is politically quite left leaning. Lots of stuff about unions and worker's rights, how unfair the real-estate/rental market is, socialism and other left leaning politics... They think it is "radicalizing" young people with what are actually pretty mainstem ideas and views in Europe, but which are to the left of both the major parties in the US.

If a sale is forced to a US company, expect them to screw with the recommendation algo to make it more conservative.

It depends on your threat model.

For most people, a fingerprint is a decent way to unlock their phone. It's fast and good enough for banks to trust it with payments. It can easily be disabled in an emergency situation (press the power button 5 times rapidly). Thieves aren't equipped to lift your print and unlock your device, and will just sell it on or break it down for parts.

For fingerprint unlock to be an issue you would have to consider a threat actor who can get your device before you have a chance to disable it, and then force you to unlock it before the biometrics time out and it defaults to needing your password (Pixel devices do that, not sure about others).

PROTIP for Android users, and I think iPhones have something similar.

Press the power button 5 times rapidly to enable "emergency mode" or whatever they call it. Biometric unlock will be disabled and you will have to enter your password/PIN to access the device again.

You can configure what else it does. I think the default is to call the emergency services, so you might want to disable that. You can have it record video and text people too.