I don't understand your attitude. What else are you doing while standing there at checkout? I marvel at the folks who stand there doing nothing while the cashier rings everything up, then stand there doing nothing while the cashier bags everything up. If I'm at a staffed checkout I will bag things up myself and be out the door a couple minutes faster. Sure I am "doing work" but it ends up costing me less time and I am helping keep their margins which lowers cost for everyone. I do self checkout when available and am quite efficient at that. I help keep prices down, spend less time at the store and see it as a win-win.

Oh win11 updates HAVE BEEN old driver breaking. Some old win7 drivers stopped working like a year ago.

Yeah you need a bunch of hacks.

You can get the context menu like before, you can get win10 taskbar with explorerpatch (github) that you can drag around, you can get win7 start menu with openshell etc. It's just a too big of a hassle for most people and only reason i bothered with 11 is drivers.

Riyadh isn't walkable beyond few sections. I don't think they care but yes it is why nobody builds cities like that - but the idea with the wall sections is that you live basically in an arc like in simcity.

The locals would prefer gated compounds with houses though.

Humans have practiced agriculture for ~10000 years. It has certainly not been warmer than this in that time period. The last time it might have been this warm was about 125000 years ago. And we're just getting started.

And since bribery is assured under the guise of "campaign contributions", that system is always going to be flawed.