That's probably a long way off, too. Right now, robotaxis are only allowed on a limited range of public roads, which doesn't include highways (and by extension, bridges and tunnels). So while they might be useful to get you from your home in a city neighborhood to downtown, but not much more than that.

(Also, I doubt anybody's really going to pay for robotaxis for a daily commute. Most people buy cars or take the train for that.)

"Going Sleeper"? I don't get it. If you were laid off, why wouldn't you say so? You're under no obligation to a retailer you no longer work for, least of all to use some kind of coded language.

How about making clean and simple websites without a bunch of 3rd party connections.

Looking very much at you, Google spyware.

..yet here I am, still typing with two fingers.

"You might like this too!" is about the only thing streaming offers these days. I have my easynews, RADARR/SONARR NZBgeek, etc along with my subscriptions. Lemme count what I have... Netflix HBOMax Amazon (but came with prime so...) Hulu Disney Peacock I might have some others, but at this point I'm really starting to not see the value of paying over $100@mo for streaming channels which at this point don't have much I want to watch, or in the case of Amazon/Hulu I have to pay an extra $5@mo to not have commercials. I can give my relatives access to my plex, so Disney can fsck off.

and they want you to pay for it on top of it.

Welcome to the GoogleNet.

It's just that Google is slowly transforming the internet into Googlenet, and makes sure that you're trapped into it one part at the time.

It's back to the beginning of the internet with all the walled-in provider fiefdoms.

Sounds like they're still using Pentium PCs in the accounting department with old copies of Excel as a cost saving measure.

I looked at ADA a few years ago out of curiosity, and found itt interesting as a secure language.
But I don't like some of the strict syntax rules and noticed a bit of feature creep with the addition of OOP support, and I had no real project to work on so I didn't pursue it further.

Rust is just as interesting, but I see the same drawbacks and I see it going the way of C++ by adding new features on it all the time and abandoning simplicity.

C might need more attention to avoid bugs, but nothing beats its flexibility and simplicity. I really like it.

Sites are becoming more heavy by the year, yes, but I can leave Pale Moon open for weeks on end with a few sites open and a bunch which automatically unload (but not close) thanks to an extension.

Even with another window open with lots of active tabs, I had no problems keeping it open for weeks until I needed a restart for updates. I'm quite pleased with how stable this browser is.

The benefit is that it leaves RAM for all the other programs I'm running.
When I run Firefox with a few sites open it slows everything down to a crawl because of swapping, and I can't upgrade to more than the 4GB the laptop has.

That would be a good settings option for every browser.

I had to use Firefox for several sites because of incompatibility with their non-web standard changes, but haven't needed to since several Pale Moon updates ago.

They are aware of what Google does to wall off the internet.

I could run it in a VM, but then I'd lose a chunk of RAM to the VM.
Not very handy while limited to 4GB.

But I also like the browser to not swallow up all the RAM.

Pale Moon might be slower, especially on this old laptop, but it's fast enough to do what it should do and and limits itself to 2GB of RAM.
I consider that lightweight nowadays.