Exactly this, there are clear advances in women's rights in the past few years and as they say - rome wasn't built in a day.
Saudi companies typically now have quite a lot of women working for them and often in fairly senior roles, women now drive on their own and go out in public without their hair or faces covered.

Despite no longer being a legal requirement, many people still choose to cover themselves because they don't want to suffer sunburn in their climate.

You can *be* whatever you want, you just can't practice openly.
The same is true of religion, you can hold whatever beliefs you like but you can't practice or display them openly while you are in KSA.
You also cannot consume alcohol or pork.

All of these things are outlawed by their religion.

You could go to Thailand instead, LGBTQ+ as well as alcohol and pork are all commonplace there. And yet, just like Saudi if you were to insult their religion or their royal family you could still face some severe punishments.

There are actually a lot of countries in the world where homosexuality is still illegal with varying levels of enforcement/punishment all the way up to death.

In Saudi it's also illegal to engage in heterosexual activity outside of marriage too. If you visit there with your boyfriend or girlfriend you have to book two hotel rooms and abstain from having sex while you're there (although you probably wouldn't be caught in the privacy of your hotel room and the hotel staff wouldn't report you). If you visit there alone as a gay man what do you think is going to happen? How would they even know that you were gay? You wouldn't be going there to find a date or a hookup any more than a straight man would, you'd have noone to engage in any sexual activity with. Everyone is expected to dress conservatively and be respectful of local customs etc.

Riyadh has a bus service, they even have enclosed air conditioned bus stops which shelter you from both the heat and the sandstorms.
They are also building a metro system in Riyadh.

There was an acceleration of the degradation of lack of respect for our fellow citizens. Now that we're all back in public, most of us have forgotten what respect for others entails.

Just today, I was stuck behind some [insert vulgar word here] who thought the middle of the one-lane road was their personal parking spot to run into Starbucks who brushed it off when I expressed myself upon their return.

Scaling everything else is explicitly what the poster i replied to didn't want. He wants larger text but for all other UI elements to remain the same size, rather than for everything to be scaled.

I'm not talking about the sound. I'm talking about the smell.

DIY is a real possibility now with mini-split systems. They come with pre-charged linesets, you don't need a license to install them.

If you can live with the swamp cooler for a few more years, I would. That's just because new units with hydrocarbon refrigerants are starting to roll out, R134a and R410a are being phased out, and with hydrocarbons there won't be any need to worry about discharges for service in the future, the EPA has exempted the new refrigerants from licensing requirements. The hydrocarbon refrigerant units are still expensive right now, that should change soon.

A heat pump is just an air conditioner with a reversing valve. There's no excuse for the current contractor price gouging. My 3 ton heat pump was about $3500 over a decade ago.

The 'refrigerant' in a swamp cooler is water. No license needed.

If you just make the fonts bigger and don't scale other things too, then you end up throwing out assumptions made when UIs etc were developed. Often a button for instance will be just big enough to contain its label, if the font becomes bigger it no longer fits inside the space that has been reserved for the label. Things end up ugly or even broken.

It's a very hard problem to solve.

DPI is a separate thing, sizes are supposed to be based on real world lengths not numbers of pixels - so higher DPI should just result in more detail at the same physical size.

By the time the new devices from MS are available, it's likely that Apple will have moved on to the M4.
Most Mac software has already been ported to ARM so it runs natively, whereas very few Windows apps have native ARM versions. As fast as their emulation might be, it's going to be slower and more resource hungry than native code. And likely part of the reason why Apple have not made huge efforts to improve Rosetta is that for them it's a temporary migration aid that becomes less relevant over time.
When i got the first gen M1 air there were quite a lot of things using rosetta, today none of the apps i'm running are non-native.

Aren't most printer drivers running in userspace, so they can be emulated anyway?
There's also standards like Postscript, PCL etc which don't need printer specific drivers.

I'm guessing because small children like to touch things, and don't know what high voltage is. And because big oil sponsored the thing for a long time.

It looks like the cars have some steerability from the pics, I've never seen it in person. That would add complexity to the pickups, particularly if they've got to be shielded from being able to be touched. Small gas engines are cheap, custom designed track riding electric pickups and track systems... aren't. And the rat loves to make money.

Since it doesn't run 24/7 (I'm assuming), batteries might make more sense.

I'm guessing since they're using small engines that the cars don't have catalytic converters. I remember when lots of cars without them were still on the road, it smelled awful everywhere.

But something you probably don't realize most of the time because you're used to it: Cars stink.

They don't smell as bad as they used to, but they're still not pleasant to be around. And when you get behind some asshat redneck who removed the cat or somebody whose cat got stolen, it's truly awful. I'm looking forward to everything on the road being electric.

Leadership will maximise shareholder value because that's their job, and that's what will earn them bonuses. Long term will be someone else's problem because those who make such decisions will have collected their bonuses and left before there's any fallout.

The current system is set up to prioritise short term profit above all else, so there was never going to be any other outcome.

I read Dune back in the day, and, given its presence on my bookshelf, I also read Dune: Messiah, but I'm not convinced that I read it to completion. Perusing the summary of the series of books on Wikipedia, it seems that while the first one was well-written, despite relying on a little more fantasy than I'd prefer, as you go from one book to the next, the level of absurdity ratchets up well into the realm of self-parody.