If you are using a public VPN service for 'security' ... so your ISP can't see your internet traffic or what have you then you've already failed. Your just making it so your VPN provider has all that information.

How many public VPN services do you think weren't started by security agencies with three letter acronyms? I'd bet it some where less than one.

Sure, maybe you trick netflix for a week, but that's about it

I wish you wouldn't dox people like that.

He writes a comic, it's funny, and he pokes fun at your team. Lighten up, allow other people to say things, and respond.

The only purpose for doing it is to cause him suffering.

For any people here with a background in philosophy, this meets the definition of evil: doing something to someone else that, if it were done to you, would cause you suffering.

Just stop. Instead of suffering, try causing more good in the world.

Pink unicorns could be proven fairly easily given enough time.

The same is not true if we are in a simulation that intentionally prevents us from knowing we are in a simulation

Constantly velocity transmission are ALWAYS in the most efficient gear. That's the only reason they ever make sense. CV transmission suck in almost every way compared to other designs.

They can however save so much in fuel that the ridiculous design and cost and problems make them still viable.

The human driver is not going to shift better than it can, it has practically unlimited gears to select from and it knows EXACTLY what the engine is doing and what the burn rate is, etc etc. The human driving simple doesn't have the information required for that level of efficiency - maybe after you jack your brain directly into the control electronics in the car.

A standard manual transmission is never running at the correct gear ratio - hopefully its in one that's closest for the task at hand, but that's the absolute best a human could possibly due - but that's unlikely because you lack the information about real time engine performance and load.

Humans aren't really that good at this sort of thing, there's just a bunch of testosterone that prevents you from admitting it.

Can a manual be more efficient than an automatic- absolutely, you can build cheap automatics that won't be as efficient as a well driven manual, but with modern tech, you'd have to pick an old design for the auto and be bad at building it before the divers is going to be big enough to matter.

Let it go. It's not 1967 anymore, environmental protection laws have required manufacturing to not produce utter shit anymore, and I do not if you heard, but they also stopped making leaded gas in the US.

You are no longer faster and more efficient than your cars electronics, you haven't been for any car built and sold in the US in the last 20 years, you're just stuck on your ego. Ok, I'm sure you can find some POS bottom of the barrel car somewhere. But the Toyota Camery has probably been better than you in every way for 20 years and it's not special at all. Something like a modern Suburu Outback with a CVT ... you won't get close in efficiency

Most high end sports cars have automatics with two clutchs. The car is always in one gear, and has the next expected gear engaged but with the clutch disengaged. When it's time to switch, it just swaps the clutches.

Not even in your wildest dreams can you switch gears faster than those transmission and certainly not as consistently.

Drag cars tend to blow themselves apart in a couple runs. I suspect building a double clutch tranny that you have to replace every couple of runs is cost prohibitive - or against the rules in pretty much every class other than unlimited top fuel dragster.

Formula 1 and Indy car transmissions are automatics with manual gear selection. They work somewhat like I just described. I'd bet a months pay neither you or anyone you've every known could shift any manual faster than the F1/Indy car shift itself.

I prefer a manual, but pretending I'm faster than high performance fully electronicly controlled dual clutch systems is stupid. You aren't, period.

Faxing is better. Powders and simple devices can be sent by letter, and politicians have to watch out for that.

Faxing means you're likely to be in a place that has a fax, ie a business, and if you put your thoughts on a letter with corporate logo then that's even better.

And yeah, faxing is very old school, but it's still used in a lot of down-to-earth places, the kind of grass-roots companies that politicians like to cultivate.

The claim that previous contributors lost something is entirely, 100% false.

They don't get to freely copy new code added to redis going forward, but the license can not be applied retroactively to previous versions. They are not prevent from doing whatever they want with any version from before the license change.

No one lost anything. No one is steeling your precious commits. They just aren't letting you have new ones.

You're obviously talking to CoPilot.

*Chrome dev tools launched*

Seizing the assets of the wealthy might pay for UBI... for one year. Then what?

We used to have a similar model, until they did away with the license nonsense and simply started funding public television from general taxes. The 5 people with no TV set complained for a while. But the savings were massive as there was no longer a need for an expensive enforcement agency.

How are parents supposed to be involved in it when their kid goes to a school library, creates a GMail account, signs up for Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc...all without the parent knowing? The social media sites aren't innocent victims here. They knowingly allow children to sign up without verifying parental consent, then use and/all data they can get their hands on...and there's exactly nothing a parent can do about it at the moment, short of chaining their kid to a radiator and denying them digital devices.

Could you imagine if it was a credit card? Oops--sorry, we let your 10-year-old get a credit card and he went to the store and bought $2k worth of candy and sat outside and ate it along with his friends. Better pony up the cash or we're going to put a lien on your house.

Your 13 year old walked into an AT&T store and we signed them up for cell service and gave them a new $1k iPhone. Sorry you found out about it when the bill arrived, but you better pay up because you're responsible for the actions of your child.
You wouldn't stand for that predatory behavior. But if you're ok with it, have your kid give me a call. I'll sell him a year of "consulting services" for $150k and send you the bill.

The age of contract in the US is typically 18. It should be enforced.

That was Microsoft, not Google: https://money.cnn.com/1999/06/...

The problem is you. Not iOS and how it works. You are not unique on this issue.

You want to use an iPhone like an Android phone. It is not an Android device and as long as you continue to try to do it the same way you did on Android, the more frustrated you will be. The exact same thing happens to an iPhone user switching to Android that keeps trying to expect Android to behave like iOS.

Why do you want them to be the same? Why would you switch if its the same? Why can't you understand that it works differently?

If you switch from an ICE car to EV and are expecting an ICE experience you're going to be disappointed and think it's horrible. Same going the other direction from EV to ICE.

People with complaints like yours are so confusing because you don't seem to know what you want. You want an Android device with an iPhone label or something- Do you even know?

So does everyone who releases software have to fulfill every request made by COMPETITORS to avoid being find?

What is the criteria where you switch from being in control of your own destiny and suddenly becoming government controlled.

Apple is NO WHERE NEAR a monopoly, so what makes them different than me?