Replying to undo accidental moderation.

They aren't. Apple TV does it too, it's just that some providers (alright - I mean Netflix...) don't want to appear on it and so don't integrate.

Bah, got EV link wrong. Here's the link I meant.

Not quite. Buicks have a passable market in China, and you can clearly see them losing that from the link I sent over. China is a) the world's largest car market and b) forging ahead on EV sales>. This is likely the reason for the all-electric Buick range, not the US.

I'm in the UK, we don't get Buicks here anyway (I don't think). But the market they're targeting with the Buick is China, not the US.

Glad I got one when it came out...
I had an older watch - I probably could have gone another release cycle/generation of watch before updating but I use Siri on it a LOT and the "siri now on board watch" was just too good an improvement to pass up - along with several generations of incremental battery life improvements .. I went for it when it first came out.

As someone who has suffered a spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed lung) in the past, I actually do have more than a passing interest in my blood 02 levels - but I own a finger meter that is perfectly serviceable for the few times a year I feel I need to check up on it.. and having that tool on my watch (or not) is not a deal maker/breaker for me.

My wife also got one - I don't think she's used the 02 meter once but she uses the finger snap gesture all the time (new to that series)

glad we got ours before all this kerfuffle.

A small part of me is like "hmm I wonder if folks will start paying obscene amounts for used ones" but the other part of me says "even if they are, that is such an excellent example of late-stage capitalism gone off the rails that I would feel dirty partaking"

For what it's worth, the feature still works as of this moment - they didn't software disable it as of Watch OS 10.2

Johnny Harris (youtuber) did a great mini documentary on the whole "why are the machines always down" and it was a fascinating tale that basically said that McDonalds corporate and Taylor were likely conspiring against those guys.. it was pretty good stuff - he even did some social engineering posing as a repair tech at one point.

Yeah if the employees are miserable due to quality of life - I mean.. at this point in time, I know very few LGBTQIA+ folks who would willingly relocate to Texas and I have to think the states record for diversity and equity and inclusion would not really impress BIPOC either ..

So if your company is trying to attract the best talent and values diversity, Texas is maybe not a great choice?

I would quit my job on the spot if told I had to relocate to TX.

SO yeah if FF (Gecko) goes, we have Chromium (blink), Safari (WebKit) and Palemoon (Goanna)

WebKit already really disappoints in terms of extensions / adblocking, and while I have been a long time user of Palemoon, it breaks too many sites I regularly use - so it's very niche for me

With Google actively working to kill ad blockers, this is really not a good sign for the free and open web.

I use FF because I hate the Chrome UI

I hate how FF keeps trying to be more and more like Chrome all the time - I wish PaleMoon was more compatible with sites like FB (yeah FB sucks but that is where my friends and family all are and if I want to stay in touch with them I have to use it and with NoScript and UBlock on FF it's tolerable)

But at this point, I really am worried the day will come when web sites will just outright refuse to play with anything but Chromium or webkit. and those both totally limit/cripple extensions.

All because Google the advertising company is also Google the main browser maker and also owns YouTube the main video platform... I know we used to all complain about Microsoft acting like a monopoly but damn, that was peanuts compared to what Google's getting away with

Can't edit so will respond to myself. Seems there's a video that might define 'most hazardous'? Don't know as doesn't play for me when I click on it.

I've read the article, but unfortunately it's not that good. The IT security practices seems to be conflated with general nuclear alarmism, which sadly is unsurprising given the article's source. The "most hazardous" comment, for instance, may or may not be true - there's simply no source or even definition for the statement whatsoever.

The IT security stuff sounds like the standard if somewhat depressing normality of utility organisations. It is absolutely worth of reporting on, and absolutely should be addressed. Diluting the article with standard anti-nuclear bias though...it doesn't help.

You are merely floxinoxinihilipilificating at this point, I feel.