Yes, it's a well documented effect that adding support for something you don't see a use for automatically removes your ability to do the thing you normally do.

From TFS:

Tuesday's report was quick to point out that the results required several months of painstaking work, with more than 50 fingerprint molds created before getting one to work.

Most people's passwords can be broken in a fraction of that time.

So yes, it is great for most people.
Not everything has to be 100% effective against 100% of attacks to be useful.

If you've ever tried to use a fingerprint reader on a laptop, then it's obvious.

The fake had 0% success rate because the real fingerprint has 0% success rate.

No, you've got that completely inside out.

of those that died from Covid19, 99% had chronic illnesses.

No one is saying that 99% of people with chronic illnesses died.

For the first time in 22 years, Slashdot has been useful for something.

That was for the entire year...

it's not "if it's not broken don't fix it", it's "if it's not broken, fix something that is first, and we'll fix it next time we're rewriting that section anyway".

They are, unless you leave your phone plugged in 100% of the time.

You might want to do a little reading on the difference between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (what we know of as "China").

A Taiwanese company is pretty unlikely to do anything to help China.

They're free to have privacy and freedom, they're just not free to get a massive handout for it.

Wow, I didn't realize just how much of a difference location made.
I'm in Canberra, Australia, and with a 5kW system, 600kWh is what I'd expect to generate in the middle of winter. October gave me 880kWh, and somewhere above 1MWh wouldn't be impossible in December.

What TV signals will a 30 year old TV pick up?
I don't know about elsewhere, but assuming the tube still functions, in Australia all you'll get is static.

Incidentally, the TVs we're talking about here weren't made last year. They're 9 years old - that's not exactly throw-away. And they still work perfectly fine as TVs. They're just losing a capability that they didn't even have when they were new.

Maybe you can't, in which case, there's no problem. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

That's odd. K12 isn't a term that's really used in either Australia or New Zealand, as far as I'm aware. (Born and grew up in NZ, have now lived in Australia for 20 years).

But then again, my involvement in the school system has only ever been as a student and a parent. Maybe it's a common term internally.

That's a stupid question, and the only people that ever ask it are trolls that think they're funny.

The rest of us either use Linux on the desktop, or don't. Personally, I've used Linux as my primary desktop environment since 1998.