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.

I had the same thoughts when I watched the first part. It all looked good but the acting would have been better with wooden puppets. Been a while since I watched such a boring movie.

I hadn't noticed the link to Blade Runner 2049, but now I see why I didn't like it in much the same way (being a replicant was not enough of an excuse). The original is one of my favourite movies, but 2049 is as real to me as those mythical pre and post trilogies of Star Wars that I have heard about, but can't find anywhere.

I don't mean they lack the fun of going out and touring the landscape by itself, but the actual act of driving the machine.

Until I gave up owning a car a few years ago, I always drove secondhand cars that gave me a sense of pride of owning something that had original style (not wind tunnel designed same-shape-different-brand) and needed a bit of skill to drive them well (youngest car I owned was a 1996 Alfa Romeo 164 Q4).

Those now antique cars involve you in driving and not make you feel detached from them as if you sit behind a screen on the couch and just point to where you want to go.

Now that we know how memories are formed, there is no magical "soul" that exits your body with all of your memories are intact. Your memories are something that can be written, or erased. It won't happen in my lifetime, but I'd love to be around to see where this goes. A persons entire brain backed up, reprinted and reinstalled. Bad memories erased entirely, the implications for how this can help deal with the worse of trauma's is nothing short of amazing.

Oh, and there's no such warning. When you get into the backseat of a robotaxi, it won't even start moving until everybody is wearing their seatbelts. I hardly see any passenger leaping into the front seat and grabbing the controls in a traffic incident.

Nah. I've rode a couple of robotaxis around the city, and while the ride is nice, it's clear we're nowhere near "get in a car and go to sleep." For one thing, the vehicles aren't even allowed on highways yet. And they require months of training on any particular urban area before they can perform reliably. I don't think there's been any training in rural or even suburban environments, which have different challenges. What you say may eventually be possible, but we're still a long way off.

Anyone outside of the US should review bomb them, and hope that the Streisand effect takes over from there. The Internet makes us a global community now, and this displeases me greatly, and hopefully displeases others.

Just like how I disable autocorrect as one of the first things on a new smartphone, I'll disable AI if I buy an "AI PC" if needed despite running Lnux.