Yes all of these. I'd also add that streaming has fractured the movie watching "hobby". When I see a good movie trailer, I get excited about going to the theater to see it. Only later do I figure out that movie was never going to the theater, and was streaming on some service, wihch I may or may not be subscribed to. This takes all the excitement out of the movie "thing" for me. Then there's three men who sit right behind us in an empty movie theater, and can't keep their feet off our seats. And the last movie I went to - a guy two rows back is watching something on his phone with audio. WTF?

I'm sure jamming adds into all the nether regions of my viewing devices will make the somewhat frequent Roku crash and reboot events less frequent? Did think so.

I still feel the risk of owning an EV that becomes a "boat anchor" is too high. I think a 5+ year old EV is a risky purchase with current designs. At my home we're able to buy and drive ICE cars for 10+ years. Right now I feel like EVs are throw-away purchases, and if they are, they should be priced much less than current ICE cars.

I know some people who lease and buy if the car has proven to be reliable, or turn it in if it's not. Yes the total cost is usually higher than buying to start with, but there have been cars and car companies that have been a huge gamble.

If we're truly going EV, why waste the engineering resources on this? Put those people on making EV better for everyone, including apartment dwellers who have no path to EVs now. We'll ruin ICE cars to meet this standard (see new Honda CR-V oil dilution issues) and those engineering hours will be wasted.

I know what I'm writing isn't realistic, but consider this... We're wasting a lot of science and engineering on fossil fuel vehicles, and that effort could be better used to improve the electric vehicle experience. I know those resources don't automatically move to electric. The auto companies appear to have a shorter and shorter time horizon to recoup fossil fuel vehicle improvements, so prices of those vehicles are going up. I'll use Honda as an example. I've owned two CR-Vs with 2.4L engines that got very good mileage and were very robust. Now I can't buy a 3rd CRV with that motor and instead have to consider a turbo version with a high-pressure fuel system that dilutes engine oil. Why? To increase MPG a very small amount. And the situation with Honda's 6-cylinder engines is even worse. So why in the world would the US government impose stricter rules on fossil fuel vehicles at this point? It's a waste of time and money.

The real scam is the cost of textbooks. Publishers collude with schools or instructors to refresh texts to make last years text obsolete. Those old texts could be re-used year after year until the books were worn out or broken.

Ditto. The big, bad cable companies used to deal with this for us. We still hate them. Now Google joins the list.

Where I live there are new apartments being built everywhere. They come with large parking lots and no infrastructure to handle EV charging. To me this seems like a big holdup for EV migration, but maybe I'm missing something.

At my home of 3 adults the streaming experience will never top a movie theater. The house isn’t lit well for movies. The room won’t allow for theater-like comfortable chairs for everyone. The screen is smaller. The only theater issues I won’t miss are idiots with their phones and someone kicking the back of my chair. When the first competitor to Netflix appeared I could see where this was headed. Content would be owned by all sorts of companies and there would be no one-stop-shop to watch what you want. Today there are more streaming services than I’m willing to pay for, and I don’t have much interest in adjusting my streaming subscriptions every few months to get the content someone in the house wants. In 2020 the public education system exposed the problem of who has or doesn’t have internet access at home. The haves and have-nots. The have-nots might be able to see a few theater movies a year. I have a feeling that gets worse when streaming is the only option.

What a stupid headline to see this morning. I'm waiting for the following studies to get some attention: "Huge study says husband's attitude affects quality of marriage." "Huge study says chef's attitude affects quality of food severed." "Huge study says manager's attitude affects subordinate's career."

Exactly. We share a TV in my house. It's a family thing. It forces some compromise sometimes. If someone wants to use the internet they go use some other device for that so the others can enjoy some entertainment.

Yes, we should do whatever we can to get them on broadband so they can be miserable Facebook users like the rest of us.

Like someone else said - don't move there. If you're going to try it then here's my 1.5 cents. #1 issue is someone coming in while you're there and doing you harm in order to rob you. Hardening every way in is very important. Once they get in (and they will) you either have to be able to protect yourself or go somewhere in the house where you can call for help and buy some time. A dog is excellent because they're an unknown to a stranger, but they require lots of care. #2 - when you're not home you need good insurance. I work with someone who had video and the police got finger prints but crime not solved. #3 - ask yourself what you're trying to protect? Can it be put in a safe? Can you deploy a decoy safe that someone might spend a lot of time trying to take for nothing? Can you hide your valuables. How about a fake dog that reacts to sound? How about a lighting and sound device that makes it look like someone's home watching TV? #4 - add a monitored security system. Cost of living there. Get one that makes noise, calls someone, sends texts when access points change state, etc.

Going for the dumbest comment today... I really miss OpenVMS and files with version numbers. That is all.