If they were forgeable they wouldn’t have gotten caught now would they?

Yes, a properly implemented passport is effectively unforgeable. Unless you can get your hands on the government’s private signing key or find a way to break RSA or ECDSA, in which case we have bigger issues.

This is already the case for your passport. The same goes for the vast majority of countries. I the EU all ID cards must also implement this.

I’m surprised it isn’t already. In the EU all ID cards must have a ICAO 9303 compliant chip. The US passport already does, so I would have expected the ID card to implement it as well.

It’s strange that the US is at the cutting-edge for some technology and decades behind in others (banking, basic government administration).

Literally every door in the building I work in has this, RFID doorknobs on every single door.

They are probably confusing ‘nobody noticed’ with ‘nobody cared’.

Are Android tablet apps even a thing or is it just a bunch of stretched out phone apps?

What lord of the ringish content? There is nothing on TV+ that would fit this description.

Sure you can, but do you actually do that?

In my experience those games you loved back then disappoint on replaying them. Our memories of those games are better than the actual games. In my opinion itâ(TM)s better to let them stay memories. It saves you from playing a disappointing game and ruining a good memory.

If Mozilla wants privacy by default, then why not include an ad-blocker and enable it by default. Why is Mozilla trying to appease the enemy?

A laptop with a larger battery would be a hard sell, Iâ(TM)m not sure there is a large enough market for one.

FAA rules limit lithium batteries in laptops to 100Wh. Something like a MacBook Pro 16â, already contains a 100Wh battery. Any larger and you canâ(TM)t take it on a plane. Who wants a laptops you canâ(TM)t travel with?

What makes iOS difficult for you? In my opinion itâ(TM)s much easier to use than Android. Maybe you can ask a young person in your family to give you some instructions, Iâ(TM)m sure you can learn.

That seems harsh. Here they do random checks before you pay (when you press the 'pay' button there is a random chance you are checked).. If you have made an error they re-scan everything and you just pay and leave.

In my local supermarket (in the Netherlands) there is no queue for the self checkout at all. There's just an open area near the exist with the checkout machines. Also 5 machines seems very little. My local supermarket is probably tiny by US standards and has 10 machines.

When does that ever happen? Why would self-checkout be more error-prone? It's literally the same technology as a manned checkout: a touchscreen. a barcode scanner, a receipt printer and a PIN terminal. The only 'error' I've ever had was the receipt printer running out of paper and that takes the attendant all of 10 seconds to correct. And I use these things pretty much daily.

How is it slow? People scanning groceries at the self-checkout usually only have a few items. If you have a lot of groceries you just get a cart and a handscanner, and you scan the items as you put them in your cart. Then you only need to return the scanner and pay, takes seconds to check out. Even better, you can use the store's app on your phone and use that to scan your groceries, then you don't even need to return the scanner. At my local supermarket there is almost always a free self checkout machine, only at the very busiest time of day (between 17:00-18:00 when people get out of work) I had to wait maybe a minute at most, and even that's exceptional.

For me self checkout is the best invention since sliced bread.