"First was when all content was from friends, family, and accounts that you followed directly." aka...what people wanted. It's been downhill since then.

Like international law it's merely a Gentleman's Agreement between two parties. Nations can and do break both treaties and international law on a very regular basis. For example there's the Budapest Memorandum which was signed by Ukraine, Russia, USA and UK which in return for Ukraine returning the former USSR nuclear arsenal it had and not using gained knowledge to create more, prohibited Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine. And we all know how well that turned out.

And yet the two "take out a third of the internet" failures in the last few days from AWS and Azure have been on networks that utilise Linux a lot, and yes that includes Microsoft's Azure.

All those invaluable irreplaceable photos and videos they can't bear to lose, all backed up to one single point. It never ceases to amaze me. Cloud backup is just an additional backup to the ones I already have locally. I could lose any of my cloud accounts right now and it would make zero difference to data I value.

Except it doesn't like it didn't with Apple. Nothing to stop you installing third party software to do cloud backup etc or self hosting. Nothing that either Android or iOS do in regards to this story is unique to applications built into that OS.

It can't though, that's the problem. It's specifically configured for a specific task and not general use because that's how you get the most performance out of a piece of hardware.

Typical dumb cunt American. Singapore isn't Chinese. Singapore is the world's fourth richest city. In the World Economics Income Per Capita chart it ranks second, 12 places ABOVE the USA.

And yet 1440p OLED monitors exist. OLED just in case you don't know has a black level of pure black as each pixel is self emitting and can be turned completely off, and near infinite contrast ratio.

But the kids won't be solving them, they'll just feed the questions into an AI tool and learn nothing. That's the problem.

So far studies are showing that the more a student uses AI the less they actually learn, the less knowledge they actually retain. This then will cause problems in the future when those who do have actual knowledge leave the workplace and we're left with people who don't have a clue trying to do checks and balances and fixes on whatever AI spits out. Take your analogy of a bridge. You ask AI to design one. Without sufficient knowledge of civil engineering how are you to know whether the design AI comes up with is actually safe or whether the first winter storm will see it and everyone unlucky enough to be on it at the time it fails falling into the river?

And there are ice cores going back before then where CO2 was much higher.

Be honest....I bet you like many people, myself included, have several USB chargers sat in a drawer unused which will just end up in landfill which is why these regulations were brought in. I bought a 6 port USB charger years ago so every charger that came with anything I bought was just thrown in a drawer, unused. I now just have a GaN charger, they're dirt cheap like £60 for a 200W 6 port one from Anker.

It's common practice both online at larger sites and amongst many national brick and mortar retail chains to whack up prices in the month or two prior to a sale so they can then drop them back to pre-rise prices and claim they're on sale at a double digit percentage saving.

You're missing the point. It's point isn't to be profitable on its own, it's to put advertisements into your home to drive sales, to listen to your conversations to harvest data which it can sell and also use to drive sales. Alexa is very profitable when you factor in the profits Amazon make from sales they wouldn't have otherwise done without tailored ads fed to Alexa devices from the data said device has harvested from you.

Advertising is a small part of the experience....one that people don't want especially on a device they've paid for which has a service they have to pay a subscription to use.