There are legitimate reasons to record some phone calls, and Google took this feature away in an update during a time when this was very important for me. Not only can you not record a call, but if you try using a sound recorder while on speakerphone, the part of the recording during the call goes silent.

It's legal where I live, and it's none of their business either way. In my case, I had an attorney telling me I needed to record certain phone calls.

Same thing with YouTube on Android Auto. They nannied that away, and sometimes I'd like to put a video on for my kids while we're waiting in the car for something.

These kids all missed two years or more of school. It's going to get worse. The kids that missed the most formative years are just now finishing elementary school. I've heard teachers say ALL kids way behind.

I've used the touch screen on my ThinkPad exactly zero times.

My area (I66 in Virginia) went from three normal lanes and one high occupancy only lane (that everyone ignored) to three normal lanes and two separate toll/bus lanes. And when I say toll, I mean like $100 each way. I never thought I'd say this, but I love it! When the weather is nice, I commute on my motorcycle (free in the toll lanes), and when it's cold or raining, I take a commuter bus. I'm either flying on my bike, or watching youtube on the bus. It's cut my commute time by 2/3rds.

This will affect a small number of people who use burner phones for privacy. The rest are drug dealers.

I did some consulting for a major phone company. One of the network techs showed me a device that plugged into the phone network and could make truly untraceable phone calls. It was under lock and key at all times.

Apollo astronauts found a workaround for life insurance. I wonder if the Orion crew will do something like that.

Like all drug dealers, the first hit is always free.

They should have waited until more jobs were eliminated and companies were more dependent on them.

I switched to Cursor AI after Copilot rolled out the 300 request cap. It is vastly superior overall, and whatever type of account my company provides, I've yet to hit a usage limit.

Bacon is proof that God loves us.

Or does "other costs" mean bonuses for those at the top? I'm guessing Chuck needs a new yacht and a new private jet.

This. I built my desktop PC 11 years ago and it still does everything I need. And I have a 5 year old Android phone that's still just fine for watching YouTube in the bathroom.

Libraries. Why write code when you can just import an enormous library that already does that one simple thing you need.

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There are already limits. One of the problems is that you can buy a legal e-bike that is limited to the specifications, but it's actually capable of a lot more performance, and it just takes a firmware update to unlock the potential. I have no idea how they can enforce this law if they pass it.

I drove by my local mall recently (in the U.S.) and the electronic sign at the entrance was in Spanish. It didn't alternate between English and Spanish, it was only Spanish.

They've been limiting requests for premium models to 300/month for quite a while now, and gradually removing the free models. The only free model left now is GPT-5 mini, which is nearly useless. I've moved on to Cursor AI. It is vastly superior to Github Copilot.

Expect AI to get a lot more expensive as people and companies become dependent on it. This is by design.