Well, aircraft can also have engines fall off on takeoff and carve a flaming trench through an entire neighborhood, potentially killing dozens or hundreds in addition to those the aircraft.

Even little Amazon drones can fall on my head and maim or kill me while I'm barbecuing in my backyard.

I think I'm OK with higher standards.

I guess the story is that it's new in Android and potentially handy for folks who have high speed cellular connectivity and use their Android device as a hotspot.

Nice to see, considering all the stupidity around the 6 GHz band, even getting STA adapters to support it under non-Windows OS's often sucks due to firmware/driver lockdown hassles.

Android hotspot kinda sucks anyway, what with dual band support, ability to manage connected devices, etc. being flaky and vendor dependent.

I always use my most customer-friendly credit card to order from AliExpress, just in case I need to dispute. Only happened once, shitty fly-by-night courier lost the package, I got the runaround, played a round or two of phone tag then just disputed the charge. Lo and behold the package got delivered a few days later. Overall, with dozens of orders, I've been pretty satisfied with their customer service, I've had a couple lost packages and they immediately refunded or reshipped.

Amazon is better about this -- less use of shitty couriers, and when they do, Amazon eats any losses without hesitation, even if the package was technically "delivered" by leaving it sit on a busy street corner in front of a closed business in a shit neighborhood and it was stolen before the driver got back to their car.

Also one of the more common anti-universal-healthcare arguments I encounter among "conservatives." Not a rational, budget-based argument against it. Nope. "I paid into Medicare all my life, and now they want to make it free to everyone?! It's not fair!"

No, they're made of wood, and THEREFORE.....

Rather tall order, that. ReactOS is trying. And wine & Proton run a lot of stuff.

That's a big part of the problem -- a lot of what makes Windows apps work isn't in the kernel, it's all the system libraries with their decades of cruft and backward compatibility that have to be re-implemented in clean-room fashion to avoid infringing MS's copyright.

Well, this probably needs some help from the kernel, or at least elevated privilege, since AirDrop (of course) uses weird network protocols. So their "technical reason" is likely "we're doing this work on our current flagship line, and maybe we'll open source it when we feel like it, and then the plebes can have it if they use custom roms, or if their vendors port it."

Same reason RCS now works better on iOS than on non-Pixel Androids, and why other assorted Google Magic is a bitch to get working on custom ROMs, even on Pixel hardware. If you wanna use our whiz-bang stuff, you have to use our data-raping OS, and you might have to buy our newest hardware too. Often the excuse involves woo-woo AI chips, but that doesn't really explain why Google Call Screen and the Photos magic editing stuff worked fine on my non-Pixel until Google started breaking them every other week with shadow updates that would get any non-Google developer banned from the Play Store. Fair, I suppose. If you didn't pay for the product, you are the product. Running Lineage without GApps these days.

Yeah, that. If they can't make it illegal to collect the data, make it hard to sell without consent, thus reducing its value and disincentivizing its collection. And of course the crippling penalties in the event that such collected data gets hacked or leaked. Don't wanna risk it? Don't collect it.

But of course these are Business-Killing Regulations that are unlikely to see daylight in the USA, where privacy-rape is a valid business model.

Spectrum is just now rolling out, in a brand new subdivision where some relatives live, "fiber powered" internet and TV. It's fiber to a box down the street, and coax to the home.

I had one of those for a while, it didn't play nice with my home theater system. When switching apps, or whenever it feels like it, the Onn box, receiver and TV got into some sort of 3-way shit show over some or another HDMI parameter, resulting in the screen flashing between black, pixelated green and an annoying loading spinner, and the receiver clicking audio relays and generally having a fit. Got a 4K fire stick too, and that works fine, as does the little x86 SBC I'm currently using.

Another annoying feature of the Onn box is, it likes to update itself automatically even if you turn that off. And one of those updates broke it such that when it's idle for a while, it turns itself "off" and doesn't draw any less power, but takes a while to turn back "on." Before I got rid of it, I had a Home Assistant automation to send it a new "on" command every time it turned off.

I suppose Amazon might eventually get around my pihole whitelist and fuck up my fire stick, in which case I suppose I'll do their "trade in" thing for a new one then return it.

In what airport? Every one I've been through, there are exits you can just walk out from the secure area. Often right next to the checkpoint.

Yes, 100% this. The delivery services are part of the enshittification epidemic. Somehow (covid played a big role) it became acceptable to pay a considerably higher base price, plus delivery fees, plus the expected tip, for soggy tepid food.

The restaurants aren't blameless either. I used to order Uber self-pickup sometimes when they offered 50% off promos and stuff, which even with their markup would be below menu price. Restaurants do things like put hot dishes on the bottom of a paper bag and then put sushi on top, or put fries and greasy wet food in the same styro box, etc., virtually guaranteeing a shitty experience. Picking up myself, I can fix some of that, but Uber drivers aren't going to care, and even if they do, they're not supposed to open bags and rearrange things.

After a couple bad experiences with Uber, the app was deleted and I no longer deal with them. They still keep spamming me to come back and enjoy 70% off.

I know RTFA is hard, but from TFS: ... The researchers said the Universe Browser ...

The generic "something went wrong" errors, or the even better "access denied" errors, are a pretty clear message to me that the business in question wants me to go to a competitor with a working site.

Yeah, I *could* turn off my VPN and pihole and ublock, or spend 10 minutes figuring out which pieces of JavaSpam I have to allow to make it work. Or I could just find what I want at Advance Auto instead of O'Reilly, thanks.

Thanks, that looks interesting, though I didn't have time to read all of it now. Your link didn't work, BTW. Fixed one here.