How exactly do they ban updates? If they publish an update for Canadian owners, nothing stops Americans from installing it.

"at least that military is stopping a nuclear armed terrorist state from setting the worlds trade rules" Oh, they are? So the Strait of Hormuz is open again? Gee, I had no idea.

"What's true is that things get worse much quicker under one party than the other" Well then isn't that where the focus needs to lie, at least in the near term? "Meanwhile Republicans contest the results of elections where it's obvious they lost." Well there again, doesn't that put the focus more on one side than the other? It sure sounds like you're trying to avoid placing blame here.

It makes all the difference whether someone is being an asshole to you, or an asshole for you. Sometimes you actually welcome the latter case.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

The powers that be will say "let them fight".

In my experience, no... but context loops are a hint the model is starting to go mad and should probably do some of this "dreaming" to consolidate memories and correct some of the semantic drift it has incurred.

"Troll"? I guess someone's not a Top Gear fan...

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

Well, "modern" is a relative term. Even as recently as 50 years ago or even less, a lot of piping was still copper.

..."Hey ChatGPT, put together a plan to kidnap or kill the people on this list, in such a manner and such an order that it looks random and totally not a co-ordinated conspiracy, mmm-kay?" I wonder how well that would work...

In his new role his main job will be dealing with government leaders around the world, including Trump (assuming he hasn't aspirated a Big Mac and fries by then).

I can't wait to get my refund from the companies that charged me for the tariffs, he said sarcastically.