I'd also add an SDR to that kit... opens up a whole new world if you're needing it for a survivalist or prepper situation.

A cheap RTLSDR stick and wire antenna will do the job fine with one of the many SDR programs that'll run on the Pi.

Meanwhile I also own a Tesla, and am using a CarPlay adapter with it. Maps is better, particularly lane guidance and actually telling me which motorway junction number I'm coming off at. I can share an ETA with my contacts. I can listen to subscriber-only (paid) Podcasts. I can use WhatsApp (via voice of course), something sadly essential in the UK as the vast majority use that. I can listen to audiobooks from other than Audible. I can use the BBC Sounds app. I can...

You get the idea. I agree with you about integration - the time I will use the built-in map is if I'm on a longer journey that needs charging on the way, or if the journey is so short that none of the above really matters.

Personally I hope the rumours about CarPlay integration being worked on by Tesla are true, although I'd be surprised I must admit. But for me - works well.

I'd guess, but stressing guess and agree would need to be studied, that your bias would be correct. I'm not necessarily a fan of the every single person's study plan is different school of thought, and think there's a lot to be gained from structure.

On the socialising I'm not quite so sure though - it's definitely changed the nature of it though. My 'kids' (now all adults, youngest about to enter final year of university) socialising all the time on-line. Voice chats with friends, Discord is how they organise meeting up etc.. They've also all three kept a healthy in-person socialisation side too, which is the part I was initially worried by when I saw this panning out over several years. I think that last bit is key - if you can balance both, then you get the benefits of going out with your friends with also the benefits of having a wider geographical friend base and the ability to stay in touch more easily.

Perhaps read the actual comment? I am agreeing with the study - quoted directly: ""The findings suggest that screen time can support children's and adolescents' cognitive processing. Presumably, the essential point here is what kind of things they do in their screen time. Teachers and parents should encourage children to use devices and screens in such ways that promote active thinking, problem-solving, creativity and learning," states Doctoral Researcher Petri Jalanko from the University of Jyvaskyla.".

Yes, it's nice to see a study backing it of course but this has been intuitively obvious for a while. The "screen time is killing our kids!" crowd is just the latest generational re-incarnation of the "computer games are killing our kids" from the 1980s, or "Dungeons and Dragons is killing our kids!" from the late 70s through the 80s, "TV is killing our kids!"...right back to Socrates moaning about writing. Just another moral panic.

Since we're in 80s mode, let's quote The Karate Kid: "concentrate on quality of what you know, not quantity". It's the nature of the screen time that's important, not necessarily the raw bulk. Are you interacting with people online, are you reading stuff? Are you watching some videos where you learn some things as well as just the latest cat videos or TikTok dance? In short, are you using the screen as a portal to the generalities of life instead of just watching brainrot all day every day?

I suspect knowing that will be key to whether the screen time is hurting or helping. And as ever, a balance is required. 100% screen and no in-person interactions is obviously harmful, provably so thanks to the pandemic providing us with data here. I'd also posit that 100% outside and in-person will be good, but not as rounded as a decent mix between the two since you gain access to different experiences online.

Not going to happen!!!

Amazon is hoping to fly 80lb behemoths over populated areas to drop things from about 12 feet -- while all-too-often crashing into things. Of course to be fair, how could a drone possibly avoid an apartment building or a crane (twice). Last time it was a ladder strapped to the roof of a van.

These things are not only dangerous but hugely uneconomic. Nothing beats a gig-worker on an ebike!

I'm trying to figure out whether that's the best place to attack it (getting the loans part), and I don't have the financial wherewithal to figure it out. The ultimate dodge is when the heirs get a stepped up basis on those assets when it comes time to pay back the loans. That really looks like a rule written by the rich for the rich. Get rid of that loophole and much of the benefit of using trick goes away. (And I say that even though my heirs could potentially benefit from this, though to a much smaller extent than the billionaires.) That, and the ridiculously high inheritance tax threshold.

So our military just publicized such that any US opponents know a substantial # of US soliders will either officially or unofficially be out, and we'll be shorthanded, for a 4 day window. Yeah, that won't cause any problems for US.

Another option: both.
As the dementia advances, episodes where he really has no clue what's going on in any way gets more frequent.
However, there may be moments of clarity when he remembers at least some things.

Of course, it's pretty obvious that he's pretty ignorant/clueless about how the world works*, so I'm leaning towards 1. He just says it because he things it makes him sound powerful.

*bleach, light, "groceries", apples in supermarket fridge, eclipse gazing, Hitler's generals, tariffs, asylum, U.S. is spelled US, "excursion", dumb with a "b".

Big clue that he just learned something new is the phrase "most people don't know that".

A boat ran out of gas.
They broadcast a continual distress call, and the first ship to respond was further away than a ship owned by Zuckerberg.
(TFA doesn't mention actual distances, so we don't know if the difference in distance was 10 meters or 10 miles.)

Zuckerberg wasn't the captain of the ship.

Zuckerberg wasn't even aboard the ship.

TFA's Conclusion; Zuckerberg refused to help multiple times.

The fact that Zuckerberg owned the ship should have been a footnote, not a headline. It's even less relevant than the ships country of registry, which TFA declined to mention (multiple times...)

This is a false argument, because the mainstream oses (Windows, MacOS, IOS) break their interface every major release. Go from Win10 to Win11 and you have to learn a new interface and retrain yourself. The latest iPhone switches where search is, requiring you to rewire muscle memory. Let's not even go into how new versions of Outlook, Word, and so on break their prior interface.

We need to stop accepting the myth that Windows or Mac are stable and consistent. The shift from Win10 -> Linux Mint is about the same as going Win10 -> Win11, except one of them doesn't say 'Microsoft'.

Given how much of modern manufacturing is fully automated, why couldn't US companies compete on a level playing field with Chinese ones?

Tariffs simply allow domestic manufacturers to reap higher profits and/or continue to use inefficient processes to create an equivalent product.

Perhaps the motto of the USA will eventually become: "Tariffed into mediocrity"

Sort of veering off-topic, but if one buys Costco gas with a Costco branded credit card, there is an additional 5% "back", which is effectively a 5% discount off of the Costco price. Assuming one would have already paid the membership for other reasons/purchases, this makes the price probably more competitive than the nominal 5 cents difference on the sign. As for lines, staying away on weekends and evenings usually lets one avoid them. As always, YMMV.

Just for context, when its predecessor RIPA, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, came in it was said to be used only for cases such as terrorism etc.. Instead, it was found that councils started using to check people were putting things in the right rubbish bins for collection.

Robust safeguards indeed.