Oddly you don't mention the name of the retailer. My guess is it was the cheapest product you could find from someone half way around the planet, this is why trusted sources are called trusted sources. Don't buy from third party marketplaces either if you plan to actually get a reliable product from someone that is willing to support the product after sale.

My SSDs are all Crucial because it is basically direct from the manufacturer, now Micron is dropping it's Crucial brand altogether so this sucks.

Your mouse is broken, correctly working scroll wheels have a strong enough spring as to not be accidentally clicked.

But the problem with that is they want to throw out many things that make X11 great; middle click paste is one of those features.

Learn to click or stop using a three button mouse - don't quietly rip out features because you don't like it. This will go from off-by-default to just-gone in a few releases. It will be just-gone because nobody used it because it was off-by-default.

Way too much attention is needed to use them while moving, at some point I hope they require the touch screen to be locked out from use when a car is in motion. Distracted driving is illegal in most states, touch screen have to be arguably one of the biggest distractions and it is included with every car.

Many hybrids today use a planetary gear set, which drops all the complexity of an automatic transmission and is much more reliable. That old argument against hybrids of being more complex is dead. There is still the HV battery and electric motor(s) adding a bit of weight, can't ignore that I guess.

You do realize that EREV is just a version of the serial hybrid? Those already exist, and no, they don't cost less than other hybrids, usually because the EREV you are thinking of is just a range extender, so it has limited ICE output but a much larger battery than the simple hybrid. EREV is the solution to EV range by tacking a motor onto an EV and it's big heavy battery. Mostly so EV trucks can finally claim a usable range when towing.

I still keep my mail locally, using POP3 via fetchmail. Mostly I'm just too lazy to update fetchmail settings to use IMAP retrieval, if it can even do that. For unimportant gmail stuff I just use browser access and let them store it since those accounts are for mostly junk use and - they dropped POP3 support for fetching a few years ago.

Then they will use it to become rich. Yes, the patent system sucks because it has mostly lost the idea of 'prior art.'

I suspect most phone turnover is from the Carriers' "Free iPhone on us" scam. It's not free, you just lease it without knowing. I thought those kind of crooked phone payment plans were outlawed a while back, but I guess not.

Basically if it's digital it shouldn't be trusted. Analog is only slightly better. And faked photos have always been a thing. The real problem is people actually trusting content on the internet.

Trust must be earned, and people don't seem bother with that when they are on the internet.

Why would you do the work from home crowd so dirty like that? sharing is caring.

RealID was created so that the per-state IDs can also be used as a single government ID anywhere.

To qualify for RealID your local state also must review and see a valid proof of your identity other than the previously state issued photo ID (I guess some states were lax on this previously). basically your birth certificate, social security card, and proof of residence within the state (electric bill, property tax bill, etc.).

Citizenship was never even mentioned, just that the id would be needed in the future to enter a federal building or air travel.

And soon there are another 100 extensions that do the same thing under a new name... It's worse than wack-a-mole. But hey, this anonymous internet is working out great!

No, that's just the average - I'd say about half get less than that.

-maths

..with Ctrl+G: Chrome gives me 28 hits, yet not a one seems to be in the actual article text on the page. Something going extremely wrong or extremely suspicious.

No, you can't be playing games all day, chatting, or doom-scrolling when you are in class - common sense. The little Apple girl just raised her hand and asked 'what is common sense?'