This.

Nintendo hasn't suddenly gained an interest in preserving history, they've realised they can sell you the same game over and over again for each different platform.

Also ROMs are technically not illegal already. We really need to stop using the term "illegal" for things certain people don't like.

AI lets any cretin who can click a mouse shit out a social media app in 5 minutes.

With pay, mainly it's because employers don't want current employees to know how much they're being underpaid. British people, unlike Americans consider it vulgar to talk about money and employers love this as their peons won't find out that everyone is being paid less than Jeff.

Employers are still going to try to be bellends about it though. Often I've heard recruiters bemoan that it's hard to find good candidates, I've asked them "did you even put the pay on the job ad" and they said "why would we ever do that" oblivious to the fact anyone who knows what they're worth isn't applying to a job ad with no salary range... even after you tell them that's exactly what's happening.

That's insane money for a screensaver. And even more so today in the age of AI, when a monkey with a keyboard can ask AI to create the same thing in minutes.

Historically, POTUS has not brazenly done things that are known to be grossly illegal. For that reason, he was mostly unable to achieve his objectives unless they had either the tacit approval of Congress, or were legal. That was why he became powerless.
Trump is different. He simply tells his cronies to take actions (optionally supported by improper executive orders when convenient) and waits for people to try to stop him. Even during his first term, he
(i) completely ignored Congressional subpoenas,
(ii) relied on the Republican minority in the Senate to protect him from impeachment proceedings, and
(iii) delayed court cases until final Supreme Court decisions that (following Mitch McConnell's shenanigans) have a built-in Republican majority that could not be relied upon to curb Trump's power.
The situation now is much worse, as the DOJ has lost its independence and Trump has ensured a military leadership that is likely to follow illegal orders should Trump see fit to issue them.

Those who believe a Democrat Congress (or the courts) will be able to significantly derail Trump agenda are naive. Trump ignores norms, and even laws. Trump's ballroom project is an instructive lesson on how we can expect him to act. He will use executive orders and covert operations to initiate actions which will be challenged in the court and investigated by Congress. The Congressional investigations will be endless, involving ignored subpoenas and Republican obstruction. Actions in court will take a year or more. By the time there are decisions by the Supreme Court or Congressional votes (which Trump may or may not obey) there will usually be irreversible faits accomplis.

Indeed, while true that Trump could shoot someone on the street (or attempt a coup) and his supporters would still rally around him, it becomes a different matter when Trump costs them real money.

How much has your government money grown in that time?

I remember this from the Western Australia DST trial, Linux was easy, if there wasn't a patch you could edit the TZ file (cant remember exactly what it was called). MS had a patch for Windows, the problem child was OSX which didn't issue a patch until DST was over. We had to set those to Osaka time to get them to connect to the network. One of the many reasons I have expunged any record of Mac support or knowledge from my resume (and drink heavily to forget).

Yep, and with the amount of WiFi access points doubling as mobile phone repeaters these days it'll be relatively easy to get access to a network by making a deal with telephony providers. No need to hope for an unsecured network.

The same thing that makes me think Tesla can build a car that lasts... they won't because they don't have to.

Once the statutory warranty period is up, they couldn't care less what happens.

With ICE cars, making one last 20 years and a million miles was about care, mechanical sympathy and preventative maintenance. You give the best manufactured Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla to someone who doesn't give a shit, only replaces the tyres when they fail MOT (with the cheapest possible Ditchfinders), ignores warning lights let alone more subtle signs like odd noises, vibrations and smells, et al. and they'll still kill it within 5 years or 100,000 miles.

You know, the kind of people who only clear the tank drivers slit when their windscreen is iced over.

That's who manufacturers target.

They were slop during the Jobs era... it's just taken some people this long to realise it.

Jobs was insanely good at selling sub-par things.

Boom Supersonic was always a scam to get investor cash.

The fundamental problems of supersonic air travel remain the same as they were when Concorde first took flight. I wasn't the crash that killed the Concorde but economics. Only 20 airframes were ever built, only 14 of them production airframes. The last one was built in 1979 and last flew in 2003 when the type was retired (the accident of AF4590 was in 2000, so they kept flying for 3 years afterwards) which meant the youngest airframe was 23 years old at time of retirement. With no new airframes they were going to be phased out at some point.

The problems the Concorde suffered was very high operational costs and a relatively short range. They were so expensive to run that a huge premium needed to be paid for every seat just to cover the running costs and had a range of only 4,500 miles which given the FCCs restrictions on commercial supersonic flights limited them to Atlantic routes only (pretty much only London/Paris to New York). To fly further they needed to do fuel stops which ate into the time saving from supersonic flights.

Supersonic aircraft are just as inefficient as they were back in the 70s and just as expensive to build. So the same economics that killed Concorde 20 years ago are there to kill Boom today. I think investors are finally realising this so Boom has moved onto a new scam.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

Oh you're serious.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... wheeze...

There is far too much money involved here. They won't just pull the plug because they'll have to pay a little tax. Hell, if they weren't so hell bent on avoid tax in the first place by using various overseas tax havens this kind of thing wouldn't even need to be considered. Seeing as they can hide their profits that easily by just shifting it to a tax friendly regime, taxing them at the point of use becomes the best method even if it's more expensive and less efficient (but they can only blame themselves for it).

Yep, it's just a few people stuck in a luddite past where they have to adjust a clock twice a year and whinge bitterly about it.

Whether DST is useful depends on latitude, up here in the cold north the difference between summer and winter is 8 hours of daylight and that's for Southern England, in Scotland it's worse. For somewhere like Spain where there's considerably less difference it's not as much of a problem.

In the UK, with DST the hours of daylight in June are 4 AM to 11 PM (the UK does not have a night in the two weeks of midsummer, it gets dark but still technically twilight) whilst in December it's 8 AM to 4 PM. So if we adopted permanent GMT the sun would rise at 3 AM in summer (when everyone is still asleep) or if we adopted permanent BST (GMT+1) the sun wouldn't rise until 9 AM in winter (meaning you'd be going to and from work in the dark, not just home from work in the dark).

Given the prevalence of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in the UK, if the working stiffs never got to see any sunlight in the winter months it would be detrimental.

Also, now we're in the 21st century, most clocks can adjust themselves and having to change the one manual clock in my life twice a year means that it rarely drifts more than a few minutes from the ones connected to a time server (one year I was lazy and just left it as I've the minimal intelligence required to subtract one hour to get the actual time and it had drifted over 10 minutes from other clocks by next summer).

If we or the US got rid of daylight savings, I guarantee you that the same people complaining about changing the clocks will be complaining that the sun is up too early or too late by the next summer/winter.