Every state is going to write different laws. Define an interface for "state mandated user metadata" and put this back on the states to provide their implementations of this interface. It is a mistake to create anything that hints at what you think might be compliant. The state should be providing the code that satisfies this law and all of the deployment infrastructure required to get this code into the operating system publishing streams that they want to intervene in. There is still the giant disconnect between the OS and the browser that they will have to work through next. No current browser provides APIs for operating system user metadata ,,, AND THIS IS BY DESIGN, This is a deliberate privacy and security constraint enforced across all major browsers. The state is essentially mandating the piercing of this security veil ... or they will as soon as they figure out that having the OS aware of the user's age does nothing for their intended use cases.

They lost me at handsome dwarves and some elf having a crush on one.

we got my dad a 65" one last Christmas, it seems normal. Didn't make us connect to the internet, we just use a roku on the back to watch any streaming. It does occasionally try to get you to give it an internet connection, but this only happens when you're looking through the various background settings.

We've just kept it dumb and it's been fine.

In the 1980's one of the things that came out of the changes Demming brought to the U.S. auto industry under the quality improvement efforts at that time was a reduction in part count. Back then, dealers made all of their money at the time of the car sale. Today cars are sold at little to negative profit so that the dealers can make money in many other irritating ways. So, your car has a different board for controlling the passenger window on the left and right and crazy unnecessarily different parts like that. The goal is to make it not profitable for an aftermarket vendor like AutoZone to carry all of these part and thereby create a dealership monopoly. They also change these parts across model years to further fragment the market. My wife's car has 5 circuit boards scattered around her tailgate that are all related to the opening and closing of the tailgate.

Oooh, look at the big wallet on Brad...

Really? DSL? sigh.

It's also a really short jump for the average user to ask AI a simple question: "What is the best way to cook linguine", for example, and receive a good answer. They then extrapolate that it can handle much more involved tasks because to them knowing how to cook linguine correctly is far more difficult than manually doing some task online.
They easily discount their own agency and skill.

Oh god, the old "You're not really left, THIS is really left" adage we always see. But you did manage to work Donald Trump into the death of a random celebrity, so bonus points for that.

Their insane current focus on "branding" over U/X is a perfect example of "deep organizational dysfunction". The people in charge are focused on the wrong things and it shows. The "Windows App" which is their replacement for Remote Desktop ... which was their replacement for Remote Desktop :/ (yes there are 2) is a perfect example of this insanity.

He's going for slavery once more?

Frankly, if subsidized devices cannot stand without the subsidies, then it's just market distortion. You may as well sell plastic lemons with a large $1000 federal subsidy and declare they're the wave of the future because everyone is buying them.

If Chinese buyers really are looking for cars based on software features as opposed to cabin space and fuel economy, then they're much more stupid then I gave them credit for.

However, he will shortly be informed that his retirement will require a monthly subscription, and failure to pay will mean coming back into the office.

Nah, I'd expect them to post AC on an old tech site.

You understand using terms like "Trumpistani" makes you sound like an old man screaming at kids on his lawn, right?