Those "271 zero days" in Firefox turned into 3 in in the patch-notes and only one was "high" severity. There is a lot of lying in the LLM field.

Well, an LTS kernel only lives so long and that is a problem. Maybe they should so a sort-of extreme LTS that gets security patches for 20 years and then drop all the old drivers from newer kernels.

"such a wide ranging benefit for all other sectors of the economy"

Um, the economy should pay the fair share - as in real cost.

If USPS cannot deliver this 'wide ranging benefit' at an acceptable cost, it cannot deliver, and alternatives would be proper to pursue.

Returning to pre 70s status is acceptable to me.

FWIW, you are discussing this with a MAGA-style Conservative. As you excoriate 'Republicans' for not caring, do you tolerate the Democrat response to throw good money after bad? As I self-identify, I prefer to solve root causes. USPS needs both a reformation of mission and reformation of operation.

A side note, lumping me in with Establishment Republicans is an error. I am not like them any more. And I am not alone.

USPS needs to adapt to the market. Either function within budget limitations or raise revenue needed, or stop failing.

Do I 'care' about USPS? The same way I care about the military etc. I think a national postal service is a legitimate exercise of governmental power, a necessary and useful servicer to citizens and enterprises, and should operate at a break-even funding level, users (customers) paying reasonably for the service. When government relies on USPS for functions such as sending or receiving payments, information, or requests, it should pay for that as a service. One example is perhaps USPS identifying the real cost of first class delivery and starting with Congress, requiring franking to pay that real cost, no internal subsidy. Other agencies likewise.

Reform, not more of the same.

Those were the days...

Yeah. Are most other governments unionized?

I bet your attorney is a member of the state bar. And enjoys the privilege of limited competition by denying to those who did not play the game access to practice law, and in some instances, even represent themselves at law.

Your mechanic, however, completes in a market where there is no barrier to entry other than tools, equipment, facilities, access to vital information (at a price), and knowledge/skills/abilities. Training is not essential, however desirable and helpful it must be.

Your attorney is part of a cartel, however useful and productive that may be. They don't even have to serve you terribly well. Your mechanic will try harder, they have to. And if you think attorneys are somehow practicing a trade more important than all others save doctors, well, maybe. Maybe.

Being able to have a wide variety of items delivered, overnight, that I would previously had to visit more than one local store to find in stock isn't 'new' to you?

You're excused for apparently being too young to remember pre-Amazon. Amazon was and is a new thing. Your disdain for all things corporate might be showing...

Subsidizing the USPS isn't 'reform'. It's the status quo.

Certainly would be a lot easier to fund pensions after the retirees die. What I mean by that is to not fund them at all l..

That's a model used in many other industries, with predictable results. Given a choice, I support the current system. Now to see if the USPS lasts another 75 years before it's privatized so the pension fund can be raided to the benefit of the lucky few who win that lottery.

Thanks for delivering evidence for my claim. Also thanks for demonstrating the LLM cult members have no reasoning capability left.

As an added information, because you do not seem to habe noticed, Slashdot does not support UTF8. You probably do not understand what that means though.

You are overlooking what is used in the industrial field.

Indeed. My firewall / fileserver is on an 18 year old Phenom II 4-core with 32GB RAM and there is no need to replace it. The only thing that broke about 8 years ago was the PSU. Replaced that and it is good fore the foreseeable future.

Then you do not understand how long some industrial equipment runs. "Older kernel" is only a solution if it gets maintenance. You do want that MRI machine taking your pictures to run on a maintained kernel, do you?

Indeed. I had one and I was quite satisfied with it. No idea why they feel the need to portray it as a near-failure.