This reminds me of two modems negotiating the fasted protocol both support.

The warrant would need particularized suspicion and probable cause, but this was a fishing expedition. And the business record exception is a joke.

It would be so easy to safeguard this with a switch that's a hardware disconnect for the mic, but I'll bet that won't be included.

You seem to be ignoring the fact that the "purchaser" already bought a license to listen to the songs, which is the lion's share of the cost of physical media. Content Shifting from one physical media format to another, for personal use, is already protected under Fair Use, though companies try to block that with DRM.

For what you write to make sense, the music companies would have had to give a steep discount on purchasing a different format, because the individual already owned a license for in-home use. There is no reason but greed to charge a person three times for something they already bought a license for.

You used to see this with software where once you bought a license, you could buy replacement physical media for a nominal fee. It was the license that counted.
The one time I bought a CD on Amazon years ago, I was immediately given access to all of the mp3's on the CD, proving that it's possible to do this in a cost effective manner and the main thing was the license.

Their books are shit-tier.

For most things, 8K isn't useful but would use 4x the bandwidth of 4K. Most of the stuff I watch via streaming, if advertised as 4K, is so compressed that it's about the quality of good 1080 uncompressed.

If you're shooting a feature film, by all means shoot in 8k so you can crop as necessary, but for home use, I wouldn't want 8k unless I had a 20 ft screen or larger.

I'm also GenX. The thing is, advertising works. Even for people who think they are "immune" to advertising. It's a multi-billion dollar industry for a reason. It effects our thought processes and purchasing decisions. It's really just propaganda with a commercial end. It skews your perception of what's normal and what you ought to have and wear.

The point is that adblocking saves you more money than you can imagine.

By law, as a publicly traded corporation, shareholder profits are the top priority.

My work has some level of adblocking at the firewall as a security measure. Malware has come in through 3rd party ads, so this is reasonable. There's no way end-users can disable it (outside a VPN).

You're absolutely right. The previous system was to just hand out obscene power and wealth to your inbred children, who could kill people with impunity. However bad our current system is, it appears to be an improvement over the previous system.

If you have many local accounts, like on lab computers where we can have over 100 accounts, the OneDrive bloatware ends up consuming a significant amount of disk space, and impacts startup times, even when zero people use it. Bloatware is killing Windows.

Make it illegal to pay ransomware and set the fine at 3x any ransom paid. If companies want to pay, it will really cost them. Basically treble damages to the government for paying the ransom.

Many sites allow me to register multiple yubikeys. I keep one on my key chain, one at home and one at work.

People switch to Chrome because it's familiar and Google is the default search engine in Chrome.

Not being able to switch the search engine 100% in Windows is also an anti-trust violation.

I found that the most "practical, job oriented" classes I took quickly became outdated, such as DB management in Paradox. While the most useful class I took, Logic, was taught by the philosophy department. The classics are still the classics, but Paradox is long gone.