The law changed (in the UK) a few years ago to make audio and visual aids for disabled users compulsory on service buses. These screens are distracting for the driver and used for promotions when not actively displaying the next stop information. Bright screens usually face the front of the vehicle so the rear facing wheelchair user can see them. The massive curved screen the driver is trying to see through is transparent during the day, but when the outside light level drops, the rectangle of high illumination reflects, flicks through pages of ads, and makes attention to the road ahead partial. Source: the buses I drive on rail replacement regularly, and which are used for regular services by my colleagues.

I do (I run Arch btw). I get that there's a learning curve to installing non-Buntu Linuxen, but are people so strapped for time/resources that they can't spin up a VM and see how it goes once or twice to learn a process which makes life better in most ways (WRT OS's)? SystemD is distasteful, but who am I to argue with the Arch gods? If it was that big a thing I could install SysV Init, couldn't I? All this drama over AI and the other things makes me wonder why even us educated geeks miss out on the fun of learning the alternatives.

I have disposable income, and I like (some) movies. Deadpool 3 (for instance) was so good I'd happily have paid to watch it in a cinema. I waited for a terrible CAM/TS because of the intolerable interruptions from other patrons; had I decided to go a cinema to see it I'd have gone in at least twenty minutes late to avoid the forced advertising. This industry obviously does not want my business. This industry will not listen to their customers. Unskippable copyright warnings and trailers are pushing me onto the piracy boat instead of buying DVD's. Give me a physical medium with a file on, extras and subs, nice packaging, and charge me appropriately for it. Don't rent me a copy that can be cancelled at any time after I've paid for it.

Brings this to mind: https://www.socratic-method.co...

As an Apple-hater I totally agree with your sentiment, but right now I'm posting this from Firefox on Arch Linux on a MacBook Pro.

Difficult to agree with the content of your post is with this fact to hand.

I have a couple of PinePhones, a Pixel with GrapheneOS, my daily driver is a OnePlus 7 series with LineageOS on it, just for the topic.

My solution is magnetic dongles. They work on most things, and where they don't I just use a straight cable carefully. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EuKA...

Supporting SONY is a case of "no sympathy" because of their stance on DRM, locking their hardware down even after you've bought it off them, and the other million reasons this company should FOAD.

There are very few companies to buy from in good conscience, in fairness to your purchasing decisions.

My thesaurus says the word you're looking for is "ironic".

Why not just reverse the polarity of the wires going to the wind turbines?

Same thing everywhere.

People are too dishonest to share fairly.

It's always going to be the case, as it's human nature.
Look at the 1% of the world who own 99% of the wealth.

Until we can do something about that, nothing in life will ever be fair.

Accepting that is the road to happiness, and you have to walk it, not borrow someone else's bike.

I do.

Over here in little old Blighty we have a scourge on our streets called "UBER".
They take a guy who sits in an office all day and incentivise him to go to a city he's never even visited before and move people, and their children around on unfamiliar streets, whilst watching a SatNav, for money. They give him 75% of the money he charges, but they make up for it by charging 400-700% of what a proper cab would charge.

These guys drive up one-way streets the wrong way, then claim racial harrassment when you tell them, politely or otherwise, that they're going the wrong way, they sit on ranks made for black cabs which if they were proper drivers, they would know the law of the land forbids them from even stopping on, they go the LONG way round because they haven't got a clue other than GOOG maps and THAT takes you round the houses in clear contravention of the cab law in the UK ...

Sending in videos of these guys being idiots shows them we won't sit back and take their dangerous stupidity lying down.
They will be punished for their ignorance.

If these presumably lovely guys (and gals) knew the area, the roads, the shortest routes, and stuck to the law, they wouldn't be getting fines.

So yes, this is a great way to improve the safety of our roads. I'm all for that, as you can imagine.

Can we have this for GOOG's map stuff?

As a professional driver (at night!) I would really like there to be a night mode at the touch of a button, rather than just when it's deemed by GOOG to be permissible to have the map dark and navigation is actively turned on.

Honestly, it's not like grey pixels cost more than white ones!

Don't you get it yet?

Anything you post on the Internets is available to the whole world.

Your government, their enemies, your ex, their PI, your friends, your children, you mother, your future self ... Once you type or photograph it with a live Interwebs connection; it's public forever.

Anyone who doesn't understand this is in need of a serious lesson in how the world works.

Over here in the UK we have gangs of UBER drivers sitting around waiting for the surge to kick in.
Then they go on the app and do some work.

We even have a name for it: "Riding the surge" because it happens all over the country.

When they're cheap, it's Predatory Pricing, when they're surging it's a rip off.
Better to just call a proper cab and get a fixed rate every time. They all have apps now and take card payments.
UBER offer nothing new or innovative. They're just ripping drivers, passengers, and VC's off at every given turn.

There's no such thing as a flight for 50p!