This migration is not new. It's been happening for many years already.

KylinOS is not completely unrelated to Ubuntu Kylin...

Meanwhile I also own a Tesla, and am using a CarPlay adapter with it. Maps is better, particularly lane guidance and actually telling me which motorway junction number I'm coming off at. I can share an ETA with my contacts. I can listen to subscriber-only (paid) Podcasts. I can use WhatsApp (via voice of course), something sadly essential in the UK as the vast majority use that. I can listen to audiobooks from other than Audible. I can use the BBC Sounds app. I can...

You get the idea. I agree with you about integration - the time I will use the built-in map is if I'm on a longer journey that needs charging on the way, or if the journey is so short that none of the above really matters.

Personally I hope the rumours about CarPlay integration being worked on by Tesla are true, although I'd be surprised I must admit. But for me - works well.

Gong bao ji ding, don't you know ðYZ

I'd guess, but stressing guess and agree would need to be studied, that your bias would be correct. I'm not necessarily a fan of the every single person's study plan is different school of thought, and think there's a lot to be gained from structure.

On the socialising I'm not quite so sure though - it's definitely changed the nature of it though. My 'kids' (now all adults, youngest about to enter final year of university) socialising all the time on-line. Voice chats with friends, Discord is how they organise meeting up etc.. They've also all three kept a healthy in-person socialisation side too, which is the part I was initially worried by when I saw this panning out over several years. I think that last bit is key - if you can balance both, then you get the benefits of going out with your friends with also the benefits of having a wider geographical friend base and the ability to stay in touch more easily.

Perhaps read the actual comment? I am agreeing with the study - quoted directly: ""The findings suggest that screen time can support children's and adolescents' cognitive processing. Presumably, the essential point here is what kind of things they do in their screen time. Teachers and parents should encourage children to use devices and screens in such ways that promote active thinking, problem-solving, creativity and learning," states Doctoral Researcher Petri Jalanko from the University of Jyvaskyla.".

Yes, it's nice to see a study backing it of course but this has been intuitively obvious for a while. The "screen time is killing our kids!" crowd is just the latest generational re-incarnation of the "computer games are killing our kids" from the 1980s, or "Dungeons and Dragons is killing our kids!" from the late 70s through the 80s, "TV is killing our kids!"...right back to Socrates moaning about writing. Just another moral panic.

Since we're in 80s mode, let's quote The Karate Kid: "concentrate on quality of what you know, not quantity". It's the nature of the screen time that's important, not necessarily the raw bulk. Are you interacting with people online, are you reading stuff? Are you watching some videos where you learn some things as well as just the latest cat videos or TikTok dance? In short, are you using the screen as a portal to the generalities of life instead of just watching brainrot all day every day?

I suspect knowing that will be key to whether the screen time is hurting or helping. And as ever, a balance is required. 100% screen and no in-person interactions is obviously harmful, provably so thanks to the pandemic providing us with data here. I'd also posit that 100% outside and in-person will be good, but not as rounded as a decent mix between the two since you gain access to different experiences online.

You can't tell if entangled particles have been observed, or not?

It doesn't have to be. China doesn't much care if the USA is successful or not; only that China isn't held back, which seems to be the USA's MO of late.

Perhaps the USA and China can cooperate.

Lol, I know, I know. The USA is too proud/arrogant/ignorant for that.

Still, it would be nice to see.

There's nothing much to say that China won't share either. China is not the USA. The USA keeps looking in the mirror and thinking it is seeing China.

Perhaps they were forced into doing more than they might have done, by the USA deciding not to share...

It seems to be a pattern. The USA tries to keep China down by raising fences/denying it technology/etc/etc, and China adjusts its priorities accordingly, and overcomes the problems and continues to advance.

I'd successfully de-Googled myself some time ago, but have grown to rely on Microsoft Copilot for helping me with life issues. That still requires a VPN, and Copilot uses the evil Cloudflare to check I'm human which is exceedingly over-zealous for VPN users. So, I need to move off yet another US company's service because I want (geographic) freedom. I've attempted to switch to Kimi, but it's slower and the paid service is wait listed. It's also a real pita to move existing chats/issues from one AI to another (bridge documents)...in kimi, it abruptly stops chats when they get too long (an auto-generated bridge document would be useful there).

I wish there was a Personal Assistant app that would manage all this "abruptly ending chat" and "losing memory" pain, by storing a continuous bridge document locally, along with all the files you've uploaded for analysis. There seem to be some similar apps, but nothing exactly like I am having to do manually.

That's not what is happening here. One party no longer exists, and rget are suing that company's hosting service who, rightly (imo), is not providing access to the data without a court order. Once they get the court order, they're (presumably) off the hook.

Just for context, when its predecessor RIPA, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, came in it was said to be used only for cases such as terrorism etc.. Instead, it was found that councils started using to check people were putting things in the right rubbish bins for collection.

Robust safeguards indeed.

Some, maybe, but I think the point is that it doesn't bias students one way or another....of course, they all run web browsers, so, yeah...doesn't matter really.