They realized their mistake and corrected it. Now, they're not telling people about the forced 15-minute wait, they're just quietly implementing it.

Yet another reason for games to NOT require a network login while launching...

Case in point; right now, Facebook is labeling any posts about Linux as a cybersecurity threat according to DistroWatch. Sure, we can trust the large companies to "do the right thing..." I mean, there's precedent.

Thank you, AI. Let's see how long this new "truth" hangs around.

Best I can figure, "2.4, 5, and 6GHz" somehow got translated to "2, 4, 5, and 6GHz." Please correct me if 4GHz is a band used internationally that I'm not familiar with, but everything I'm seeing says there are only three bands, the lowest of is known as 2.4GHz, not 2GHz, and there is no 4GHz spectrum allocated for WiFi.

The 4-band models out there generally have two 5GHz radios, one of which is dedicated to the backhaul/mesh network.

As much as is possible, before I buy a piece of consumer network gear, I first determine if I can install OpenWRT on it. Doing so means I may forego the latest tech, but it means the service life is much more likely to extend beyond the OEM's support cycle.

My Nighthawk X4S R7800 (AC2600) was released in 2016 and is running OpenWRT 23.5. It is plenty fast enough for now, and even has a SATA port so could be a light-duty NAS when connected to a suitable external enclosure.

Having worked at a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, specifically on the CALEA subsystem testing team, let me say that I'm just shocked that a system designed for lawful intercept would ever be used for nefarious purposes. Shocked, I tell you. Nobody could ever anticipate something like this happening.

(for the emo-divergent, I should point out that the above statement is positively dripping with sarcasm.)

Assuming the NSA is going to share their fiber? I doubt it.

But it's a nice day and I'm traveling at 65mph with the top down in my convertible. You want me to pull over just so I can tell the car to adjust the passenger side mirror?

Agreed. Buttons and knobs are to voice controls as CLI is to GUI. When you use it (or drive in it) every day, the CLI is faster.

And why should their jobs be protected if a robot can do it? I mean, sewing machines are part and parcel of today's standard of living. Imagine a world where the seamstress union was able to successfully ban them and shirts cost 4 times what they do now because everything had to be hand sewn.

Automation is always viewed as an evil by the class of workers it's replacing, but it is inevitably a net positive for the world as a whole, as the price of goods drop and production increases. The class of workers that become redundant experience some pain, of course, but all that excess labor eventually finds its way to other fields to contribute in other ways.

I think you mean uncontrollable.

I'll play your game, you rogue! --SNL

I'm hoping this means Rust is past the Peak of Inflated Expectations and is now entering the Trough of Disillusionment. I'm sick of every 5th HN article being about how somebody did something in Rust.

Willful ignorance. And some sort of psychosis or psychopathy.

Anything that drives down salaries looks good to the CxOs. Telling all their developers they're likely to be replaced by AI would do that, since few people with marketable skills would stick around.

Guess I'll have to avoid all Disney properties then, since I had a Disney+ subscription once... Darn.