Bezos suffers Projectile Dysfunction.

I did the same. Roku is extremely chatty. It's easily the most chatty device in our home (thousands of connections per device outbound to their telemetry per day). It didn't take much time to block everything and then gradually figuring out which was absolutely needed for the level of functionality I wanted. Everything else gets dropped on the floor. Roku gets "desperate" and demon dials home base when you block connectivity to the data harvesters. Luckily only the small raspberry pi needs to be involved to squelch the noise.

raspberry pi 4 + argon case with M.2 SSD + ubuntu/debian + pihole

The whole thing took maybe 45 to setup and then another 45-60 mins of trial and error to shutdown the unwanted connections. Every device in our home uses it for DNS resolution so all the "smart devices" can be squelched from one place. It works very well for me. YMMV

Is that a serious question? Even in the late '70s when dinosaurs roamed the earth, the kids were dealing with the technology the parents didn't understand. While that is starting to be inverted (GenX and Millennials seemed to be peak tech-able), many parents still rely on the kids for that sort of thing.

Teens in particular are naturally shifted to later sleep and waking. Thinking back, I don't have much memory at all of high school before 2nd period. Not surprising, I was on my feet but still practically sleeping.

It was mostly people in northern states in the darkest days of winter.

I was in 2nd grade in the southern U.S. the year Nixon had us stay on DST for a while. My friends and I really enjoyed the change. It was dark(-ish) when we walked to the bus stop, but we got to take flashlights to school (much more exciting when you're 7 years old!).

You missed the key word "usable" Daylight hours while people are stuck in a dingy cubicle are not usable. Daylight hours after work are.

Except they keep blowing past school busses with the stop sign out and arranging caravans in residential neighborhoods.

They're called AI, but in Arizona, there is a law that if you drive into water you will be billed for your rescue. It's known as the "stupid driver law".

So apparently the Waymo is driven by Artificial Stupidity.

An air campaign with very little risk to the attacking forces could leave Iran's infrastructure and oil production almost completely destroyed in a matter of days. They'll still not have nukes and won't have any capacity to recover any semblance of a normal life for their citizens for many years to come and they'll have no means to rebuild other than continuing to sell oil to the Chinese at a discount, assuming they could meaningfully re-hydrate their extraction capabilities. Even if China showered them with cash it would take many years to recover. Any attempt to return to mischief would be met with additional force. Slicing through Chinese and Russian sourced air defence systems didn't appear to be much of an impediment.

...continues to be its own reward.

I don't miss it at all.

These are purpose built single occupant DCs. It doesn't get any stickier than that. Google doesn't even visit their DCs when a server fails. They just power it off remotely and power up a warm spare.

Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.

Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.

Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.

That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.

How many data centers in your immediate area? Are they the modern high density data centers with thousands of GPU units per rack or the old school 4U's in a rack supporting a few websites kind of data center?

As for employment, when is the last time you saw a data center that was bustling with human activity once construction and move-in was finished?