I haven’t had cable or satellite for about 15 years now. I’d never go back. I do subscribe to some streaming services, but outside of watching sports, linear tv is dead to me. And has been for a long time. I only subscribed to cable or satellite for so long because of sports. Before legal streaming sports options were available, once bandwidth was high enough where I lived told them to suck it and I’d just watch pirate feeds online. i would have paid sooner if they would have let me. But I was fed up paying for 120+ channels I have no interest in watching for the 6 or 7 I did want to watch.

I haven’t watched commercial interrupted linear tv, save perhaps in a waiting room, for scripted programming since around 2004. And I like scripted dramas and comedies. Just not on someone else’s schedule, and certainly not with commercial interruptions. At least with sports, nothing is going on during the commercials.

I hope the Mars portion is just as successful. It will be good to provide Space X with some completion. Even better that the competition is another domestic company.

I want a watch, or maybe even a ring, I can take off and set down that projects a screen or 3d hologram and virtual keyboard. I predicted the smartphone when I got my first mp3 player (creative) in the 90s and was also lugging around a Nokia candybar, and palm pilot. I was so satisfied my prediction came true, I then predicted that watch or ring. I’ve been equally disappointed it’s never been made or released. And never had the venture capital hire people or technical ability to make it myself

There are pico projectors and laser keyboards. There are virtual hand tracking keyboard/mice now too. The processors are just about finally there. Maybe one day. But it seems the people with the money are going the route of AR glasses. So maybe that will be the way it goes. But I still think it would be cool to have a pico projectors or three image you could watch with other people. Who didn’t also have the tech on them.

As long as I’m dreaming, It would also nice to be able to dock such a watch Mr ring c to a multi monitor and Bluetooth keyboards and mouse set up like I can with my MacBook Pro.

Clearly.

Fortunately there is an easy fix. Education. Never click on links from any email you receive unless you just initiated the link being sent to you. Go to the businesses actual website, log in from there. If it’s legit you’ll very likely see what it was talking about upon login or after a brief search through the sites menus.

Unfortunately for many people, they are too lazy, ignorant, and/or refuse to take basic and easy precautions. And yes, some people are just dumb on their best days. That’s why things like this work if you send such scams to enough people.

It is exceedingly simple to install non apple vetted software on a Mac. They throw out a bunch of scary sounding warnings, but that is about it. As far as the rest of it there are people who give out their banking information and social security numbers to strangers who text or call them over the phone. If not the scammers wouldn’t be flooding people’s phones with the bs. You are right that people like that will be more susceptible to such things. However, the any I see it, it’s kind of like parents who home school their kids because there are jerks, liars, and bullies in schools with other children. What are those kinds going to do when they invariably encounter bullies, liars, and bullies once they leave the nest? It’s better to learn how to deal with the bad actors out there than to expect a cocoon to save and protect you.

Except the quality of public schools vary wildly depending on your zip code and boundaries.

They are generally the funded by property taxes. So the richer the neighborhood the nicer the public schools. And the poorer neighborhoods have the schools you have assumed exist everywhere. The unfortunate irony being that as a public service the poor probably need access to better schools more than the wealthy. Add to the fact there tends to be less enrollment pressure in wealthy areas because some wealthy people will send their kids to private schools anyway and the wealthy tend to have less kids than the poor. Though the exceedingly wealthy tend to have more than both the merely well off and the poor.

If a billionaire lives in an actual neighborhood instead of an island, that place most certainly has top notch public schools. That is unless you are in a big city instead of the suburbs. It's why people who can afford it usually leave downtown, or the city entirely, for the suburbs once we have kids. Big US cities usually have high property taxes and high property values for safer areas coupled with poor public schools once you reach high school. Which results in cities comprised mostly of rich families who send their kids to private schools, poor families who send their kids to bad public schools, and middle class childless adults.

My property taxes are not any lower in my train attached walkable suburb than they would be in the city. However, the public schools here are some of the best in the state. With test scores comparable to the best private schools even though they have to accept everyone while the private schools can kick people out who underperform. Which makes them some of the best in the country.

So no not all public schools are bad. Though to get access to the good public schools you often have to have parents who made good life choices (and had the opportunity to make those choices) or were born with a silver spoon. In the USA if you live in a major metro area it is better to live in a shoebox in a nice area than a palace in the ghetto. Or you could live in a mid size city or small town somewhere and not have to compete so hard for resources (and not have access to as many resources as a result).

So what they are saying is that we need a world war to decimate all our international competitors. But it needs to be started by someone else so that the USA isn't the bad guy, we need to wait from them to pummel each other for a few years before getting involved while remaining unscathed. Then our companies will be welcomed once more across the planet to rebuild other countries' destroyed cites.

Seems like the plot of a derange sci-fi novel.

Is that why most computers, including Macs, are infected with malware and surveillance software....oh right. They aren't.

Sure there are plenty of people who install whatever from whoever. And there are people who will try to trick other people into installing sketchy things. However, there is nothing preventing people from just sticking to the App Store or major companies if they are afraid of or unable to discern the difference. If fact I think it is safe to assume the most basic and novice users will likely never venture from Apples curated garden. The people you will have to worry about the teenagers and twenty year olds with little sense. But that is true for nearly everything.

It could be worse. It could be run by FIFA.

I mean vinyl is still a thing; lots of people still like live theater; some cars are still made with foot activated physical clutches and manual shifters; none electric wood working tool still exist, and physical books are not yet uncommon. Some things don’t go away, even if more advanced forms exist; because they are perfectly good as they are. Retro will always have its fans. There will always be a niche for things like that. Personally I like modern connected technology. I also like to get away from it. When I want to get away from the digital world. I go camping, backpacking, pick up a physical instrument or a deck of cards, and sit by a fire with friends and family. But I do still have lightweight yet durable camping gear which is light years better than the stuff I had 30+ years ago. So modern tech is still with me I suppose, but it isn’t connected to the internet.

So like what two, maybe three, of them after all their "unplanned" cost overruns?

Sure, but these places are not eating into a restaurant’s profits. Just providing a poor experience for the customer by charging the customer higher prices for the same food the restaurants sell for less. Still not ideal. But not nearly as bad for the restaurant itself.

Soare the restaurants who now only break even assume they would out of business without that low or negative margin business? The assumption is they do some in person business where they make better margins. Have they considered trying to growing their in person business and not working with these delivery companies sucking up their profits? I mean, if your restaurant is in a bad location I could see using these delivery companies. But if you are in a good location, don’t use them. My neighborhood’s downtown has a thriving restaurant and bar scene. There are roughly 60 establishments in neighborhood of only 6500 people. But there are two train lines. Only roughly 20% work with these companies. Instead they relay on foot traffic and frequent festivals that close down the main drag to cars and brings people to the neighborhood.

I went to Peru last year and hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. No stamp from Peru, but the mandated guide (we had to pay for) we had on the trail stamped our passports with a novelty stamp.

I guess I must be special. I can certainly tell the difference between 4k and 1080P. I find it pretty noticeable. Same with 24k audio vs 16k. There is just more there, there. The detail between the details.