And I'm totally sure you posting this same argument during the inflation in Biden's term.

There are other important functions used while driving:

Defrost (front fans and/or rear electric heater): The need for this usually doesn't show up until you've been driving for a few minutes.

Recirculate: For when you get stuck driving behind a badly tuned diesel or a classic muscle car.

Thankfully, my car has physical buttons for all of these.

News at 11. Again. I mean... really, this time for sure.

at first, but only for 12 parsecs or so . . .

M immediate reaction was to wonder if 3d printers will join C & Perl with annual obfuscation contests?

Or more accurately: "the spout of the slop pail".

They should have added a provision in the law that expressly forbids making any property photo look like a creepy glowing Thomas Kinkade painting. That would cover most of the issues.

Although they should also ban using whatever software straightens out all the curved lines in their ultra-fisheye lens images. It just don't look right.

Sadly, his business failed because his television lacked any internet connectivity that would have enabled him to monetize his users' personal info.

Yes: 90 psi is about a gazillion pascals.

I will not be making a phone this year either. Maybe never.

I don't need a full slashdot story, though.

You originally *posted* a whataboutism, and now you have the gall to complain about whataboutisms. Frigging hypocrite.

Actually had this conversation recently.

ios has pluggable keyboards. Why not have pluggable AI?

You know what they say: "Windows is only free if your time has no value".

Oops, I forgot. Windows isn't even free.

Every library/tool writer:

ChatGPT, write concise useful documentation for this tool/library.

Writing any docs (good or bad) used to take time. Writing any docs no longer really does. And if it's not already good at it, it'll probably continue to get better.

You'd have a point if Microsoft didn't already have a long history using semiannual updates to silently turn on features that users had disabled or were previously opt-in.

I don't know how many times I've had to go back and re-hide that goddamned Cortana circle, for example.