I agree. The functions provided by this bed do not require internet connectivity AT ALL, let alone some ridiculous cloud based architecture. $5000 is enough to include a $200 miniPC to monitor temp and positional sensors.

Yes, USB support was added to the OSR 2 of windows 95.

There's the quote from Hot Fuzz about favouring "collision" over "accident", but I'm not convinced that the word "accident" implies that no-one was at fault. Turn it around: if you say "That collision wasn't an accident" then the implication is stronger than merely "Blame can be assigned": it's "It was intentional". And since intentionality is the difference between murder and manslaughter, organgtool is right on the nail.

"Doctorow is a communist" is exactly the kind of "easy answers" you describe. Ironic that you haven't realised it.

Nice, I recall it from an Arthur C Clarke book - not sure which one though.

If you don't have a back-up then it's not that important.

Not an accident, but a consequence of far right populism being made mainstream and pretty much inevitable.

I have an EV and live in an apartment. I normally charge either at work or at a grocery store. I only need to charge once or twice per week anyway.

Yep and it was not helped by a chancellor that wanted the nineties to continue forever.

We had the market deciding for decades and a zoo of incompatible chargers. Then the EU stepped in and mandated micro USB and things improved a lot. After almost a decade the EU changed the mandate to USB C.
Long story short, the distant commitee of people who are answering to the general population is far better than dozen even more distant committees of people who answer to a bunch of enshittificating CEOs.

The only thing we don't know is *when* it pops

I think it might have happened yesterday.

Call me Jonah.

That is very much correct, but with a caveat - all the high tech must be ideologically correct. Cybernetics (what is called computer science in the USA) was considered a false and reactionary capitalist science at first.

His boasting about travelling more than anyone is probably similar to "both kinds of music - country and western".

Vietnam is indeed a quite nice place to visit. Less touristy and more interesting for hikers than Thailand, actually. Better food, too. The cities can be somewhat dirty and chaotic, especially in the south. The main downside is the very long flight.