It's pure corporate bullshit, and you've bought into it. It's not wonder they think they can now get away with doing other corporate bullshit, because people just like you seemingly agree with them. I should NEVER have to pay extra for functionality in SOMETHING I ALREADY OWN! And if you think otherwise, then you are EXACTLY the type of gullible person that these companies are hoping for, and aiming this at.

It's perfectly clear to me. You can use backticks if whatever you are using uses MarkDown: `BigDecimal`s. Or change the "BigDecimal" to a fixed-width font. But you can't just arbitrarily make up new rules for the language that only you know and that you expect other people to know. The rules are there for a reason, and not following them causes confusion. Hence "BigDecimal's what?" -- BigDecimals constructor? left hand? car? what is owned by BigDecimal?

"BigDecimals" is correct. The correct was to pluralize anything, including TLAs, is to add an s. Adding an apostrophe for any plural of always wrong. Always. Even for saying "the 1950s". No apostrophe. Saying "others do it" is the whole "would you jump off a cliff..." thing. If others are doing it, they are wrong. I work in IT too.

Yes. And the laws were laid down in the foundations of the positronic brains, which are probably somewhat similar, if not more complex, than the neural networks used in LLMs and their ilk. So complex that humans don't understand how they work either, thus leading to the various stories as they try to work out why the robot is doing what it's doing.

"BigDecimal's"

That's an apostrophe that you are using in a word that I assume it's supposed to be a plural.

(plus I've no idea where apostrophie, or whatever was there, came from...lol)

You might joke. But any theocracy would be a similar regime. However most Americans don't realise that -- "a Christian-based theocracy would never turn into that...!!!".

I own the heaters. I shouldn't be locked out of using them because I didn't "pay for the software". That bullshit, and still encourage this sort of shitty behaviour from companies. Why the fuck are you even arguing on their behalf? This is NOT "consumer choice". This is bullshit enshittifacation and scamming customers. Nothing but.

Not everyone has a smart watch. I don't. I found mine useless. And you left your phone at home... Best to have the technology in the car where and when is needed and not be relying on someone owning a smart device and remembering to bring it.

It's capitalism done wrong because it's not working in your favour because others can do things better and cheaper.

Honestly, if I had the full power of Claude 4.6 or 5, or Opus 5, on a chip, I'd be happy to buy it. I have $1500/month AI credits in work on CoPilot. Even if the chip was twice that, and I could plug it in to via USB to my Mac, and it gave me what I got with the cloud connection, it would be a huge massive saving.

won't need the nukes.

Please learn when to not use astrophies...

What is a socialist, in your own words?

"free Office365 subscription" is objectively worse than a painful death.

I'm confused, 'cos you are giving out about vaccines, and giving out about the "Epstein class", the majority of whom were spreading the anti-vaxx messages and anti-Covid propaganda. They are on "your side", mate.