I think they are worried that it ends up like The Boys - extremely anti fascist. The crazy thing is that they keep having to ram home the point that Homelander, the super Hitler, is the bad guy, because too many people keep thinking he's the good guy.

Bond had mostly avoided politics lately, probably in no small part due to dedicating one of the movies to the then good guys, the Taliban.

As for if Amazon will ruin it, they have proven that they can make good shows, but also poor ones. Much like the whole Bond franchise.

I'm sure Caligula, Charles I and Louis XVI all similarly thought they were untouchable. Well, probably not fair to include poor old Louis, he was more out of touch than malicious. No one is truly untouchable, and even if the guillotine or the assassin's blade doesn't touch you, you're still going to die, and the body of the richest man is worth not one farthing more than the body of the poorest man.

Presumably he must have calculated that having Trump remove EV chargers and subsidies must benefit Tesla and hurt his rivals, otherwise he wouldn't have allowed him to do it.

Indeed, Apple appears to be saying that the poor security of iCloud is now putting UK users at risk.

It's interesting that it only applies to new users. The UK wants a backdoor into existing user's accounts as well, so Apple still hasn't complied with their demand. They could roll out a software update that sends the keys to Apple on request, which is doubtless what the UK government will want.

I'm pretty sure he wants Canada because they have natural resources he and his friends can exploit.

Interesting thought. I always assumed it was IBM blue.

The default grey text was normal font, but I often made everything bold (white on screen) just to make the dot matrix printer print over it twice. Then I set the double print option as well, so it did it four times. Really get every last drop out of that ink ribbon.

They learned from the last load of fascists. You don't say you are censoring degenerates and views that damage the morals of the country, you say you are "defending free speech" by making sure that your views get promoted above all others. And quietly censor people who disagree with you, e.g. X will censor posts containing the word "cis". Keep screaming about being censored to distract from the fact that you are the one doing it.

Back in the day I used to use IBM DisplayWrite, with it's grey text on blue background. After a while I'd look away and there would be a big pink square floating in front of me.

AmigaOS 2 and onwards were probably the best for eye strain. Medium-dark grey background and black text by default. The reduced contrast was nice. These days I usually settle for dark mode and turning the brightness down.

Not ecology, battery life. On phones and tablets with OLED displays, dark mode definitely does extend battery life. It's only LCDs where it makes no difference because the backlight remains at the same level.

From what I've gathered it seems that you get ad-free YouTube, just not the other YouTube Premium stuff like unlimited YouTube Music streaming without ads, and the associated music videos.

This is a good step because I don't want that other stuff, and the price in the UK is kind of ridiculous. If they bring it here I will seriously consider it, even if I keep using SmartTube to block ads anyway. My wife likes Apple devices and you can't run any ad blocking YouTube clients on those without jailbreaks that mess up other things.

Exactly. Hell, I wouldn't care if it used even more. I have retinal tears in both my eyes from extreme stigmatism, and the floaters in my eyes drive me nuts on white backgrounds, but are almost invisible on dark backgrounds. I pretty much do all my word-processing and spreadsheet work on dark backgrounds.

They can see the reality of it, they just want to sell it for ideological reasons. And easy money for their pals.

Have you seen those LG ironing robot things? They look like a wardrobe that you hang your stuff in and they use air jets to get the creases out. I have no idea how well they work.

For some types of robot we may prefer that they aren't humanoid just because then we don't have any issues treating them like machines. I don't really want my vacuum cleaner to make say eyes at me when it needs emptying, my cat already does that when he's hungry. Or rather when he anticipates being hungry later and wants to ensure there is enough food to last a week in case I somehow resist his pestering for that long.

I watched an anime recently set in the near future where a household has an assistant robot that keeps pleading with its owners to install a software update, and like most computers users they keep ignoring it.

So it only applies to non-Amazon devices? Still quite shitty if you bought any apps from there and now they are being abandoned.

The one useful thing to take away from this is that you can test your air purifier by using a scented candle to stink up the room and then seeing how long it takes to clear.

For general pollution protection though I think positive pressure systems might be better. Otherwise you need a lot of air purifiers.