Trump, his followers... etc. cults... Don't need computers for some people.

Robot is literally from mechanical slave; you can find English saying so before the robotinic came over to English to replace the politically incorrect phrase.

These people are like Mr. Burns when they try to be good they end up doing *more* evil! (see "The Old Man and the Lisa.")

- Money is not god. Except for most people in the USA apparently. mammon is the true religion. What is cheapest is not always the best or right thing or even should be allowed. It's illegal to sell / buy things that are too cheap. you just don't think about it; products that are deadly is not really a concern you think about because they are banned. Your junk food may kill you and make you miserable and fat; but it's slow and subtle - but it doesn't randomly kill you quickly like cheaper food would. point is, cheap is goes too far. selfish short sighted idiots make up the USA as the world is seeing represented...

- I've seen gov fights play out for YEARS over fire code regulations. complaints about how new houses will cost more money from the big building corps-- who are impacted least. People literally DIE and it's a drawn out long battle for common sense... which eventually won out (surprisingly, because this was in the USA. Yes ,we need to shame the stupid Americans and the minority of decent Americans just have to suffer being with stupid or do something about it. Like all the people saying Muslims need to do something about their crazy factions.) LEAD in gas has benefits and cost savings... only took like 80 years to stop that - in the end the money savings from the ban were higher. Again, money shouldn't be the sole deciding factor (which it was just took generations of damage to find long term costs.) People don't realize building costs are up because of increased disasters due to global warming; it'll continue to rise. Insurance rates prove impact already.

- My solar is about a 10 year break even. Then for the next decades it's FREE energy. People have panels 50 years old that are still over 60%. Most people used to get 30 year mortgages! You don't even own your house for 30 years! It's "free" after that... I have the time to wait; everybody actually does if you consider it a house expense. So you can't throw $10k into a stupid kitchen or tub you'll remodel in 10-20 years anyway; or get a larger garage that you won't use because it's full of JUNK (40% in the USA can't use their garage) and pointless because you're going to RENT more storage space eventually.

- utility differs. a small farmer utility is not the same as a super massive scale system. people never include full costs: the GRID. high power lines over long distances. transformers etc. Lower demand and you have tons of savings.

- Utility scale has benefits; but not all of that is real. there is a lot of graft and waste in consumer solar and added overhead which gets reduced at scale... but a housing development which is how most houses are built (or not built to create crisis and drive profit; admittedly by industry leaders) they have scale, experts, and their overhead is spread out like a "utility" is.

- we don't have limited solar resources. you can't build a house against the building code which greatly increases cost. You could have a real shithole for almost nothing.

- Firefighter safety doesn't really matter to people. I've seen that play out decades ago. Electricity in houses is a REAL THREAT for firefighters. Gas service is a massive TERROR to firefighters. Poor building codes are a top threat in most the USA, still. people don't care. To say we can't do solar because firefighters is idiotic or dishonest.

- I've had a roof replaced with insurance. what a scam... no wonder insurance rates are so high! The cost for solar panels was LESS than the roof replacement. There is money in the system to afford them - it's going to scams already. Reduce scamming and you've got solar for free. You need a roof and it's simply not ethical to use cheap tar shingles - but people don't know better; and they don't have a money incentive to know better... people want to be ignorant if it is an excuse to save money. Buy USA? nope. people will say it then buy Chinese; just like Trump makes all his over-priced shit in China. He's representative.

end rant. there are a lot of overlapping deeper issues. Solar is the right thing to do and it's actually cost effective long term and it's more secure long term and they should replace roofing systems... another thing-- flat roofing is best; if you really want to talk about money being important, you'd have flat roofing like nearly every commercial and government building. plus your roof doesn't blow off like an airfoil...

Tree Tabs is just a compact sidebar version of the same basic thing. I like having a sidebar. I have the screen space. I switch tabs enough i want quick access to them. ideally, I think i'd like to use both top and side. recent at top with a limited count. the side is a tree structure with the Task being the root which can be colored and rotated 90 and limited just as the top ones are.

It's not like the browser itself isn't creating data structures for the tabs. Firefox isn't loading all those inactive tabs. It handles them fine. It's probably some bloated XML or something... maybe better than either add-on's HTML.

Just thoughts at the moment... I guess I'd like some tabs pinned. which I do. but not the way it works now.

You know it's good because they are working against it and Trump is lying about everything good involved with it.
Also the delusional morons call everybody grounded in reality crazy. Not them. 1000s of experts risk professional sanctions diagnosing Trump as crazy and do we hear about it? Only President Epstein diagnosing everybody who disagrees as crazy. I'm surprised he is not calling everybody pedophiles...but he's keeping off that whole topic as much as possible; it has to be really really bad for him not to just attack everybody else 1st. We're going to have a few more wars and destroy everything maybe the world before any of those photos of him from Epstein's safe makes it public.

This is one of the most wrong posts I've seen... Maybe his account was hacked?

The building code should require all new buildings have solar; get a permit/waver to opt out. I have solar. they didn't make it easy. I still have billing fights over them trying to rip me off. Is it easy now? yes, the problem is the evil corp - who have been caught defrauding people without solar too.

I could put your argument on WATER or grid electricity too. Sewage is way better handled at centralized locations! People have more trouble with plumbing than they do solar!

Roofs need covers. They should be solar covers. They certainly shouldn't be toxic waste from the oil industry simply because it's cheap... and doesn't last. You put on ethical roofing and it's likely approaching solar prices. I wonder if I can put up a roll of lead? probably cheap? oh, that's right...it lasts forever but the run off is toxic and makes the children even more stupid and impulsive.

I do like seeing a designer take up screen space! USE THE SPACE YOU HAVE! I'm so sick of UX people minimizing things for no good reason. If all I'm doing is 1 task at a time, then why not devote everything to doing that task well?

Thanx but I'll stick to the "Tree Tabs" add-on for firefox. I have it customized with CSS and everything. for at least a decade... I certainly have many ideas on how to browse better which i never do anything about...

Firefox because...privacy...and the ability to easily handle a 1000 tabs within 9GB ram (finally, they don't try to hog like total RAM -1GB. which chrome did.) and not much else due to stupid CEOs...well, most importantly, a monopoly imposing 1 implementation and it's will upon the whole web... the standards are becoming a log or manual for google's browser engine when it's supposed to be an actual open standard which is made robust by multiple implementations, experiments, and viewpoints.

Remember when Google actually worked well? Before they purposely degraded it so you increased your engagement with google?

I'd say the AI searches way better and it also doesn't suck up time with tangents like search does just naturally does with tons of bad or poor results that can be tempting. Sure the AI saves many hours over normal work-- because normal work is loaded with distractions and the AI is razor sharp in it's focus, more than search ever was, even at it's peak.

Give me an AI search that doesn't try to do so much of my work for me and I'll be happy... some reformatting to save typing would be nice.

I use firefox. It handles RAM pretty well and with some about:config it's best.
I have in this tab group... 29 tabs open. but I have my main tab group of 661 open tabs. 2nd is shopping with 187 tabs. ..ungrouped... 101 tabs. i'd guess I have 500 more tabs...

that is on my tower. the laptop probably as a few 100.

they are kind of like bookmarks but not permanent. I also have them in trees; another thing bookmarks can not do. some stay for 10 years... others go when that topic is completely done with. This tab is a project with 29 and I'm taking a moment to waste time here.

I doubt I have ... ok. about 600 bookmarks... 2002 maybe is the oldest one. need to trash a bunch of those...should have some older ones since i imported them from netscape... but i suppose i started fresh in 2002? don't use bookmarks that often. at least never directly.

They are only stopping EVs in the USA which are under attack. They can make more money selling crap ICE cars Americans want while trying to survive the global EV market. Write it down as a loss... but actually make more money. It's not like they are stopping EV completely.

They know better when they say something that idiotic it's likely another message is being sent. Or some translator is drunk. While if the USA says something idiotic we all just assume it is within character.

1) Windows laptops probably all get SUBSIDIES which is not a new thing either. If you buy it without windows (if even possible) the price goes up.

2) Microsoft sells out your privacy from the beginning.

3) Microsoft pushes toxic BS on everybody and they just take more and more of it. They are losing people these days in pushing the limits.

4) Performance needs are low for most people. MacOS handles high memory pressure surprisingly well these days. I'm not following 400-600 laptops, but last time I ran into a cheap PC laptop, it didn't have upgradable RAM.

Space X Rays sounds like a bond movie to me... but I think a data center would create a lot of happy IT people... although robots are better than humans already so it's unlikely any humans would ever go up there sadly.

What about other frequencies? I've always wondered... radio works so well, why are they not considering stuff that works when thinking of these things? It sounds cartoonish, but why explore these ideas while picking LIGHT or microwaves?

Light is easily seen as a problem on cloudy days and microwaves get messed up in the rain.

Why don't these projects get into Xray lasers or radio wave lasers? stuff that passes thru the atmosphere best? sure, xrays sound bad; but any serious tech is always usable as a weapon of some sort. It's not like war crimes are completely ignored and we are not xraying in the battlefield, which could have been weaponized for a century. At least if they try that stuff we may get progress in other radio devices. Some next-gen radio wave laser probably has some uses!

The only cost effective thing I can see is space factories where the transport costs are worth it. If you could say, make gold cheap enough in space to transport it... or whatever expensive chemical.

Data Centers make a lot of sense because their products and materials are radio waves passing data. Plus the IT person on-site means we have a self-funded space station where IT people get a realistic chance to go to space! (right now you have to be a wealthy fraudster or friend of one) We get hardened electronics...although they get out of date so fast the data center is probably not cost effective without cheaper transport! expensive chemistry is probably all that would work... or quantum computing?

As long as there are billionaires funding it, they can throw away their stolen money...at least some engineers and scientists will be employed. Sadly, most the money will be wasted on MBAs trying to get rich themselves... but the theft cycle in this case is creating some STEM jobs.

If this works; obviously space lasers make way more sense... the energy losses are sizable and heat up the atmosphere which retains too much heat. Any serious usage would likely do more harm than just having more natural gas plants??

Space is not cheap. yet. maybe it's cheap enough? The smart money is on space solar power producing something that is costly to make or store energy and dropping that down to earth. This is where a space elevator if even possible could make it possible to send up some materials, process in space cheaply and send back down. To say nothing of the likely hood the space elevator itself wouldn't generate a lot of static electricity.