There's probably too much metal between the cargo hold and the passenger compartment for Bluetooth to work anyway. I think all actual bombs on aircraft (other than the failed shoe bomber) have been triggered by pressure switches at altitude or timers.

So it's not just that they wouldn't be stupid enough, but also that it probably wouldn't be successful even if they were.

That is really going to perform badly, especially if you ever update your computer. Will MS actually improve for a change due to the RAM crisis going on??? Maybe Edge will improve on RAM use over google trying to replace the OS with Chrome?

I have an M1 with only 8GB of RAM and it works surprisingly well within that limitation. I don't do serious work with it but my casual use is beyond a typical office worker; plus I have two accounts that are often active each with a browser open. I might wear out the SSD early with swap usage; guess I'll find out.

Look around. I think i've seen stuff that does Time Machine out there. I don't know how much longer apple supports network Time Machine servers... they are dropping Intel emulation soon so all your old apps die. Unless you have a windows version of the app and an emulator. No, you don't need to upgrade old software, not everything needs internet or exchanges complex data files with the outside world.

usually an American. We have our version of "Americans" within America, they live in Florida.

There is no reason to pay attention to wireless ID names or t-shirts... where are the rational adults? Simply because somebody makes a joke the brains all turn 100% off and they act like robots... except by the time robots are running things, it's likely the chatbot will not be so stupid as to over react like this.

Even a small child knows to lie about sneaking a cookie they do not openly eat the thing when they are not supposed to have it. Unless they their parents are trying to raise an orange monster who flagrantly ignores the rules.

I swear America only has an average IQ because a few of us are raising so high it makes up for 60% being dumb as shit (oh, and many high IQ people are immigrants.)

Dell can't match Apple because Win 11 wants 16 GB RAM to boot to desktop and 32 to be useable.

MicroSlop designed the os before the AI boom. They can't fix that without giving up their spyware and they're not gonna do that.

Mind you Apple really need 16 GB but that's still half Windows

No, it's not a re-invention. It's a nice upgrade, based on specs alone, but will likely be priced at conventional levels. It honestly just looks like you're catching up to Apple Silicon....which is a very good thing...but no, having a decent GPU at a lower price doesn't fit the definition of "re-invention."...nor revolution...nor do I see any way this will change personal computing. Any updates to how we use computers would have happened regardless. Unless they sell these for less than $100 or some insane price drop, no...this is a modest upgrade for Windows users. If these actually ship in fall...well...computing will be EXACTLY THE SAME a year later. No revolution...No "reinvention"...just an actual spec upgrade for a change, which we haven't even been seeing in chips in the last few years, but used to be the norm, just 10 years ago.

Come on, don't do that. This narrative that somehow the new stuff is retroactively ruining your childhood, that it's specifically designed as an insult to your fandom... That's toxic.

Last Jedi is a good example of that. Some people complain that Luke isn't a Marty Stu anymore, he's not just waiting to be unleashed and go defeat the First Order with a laser sword. That would have been a terrible movie. How unsatisfying would it be that all the Rebels needed to do was find the guy who saved them last time, so he could do the same thing again. It would also prove again that the only people who matter are Skywalkers, everyone else is just waiting for them to resolve their issues.

The whole point was that everyone in the Rebellion matters, they all contribute, and The Force isn't just something that a few privileged people can use to shape events on a galactic scale. Rey is revealed to be nobody special at all, just someone who has the opportunity to do something meaningful. Then they blew all that up by writing a movie that was supposedly based on "fan feedback", and it was the worst one of the lot. Undid all the interesting ideas from TLJ.

Probably one of the worst examples of fans ruining a franchise. It's never really recovered. Andor was only good because it ignored all that stuff, didn't have any Force stuff in it, just ordinary people trying to make a difference, and not because it's the right thing, but because the Empire hurt them and the people they care about.

That list just proves the point. Finn isn't trying to beat her, he's trying to diffuse the situation. She can't fly the Millennium Falcon better than Han, in fact the first thing she does is crash it into the ground. At no point does she ever demonstrate particularly good piloting skills, unlike Luke who goes from shooting womp rats to taking down a heavily fortifies Death Star in about a week.

I can't be bothered to go through every point, and I'm not disputing some bad writing decisions, but she is in no way a Mary Sue. She is no way the equal of Kylo Ren either, who dominates in his fight with her in the first movie. She never beat Luke in a 1-on-1 fight either, that simply never happens in the movies.

Thrawn is just a bad idea. Yet another guy who is destined for something, born special. A generic Empire baddie with no interesting traits or character arc.

Contrast with, say, Gul Dukat from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Both are Space Fascists, but unlike Dukat, Thrawn isn't likeable and only views his actions as necessary, not morally right. His interactions with the heroes are only as an opponent, a simple villain who they must defeat. His personality is paper thin.

DS9 is some of the best Trek ever made, because it put the writers in charge and didn't try to be popular or pander to what fans wanted. Voyager did, and it ended up being mediocre for the most part. But it had fan service. I'm half expecting Disney to cast Sydney Sweeney and bring back metal bikinis.

They are quieter, yes. Nuclear subs aren't all that stealthy because the reactor is constantly making noise. They are designed to stay submerged for long periods of time, not engage other subs at ranges where the noise gives them a disadvantage. The hope is that they can't be found in the vast ocean, or at least not consistently enough to negate the threat of nuclear retaliation.

Battery electric propulsion can't be beat for stealth.

It would be good if I could have it auto cancel above a certain price.

How so?

They do all sorts of misleading stuff to make you think you are getting a bargain.

"Lowest price in the last 30 days", and they limit API users to a year's worth of price data. Typically when I see a message like that, I assume it was cheaper 31 days ago.

"Limited time deals" are rarely limited time, and usually mean that it is available somewhere else for the same price anyway.

"Subscribe and save" just means "save compared to the price at time of re-ordering", not that it will lock in a lower price. You still have to check every month.

I don't think most of it is planned, and that goes for Europe as well. Governments have some control, such as making rules around balcony solar or minimum allowances for rooftop solar to be connected to the grid, but for the most part it's been people installing it because of some personal decision they made (it's a great investment). The grid has been forced to change faster than the operator would have liked it to in many places, which is a good thing.

They didn't really have any choice with the extended universe, because a) it's mostly shit, and I mean like really, really, fan fic level shit, and b) even most of the older fans haven't read it and wouldn't know what the hell was going on.

When they have tried to bring elements of it in, like Thrawn, it's become immediately apparent what a terrible idea that was. If you look at the only good bits of the new shows and movies, they have been the ones that were not just toy commercials or fan service. Rogue One, Andor, Last Jedi, a few bits of Mandalorian.

The problem they have is that they need to find a new audience, but the older fanbase has become extremely toxic. Look at your comments about Rey being a "Mary Sue", despite the fact that she is very clearly the opposite of that in the first movie. They can't win, and the more you do it, the less interest they have in trying. Mando and Grougu are one of the few things that has brought in new, less toxic fans for them, which is why they are milking it.