Best I can do is generic waffle, point you to our website, and some made up nonsense.

Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper ---Cohen the Barbarian

I just did this with my very old Amazon Firestick. I remember when they started with updates that suddenly introduced the "Now playing on Prime" bar at the top, then they put an ad banner on it. I dumped Prime when the in-show ads started, but was using the firestick to stream files on my own network from Plex at first then I moved to Jellyfin. The final straw was when I started looking at the amounts of telemetry and other crap data going across the network, and if I blocked them the firestick just wouldn't work ... even though it was simply streaming data on my own LAN. The flash was fiddly, but it worked and no more telemetry, no more ads, no more crap. This should be the default, not the enshittified alternative.

If that's true ... that id *does* improve productivity, why are they laying people off instead of growing exponentially with all that newfound productivity?

Yeah, but they make more in investment capital from the *illusion* that AI is ready for prime time. "See, we have an AI strategy .We fired a bunch of staff and replace them with AI. You too can fire all your people and replace them with bots"

Maybe they should award your Dear Leader an IgNobel Peace Prize.

>I don't understand how they bypass ani-gambling laws. >I don't understand why anyone would put money into them. Two words: money laundering

Just as well no-one is gutting climate policy so the fossil fuel industry can shit all over everything.

>Should we criticize guns for all the school massacres ? BAD GUNS !

Why, yes we should.

Current administration policy seems to be shoot first ... I was going to say ask questions later, but not really. More along the lines of postmortem character assassination to justify excessive force.

It's nice that you see the conflation between conservative speech and nazi rhetoric & hate speech. You're so close to getting it.

Last time I looked, they were the only ones making laptops without those goddawful shiny glossy screens (been using Thinkpads since IBM's T21).
First thing I do is format and install the OS of my choice anyway. Not that that excuses preloading crapware on their machines.
I do need a new laptop though -- would love some recommendations for Linux-friendly brands.
 

"You're very clever, young man, very clever- but it's turtles all the way down!"

So, his father set up having local cops handcuff his kid? Did he use the Force to compel them to do that? Vulcan Mind meld? Regular old hypnotism? Regardless of whether this kid is a genius or a regular kid, the reactions of the school and the police were completely OTT.