The UK has reliable rainfall data from the 1860's (165 years), and less reliable records going back further. But compared with 1,200 years, you have the right magnitude.

Sadly while your logic sounds spot on, the reality is, that TV still does ACR (basically hashing each screen sometimes multiple times a second) and builds one hell of an accurate profile of everything you watch. Even if the source is HDMI. And it's still sold.

Food for thought, that HDMI cable to your dedicated device, it likely supports networking, so the TV has a path to the internet even if you don't connect an ethernet cable directly to it, or add in your wifi creds.

Yes. We should all be our own FDA, EPA, and OSHA. That worked *really well* in the past.

I've heard of traffic 'accidents' where a diabetic went hypoglycemic, passed out, and drove into other cars, pedestrians, etc. For some reason the news always reports it as a 'medical event', but the point is, people are killed by diabetics due to their diabetes way too often. It is an apt analogy. An idiot decides to drink and drive an puts people at risk. An idiot with diabetes fails to control their blood sugar and decides to drive, putting people at risk.

Yeah, it's easy to add more code to fix stuff that should be deleted. Just have the launcher code call your new code which bypasses all the old code. The old code can happily remain, it'll just never be called. No special skills required. If you look at the windows codebase, you'll see this technique everywhere.

Right. Ultimately the only way to fix this is strengthen privacy laws and enforcement. The tech bros have a lot of influence; their brown nosing and corruption was really on display when the orange manbaby came back to power.

The enemy are companies making money of your data; business models championed by the likes of Google and Facebook. You could argue that they're just exploiting weak privacy laws and enforcement. The FBI aren't at fault for accessing publicly/commercially available data, unless there's some American law that forbids even this. Stop giving your data to companies. Stop supporting these businesses that don't respect you, your data or your privacy.

The printing on the keyboard is minor. The UK and US English keyboards are physically different:: e.g. just look at the enter key, which are orientated completely differently.

It was already building for Arm platforms. Iâ(TM)m sure they have NEON optimisations somewhere in there.

France also does it because it benefits their military nuclear programme.

Trump doesnâ(TM)t want Europe to lose its dependency on foreign fossil fuels because he wants American companies owned by his buddies to profit from this, not Russian and Middle Eastern ones. Why do you think heâ(TM)s so against renewable power? Itâ(TM)s not just about the view from his Scottish golf course.

So many forms of communication available, no wonder we struggle to communicate.

Thanks for rubbing it in that you're retired ;). Hope I wasn't too full-on before.

To be fair they haven't got anything there they didn't have a better offering for 10 or 15 years ago.

There, FTFY.

Jira and Confluence were seriously better in the past, then enshittification set in and they started forcing the subscription model. Now their updates fix things they've enshittified, but they enshittify something else. Just like Microsoft Office, there's been no improvement (quite the opposite in fact) for years, yet it costs more.

Iâ(TM)m using the term North American incorrectly; Iâ(TM)m really referring to people north of Mexico ;)

Example: Iâ(TM)m trying to organise tours in Tunisia right now. I donâ(TM)t want to be making international phone calls and texts. They all use WhatsApp. Itâ(TM)s enough work as it is without making my life harder.

Signal is missing features for businesses. It doesnâ(TM)t have a way to group a bunch of channels you can easily discover. Thereâ(TM)s more. As a replacement for simple texting with friends and family it might suffice, but you still have to convince them all to both install and use it in addition to continue using WhatsApp everywhere else. You just get left out of stuff. North Americans who donâ(TM)t travel out of N. America much donâ(TM)t get this. I travel a lot and tours, hotels, activities, restaurants, etc all use WhatsApp and assume you have it too. Itâ(TM)s the only form of communication in a lot of countries.