I did the same. Roku is extremely chatty. It's easily the most chatty device in our home (thousands of connections per device outbound to their telemetry per day). It didn't take much time to block everything and then gradually figuring out which was absolutely needed for the level of functionality I wanted. Everything else gets dropped on the floor. Roku gets "desperate" and demon dials home base when you block connectivity to the data harvesters. Luckily only the small raspberry pi needs to be involved to squelch the noise.

raspberry pi 4 + argon case with M.2 SSD + ubuntu/debian + pihole

The whole thing took maybe 45 to setup and then another 45-60 mins of trial and error to shutdown the unwanted connections. Every device in our home uses it for DNS resolution so all the "smart devices" can be squelched from one place. It works very well for me. YMMV

What is the saying- man with no health problems, short life. man with health problem, long life?

Most healthy-ish people aren't aware of the damage they do to their bodies until it is too late, whereas people with chronic conditions are more mindful of their health.

Especially for some careers, they aren't designed with health in mind and falls into to the same personal blame for any shortcomings instead of the system that lead them there.

An air campaign with very little risk to the attacking forces could leave Iran's infrastructure and oil production almost completely destroyed in a matter of days. They'll still not have nukes and won't have any capacity to recover any semblance of a normal life for their citizens for many years to come and they'll have no means to rebuild other than continuing to sell oil to the Chinese at a discount, assuming they could meaningfully re-hydrate their extraction capabilities. Even if China showered them with cash it would take many years to recover. Any attempt to return to mischief would be met with additional force. Slicing through Chinese and Russian sourced air defence systems didn't appear to be much of an impediment.

...continues to be its own reward.

I don't miss it at all.

Surely, the kernel could benefit from a concerted effort to pare down support for devices that are 30+ years past their prime and focus more on chasing bugs?

If Ford would manufacture an EV that people actually want, they'd sell more of them. They are perceived as a market laggard for EVs for a reason and their bread and butter is still the pick-up truck and SUV markets.

Ford's stock price has bounced around between a few dollars and just over $10 for much of the past 20 years. Their systemic problems extend well past their current EV market share.

Our younger kids have had school issued chromebooks since they were in kindergarten. They seem to mostly be used for roblox, mindcraft, and surfing "school safe" youtube. On the rare occasion that I see actual "school work" happening, it's more like a game than actual education. So we've redirected most of their after school time to team sports and playing outside. The world seems all stocked up on overweight children that are glued to games and screens. I'll make sure they know how to use computers, tablets, etc, but it's not going to be their constant companion or a viable alternative to actual social interaction and exercise.

I'm leery of professional practice as there has been numerous document cases of abuse by both practitioners and government. Can't say if that aspect has ended or is just more well hidden. I doubt the quest for a mind control drug has gone away.

That said, the benefits of psilocybin are well documented. I just don't trust the current regulatory environment.

You'll know we've reached that stage when there is armed conflict over control of Lake Baikal.

If you think you can escape transactional money grabs and lock-in by moving from VMWare to Big Blue as a hypervisor platform, you're kidding yourself. It doesn't matter if it's Z/OS or Openshift...it'll be a similar experience to getting gouged by Broadcom.

Ryan Grim has made the argument Trump has done more to advance a leftist agenda than the democrats (yes yes yes, Republican lite) in the past few decades.

Trump will be a complex historical figure in that his monumental failures have changed the stagnation that defined the start of the 21st century, maybe for the better.

Of course he will still try to take credit for it as some pan-dimensional chess he was doing all along.

To a new drug to treat male pattern baldness. It's all about monetization of new drugs. Curing 50 people a year for deafness isn't profitable enough for big pharma.

Euphemism as ID is essentially a passkey for access, and a further passkey to verify the ID. Not much different than the Swiss bank accounts of yore.

Which, duh, it shouldn't be centralized, and no information needs to be stored once authentication has been made the first time. Just a passkey.

My sense is that organizations do things in this manner because it is convenient and they are not liable for the costs.

Facebook is a blight on our collective culture and is merely a tool to monetize data that ought to be private.