Thanks, I forgot again heh. Probably because that will never not be weird to me.

...and long walks, eating vegetables and genetics don't really have any brand names like Starbucks or beans that were shat by monkeys to grind. So why would the said association mention right?

People are being shovelled shit at day in and day out...to come out with 5(!) cups of coffee as potentially beneficial for hearts as opposed to the (nearly)free alternatives...one does try to find humour in it.

It would be amazing for me at work where we don't have a license for Acrobat which allows us to do that, except they install Chrome and not Firefox on our PCs (because they like having us spied on I guess) so I still won't be able to do this.

Multiple posts pointed out that openrazer is missing features that Razer Synapse has, but I didn't see any listed. Curious, I looked it up. AFAICT, that list, for mice, is:
* Key Rebinding - but this is natively supported in X, so it probably shouldn't be in the app.
* Hypershift (like an Fn key?) - again, use other standard key binding software.
* Firmware updates - OK. That's one. Razer's firmware updater is 18mb and Windows only (I'd call that bloated still, but it's a far cry from 300+mb)
* Onboard memory profiles - OK. That sucks, but has little meaningful impact. Plug it in and Linux applies the settings.

All in all, those don't account for the bloat. Apparently, Polychromatic, RazerGenie, and Input Remapper cover most of the rest of it, and they're under 1mb. Firmware updates would be nice, but Linux has fwupdmgr for that (IE: it should be done through that, not the app).

Yes (AFAICT)

Yes (though I accept that you disagree)

No.

Kinda the definition of software bloat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

... which, in most cases, I would label as bloat. Also, supporting all those other devices is NOT the main contributor to the size of their software. You're being disingenuous at best.

And there is the main contributor to the bloat!

I could say the same of you - why are you so defensive of this practice? Do you sell hard drives or something? LOL
Honestly, these just seem like the most obvious and blatant cases of unnecessary bloat to me, and I wish that at least this group here could agree on that much. It's hard to have meaningful dialog when we can't agree on what words mean. Besides, you're directly asking me things. Why wouldn't I answer?

Sheesh! Way to shit on unrelated groups of people! But no. In fact, I work mainly in interpreted languages (ex. Perl, Python, PHP... not sure why they're all P's). These have often been chastised for not being as small and fast as a compiled alternative would be. Maybe Electron and Node.js and such are the modern day equivalents, but those C guys had very valid points back then that still apply today, and Electron stuff is orders of magnitude larger and slower than the aforementioned P's. Plus, sending a Perl script doesn't require sending the entire interpreter as well.

IE: it's opt-out, not opt-in. And there's no indication that it will auto-install stuff. And there are no instructions included on how to avoid that situation. If there wasn't a buried config item to disable that behavior, it could be argued that you could just keep your machine offline or otherwise block the download. Essentially, it's installed whether you wanted it or not.
It reminds me of the CD autorun stuff. Sure, that could be turned off (and that was MUCH easier than this), but we can still blame it for autorunning exploits. There's a reason Windows no longer defaults to autorunning software when disks/drives are attached. This is the same bad decision, shifted to the cloud.

The UK partitioned Palestine but did not found the nation of Israel. That was the US, and it was done through the UN. America always wanted to fuck up the middle east for economic and racist reasons, but I repeat myself.

It wasn't always this way. It's all because of greedy rich people starting with the Powell memo and the rise of neoliberal destruction of the middle class.

I thank God every day. For making the world wonderful and it's ruler's wise and just.

I believe in the Orange Jesus, he who hasth draineth thy swamp of the pestilence known as democracy. Keep not the spy vans from accepting him in your heart.

Shall we say a prayer from the church of pseudo shaksperian atheism?

"Let thy blessed ICE officers rain down heavenly justice upon the unbelievers for he hasth woneth all elections. If thou doth not have evil in thy heart, or mobile phone, his purification needs not bother for you are pure in thy acceptance of his means justifying all ends that serve him."

Go now and sing the holy songs laying blame at Crooked Hillary, Hunter Biden and celebrating the piousness of his holiness sons' destined crypto riches.

Can yous smell that? Of that sweet sweet reflecting pool swamp scent. An ICE patrol in every voting booth, an ICE squad checking every voice over the airwaves that will not vote for him. A little amendment to all voting systems and ID checks that determine who is a fake Chinese vote and who isn't. Sleepwalking I to the new and improved insurrection 2.0...

Not because tech cut manufacturing costs, but because they're subsidized as loss leaders, ad-delivery, and spy devices.

Now, you can pay to patch RCEs!

There is a feasible solution.

Make them continue to provide the service if they want to operate.

If they don't, terminate their licenses and require them to sell to someone who will do it.

I'd love to know how low the population density is when it's not cost effective to pull fiber where there is already pre-existing infrastructure. The power cooperative in my mostly rural county in east Tennessee started a fiber buildout just before Covid hit. The original idea was a three phase plan starting in the highest density (i.e. most profitable) areas first, using that revenue to finance less dense (i.e. less profitable) areas, then taking that revenue to finance the least dense (unprofitable) areas. The original project timeline from break ground to break even was something like 15 years.

Covid changed things, the state had some additional money for grants and there was a huge need from the school system for more bandwidth as they were providing wifi to the parking lots so students/county residents had better connectivity during the pandemic. The entire project scope was substantially completed around 2023. You now can get 10gbe anywhere in the electrical service area for less than $100/mo for residential customers.

Obviously, there are benefits when the infrastructure is owned by a cooperative where the membership has a real voice in what happens, but it doesn't have to be for this to be economically feasible.

Verizon doesn't meet that requirement.

My local tower, which they own, goes out after less than 36 hours

Using a work for AI training is not reproduction. It's not storing the works.

Creating the training corpus, on the other hand... That IS storing them, and completely as well.

This is a settlement for use which has already occurred under existing laws.

Your idea is fairly good but a counterproposal might be to change nothing but expiry, and go back to a 15 year copyright term with no extensions, which would serve everyone.