...I'd like to pay you hundreds of dollars to borrow some speakers! Only 'til you're done with them."

Can't use a set of Bluetooth headphones to practice electric guitar (nor, I assume, keyboards; haven't tried keys).

The delay between picking the string and sound to your ear is beyond infuriating.

"Working at mine" - I mean my local CompUSA.

Well, there were a fair amount of jerks working at mine. I went looking for things like commodity SCSI cables, and got attitude like "A MAC? Get a REAL computer!"

Oh yeah sales guy? Is that PC what started your career rocket ride to the retail sales floor?

Which is a pretty solid chain of stores. Really glad we have two to choose from here.

Microcenter and CompUSA showed up at about the same time. That Microcenter is still here decades later, and CompUSA is dead in the tar pits says a lot about how they manage their business, and keep eyes on what the customer actually wants.

Very happy they have 3D Printing stuff, maker stuff, hobbies, cables and adapters, PCs, Macs, new and refurb phones, the works.

iFixit is pretty great too. Sounds like a positive move for both.

A paralyzed computer just might be able to sing some lider.

The single thing that could make Bush 43 look "centrist" is that the current administration has drained the mental institutions and Aryan safe-houses to get its crew of wingnuts and thugs.

It stops being meaningful to talk of "left" and "right". More like "left" and "the greatest generation fought WWII to bring guys like this to Nuremberg".

And what was the "doing" other than asking questions and recording answers?

Well here's the thing: freedom of speech is meaningless if it only covers "nice" speech.
(Yes, recording adds a significant wrinkle).

I'll posit that what creeps you out here is what's being asked (hinted at in TFS - we can surmise that it's not questions about puppies and Christmas), not the recording aspect.

Suppose what's being asked are not questions of prurient interest, but instead questions about the Maximum Orange Leader's mental health? Certainly at least one orange person in a position of power is creeped out by this. Should that person have the power to put a stop to the "creepy" questions? As an American, I say "Hell no".

Should the Klan, the Nazis, the Commies, the Socialists, the Atheists, the Moonies, the Birchers, the Family, Nexxium, Diddy, the GOP, NAMBLA, or You (if you're on American Soil) have freedom to say what you will? Even if it's "creepy"?

In the USA, yes, certainly. That is the point of the First Amendment.

It's nearly unlimited (see: 'Fire in a crowded theatre' thing), and the recording part is more about where the recording is played back, how it's used, whether the recorded personal likeness is used to endorse, embarrass, imply, ensnare, etc.

Not the first time the NYT has been accused of colluding with the US Government. See: non-existent WMDs greasing the skids for a war based on a lie:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Worth your read:

https://cybersect.substack.com...

Already coming. In about:config all the entries that have ".ml"

Turned that shit off on mine.

Is there a Firefox fork that completely removes that shit?

Both of our TVs would take a network connection - we just don't use them. We stream with apps on the PS3, PS4, a Mac HTPC or from a phone. That or (rarely) watch OTA or from MythTV.

Can't you just unplug it from the network, or block it at the router?

Old TVs, working perfectly well and not plugged or wirelessly connected into the network.

One that most people would've tossed, I dug into and repaired. (Repair is what we used to do, kids, when it was cheaper to fix a satisfying product than to trash it and buy whatever Zuck, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Open AI et al wanted you to cram down your own throat.)