This is such a non-story

We KNOW that McDonald's charge different prices at different restaurants - for example, in downtown Manhattan a Big Mac has one price, at the airport another price, and at the highway rest stop another... The same food item having different prices is nothing new, no one ever believed that McDonalds had identical pricing around the country.

This tool doesn't set prices, it doesn't update the POS system in the store, it simply tells the owner/franchisee that they could probably raise the price on some items without hurting sales, and that lowering prices might increase sales.

WTF is the problem with that? Seriously?

This is a much, much smaller issue than you seem to think it is.

If looking at the "night sky as it actually shines above us" than maybe it's time to move out of the city - remote jobs are a thing, and housing is cheaper outside major metropolitan areas, win-win!

What color is your asphalt?

Not so sure I'd like black concrete highways...

Why?

Do you imagine such a move would increase sales? Really?

I don't think the average consumer buying a laptop in a retail store has any idea of Linux and would find a "Linux Ready" sticker as informative as an Intel "VPro Inside" sticker...

Next time you are at Best Buy or other big box electronics retailer, ask the customers in the laptop are if they want to run Linux on the laptop they purchase today?

(I thought the appeal of Linux was you didn't need to buy new hardware, it just runs on older hardware...)

So now we're discussing a change in marketing/branding?

Wow.

Transistor radios are still a thing, esp popular in US Prisons, but I don't know if Dr. Demento's radio shows are available online - oh look, there's this:

Dr. Demento Website

Dr. Demento was a syndicated radio show, heard nationwide. I personally listened to it from an AM station out in the Poconos mountains from my childhood home outside Trenton NJ in the 80s and in SF in the 70s.

You apparently missed this in TFS:

RPi Foundation absolutely wanted big companies to put these cheap boards in everything - they are committing to a ten year production life for their devices and have maintained the same physical dimensions so they could easily be added to product designs.

I understand the RPi Foundation also went the extra mile and certified the device as an embed able device that can be incorporated in third-party dedigns without requiring the manufacturer to certify the WiFi and Bluetooth in the RPi in their device.

The commercial applications were always part of the plan to generate sufficient demand to achieve significant volume discounts in manufacturing.

In America, their Gun-Free Zones have been marvelously effective, attracting mass shooters to them like moths to a flame, seems the gunmen prefer unarmed victims - and kudos to the Gun Control Lobbyists for advocating for safe spaces so shooters can hone their craft without fear of return fire...

I was concerned about teens using AI to get around this open source "solution" but I investigated and it turns out they are going to put The Mother of All ROBOTS.TXT files in the GitHub library to keep the source code out of the hands of AI!

Seriously, if you put a Harris/Waltz 2024 bumper sticker on your car, you aren't really trying to keep your politics a secret...

Mark Twain once quipped:

Tremendous, now, after spending billions of dollars, CA finally has a power grid that can stay online year-round without forced "rolling blackouts".

We're all very proud of you finally building a grid that can handle your needs.

Exactly. It's a field they are told to fill in, but don't care.

Don't be so stupid. Don't confuse what officers put in an unrequited field on a form with actual, legal reason.

The field, based on the summery was not required to be filled-in since many users left the field blank and still their search happened.

No one is contending that the "reason" an officer performed a search was because "haha", the officer (obviously) didn't care to type anything meaningful in the (unrequired) field. If your complaint is that nonsense was entered into an unrequired, unverified field on a form, it's a very weak argument/small problem.