Then they should pass a law disallowing that but they won't. Because they all do it.

you will need to convince people that civil liberties are more important than stopping crime

To be fair, most people think their civil liberties are more important than stopping their crime.

We just have trouble taking it beyond that point.

Ultimately, it was just a car lugging around all the things required for an internal combustion engine AND electric vehicle parts at the same time. Double the complexity and a rolling compromise.

That was my experience owning a hybrid. Ultimately, the controller part that mated the EV and ICE vehicle parts was what failed, and the cost of trying to fix that negated pretty much any fuel savings we'd ever get out of the vehicle.

A plug-in hybrid with a proper battery that can run as an EV for short trips and use ICE for backup makes a lot more sense. The range extender hybrids are just extra complexity for what's just a hack to reduce fuel consumption. But to maximize that fuel consumption, you kinda need to tweak your driving patterns to optimize for EV behaviour, which is also a technique that can get significant fuel savings on an ICE car.

despite the fact that no one asked for it

Not exactly true; Unity was first seen in the netbook edition, and it was darn near perfect for that environment. The netbook edition was shipped pre-installed on various netbooks until Microsoft got their thumb out, so I'd argue that someone definitely asked for it, and Ubuntu delivered.

Switching the non-netbook Ubuntu to Unity maybe wasn't the best choice, but at the same time, that's around when both KDE and GNOME kinda lost their collective minds and decided to rewrite just about everything, so I kinda consider Unity to be the desktop that got Ubuntu users through that mess until we had more sane alternatives.

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This is why jobs will be replaced with AI.

So basically the people who purchase our products emitted CO2. I don't get the point of the article. Blame the marketing team at Saudi Aramco convincing people to buy their products?

"Saudi Aramco was responsible for 1.7bn tonnes of CO2, much of it from exported oil."

Imagine being fined for a political opinion because you don't have a degree political science... how could anyone thing this is good?

If they are only relaying data I guess it would be an easy fix, just send the data up encrypted and it just passes it along. But if they are actually needing to interact with the data I guess that's a problem.

You can even Veeam directly into S3. I saw a site using some kind of tape emulator application that made an S3 instance look like tape drive to the OS. Perfect if you just refuse to get rid of Veritas.

Synth journalist says synths are nothing to worry about.

Can other people be proud of their former empires? British Empire, Holy Roman Empire, etc?

I've had 3 company issues iPhones. The last 3, an XR, 13, and 15 were indistinguishable performancewise. I couldn't even physically see a difference between the 13 and 15 other than the charging port. They could have just handed me the same phone year after year and I wouldn't have noticed.

Hitting that tab button.

I've noticed that people who are disagreeing with people who reference the law or constitution directly as the source of decisions are being flagged as Off Topic or Troll.

We have gotten so far away from what is actual constitutional and what is not that people can't handle being shown what is true.