"At least the AI/LLM bots are proving helpful here in proactively picking up on some of the AUR abuses until the fundamental situation can be better handled."

"Until" LOL. This is literally how open source works. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow! The beauty of the open source lie, that there are any eyeballs at all.

This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

my posts don't have signatures and I don't see any in the other posts, I don't know what you are referring to.

Musk is an unhinged, drug addicted malignant sociopath, of course he says shitty things about anything he doesn't like. If he didn't, he would be nothing just like Trump. Musk is a top ten enemy of our country, and likely at the top of that list.

The current administration selects people specifically for incompetence. That is not true for any other administration in the country's history. Traditionally there most definitely are people in government that understand issues, now the issues they understand are how to grift and stack the deck. Whether that gets worse or better depends on whether people like you win or people with critical thinking skills do.

The DMV doesn't repair cars, and have you ever turned a wrench? A customer service person doesn't need to know anything about cars.

My experiences with my state's "DMV" over the last 20 years have been excellent with "crabby ladies" that are courteous and helpful. But you're MAGA, you feel entitled to say shitty things about everyone.

"...Google TV, Chromecast, Android TV, NEW Google TV, Nvidia ..."
Yep, that's definitely the list of Roku competitors! Definitely no other companies in the market.

"Personally, I tended to recommend Roku streamers to my friends and family, primarily because they were stupid proof and had a long shelf life since they tend to support the older streamers for at least 10 years, "
The problem is just how awful their software is. The only thing worse than Roku software is using it for 10 years. Roku is an embarrassment, a perfect propaganda acquisition for Republican TV.

"Clearly it won't be long before TDS is a recognized mental disorder, and asylums get billions in Federal funding, because +5 Insightful."

Sure, because Trump wants to help his enemies. The quality of Russian trolls isn't what it used to be.

Who said anything about the worst possible? The comment was about what any actual candidate would be.

Hitler might have been a worse choice, Hitler would not have been the Democratic nominee. Musk would be worse, but Musk intends to seize the Presidency, not be elected to it.

"Nope. No idea how you got there."

I read his post. And you're taking my comment far too seriously.

"This isn't much of a grift, anyway,"

By what standard? It's purely a grift.

"...you need to realize is that they're buying two things - a phone and a feeling of contributing to, and participating in, the cause. "

Right, a grift.

"Valuing the second part at zero is to misunderstand human nature."

As if anyone has done that. The point is that it's a grift.

But my comment about grift was directed to the OP, not to Trump. It's embarrassing that a Trump phone isn't a grift, though.

"No conservative actually cared..."

Of course not, you don't get Two Santas by caring. The party of sociopathy and racism only cares about power and money.

"Although, it is fucking hilarious that the world's richest nation should sow the seeds of its own demise."

Sounds like you do.

I love how you now talk like that's not you. And you hate lies? Who do you think you're fooling? You know we can see your account name, right?

"It was him or Biden..."

It was not, every voter knew Biden wasn't running when ballots were cast. Worse yet, any candidate, no matter how bad, would be preferable to Trump.

"Most conservatives would have preferred any Republican but him."

So what, conservatives have no power or importance in the Republican Party. That's part of the problem, Trump gets free support from stupid partisanship.

Sorry about your parents, explains a lot.

It's completely different, it can be no more different than it is. The Trump phone is a grift from the family itself, it had nothing to do with the federal government.