>"most Americans say they would prefer to make daylight saving time permanent, rather than standard time"

Me included. And most of the people I know. Still waiting.

>"the airline industry, which doesn't want the scheduling complexity a change would bring, has been a factor in persuading lawmakers not to take it up"

Yeah, I don't think that is a valid reason to oppose it. Plus, it is likely that States will "cluster" their decisions (if given permission to use permanent Daylight Saving Time). So I doubt it would look like a mosaic, but larger "regions."

>"Why not just split the baby?" he asked. "Move it 30 minutes so it would be halfway between the two." Steube thinks his bill could get bipartisan support."

Sorry. Worst idea EVER.

It should not be that controversial to allow States to choose permanent Daylight Saving Time. They can already choose to follow Daylight Saving Time changes or ignore them. As evidenced by how few ignore them (there are only two- Arizona and Hawaii, and Hawaii isn't anywhere near other States), that option is not popular. I suspect many States would jump onto the "permanent" option initially, and many more would follow soon after.

>"So far, critics all agree that ["OMG PERFECT"]
>"Audience" reviewers gave it a lower score of 67%.

Exactly. I rarely care what professional "critics" think. In fact, often, their scores are exactly opposite of what most everyone else thinks about a movie/show.

>"and Morgan Freeman's soothing narration elevates the experience."

Well, there is hope for it, yet. Love his voice. He and Mike Rowe are the best (If you haven't watched all the "How the Universe Works" series, it is a MUST SEE. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1... ).

>"United Airlines has updated its contract of carriage to require passengers to use headphones when playing audio or video on personal devices during flights."

Good. And please let this spread to libraries, restaurants, buses, trains, waiting rooms, stores, etc.

>"If a state or a First Nations tribe can decide whether or not to observe DST, why couldn't they decide to observe it permanently?"

I have no idea why the law was written that way. It makes no sense to me (or most anyone from what I can tell). But that is why no State can have permanent DST, still.

Time/light is something greatly affected by latitude and proximity to the timezone cutoffs. It is something that very much should be more under local control.

>"Don't be so envious. It will mean that children will need to go to school in the dark."

So? It will still be dark in the morning at 7a. That is the nature of winter. I remember waiting at the bus stop in the dark for months when I was a kid. It does depend on latitude and how close or far one is from a timezone line, of course.

At least they CAN do something. In the USA, States don't have that choice, still. They can choose to follow DST or ignore DST, but NOT always use DST. The bill to allow it has been close a few times. Still hoping.

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Good thing I don't use that Discord or the products :)

I have great envy. That is what I wish we had in the USA- permanent Daylight Saving Time (summer time), where I won't lose that valuable after-work hour of evening daylight I really could use. Oh well. Maybe some day!

>"The person who did that was director of Lucas Films Kathleen Kennedy. She has stepped down. There's a good chance Star Wars can be redeemed."

Disney green-lit what she did, even pushing it. So I guess we shall see.

>"What commercials? Who doesn't arrive to the cinema 15min late to skip that junk?"

It used to be you did have to be there before or at least on-time to get a good seat. I guess that doesn't matter now, since theaters are so much emptier. Although half the theaters around here have closed.

>"That said there's not much you can do about the rest other than to move to a place which isn't infested by selfish arseholes."

Well, I won't be moving just to get to a better possible area of theaters. Nor trying to drive an hour or something.

>"That said... smells do exist."

They do. But they have never been anywhere near as horrible as now. It is at least 100 times worse than just 15 years ago. And a few of those smells (certain perfumes and absolutely weed) are so incredibly disgusting they make me nauseous- impossible to ignore.

From what I have seen of what they did with Star Wars, I probably have no interest anymore.

On top of that, my last theater experiences have been so bad, with never-ending commercials, unbelievably rude people and their damn phones, talking, smells (perfume and/or weed), etc, I just don't think I can tolerate that anymore.

So it looks like is a negative times two.

>"While the computing infrastructures are totally different, the time it took my 8-bit Tandy Color Computer 3 from the 80s to go from power up to usable was about 20-30 milliseconds."

AH, but not if you were loading/running OS-9 level 2 like I was :) Then it was a MUCH slower process. Totally worth it, of course.

>"How much time does it take to even begin booting, asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM. Say you want separate Windows and Linux boot processes, and "You have Windows on one SSD/NVMe, and Linux on another. How long do you have to wait for a chance to choose a boot drive?"

I don't know, because all my machines have always been Linux only. My home Acer MB desktop with Ryzen takes about 6 seconds before it hits grub, then I am looking at a GUI login screen in about 5 more seconds. Of course, that machine reboots rarely, only when I need a major update and I am in the mood to do it. Similar boot times with my older Lenovo laptop.

My newer Lenovo ThinkBook X13 gen 3 AMD is a bit different. There is a random time before it starts to actually boot. It will sit with a black screen for a random amount of time, as long as 20 seconds, before it starts to boot. I have never figured that out. Various work desktops, mostly HP mini's (Intel), take about 5 seconds before they start to boot. All machines with secure boot off.

>"And more importantly, why is it all taking so long?"

I don't think an average of 5 seconds is that long. If you want long, you need to look at servers. My HP servers take a RIDICULOUS amount of time before they even show ANYTHING on the screen. And then, they can spend over a minute after that before finally hitting grub! It is irritating as hell.

>"Camera bump: the thing that case designers make an indent, resulting in a 3D rectangle. It's stupid. The OEMs should fill that area with either more battery or... empty volume."

Is it stupid? Like most people, I am ALWAYS going to use a case that protects the phone (or tablet). The hump in a case is slightly recessed (even with a thin case), maintaining most of the protection of that area. And the rest of the device is fully protected, making it, overall, X thin. If they were to fill the rest of the entire phone (or tablet) frame with stuff to flush away the camera hump, then it will X + Y thick (much thicker) when the case goes on.

I am not in need of an ultra-thin phone (or tablet). I think there really is such a thing as too thin (hard to hold, easier to drop, less battery, more case flex, even more impossible to repair, higher price, etc). But I also don't want a brick.

>"125,000 claims filed since 2015 say otherwise."

So you assert all those 125,000 claims are people who did use it properly/carefully (following the manufacturers warnings and instructions) and also have valid claims? I think it is very unlikely.

Now, if there are any that have proven causal association with the product AND the warnings/instructions were incorrect or not present at the time they were using the product.... then more power to them!

Thankfully, I rarely see it used on flowering plants.