Did they lie, or did they do a stealth update on their ToS that says the exact opposite of what it said prior to the update?

Real Linux users do all of their video editing in ffmpeg.

I do all of my CAD in Blender.

1. With the engine off, press the brake pedal three times and then the accelerator pedal five times
2. Hold down the power button on the infotainment center for five seconds
3. While still pressing the infotainment power button, lightly tap the ignition button
4. Douse the car in gasoline and light it on fire

It was obvious that Broadcom's plan was to shed their smallest customers and squeeze their biggest customers and I'm sure that they had models projecting how many customers would migrate away from VMware in the process. What I'd love to know is how accurate those projections have been but that information is harder to obtain.

Want access to the latest models? First you need to kiss the ring and bless Trump's Cashapp. Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing...

And the Steam controller is purported to use TMR sensors. I just put TMR sensors in my PS5 controller (it was the fourth one to get stick drift) and I'm hoping that should solve the issue permanently. I haven't noticed a difference in gameplay, but they're supposed to last a long time rather than the terrible potentiometers in the OEM controller. And the process of replacing the sticks was a bit of a nightmare, so I appreciate when a company uses quality parts from the start.

We can't let China get access to our chip technologies! Sure, we'll upload all of the documents necessary to manufacture these chips to a Taiwanese company, but once that company manufactures those chips we should spend millions of dollars making sure they're not directly shipped to China.

Cringe-y doesn't have a single brain. Where does he purport to have found the other two?

Last one to be eaten wins! What do they win? The chance to starve to death instead of being butchered for Haitian Steaks!

Your understanding of reality is...unique.

Don't blame me - I was thrusting as hard as I could in its direction.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more development to get desktop applications, such as Adobe's, pushed to a client/server model. That would facilitate collaborative work in real-time. They could take all of the functions of each application, put them behind REST endpoints, and broadcast the results to all clients that currently have that "file" open. And since the "file" is just a series of REST calls, you could log them and their parameters and effectively have infinite undo history.

In Adobe's case they've already moved over to a cloud-only, so at least users would get extra functionality for that business model. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying the implementation process, but it would be an interesting concept that seems almost inevitable given where things are going.

As a huge proponent of open source software, I no longer put much value in the "many eyes" argument. For me, the primary security advantage is the superior response time that many open source projects have to major vulnerabilities compared to their proprietary counterparts. Also, documentation and support are usually better for open source projects. Oh, and the feature set of mature open source projects is often better. Finally, if the owner/maintainer goes off the deep-end, there will likely be a fork I can use with relatively little effort rather than an expensive migration to a competitor if I had initially used a proprietary solution.

This is 2026 - telling people the truth is like bringing a dildo to a gun fight. You need to tell them what they want to believe. /s?

But that is a weak causal story compared with the much more direct variables everyone is living through: housing costs, wage stagnation, student debt, childcare costs, healthcare costs

Many civilized countries that don't have these problems anywhere near the extent of the U.S. have also seen birth rates as bad or worse than the U.S.: Italy, Norway the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, etc. And all of their governments have provided significant financial incentives to have children and they've all failed miserably.

delayed household formation

That's a big one but perhaps not for the reasons many would think. It's not so much the cost of housing that's the issue, it's the delay in women getting serious about starting a family. Continuing education and endless fun on the dating apps means that many women aren't getting serious about starting a family until their biological clock is at the buzzer.

Yes, smartphones may be associated with reduced in-person socializing or changed dating behavior. But that does not make them the root cause

It also doesn't make them not the root cause.

They could just as easily be a proxy for urbanization, class, education, income, broadband access, cultural change, or other regional differences

Emphasis mine. Social media and dating apps (both largely powered by smartphones) have changed our culture more than most people realize. Social media has been the primary tool powering tribalism, especially regarding political ideology. That political divide has been increasing gender division since women have been skewing further left and men skewing further right. At this point, the genders barely like each other, let alone feel motivated to find someone to start a family. The degradation of dating norms thanks to dating apps has further grown that division. This has gotten to the point where studies have demonstrated that fewer people today are having sex. Less sex, fewer babies.