How does a society treat its citizens, specifically parents and children?

Autism -- is human psychology being maladaptive because of this situation. Parents aren't there for their children to imprint-upon. The psychological distress is real. Depersonalization is a result.

This depersonalization happening during acute childhood development phases, exacerbates the problem of social disengagement.

People should be treated as people, not chattel.

It only has to hallucinate less than a human to be usefull.

Just about every engineering and non web LOB software.
Altium, any old microcontroller dev platform, most mech CAD.
Altium Designer
Keil MDK
IAR Embedded Workbench
Intel Quartus Prime
Lattice FPGA tools
Proteus (if used)
Siemens/Cadence PCB tools (PADS, Xpedition, OrCAD)
Solid works
STLink
flash magic
NI lab view.
M1 ERP
PSOC creator

You get the idea

It’s a long list.

Running a business with $15M turnover, we are not big enough to take advantage of big business shenanigans.
It peeves me off no end, that I pay 30% tax on profits while big multinationals spirit their profits off tax shelters.
I don’t mind paying the tax, as you need tax to provide for a modern society. I’m peeved multinationals are allowed to engage in tax fraud.

This is the blandest, most watered-down way to say "lost their job" yet. Quite nauseating.

Tesla has already solved the

problem and now using dry process for anode and cathode at scale with their 4680 cells.

Yeah /. used to be centre right people, then it became loony left. What happened?

We have 5 Altium perpetual licences and were offered the usual maintainence renewal but have finally declined because any new stuff is in their cloud subscription layer which we refuse to use, because who wants their IP trapped in single vendor subscription hell.
The old Altium perp. Lic. Is not going away, but what they are saying, is if you don’t stay on maint. you can’t get back on maint. They made that threat 5 years ago and I called their bluff. $ are $.

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.

I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.

Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.

This is the man that though it better to hide what was happening in Rotherham with the industrial scale rape of minors and now expects to be taken seriously when he gets on a soap box about something he does not understand. If a minor lies about their age the app they are using will believe they are old enough. The parents need to be more involved in what the children are doing and to know. Do not give them smart phones. Leave a desktop downstairs for supervised use etc.

To be fair, they were poison to some.
The mRNA in COVID-19 vaccines directs cells to produce the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, short live/relatively localized, but due to the systemic biodistribution of lipid nanoparticles, vaccine mRNA and resulting spike protein have been detected in distant tissues, including the heart muscle and arterial walls, in multiple studies. This wider distribution occurred even with proper intramuscular injection, though inadvertent intravenous administration may have increased systemic exposure in some cases.Notably, spike protein or its fragments have been detected in blood and tissues for months after vaccination in a subset of individuals — with reports extending up to 6 months or longer — indicating that expression can persist far beyond initial expectations for this novel mRNA platform. These findings highlight significant risks inherent to mRNA technologies: unintended organ distribution (particularly cardiovascular), prolonged antigen production, and potential immune-mediated injury such as myocarditis and vascular inflammation, especially in younger males and certain susceptible populations.

True, many of my friends do exactly that. They skip the entire OTA tuner deal and just download the few things they want to watch. Although at the heart of it, that content is just OTA programming that was ripped off-air elsewhere by some other bloke using their hardware.

I just worry though, without broadcast TV, would they still waste time making content for the medium? Soap Operas, Game Shows, etc. I suppose can survive in a streaming fashion. But again, would they still bother to funnel money into producing the same kind of shows if BC TV didn't exist?

Then again, maybe it's just better if that sort of crap died and went the way of the dodo anyhow. If it survives in a streaming-only world then great. Otherwise Darwin's rules apply.

Exactly this.

The DVR setup using TCP/IP tuners like the Silicon Dust HDHomeRun series (which I have) is very easy, not quite 1-button, but close. It scans for the Tuner, creates a "DVR" and then scans for over the air channels and populates a list automatically. Then, it downloads the guide data automatically. The quality of the guide data so far as not been bad, not too many errors, but it only goes about a week into the future so far.

The Plex Pass might give you more than you expect, free lifetime DVR guide data as mentioned above is but one of the things the Pass gets you. Here's a quick list off the top of my head:

1. Registration with their proxy servers in case forwarding is needed for double-NAT situations, a nice feature every now and then.

2. Free OTA DVR guide data (as mentioned above, probably what, a $20.00/year value or so?).

3. Access to paid client binaries like for phones or tablets (such as iOS or Android). Some clients are free, like PC/Mac clients.

4. About 200-300 streaming TV channels, IPTV like HULU/FUBO/Sling, etc. It's the same slop you get on cable TV besides the premium stuff HBO, etc and live Sports, mostly. You know, 24-hour History Channel (but not the actual History Channel, like a "best of" thing.

So, the "Lifetime Plex Pass" gets you IPTV, worth about $50 a month, and Guide Service, worth about $20 a year, you're saving about $620 per YEAR. For IPTV and/or DVR service, that's not too bad comparatively. But now, it looks like the new price point is right up there - it looks like they have priced it so that unless things get more expensive (a likely possibility!) you're just about at the break-even point.

Also, just so no one thinks I'm a biased rabid drooling fan, here's a few of the things I DON'T like about Plex:

1. Seems to go "offline" or have internet connection issues related to the server being available. Sometimes the proxy bridging servers (mentioned above) help this situation, but not always.

2. Transcoding and speed issues related to that. Unfortunately, it seems like Plex tries to aggressively transcode EVERYTHING, even when it shouldn't or doesn't need to. There are some settings that affect this or are supposed to but there are still some issues with it (there are some good Reddit threads on this).

3. Customer Service just seems mostly like a search engine for some things that people have had issues with, and somehow never got responses or resolutions to. I hate tech support threads or forums that exactly describe the problem that I am having, but don't have a solution or any published answer or followup. "At that point the poster suffered a fatal coronary?"

OK, that's about it. I just wanted to comment about the mixed feelings I had since the price was going up. FWIW, I bought mine back in 2021 and back then it was just under $100.00, I show $95 and change, probably with tax. As I recall it went to $100, $110 or $120, then $150. Then I think it jumped to $250 where it's at now. It's still a VERY good deal until July 1, 2026, at which point it will become a FAIR deal, unless things change.

Note: I am not an employee or affiliated with Plex in any way, but I'm a reasonably happy customer. I've been using it now for about 6 years with my own local video server, a local TV Tuner (Silicon Dust HDHomeRun QUATTRO) and TV viewing PC, which will record 4 OTA channels at once. I have had very few issues, as I said it was beguilingly easy to get set up initially, very simple configuration and maintenance, and most things seem to work pretty well in general.

Mr.T