You European socialists LOL

Americans have no idea how badly they're being ripped off by corporate ISPs here.

Comcast in Northern VA would drop almost daily during congestion times. They'd have to drop WAY down in price before I'd ever consider switching back

Could be worse, in Virginia, they literally made it *illegal* to have your town provide municipal Internet unless:

1. it's not priced lower than any existing for profit offering
2. it has to prove it will be profitable in year ONE.

Just insane regulatory capture by Comcast and Verizon.

Historically accurate and I love me my Brother printers....but, they've started requiring chips in their cartridges which is the first step down the path to evil.

Rented an Ionic last year and it most definitely defaulted to lane keeping being ON.

Rented a VW earlier this year and it also defaulted to ON.

Suggesting that you just keep fighting the correction to stay to one side is a hilarious way to over correct and end up off the road. Yes it will eventually 'defer' to your inputs if you want to CROSS the line but now you have to manage your extra push with how fast the car stops pushing.

I'd wager it has it's own data connection you're unaware of.

yep. the 9/11 bombers emails *were* monitored and they still entirely missed them. b/c the wiretaps were for things being *sent/received* and not for drafts so the bombers just wrote each other drafts on the same email account.

Giving up such fundamental security to the gov't makes no one secure.

'broken' depends on which side of the wrench you're holding

Military. Industrial. Complex.

whoever added that clause got a sizeable bonus.

Their Trumpian replacement will double the subscription fee

your bone spurs are showing troll

soon enough they would find that no manufacturer that relied on service revenue would offer them to the military, and if they did, likely for substantially higher costs, to 'recover' that lost service revenue.

The military would sign the check tomorrow and twice on Sundays.

heard something recently that fits.

Twitter/FB/Insta/etc are Social MEDIA - they're entire point is to get you to consume stuff, not build relationships. Corporate algorithms aren't for you they are to use you.

Mastodon/Fediverse and possibly Bluesky (TBD) are Social 'Networks'. The point is the communication with others.

...update that registry setting...

Obviously most won't, but at least the option likely has to exist somewhere to configure it since corporate customers also won't allow such things to exist.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do...

US Navy demonstrating 1.6kW delivered to source. Some bad reporting of "60% efficient". The 60% is that they planned to deliver 1kW, so 1.6kW is 60% greater than planned 1kW NOT efficiency.

The INPUT energy was 100kW. So 1.6% efficiency at just a km. Inverse square over 25,000 miles to geostationary is not a viable technology.

Part of the system has to plan on new tech we don't have yet being developed.

We will absolutely need green powered mechanized CO2 capture to pull out what we've emitted - that will be the feedstock for required liquid e-fuels.