It's much cheaper this way. If they lose there would be no damages awarded to Disney. And they come into this with the upper hand---the law is technically on their side.

What damages?

I have to admit I'm a bit confused as to why they are even asking anything from Disney since the likeness they wish to use is in the public domain. But I suppose doing this preemptively is slightly cheaper than Disney launching a frivolous lawsuit against them.

You would need to add at least a couple of 0s for it to even begin to seem reasonable.

You're okay with him disregarding the constitution? You're okay with him being the laws and acting like a king, eliminating power of Congress? Finally are you okay with a Democrat coming to power and doing the things Trump is doing?

Chromium is frozen on my desktop at the last version to fully support uBlock Origin. After they removed Manifestv2, chrome and its derivatives are no longer viable for me.

Surely this story, which is essentially true even if the style is propaganda-ish, is evidence that central planning by a communist government does not work. Of course it doesn't work here either, something the trump administration and gop seem to have forgot as they begin to exert control directly in American companies to get them to do things for the king.

I strongly suspect this cheap laptop will be locked down. No root, no exception to only allowing signed apps. This will be wildly successful. If you need "developer" access you'll need to buy a MacBook pro.

Hope I'm very wrong but every version of macos on the last few years has been stepping towards this sort of thing.

With two to four years between "seasons" of six to ten 42-55 minute episodes, it's hard to keep an audience interested in.

At least it used to be that most American shows had 20 or more episodes per year, year on year for the run of the show. TNG had something like 36 episodes per year. Crazy schedule for the cast and crew. Simpsons has put out 20+ episodes per year for 30 years.

In the UK things have always been different. One full series is usually a lot fewer episodes (many of the most popular shows had only about 6 shows per year) and sometimes more than a year between series. Maybe the scale of viewship is just different, but even old shows are still very popular today in syndication.

If everything moved an hour later, what's the point of DST in the first place then? The original point was that permanent DST means parents were dropping kids off in the dark since sunrise was an hour later. Moving everything one hour later is then the same thing as standard time. So just keep standard time.

My only experience with induction is at the house of a family member, but I've never noticed any sound like that coming from their range. I used to be able to hear CRTs, but perhaps I've lost that part of my hearing in middle age. Not sure; haven't been around CRTs in a long time. But I have a really annoying USB wall adapter that I can hear whining.

While technically true, the odds of any fires started by induction ranges is orders of magnitude smaller than even conventional electric ranges. In fact in terms of general family safety and being burned by the stove when it is turned off, induction ranges are the only way to go.

That said, I have a gas range presently and have no plans to replace it anytime soon.

Despite MS's installer claiming otherwise, only TPM 1.2 or newer is required by Windows 11. Also I'm running Windows 11 in a KVM virtual machine an older server that has zero support for TPM of any kind, using an emulated TPM. Seems to me to run on older hardware, MS could have provided a light-weight hyperV shim that could provide the TPMv2 to windows. Assuming that the implementation of the emulated TPM would be completely inaccessible to the VM itself, enough security remains against malware, etc.

Meanwhile promoting full-disk encryption using the TPM is a sure-fire way for average windows users to lose data. Yes MS has ways of backing up the key to your MS Account (yeah that's secure), and locally, but if someone drops off their dead computer and wants me to pull data off the drive, I simply can't do it easily. I've already seen more than a few people lose all their pictures on their iPhone because of encryption and getting locked out of their device. I'm sure avoidable if they had only taken the right steps. But I digress.

Installing Windows or *any* OS is IMPOSSIBLE for the standard Windows user. Using a word processor and browser, on the other hand, is about the same on either platform. As anecdotal evidence I offer my neighbor who is 80 years old and computer illiterate. Has just as much success (and trouble) navigating Cinnamon on Linux Mint as he did on Windows. So far he's been running Mint for five years and I have to drop by about once a year usually to provide some assistance, but I used to have to do more than that when he ran Windows anyway.

Supporting Windows 10 costs MS money, and that money has to come from somewhere. And it's surely not going to come out of the CEO's salary!

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.