So the root cause is bad/missing input sanitation? Or is the defect the inability of the vendor to maintain the code to current standards and needs?

Any image from this failed Starliner mission might serve.

If you demand physical evidence, you're shortchanging yourself. But I understand your concern. The root causes of this failed mission, management decisions, is influence greatly by selection of the management team. If they are chosen for primary qualifications other than knowledge, skill, and experience, well that's a problem, distinguished only by severity. And in this example, little decisions have big consequences. Diverting attention and resources away from mission safety and success, no matter what they are, is an impediment to success. And NASA exists only to be successful in its stated missions.

If you were paying attention at the time, you would have known that their successful docking at the ISS was, in fact, influenced by chance and luck as much as engineering and system performance. I haven't read this incident reporting, but it became evident that the failures on approach posed a real danger to the ISS.

Inexcusable management failures. This ought to stop, the Shuttle program was sufficient warning that space is hard, but bad decisions are inexcusable.

Try going into a hardware store and buying a bit of pipe for your zip gun. Or to 'finish' your 3D printed pistol.

If you do not tell them, they know not what you are doing. It's just a piece of pipe.

OTOH, try asking around for a plan for a sheet metal, 'welded' AR-15 lower receiver. Then ask your local machine shop[ if they would cut these for ya. An afternoon of learning to stick weld and you are well on your way. Ask for two of every piece, so your first attempt need not delay you much.

The 2A world considers this topic one of 'if you can't make one, you can't own one'. Study the concept before you go all AC and whine about misunderstandings.

'I have written(*) '

'(*) Okay, conceived.'

And you're what, deceptive? Or just trivializing this thread?

Damn it, I fell for your clickbait.

"far in excess off the cost to provide'

Pricing is not always dependent on cost to provide. As often, it is based on value received.

This seems like a high value item, to the merchant. Worth the 'cost to provide'. And solving an existing problem. Passes the test of value. Not simple rent-seeking, and I submit not at all...

Your car analogy suffers slightly, car makers are indeed finding new ways to derive recurring revenue, but adding value? I don't see it. They fail the test of value, in these subscription features, I think. Sufficiently close to 'rent-seeking' that it can be adequately described as such, for now.

'Because a lot of companies just aren't hiring waiting to see if AI can replace those jobs.'

Lots of companies do lots of things. Lots of companies hire AI experts etc. to see if there is any there there.

Lots of companies aren't hiring at all.

Lots of companies are hiring for lots of reasons.

Lots of companies are not hiring because they decided they have too many employees already, or are doing things that do not need to be done, or not doing them well enough, or should be doping something else more important, valuable, or with more potential.

The 'a lot of companies' is vagueness bordering on vacuous. You can do better, I hope.

And there's the small issue of X v Wayland. Which desktop? LTS v today's hotness.

And systemd.

Linux is not the same as Windows, but it struggle with the same software complexities. Incompatible stuff, hardware support, UI complaints, really only viruses are much of a distinguishing trait, and well the recent Telnet debacle shows Linux is not immune to troubles.

Recommending Linux as a Windows alternative is disingenuous. Many valid reasons to not jump into the Linux world. Even Apple is an alternative.

0.9, way way back, 1994. It actually worked, mostly, and i was hooked. At the time I was keeping 2 SCO systems working, despite the app vendor lock-in so deep you could not change printers without a new license. And, no, we never moved the clients to Linux, they abandoned the app and moved to a NT Server solution.

Fork it. Not that it hasn't beendone already...

I'm so car-dependent, living in (desert) Suburbia, that i maintain my xeriscape myself, perform small repairs around the house, and take my bike on 3 mile errands, usually 3 times a week.

I also enjoy dining out regularly, and seeing movies in the theater, which stretches the bike practicality, not for distance, but because I do these things with my wife.

My real complaint? I regularly present as at least 20 years younger than I am, not the result of any deliberate effort on my part, and even my physicians claim I am in excellent shape, despite my knowing in myself I am as soft as a grape. But I do what I've known to do for 40+ years, which is weight training with deliberate, careful form, stress that form over the weight, and do what enables me to continue living life and doing what I most want to do. The printed advice would tell me I am doing most of it wrong.

The most important exercise you can do is the one you actually do.

How about you just let me ride my bike to the gym, starbucks, and back home for a 7.5 mile round trip, and keep your urban lifestyle advice for those who don't want to reach for what they want?

Getting shot up does that. But it was my equipment that annoyed them the most. Until a missile flew by.

"Half of people are below average drivers. Those beeps and bells help the idiots..."

It's deceptively easy to assume you implied that below-average drivers are idiots. But what criteria?

- Warnings about vehicle state such as fluid levels are helpful and useful.

- Other warnings, such as detected vehicles in proximity, these are interesting warnings. Not so distracting to me as the lane-keeping steering hints...

- Simply put, if you're so easily distracted by these warnings etc., you're not an 'idiot', you're just not very good at multitasking.

Actually, I don't care about my mod points, either, I'm here to cost *you*, the rest of you, mod points.

6- digit UIDs used to be able to read and comprehend. Prove it. Typos are insignificant.