Most I've seen have a "reject all" button thankfully. Very few require me to tick several boxes.

I've tried to switch to Antenna Pod but it just doesn't work the way I want. With Pocket Casts I can go into my not-yet listened-to feed and remove anything I want from it, either automatically after so many episodes or after listening, or manually (just to clean it up and make it not so cluttered). Not mark them simply as listened to, but remove them from the list. I can also show a list of only podcasts that are downloaded. It's ultra configurable that way compared to AntennaPod. I find the AntennaPod way, which is more like an RSS feeder, to be very distracting. But sadly I'll be forced to abandon Pocket Casts sooner or later. I paid for it years ago back when it just worked and did what I want. But like all other good things greed ruined it. A few years ago they dropped the ability to access private podcast feeds, so I had to switch to AntennaPod for that one private podcast. Are there any better podcast listeners out there that have the features of pocket casts? I don't care so much about Podcasting 2.0 just yet, but probably should in the future.

I guess I'm a weird one. I opt out of unnecessary cookies every time I see that popup. Not that I actually believe the honesty of the site, but I guess I'm just trying to send them a message. Of course I also run ublock origin and privacy badger to block those tracking cookies.

I'm sure this will make the internet a better place with less bots creating slop everywhere.

There's absolutely nothing to suggest anything illegal was going on.

Of course not. Other than doing it at all in the first place. Sure people should know their rights and firmly but politely insist on them. But DHS shouldn't have even asked in the first place without some sort of warrant or congressional oversight.

Sorry but no. The electric catapult is nothing more than a linear electric motor. Think maglev trains. Or even EV motors. Besides that, we've been using induction motors for a hundred years. They operate in inducing eddy currents in a rotor using a changing magnetic field created by electric coils. Never mind being close to and underneath of electric transmission lines!

Funny. Of course you do realize that recently-commissioned US aircraft carriers now use electromagnetic launchers too now right? They can be more finely tuned compared to steam catapults.

Certain kinds of manufacturing, yes. Absolutely. And important ones too, such as heavy equipment and autos.

But it's the small, everyday, household, things that the west is completely dependent on imports for with near zero domestic capacity. And there's honestly little appetite (only talk and wringing of hands) to bring those kinds of manufacturing back either. When and if the tariffs fully kick in, maybe we'll see a change in attitude. But few Americans are interested in working on farms, let alone factory floors making small widgets.

Wouldn't mind a real time x planet display of the earth with cloud map and Terminator. But that doesn't need to be a video and I can already to that with a cron job every hour or so which I do. Though love iss position might be cool. That said I haven't seen my background in months.

Yeah mean like windows 1.0 did it? ;)

And what of Disney sponging off of hundreds of years of public domain fairy tales? Can't they make up their own original tales?

The TPM does enable some security, such as an encrypted disk, and to enable password-free logins. In other words, it increases local, physical security. Of course Linux can do the same thing if the TPM is present. For most home computers, neither is that critical, and honestly the TPM does little to actually secure Windows from malware or remote exploits. In short the TPM is a valuable and useful feature, but is completely optional and of most value to certain users such as travelers or corporate users. The last thing most of the users who call me up with home computer problems need is an encrypted disk. In fact most don't even really need a login password for their computer if I'm honest. But they do need a secure browser (the TPM can optionally help secure the browser's password store) with ad blocking to keep them free from malware. I can make Windows 11 work for most of these, but not without effort.

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'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?