Very useful, but what's missing is:
  1. Take and upload pictures or start/stop recording a live stream from front and back camera uploaded to the service.
  2. Permanent text banner button (custom text banner that cannot be dismissed from the phone)
  3. Permanent alarm-sound on/off button (custom alarm sound for X seconds with volume and mute buttons on the phone disabled; can only be muted/ended from findMy service)

If only the iPhones had GPS and some kind of wifi built in - then they could remotely report their location and forward it to the police.
It would also be nice if they had front and rear cameras capable of snapping pictures of people surrounding them to upload along with said GPS location.

Same here. My dev toolset is vi-gcc-gdb-strace. Done. Can't be arsed with some IDE that requires me to create a friggin "project" or "solution" before I can write a line of code never mind compile it and buries some compiler options 2 or 3 levels down.

Probably all our resources are allocated towards anti-drug enforcement. Also, when enforcing those laws police get to seize and keep the cash. If it's just stolen property: police have to try and return that shit once it's found.. which doesn't get them paid as much as getting to seize and keep millions from a drug bust.

If this is the case, then we clearly need a troop reinforcement with additional manpower to re-inforce our colonial cisnormative whatever the hell that is "oppression" and make sure this looting 1. shit stops happening. 2. doesn't happen again. And
3. Every person involved in smashed the storefront and stolen iphones or anyone assisting or facilitating that type of behavior Or events leading to that behavior at the place that happened goes to prison and never gets released on the streets in the US again.

Perhaps but in the vast majority of cultures males were more highly valued than females, especially in patriarchal structures where the family line followed the male lines [more or less correct genetically with the y chromosome being more constant over time]. Wealthy people of lower classes used dowries as a way to purchase a path to marry into class and dignity, elevating the station of their own family and eliminating the cost and risk [you never knew if a female would betray her dignity and that of her family before marriage] of a female. Females require more resources to maintain, the higher their station the more resources required while contributing no resources in turn. In many societies the number of wives a man could afford to keep was a display of wealth and status. In other societies well born families who were struggling financially might have trouble finding matches to secure their daughters futures.

All very complex systems of social dynamics and not a single society in which selling daughters like livestock for personal gain was ever common practice. Father's love their daughters and care for/protect their families. While fathers might not always have thought the 8yr old girls opinions were a huge factor when trying to secure the best long term outcome for the two it has always been the case that is balance of overall goals fathers were seeking to balance. The job of the patriarch was to look out, often many generations ahead, and play the board as best he could for everyone in his family. Of course while spinning false manhating portrayals of repression you rarely hear of the immense pressure those patriarchs bore or that they often didn't even truly allow themselves and their sons [who WERE often sold to the highest bidder via dowry] a unique identity, the younger would often literally carry the name of the older and so on as if multiple generations were in fact all one man and mail would be often be addressed to the family of that man. Actually, sometimes it still is.

As someone who uses both (LibeOffice personally, MS Office for wirk collaboration) MS Office offers more eye candy, but the useful functionality is equivalent.

That said, using Office365 together with OneDrive (or whatever the browser-based versions are called), is pretty horrible. Sure, it's great that I can use them from Linux, but even the simplest operations can become really difficult.

Lt. Col is the typical end rank of a 20 year career.

From fertilizer, through farm machinery to refining: it takes more energy to produce ethanol from corn than you get out the other end. It's an idiotic waste of farmland that enriches a few of the "right" people.

...may I say: this is offensive. They can be overpaid consultants, but gifting them unearned rank...stinks.

Then it doesn't matter if there's a glaring bug or missing features because the glaring bug can be avoided by handshake agreement and the missing features simply don't exist in your little social bubble of geeks.

I've written and worked on several large (100kloc+) pieces of software like that over the past 20 years or so.

And then a commercial package comes along that costs something north of $50k/seat but actually fixes all those bugs and handles the corner cases y'all were too lazy to implement.

But of course it doesn't do what it does in your self-evidently correct way so there'sa ton of glue code you need to write...and it's expensive...and who knows if their guys *really* understand the domain-specific subtleties the way our guys do...and you've already got your workflow down so...why acknowledge it exists at all?

>"We've been running AlmaLinux for as long as it's been available - and I've been very happy with it."

We have been too. So far, so good. I hope Alma 10 is great as well.

>"think of it as a lesson in why you should never commit to a product controlled by a company without clear substitutes."

Or one that bases its work on Google-controlled code.
Or one that doesn't support Linux as an OS option.

>"Recently the Browser Company (the startup behind the Arc web browser) switched over to building a new AI-powered browser"

No thanks. Last thing I want is an "AI infected" browser.

>The Chromium-based browser has

DOUBLE no thanks. Not giving any mind-share or power-share over the hundreds of machines I oversee to Google.

>[per wikipedia] for macOS and is also available for [MS-]Windows, iOS and Android. "

So not even Linux support. So I guess that is TRIPLE no thanks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

You're flying an RF receiver 37 km above somewhere near the magnetic pole and you're surprised you're getting 30 MHz signals from all directions?

How about instead of a second stargate emitting from under the ice...something is just getting ducted under the ionosphere and popping up at your balloon. Same way you can hear 1 MHz and 10 MHz from far away at oddball times of night as the ionosphere rises and falls through the evening.