The difference is the smartphone does something useful, the glasses don't.

(Not useful to you, at least.)

What could have been the business plan was just to keep the site frozen ca. 2012 and continue raking in ad dollars with a minimum of maintenance effort. A stable organization, with a stable and wildly popular product, providing stable employment to the people running it.

But, simply making a luxurious living isn't good enough when you have desires of world domination. Those kind of desires necessitate, and generate, instability. So the business plan became... what we see coming out of Meta today.

If they loved him so much, they could have convinced him not to board the vessel. Oh, he boarded it anyway? Well, your loved one is a dumbass. Incorporating those into your circle leads to emotional distress.

Or, maybe the family convinced him to board the vessel, as was the case with at least 1 OceanGate passenger. No bystanders in that family.

What you're suggesting is for a private company to charge a public organization punitive fees that are not based on any market reality, or open bidding process.

If you believe that is the way to hold police accountable, you will never hold police accountable. You will just enrich another bro - who will use that money to buy your politicians, police, and government wholesale.

"Fishing out" only works when the fisherman isn't on the same team as the fish.

Glad I didn't try installing it then. Or maybe I did, and it wouldn't install. Either way, it didn't make it into consideration after my distro shootout.

Probably something similar to the current regime asking colleges for lists of Jewish students and faculty.

They take a "special interest" in them as a voting/fundraising constituency, and were too stupid to consider the optics of building a list.

The article quotes that $1000 figure as if it's something outlandish. It was a normal price for lower-mid-tier gaming PC last year. And this year the $1000 mark is more of a floor, a minimum you have to spend to get a gaming PC. Anything under that, you might as well get a Playstation. Although those are raising up now too.

Is there something wrong with the SteamOS .iso I downloaded a month or two ago, or is Slashdot just running that far behind?

That depends on your definition of "Linux". On my Gentoo desktop [OpenRC + MATE], TigerVNC no longer works, because recent versions require Gnome and Gnome requires SystemD.

There was definitely some bullshit in the arguments. One was that systemd could bring up network interfaces much faster, but when you dig into it, that speed "improvement" was largely due to not running the "arping" command to check for duplicate devices already on the network.

He would immediately be stopped by a court, which would have its ruling immediately stayed by a different court, until the Supreme Court puts an end to the case permanently.

The courts, in totality as a branch of government, have been a rubber-stamp. You can point to a couple of times when they've tried to save face by making a show of ruling against him, one of the only times being the tariffs case. Lo and behold, even after that case, there are still Trump tariffs in effect.

The Supreme Court has been a joke since before I was born, but the mask is really off now as far as who these guys are in the tank for and what they're there to do. And it isn't enforce laws. It's to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the leader.

I was contemplating whether or not I would trade facial recognition for bus service, because currently there is no bus service in my city.

I do, however, get facial-recognized by every neighbor's door when I step outside in the morning, and again continually at work, and again at the store, then by the Flock camera when I go to the park... no bus service to speak of, though.

The man deserves a heavy metal concert loud enough to wake him back up.

And I already know the perfect song for the perfect blend to blare into your morning espresso and summon the spirit of consciousness into your cold bleary-eyed body and broken soul.