"such a wide ranging benefit for all other sectors of the economy"

Um, the economy should pay the fair share - as in real cost.

If USPS cannot deliver this 'wide ranging benefit' at an acceptable cost, it cannot deliver, and alternatives would be proper to pursue.

Returning to pre 70s status is acceptable to me.

FWIW, you are discussing this with a MAGA-style Conservative. As you excoriate 'Republicans' for not caring, do you tolerate the Democrat response to throw good money after bad? As I self-identify, I prefer to solve root causes. USPS needs both a reformation of mission and reformation of operation.

A side note, lumping me in with Establishment Republicans is an error. I am not like them any more. And I am not alone.

USPS needs to adapt to the market. Either function within budget limitations or raise revenue needed, or stop failing.

Do I 'care' about USPS? The same way I care about the military etc. I think a national postal service is a legitimate exercise of governmental power, a necessary and useful servicer to citizens and enterprises, and should operate at a break-even funding level, users (customers) paying reasonably for the service. When government relies on USPS for functions such as sending or receiving payments, information, or requests, it should pay for that as a service. One example is perhaps USPS identifying the real cost of first class delivery and starting with Congress, requiring franking to pay that real cost, no internal subsidy. Other agencies likewise.

Reform, not more of the same.

Those were the days...

Yeah. Are most other governments unionized?

I bet your attorney is a member of the state bar. And enjoys the privilege of limited competition by denying to those who did not play the game access to practice law, and in some instances, even represent themselves at law.

Your mechanic, however, completes in a market where there is no barrier to entry other than tools, equipment, facilities, access to vital information (at a price), and knowledge/skills/abilities. Training is not essential, however desirable and helpful it must be.

Your attorney is part of a cartel, however useful and productive that may be. They don't even have to serve you terribly well. Your mechanic will try harder, they have to. And if you think attorneys are somehow practicing a trade more important than all others save doctors, well, maybe. Maybe.

Being able to have a wide variety of items delivered, overnight, that I would previously had to visit more than one local store to find in stock isn't 'new' to you?

You're excused for apparently being too young to remember pre-Amazon. Amazon was and is a new thing. Your disdain for all things corporate might be showing...

Subsidizing the USPS isn't 'reform'. It's the status quo.

Certainly would be a lot easier to fund pensions after the retirees die. What I mean by that is to not fund them at all l..

That's a model used in many other industries, with predictable results. Given a choice, I support the current system. Now to see if the USPS lasts another 75 years before it's privatized so the pension fund can be raided to the benefit of the lucky few who win that lottery.

No, I did not. You have no idea what I read.

and it seems this is happening when Claude Desktop is installed.

Or, to put it another way, Anthropic build Claude Desktop to do this.

My Chrome does not seem to have done this on a Windows machine. No sign of the weights.bin file, and I do not have Claude-anything installed.

I'm thinking this is not a Chrome problem, it's an Anthropic problem.

Prove me wrong. Validate my sig.

You install software X, but without asking you software X silently installs additional software Y that is not necessary for software X to function, and if you try to remove software Y it gets re-installed without asking or alerting you.

We'd call that a trojan malware in any other context.
=Smidge=

Good luck getting a computer (no matter how intelligent) to experience qualia, such as the sensation of green, hearing a major 7th chord, or tasting/smelling peach.

No. Neuralink is helping paralyzed people already. Tesla cars have saved so many lives because of their safety. He also cared about the evil EFF party in South Africa when almost nobody else cared.

My programming brother has worked a lot with both Z Series and POWER, and would tell you the advantages of one over the other is the $ for your particular situation. He would work with either (or both in one instance) and not notice enough difference, for comparable configurations, to drive the choice.

Don't get him started on VMWare though. He loves it right up to when something really unfortunate (*cough* updates) happens, and you didn't buy every.single.option... They can hold their hands out and say 'we told ya'.

Then again, he says all that about SAP also. He says nothing 'big' has ever saved him from disaster other than IBM. He's a little prejudiced, starting on PDP-11 but quickly making a living on S/3x, AS/400, and Z, now 'mystery cloud' platforms, as he calls them all.

Dang, I wish I could run ReactOS on a Raspberry...

Nope. I lack the skills to port it to ARM64