Capitalism does dumb shit all day. Virtually nothing about it is sustainable. Almost everything it does is abusive to someone. When you are complaining about this, which is driven purely by capitalism, you're complaining about capitalism whether you know it or not.

Like water running in pipes, not like a stream.

I don't know if they make a different noise in the UK, but I sure hope they do, because this one gives me a headache.

I have personal experience which proves that you are factually incorrect. Literally the only time when Kia/Hyundai EVs make more tire noise than artificial noise is when they are moving quickly enough for the artificial noisemaker to shut off. I know this to be true because there are two of the fuckers on my street and the noisemaker absolutely, positively, and conclusively drowns out the tire noise any time it is active, from any vantage point and range. I have heard it in every conceivable context down to and including when I was underneath a vehicle that one of them was parking next to and then leaving again. I can easily hear the noisemaker inside my home, where I cannot hear the tire noise at all unless the vehicle is pushing around a corner and the tires squeak.

MOST ICEVs (the vast majority of which are now little four bangers) are in fact quieter than the artificial noise from these EVs even while in motion. My '08 Versa is quieter than they are, unless I get carried away with the pedals while moving off — it's a stick, so I can reasonably rev it up to the point where you would hear it accidentally. That wouldn't happen with a slush box.

Now, to the point raised, drone delivery is absolutely louder than an EV if you do not count the noisemaker. I own several multicopters, and ALL of them are louder than typical tire noise, period. So you're wrong about the EV noisemaker being quieter than tire noise (it isn't, that's WHY IT EXISTS) and you're also wrong about the drones being quieter than tire noise (even a 250 size quad isn't, and that's too small to reasonably deliver anything larger than a loose cigarette.)

Most music is talentless schlock with poor production quality and provides nothing novel. This barely moves the needle on that. The vast majority of music ever produced was total fucking garbage made only because some producer thought there was a chance that some crowd would latch on and make it profitable, and not for reasons which have anything to do with quality. Far more musical artists have been rightly forgotten than have ever been successful or noted.

This doesn't change that significantly. You're still going to need a map and compass to navigate the shit swamp of mass market music, same as it ever was.

ODBC isn't a kind of data source or service, it's a way to specify connection details for those services, and a type of driver for accessing them. You can generally access the same data sources on Linux systems without ODBC, although you need to specify connection details in some other way, and to provide different software to make the connection. With that said, there are in fact ODBC solutions for OpenOffice on Linux.

Yum, boots!

Remind me, what percentage of PPP loans got repaid?

We are still using a lot of win10 where I work, and only a small minority of it is because the hardware won't support win11. Mostly it's because win11 improves literally nothing whatsoever for our use case. Therefore there's no reason to "upgrade" us until there's some Microsoft-created problem which demands it. Every "feature" Microsoft has added to 11 is a detriment, in many cases because it's a potential security nightmare and all we do all day is handle protected information, so it all has to be disabled anyway.

Most of the noise that a Kia or Hyundai makes is artificial. The bullshit noise they make that sounds like water running in pipes and which I experience mostly as painful pressure in my head is louder than most ICEVs. Do these delivery vans make bullshit noises they don't need to as well?

Except the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, with snap. They're the only source of snaps.

FWIW, which I know isn't much, I have Windows 11 in a VM with an emulated TPM right now. It doesn't know the difference.

Anyway a lot of motherboards have a TPM port, but Windows 11 will still refuse to run on some fairly modern CPUs even if you have an addin TPM, won't it?

"and a Franklin stove for the one month out of the year it gets down into the 50s."

Except it gets into the 30s...

By the time we have the tech to do proper depth of field properly, eye tracking will probably be cheap, and you can do it with a gaze-and-squint interface.

Can't be sure if I'm serious, or only squinting to select

Same as it ever was (x8)

They clearly did, if this is that much faster than dmg then they fucked up with dmg.

Nothing I wrote makes it even seem like I'm confused about that, except to people who are confused by mice with more than one button.

Yes, I read the fine summary. Some of us do that.

What was it about the implementation of dmg that made it so much slower, and why did apple think it was okay?

There are really two parts of a vaguely modern vehicle that are attacked by the results of using ethanol fuel, fuel pumps and the injection equipment whether that's a carburetor or a fuel injector. Those parts have steel bits, including jets or nozzles, and the ethanol draws water in from the atmosphere and then it evaporates. That leads to corrosion of these parts.

Ethanol is a potential problem for hoses and seals, but this is only usually an issue for much older vehicles and the fix is pretty easy, except where carburetors are involved. Then they need to be re-sealed, and if there's not a kit available, that requires making new seals on a laser cutter. And those are still moderately expensive.