And the last one came out before current high schoolers were born, so what's your point?

I read constantly, and my kids see plenty of it. I read to them every day until around 3rd grade, by which point they could read anything faster than I can read aloud. My kids have been encouraged to read their whole lives, but they will not voluntarily spend time reading unless they are forced to. And they clearly enjoy reading when they are forced to sit down and start. But first choice will always be addicting screen-based activities, and when those are removed, my kids prefer crafts and drawing. Anecdotes are not data, but then again neither is your completely unsubstantiated assertion.

Case in point: Chrome says this tab is using 82 MB. For a mostly static site, with most of the ads and trackers blocked by ghostery. Absolute nonsense.

Ah yes, that good ol' American company Nissan...

Fair enough, and I tend to be the same way. The statement about not tipping was in the same sentence talking about waiters, which pushed my buttons. I don't think Starbucks or Subway and other counter-service-only establishments are allowed to underpay their workers and force them to absolutely rely on tips to survive. Or, to put it a different way, if tipping were made illegal, I don't think prices would rise at those places because they would not need to pay the workers more to compensate.

And there are more hands and eyes on more popular distros

It is nearly impossible to set up a Windows PC without an online Microsoft account, much less friggin' passwordless. Just because something sucks in Ubuntu does not mean its better in any other OS.

So I can see a less popular OS having better security (although isn't this the home of "security through obscurity isn't"?), but why would a less popular OS have better functionality?

You joke, but I tried running gentoo for a while...poor CPU was screaming nonstop.

So, your first point is absolutely spot-on. But, knowing that tipping is allowed to be considered as part of a server's pay so that there actual wages are well below minimum, knowing this is a huge, widely-spread problem, you still feel entitled to choose not to tip? And shit, not just for bad service but service that "wasn't above average"? You feel entitled to decide on a whim that maybe your server doesn't have enough to cover their car payment that month?

The system sucks, it's completely broken. But fucking over the below-minimum-wage wait staff is NOT the way to fix it.

I'm curious where the dividing line here is. AI generated voice actors are called out in TFA. How about AI-generated textures? NPC faces? Dialog? Music?

But what about the *code*? I guarantee you every single programmer is using AI in the code development process. Does that have to be disclosed? At which point, every single game will have the disclosure so what's the point? Why are AI art assets somehow more objectionable than AI code?

And finally, what about the latest generation upscalers like AMD FSR? Are we forgetting that those are all AI-driven? I've never heard anyone complain about that, but I guarantee they used just as many illegally-scraped copyrighted assets as any other AI tool.

Why exactly couldn't the drones have a SIM card and cell connection themselves? Or even better a satellite link?

Hoiy balls, how was this modded insightful? Mass shootings have absolutely NOTHING to do with "thug culture". "Thug culture" *might* increase *targeted* violence (though I am not aware of any data for or against that claim), but mass shootings are by definition not *targeted*. They are acts committed by mentally unwell individuals.

So what's different now from 40-50 years ago? Aside from the population more than doubling since then, the steady decline in real wages for low-income earners has certainly increased mental health issues. The disappearance of the single breadwinner, two parent middle class family. These days, social media both causing a whole raft of mental health problems and also luring those disturbed kids with the promise of fame. Meanwhile, guns are not any harder for an average kid to access. Just because they're not openly allowed in school anymore, kids can still get their parents untended guns. Unstable adults can still buy all the guns they want. Getting those guns on school is only a minor problem since (a) as TFS states, most of those expensive security systems don't work all that well and (b) if you go in shooting, detection systems don't matter much do they?

So we've been pushing for years to make power-hungry appliances like washer/dryers, dishwashers, and *refrigerators* more energy efficient. We put stickers on them with Energy Star certifications telling you how much power they use on average. But now we're going to run power-hungry AI for...reasons? And I guess it won't affect the efficiency rating, because that excess power is consumed at a data center somewhere, not your home. Humanity deserves to die off.

The why are you assuming anyone knows "what they say"?