I remember the good, black Thinkpads, although the keyboard was poor, even if it spread out. The red mouse button was too slow or too inaccurate for normal use.
I seem to be alone that I use external monitor, keyboard and mouse, so these do not matter when I look for a machine to buy. I only use the battery as UPS, so that does not matter either. It must be Linux-friendly, have enough RAM, storage, and the thicker the better. If it is heavy, so what.

I thought inertia means the response when you suddenly add or remove load on the network.

How much more inertia does a 200 MW generator have than 200 MW of wind generators with their blades?
For solar, a capacitor or battery of any technology can act the same as inertia. Such storage is already a priority.

Walling off the street is secessary for your safety. Think of the children!

I too have a car with this in the EU but mine can be turned off permanently, thank God, even if I have no intention of speeding excessively.
On the highway it "recognizes" the sign on the exit and insists that instead of 130 km/h, I must go at 40 for the next hour. Imagine how dangerous it would be if it suddenly brakes down to that, in the middle lane, even if I can then override it somehow. Of course, if there is a junction, it does not reset the limit as it should, even if it knows about the junction from the map.

It seems logical that the media corporations have been using software for a while to data-mine existing successful songs to generate "new" ones. It gives more short-term profit than investing in random human singers.

I saw bad news for crypto in the last couple of days, value going way down. They are trying to prop up the value for a day or two until they can dump their assets.

I would be disturbed if my car filled my garage and house with exhaust because I or my kid pressed some keys on the fob.

It is obvious that many people are locked into a mode of thinking where combustion is somehow evil no matter what. If the planes that use synthetic fuel do not contribute anything to the carbon levels and climate then what is the problem? Their effect is the same as if they used batteries, the small difference is that this is possible and battery power is not, for airliners.

My experience multiple times is that by the time I buy some gadget in a shop, the model is already purged from the manufacturer's site like it never existed. There are links to drivers that used to be there but removed. They only have support and drivers for the next generation that they are introducing in the USA or somewhere next week.

I have seen somewhere that the plaintiff's lawyer is David Boies. I remember him from Groklaw. Slashdotters surely know how honest he is.

Instead of pumping it under the ground, they should synthesize oil from it with renewable energy. Oil is still a good energy storage medium. Carbon-neutral fuel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Due to the high radiation, they can not use high density memory chips. At first the landing control software filled it completely. Only after the landing did they replace it with the drivers for the motors and cameras so it could start moving. I suppose the actual upload does not need so much time, it must be a lot of hacking on the software in the meantime, testing and approval.

What about a limit where a minority of the population can not overthrow the government, but a majority can. To keep it in this range, a good feedback loop is needed though that I have not seen anywhere in practice.

So if I call the police to catch the thief of my phone and they arrest him, this gives them the right to search through my phone. I needed this to be safe from those thieves!