FWIW, many of us outside the US don't think of the US as a country manufacturing high quality goods. For those, you'd go to Germany, Switzerland, Japan, or Taiwan. Or even China. The US is the country where anything goes. Cars being one example - clunky, low quality, low tech/gas guzzling, poor to drive vehicles of enormous sizes. A US company optimizes for low production quality vs. warranty costs, it doesn't optimize for high quality and see warranties as a failure.

Now, having lived and worked in the US I know that this is only a part (the largest) of the story - you can get anything of any quality. But "Made in the US" is certainly not a positive stamp, even before your orange demi-god alienated the civilized part of the world.

You can argue that there is equilibrium right now - companies are selling and buying, it's just not at a price point consumers like. Thus we lower our demand.

You are considering the current AI tech as "... junk". Many others aren't, that's why there is a gold rush - many see the value, and that it keeps on improving. Fast. Others again just go for the gold rush. Personally, I see it as a very valuable tool in my arsenal. It's not the only one, but it's a good, multi-purpose one. And it definitely needs to be checked, but the good ones give you references you can and should check when providing information - and for coding, it gives you what you ask for. Which has finally led to improvements in one of my pet peeves - people are starting to provide better and testable requirements.

Is there a bubble? I think so. Will it pop? Yes, I think so - it will be reminiscent of the dot-com bubble. Many will go bust, and the world is changed by the remaining companies over time.

This is not like the crypto bubble, where the end value is 0.

Doesn't the bill of rights restrict the government, rather than businesses or individuals? Thus, regulations on this kind of surveillance / stalking needs separate legislation - like the European GDPR. In lack thereof, the separate question is whether law enforcement can buy information they're not legally allowed to create themselves.

Hard to say. When comparing the deaths from covid in the US and Norway per capita, there are approximately 890 k extra deaths in the US. That's obviously not all Trump, though. Norway has a much better health care system, and a much smaller percentage of idiots. And while the latter obviously caused Trump, it's not set in stone that the latter caused the increased mortality in the former by making them refuse vaccines, ignore mask mandates etc. There's more correlation than causation here.

Also, here's a rare gem - Trump did something good with operation Warp Speed.

The current GOP is not left. They're extreme right at the moment - fascist-adjacent is not "minimal state". There's nothing conservative left, it's been consumed by right wing populism with a mix of fascism The current administration. It's corruption, populism, fascim, racism, disdain for knowledge, and plain stupidity in an ugly mix.

Wouldn't the OpenJDK versions of these be supported by enterprise Linux vendors, like Red Hat or SUSE?

Granted, I don't see the "ELS-1" (extended life support) for the newest ones, but I'm unaware of whether that is because it hasn't been set yet or because there won't be any - unlike the previous OpenJDK versions.

Under this administration, you know the underlying cause is they didn't pay off Trump, his family, and his cronies.

It's sickening how corrupt the US has become. Sure, one can argue it's been bad - but Trump has turned it up to 20, on a scale from 1-10 - just bulldozing through any limits one thought existed. "Want a pardon? Sure, buy some millions in Trump coin and it's yours." Or just giving himself a giant slush fund via a settlement with his underlings.

You pay for them in Norway too, unless you're a health care worker in contact with patients or in one of the at-risk groups - old people, people with chronic diseases etc.

Some employers will offer them for free - it's common for kindergartens and consultants, for different reasons. The cost is usually around 30 - 40 USD.

Whole milk isn't much of a problem - as long as it's pasteurized. The brain worm is hawking raw milk.

Not necessarily. If you magically decrease the cost of a development effort by 90%, a lot more projects will be done. The ROI of an effort isn't only affected by the return, but also the investment.

15 GB has been enough for me. My oldest email is from 1999, as I imported some older email as accounts - and I've used it since the beta invitation phase.

If I had photos there too it would not be enough, I've got hundreds of gigs of photos and movies - but those are on iCloud where I do have to pay. I've got a local copy on my NAS as well, but the added convenience and safety is worth it. There many memories there, for decades.

The ironic part is that they claim to be against DEI because one should select the most qualified candidate... and they end up with least qualified(*) cabinet ever. You can't go lower than e.g. Hegseth and Kennedy - the worm must have eaten most of his brain. And others - who probably know better - pretend not to. E.g Bessent pretending not to know who pays tariffs.

(*)Except for boot licking, of course. That's on North Korean levels in the US now.

The storage is not just used for the inbox, but the archive as well.

Doing some research seems to indicate that it's related to a 14 day trial period of games - so one can't download a trial, disconnect the console, and play beyond the 14 days. After 14 days, the authentication is converted to a permanent one.

Beyond that, I'm also trying to see why it's a problem - the combination of a downloaded game purchase and no Internet access sounds rare. And if offline gaming is important, physical games are usually cheaper and shouldn't have that problem.