This is going to fail bigtime. Nobody will move there for jobs. As a tech professional, I would rather eat glass than live in a flyover state. I have in-demand skills and I have zero desire to live in places that are small minded, lack immigrants, and lack interesting and rich culture. The tech sector is chock full of diverse immigrants and unique people who have no desire to live in a conformist mono-chromatic culture. Tech talents don't want to eat breakfast at the Waffle House.

The other thing I don't get is using apps for everything.

I mean, I get it from the manufacturer's point of view. It means they can update things as they please retrospectively and possibly add new charges for functionality or services and/or implement spyware after the sale.

But from a user's point of view, why would I ever want my new home solar power and battery installation that has an expected working life of at least 20-30 years to be dependent on some random phone app to configure it? How many people had smartphones 20-30 years ago? How many people will still have them in 20-30 years? Exactly.

Nothing wrong with providing an app as well for the convenience of those who want it. But anything that is a permanent appliance or fixture in my home and doesn't fundamentally require external connectivity to do its job still needs to have 100% of its functionality available locally as well, without relying on external connectivity or any separate hardware or software platform for the UI.

When there is functionality that really does need remote connectivity, like say a power system that integrates with my electricity provider that offers flexible, demand-based pricing, there should be open standards for how these remote interactions work and it should still be possible to see and do everything else locally.

The world would be a much better place if governments and regulators promoted this kind of future-proof approach but sadly the public sector tends to lag so far behind in its awareness and understand of tech issues that it's not very effective at dealing with them.

Do you realize you had an intrusive thought, wrote it down and started railing against something that nobody said? This is literally Trump Derangement Syndrome. Please, see a therapist. CBT does wonders for people in your situation. Don't suffer needlessly. It doesn't have to be like this.

They're not in the home gym business. They're in the data harvesting and selling business.

Your data is worth more than the profit margin on their exercise equipment.

This is the world now, and you cheered it on all the way.

Even Google won't allow you to watch random Youtube videos any more without "sign in to prove you're not a robot". Google, the original evil privacy rapist.

We got a solid ten years out of them before they went evil, I guess that's pretty good. LLMs are where Google used to be in the year 2000, an improvement on search engines that blow the existing products away. Remember how awful search engines used to be? Then Google delivered actual good results. Then they took away the + and - operators and started censoring politically inconvenient content by removing it or demoting it to page 137 of results.

At last someone is willing to tell off the little people to their faces. It's heartening to see even in this day and age of open nullification of federal power in California and others that someone supports the US government. You tell those deplorables how it is! Speak truth to the powerless!

The curriculum no longer teaches these dead white European men. In their place are Ibram X. Kendi and Gloria Steinem. Kids want to study scholars who look like them. Not pale, male and stale. "Sorry submitted by alternative_right. Oh , I see. Slashdot made the jump to full national socialist. Jew rape gangs, am I right? And Israel is racist apartheid state. Anything else to add,natzees? I thought your only book of philosophy besides the Bible was My Struggle by that failed Australian painter.

This is 100% pure "AmeriKKka First" Trumpism. Donald trump is Hitler. Congratulations, you're a horrible person.

Negative. The bird issue was from environmentalists.

Now tell us your conspiracy theory about how the fossil fuel industry secretly funds them. And then your other theory about how Jews ran a child rape operation against Americans for the benefit of Israel. Do you have a newsletter we can subscribe to? Someone with important ideas like your must not be silenced!

What happened to the drinkypoo account? It was always solidly left and on the side of the little guy. Here it is cheering for the boot if oppression. You don't expect this bootlicking behavior by leftists until COVID.

Who decided that? You? You just casually decided to genocide our cultures and mash us all together without asking us first? That is the soul of globalism. WE DO NOT CONSENT!

The rsilvergun account stirring up xenophobia and anti-immigrant hate on behalf of the wealthy techbro class in America.

I never thought I'd see the day.

The Opera team was all fired or laid off or something in this big drama. So the old Opera is now called Vivaldi. . It's just a skin of Chrome, like everything is these days. Eh, I use it. It's better than the others.

What I don't get is why the Left isn't cheering wildly. The USA is the most racist warmongering genocide-in-Gaza-supporting country in the world. I mean, imagine sending C-17s full of machetes to the Hutu in Rwanda, the US sent bombs to Israel.

The US is ethnic cleansing with ICE.

"If we strike first and our victim dares to fight back, then weâ(TM)re the ones being attacked." The United States is a brutal and immoral actor in the world and has been longer than any of us have been alive. To wave the flag at a pro-immigrant rally would be to somehow suggest that the country the flag represents is worth celebrating, and it is not. Left-wing protestors donâ(TM)t carry American flags because carrying the American flag is a symbol of support for the United States of America, its government and its actions, of condoning its project in whole or in part, and left-wing people (like me) canâ(TM)t do that because the United States is a brutal and immoral actor in the world and has been longer than any of us have been alive. To wave the flag at a pro-immigrant rally would be to somehow suggest that the country the flag represents is worth celebrating, and it is not. Itâ(TM)s not for many reasons, the most direct and salient of which is that no country on earth has caused more wanton destruction, cruelty, and degradation of freedom and democracy Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.

America is based on demonizing whole groups of people (migrants, Muslims, independent women, LGBTQP people).

This is the basis for all your horrible politics and terrible policies.

Why did we bomb Iran? That wasn't in our interests. It was in Israel's interests. Jews control us and can even overrule Trump. Incredible. It's AIPAC, an illegal unregistered foreign agent, that does it.

You don't understand standing up for your principles even though it's inconvenient? I pity you.