My Sony circa 2020 has got so bad I only use the power button on it, and even that is from a non-Sony remote. When I got it was great, loaded Kodi on it and could do everything I wanted. Then it got flaky to the point Kodi would no longer run. I moved to a couple of set top boxes thru a couple of the HDMI ports and ignored all the 'smart' features. Then it decided change HDMI port was too difficult so I moved to an external HDMI switch. So everything works great on a Sony if you only use the power on/off feature.

If the power on/off becomes to hard for it I will save the Sony for the guest room when I have guest staying who I don't want over staying their welcome.

Yea, that sounds like a typical USA vehicle company. Meanwhile here in New Zealand, where fuel prices have increase 90% thanks to trump, last month sales saw in new EV registrations increase 380%, with the limiting factor being suppliers running out of stock.

I wonder what country the hackers are in and if they have state connections? Chinese government, like most governments, has double a standard when it comes to hacking. So while they have no problems with their own hackers operating against offshore targets I doubt they will take it well once if they work out which country to blame for this.

If the hackers are based in the USA it would not help relations between them but given how bad they are I guess little would come of it. On the other hand if they are in Russia it could cause friction and Russia is really relying a lot on China right now.

Should be interesting to see how this unfolds politically.

Ok I see the problem here. We are using different definitions of word 'Invade'. The Oxford dictionary defines it as "(of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it.". In that sense your point is valid. My view is different where I take stance that invasion is to forceable take over land to claim ownership of it. Annex might be a better word for what I meant.

The big point is Russia is trying to take ownership of Ukraine, like it has done in many places before. Where as nobody in recent history has tried to claim ownership of Russian. Going back to your post that being a nuclear power does not prevent invasion and then using Ukraine as example, it is a bad example. In Ukraine's example the nuclear deterrent does not apply because if Russia nuke Ukraine it will likely have same result as surrender. Read up on The Holodomor for what Russia did to Ukraine in the past if really don't understand why the Ukrainians are fighting so hard. I have lived in Ukraine for while, pre-war, and visited a museum on the subject. The Ukraine attacks of Russia are because Ukraine has nothing to lose, their choice is risk a fast death vs a likely slow death after surrender. Being a nuclear power is an effective deterrent to invasion from countries that have something to lose in a counter attack i.e MAD.

No they didn't invade Kursk, your statement is gas lighting. Ukraine used tactical options in the war Russia started to force Russia to change their resource allocation and to give them leverage in future peace negotiations. Ukraine said from the start they had no long term interest in the region.

It does make it likely that more investment will be made in pipelines to bypass the strait of Hormuz over the coming years, but the more immediate effect is a huge surge in interest in BEVs accelerating the already underway transition away from oil dependency.

So the history lesson is to hope trump will get distracted by China and he dies there?

I think real difference is Genghis Khan and Alexander is they where actually trying to meet an objective that was not "Stop talking about the Epstein files". So in that respect trump as been more successful that Genghis Khan and Alexander already having changed his historic head line from "The person who became president despite his close association with a convicted pedophile" to the "The person who screwed the whole world economy over on oil prices in a single day".

I was wondering the same thing. Do they have many timer travelers there, or maybe aging is different there. It could explain K-Pop. Neither the Doctor nor Benjamin Button are from there, I wonder if they were also subject to annual age re-verification?

Looks like they think they have passed the point where they need more customers and are now going to start the process of milking them for what they can get. Let the enshitification begin.

I used to think NASA was this cutting edge operation, but hearing they use Microsoft Windows kind of kills my option of them as a leader in technology. Decades ago I came to the option that Windows should never be used on a system you needed to depend on. Nothing I have seen from them since has changed that option. I really hope they don't use Microsoft software it comes to mission critical systems, and for those they use something robust. The idea that astronauts lives would depend something running Microsoft would in my option be criminal neglect.

It is one of AI most compelling use cases and you don't even have to actually use AI. AI is the perfect excuse for humans that laid other humans off while pretending it is not simple cost cutting and downsizing. Sounds better to investors than telling the truth.

Isn't saying "US Paves Way..." weird for 401(k) news? It make it sound like the US is doing something that affects the world, but 401(k) is US only, so that part of the headline is redundant. Outside the US many people don't even know what 401(k) is. In my case I assume from context it is something to do retirement funds and I am guessing like their health care system it is tied into your employment since your only value in the US appear only be linked to your employment history, not your citizenship. The reason I assume is because I have zero motivation to actually learn about it.

All valid points. Different changes happen at different rates. There is a growing push to do more trade based on a different currency, though it is still currently on a small scale. It is a space to watch.

Likewise the oil industry has the world over a barrel, pun intended, but the move to electrification is already having a minor impact on that. The current crisis is reminding people of how risky that is and there is real surge in the motivation to change. It has already been a tipping point on BEV car sales with dealers in many regions suddenly running low on stock. I think this change is pretty predictable at this point.

Still such changes will be too slow to avoid the dire prediction you have made, but maybe it can be softened or the recovery quickened.

Interestingly the world is working overtime to decouple from the USA as we can all see where it heading and we don't want to go down with it. Sure the USA now is about 20% of the global economy so it's dumb moves will always have an effect globally, but hopefully we can minimise that before the AI bubble bursts.

They do large models targeted at people who play in their livingroom. Not sure how large they go, I have a 55" one i brought about 4 years ago as my primary PC monitor. They make good monitors as they typically do not have imaging processing features to mess up the image quality and resolution.