It's an opt-in feature if you want to use it. That doesn't mean it's opt-in if they want to use it. Don't forget that every contract you sign today has a clause that terms and conditions can be changed at any time. All they have to do is state it in the fine print of your bill. If you don't notify them that you don't accept the change, then it will be in force. If you disagree they may turn it off. But if you live in an area where that's your only high-speed internet option they can drop you as a customer and you're fucked.

Even if they tell you it was shut off, it likely won't be. Telecoms are notorious for doing things and saying, "whoops, it was a mistake" Back in the early 1990's I had an AT&T phone plan that allowed for 50 calls per month. I didn't call out much and it was a lot cheaper. I was traveling a lot for work, so I used auto-draft against my checking account. At some point I actually looked at my bill and discovered that I had an unlimited plan with caller ID and every option. When I called they told me their database got corrupted 3 months prior and everyone automatically got switched to this. After a fight with them they agreed to refund the difference. A year later I noticed my bill went up again. Apparently they were charging me for anonymous call rejection. I didn't even have caller-ID. I had to fight with them to refund that as well. I got an $800 phone bill sometime after that because they decided to bill me for an ISDN line. I'm pretty sure there's a satellite with my name on it from back then. ;-)

You must live in a different US than I do.Only three presidents have ever been impeached and not a single one of them resigned and all were acquitted by the senate.

FDR would take up a book of illegal actions. From the Japanese internment, warrentless surveillance, Lend-Lease without congressional approval, etc. No resignation

Eisenhower was probably the last great president we had. However he did overthrow the government of Iran and put the Shah back in power at the behest of England. Operation Wetback violated a lot of folks 4th amendment rights and the CIA went wild while he as in office. No resignation

Truman seized control of the US steel mills via EO during the Korean war. He also didn't go to congress for approval to go into Korea. No resignation

Kennedy used the CIA to monitor journalists in project mockingbird. Then there was the warrantless FBI wiretap he ordered on on MLK. No resignation.

Besides being one of the biggest piece of shit people to be president in modern times, LBJ used the FBI and CIA to surveil and wiretap his political opponents and war protestors.No resignation.

Nixon did actually resign, though what he did would end up in the back of the D section of most newspapers today. While impeachment proceedings had started, he was never actually impeached. He was the only president to ever resign

Carter was incompetent as a president, however I don't know of anything illegal during his administration. I always admired him as a person though.

Reagan had the whole Iran-Contra thing. No resignation.

George H. W. Bush was likely involved in Iran-Contra. I wasn't a fan of his at the time he was president, but in retrospect he was a better president than I felt at the time he was in office. No resignation.

Clinton was actually impeached and, unlike Nixon, didn't resign. While I know of no one who ever met him that didn't say he was an affable person, he committed perjury. The Clinton's walked out of the White House with almost $200k in "gifts" when they left. It violated the law, but no charges were ever filed. They returned $30k of them and paid $86k for the remainder. No resignation.

I don't think I need to say much about things that transpired after 9-11 with regards to GWB. No resignation.

Obama's extrajudicial killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan as well as al-Awlaki's son in a separate drone strike was pretty bad. Going into Libya without congressional approval with the intent to overthrow Gaddafi was a violation of the war powers act. The DOJ surveilling AP journalists violated the 1st amendment. There were no arrests from sending thousands of illegal weapons into Mexico but at least one american killed by those guns. No resignation.

Trump was impeached for withholding $400 million in aid to Ukraine and Jan. 6. No resignation. The SCOTUS and other federal courts slapped down several things he tried to do. No resignation.

As a senator Biden illegally removed classified documents and retained them. As VP he threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor investigating his son was fired. Multiple women accused him of assault over his career. His family business dealings are actually as, if not more blatant than Trump. His immigration polices would have gotten any president booted anytime prior to the last 20 years. We'd probably need half a dozen super computers to tally all of the rights violations that occurred in the name of covid during Biden's time as president. No resignation.

Trump 2.0, I'm not going to try to sort through what Trump has done at this point. The Judiciary branch of the government has ended much of it. Probably not enough for some . While folks complain about Trump attacking Iran, I didn't hear the same regarding Libya in 2011. The same law applies. Congress can't selectively apply laws. Regardless, there will be no resignation methinks.

I can go back to George Washington and up to modern presidents (obviously) and list illegal things they've all done. There was little fear of impeachment, ever. Hell, Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel on the White House lawn a few years before becoming president.

But WE'RE MICROSOFT, and we've decided that YOU WILL GO HERE today!

All our extremely cherry picked analytics data says it's what you really want, deep down, and you KNOW IT, so stop complaining! (Honestly, this is just like the whole "you got rid of our start menu" thing all over again-- Cant you people ACCEPT the new future of computing?!)

They'll ban you for expressing forbidden opinions. Opinions that are extremely fucking common outside of Reddit.

LK

I was auto suspended because I quoted a 30 year old statement supporting the rights of gays and lesbians that made reference to "LGB communities". I was accused of Trans erasure or some other stupid bullshit.

I hope the stock price falls low enough for Elon Musk to buy it for a song.

LK

1) "smaller" = "Bigger" (in terms of sales, and modern utility. This is exactly what I meant, UV Light has a threshold over which the structures are smaller than the wavelengths you are trying to use to make them. this means you have to use some kind of mask technology, and you get strange quantum effects from the photons doing things photons do when they are restricted by tiny masks.

2) You are forgetting something here, to make a tortured inference that doesnt really fit anyway. Most of the technology used in a fab is either precision electronics (needed to control the energizing source's true positioning to efficiently control its beam), which you can do with less sophisticated chips than the ones you are making. The inverse creates a chicken and egg problem, and is nonsense. You dont need 2nm tech to make 2nm tech. You can make 2nm chips with 14nm ones though. The knowledge of how to make and run fab machines is not to be discredited-- Japan's big LED rise came from a single guy repeatedly rebuilding and tinkering with a vapor deposition machine at a university in the US, where he was treated like ass, because he didn;t have a pHD. DO NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE TOO.

3) It is not a breakthrough. It's a milestone on independent progress that is occurring at a very quick pace. Again, you are proudly crowing about how big your old growth forest is, while discounting how quickly your competition is doing forestry work.

Correct. The correct response is to massively build out the west's capabilities, and drive down china's market cornering potential.

the problem is that the western countries seem hell bent on doing this the most grift-heavy ways possible, sabotaging every effort, and then wondering why none of those efforts actually produced useful chipfabs--- (at least on one side of the coin)

While simultaneously nodding cheekily to the above, siphoning off every last dollar of grift, purposefully refusing to create local chipfabs (because western workers are too expensive! OUR PROFITS!), and pretending that technological gatekeeping and effective monopolies on supplies are in any tangible way feasible. (On the other.)

China's advancements might be small, but they are meaningful.

Ours? Look big on paper, but mostly just waste time.

I seem to remember a fable about a tortoise and a rabbit written by some greek guy.... Maybe it's my imagination.

UV has a top limit, sure. But homegrowing that tech expands what they can do *now*, builds local knowhow on building fab machines, and primes them to not be as stymied when they move on to building more recent forms of lithography. (You cannot cut off their supply of asics to prevent the manufacture of better fabs)

You kids cant see the forest for the trees, complaining about the saplings china is planting being small, while croaking pridefully about how big your own trees are.

In time, china will dominate chipfab.

I stream a lot of what I watch and listen to, but I never got rid of my physical media or the players. I'm old and a lot of what I like to watch isn't on streaming. I have three full 400 disk DVD players in my living room and a Blu Ray player. I still buy movies on blu ray. My media room has a blu ray player and a couple 400 disk changers as well. There are 12 DVD or Blu ray drives or recorders in the computers in the room I'm sitting in currently. I haven't used them much in some time, but they work and I don't see any good reason to remove them. Plus I don't feel like looking for the block off plates for the cases. The computers in my living room as well as media room also still have Blu ray drives.

Streaming is convenient and works well on a phone. But to my old my eyes and ears streaming looks and sounds a lot worse than just a standard Blu Ray. As the old adage goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

It depends on a lot of factors. pressed CD's put physical pits in the metal layer of the disk. Burned CD's use a laser to alter the dye in the data layer.

Cheaply made or defective pressed disks can allow air into the metal layer and cause oxidization of the aluminum. Apparently there's also an issue with some cardboard packaging as it can contain sulfur. Pressed disks should last you a lifetime if stored properly.

Burned CD's have a huge range. I've seen cheap generic ones go bad in less than 2 years. There are archive grade disks that are rated for 100 to 300 years. They use a reflective layer that is less prone to oxidation as well as more stable dyes that don't discolor as easily as cheaper disks.

The labor participation rate has been trending down since the middle of 2000 when it peaked at 67.3. It dropped to 65.8 at the beginning of 2005, worked it's way back up to 66.4 after 2 years then started trending down until dropping to 66.1 by August of 2008. After which it fell off a cliff and continued dropping to 62.4 by 2015. It worked it's way back up from there to 63.6 until February 2020. Then Covid tanked the economy and we hit an all time low of 60.1 in April of 2020. It rebounded to 62.8 by November of 2023 and has continued the downward trend since.

The same labor participation nonsense was used after the 2008 crash as well. December 2023 it was at 62.5. It was at a post Covid high of 62.8 in November 2023. So I don't know why TFA chose December 2023. The last time it was this low was March of 2021. Outside of Trump's first term the participation rate hasn't been above 63 since 2014 and was on a 14 year downward trend by that point. The fact that it hasn't changed by more than 1.5% in the last 14 years isn't as concerning as the trend for the last 26 years.I don't recall anyone going crazy when the labor participation rate went from 65.7 in January 2009 to 62.5 by October 2015.

The reality is is that there hasn't been a roaring economy since before the dotcom bubble burst.

JIT emulation is also interpreted code. Not everything that is interpreted code is something high level, like javascript or python.

As for apple's relaxation of interpreted code, they still put the kabosh on most of the more useful applications of it.

Like JIT.
https://oatmealdome.me/blog/wh...

which is why I can still do more with my ancient pixel 4A, than you kids can do with your latest edition ipad/phone.

Apple's walled garden comes at a price.

I'll definitely give you these ones.

PDF manipulation on Android is *TRASH*, and windows 11 is a horrible operating system, that wants very much to treat you very poorly.

Sadly, device makers really *REALLY* do not want to open up their tablets for Linux like they should. Touch interface on linux might be a bit rough, but there are much better tools for office productivity and PDF manipulation for linux, than for either windows or android.

I just dont feel that I would be willing to fork out the extra dough for an apple tablet, where I would lose all manner of other functionality, just for PDF and office tasks.

While support is limited to a handful of models, due to a shortage of skilled maintainers, there are a few android tablets that support lineage OS, or postmarket OS.

Like OnePlus tablets, and Galaxy series tablets from samsung.
Good support from LineageOS for those. The Galaxy Tab A7, from 6 years ago, *IS STILL GETTING UPDATES* from Lineage, for instance.

LineageOS on android devices push their service lives *WAAAY* past what is normally doable. My now very ancient Pixel 4A is *STILL* getting monthly updates via LineageOS, for instance.

"nothing gets fixed"
Say again? What part of Monthly Updates did you not understand?

*IPv6 support*
My phone supports it natively. Dunno what you are going on about.

*superior AI*
This is a matter of personal preference, and I will assert that my preference trumps yours, when it comes to the device that *I* am using. Thank you very, very much.

*Able to play older games*
I can sideload on old android 2.x games on my phone fine-- Oh, wait, I said sideload, Thats a thing apple products cant do, isn't it? Awww.

*Unless they are old mac games, ironically*
Must really suck that Apple wont let you run interpreted code, huh? As for myself, I can run all kinds of stuff. Emulated game consoles, Winlator for older windows titles, BasiliskII for that classic mac experience you mentioned, ADosBox for classic DOS titles, all manner of stuff. Real shame apple doesn't let *ANY* of that play on their products!

*Able to use UNIX tools because its UNIX*
You do know that you can in fact get access to the console, without rooting, on android devices, right? There's any number of solutions for that, of varying quality, from the playstore-- and if you dont like any of those, you can sideload (Ohh--- there it is again!) F-DROID and get direct-compiled FOSS tools.

*Superior Hardware*
In what ways, exactly? They are all sealed units that you cant easily open, All have unremovable batteries, etc. If you mean "It has an alumalloy frame", I hate to burst your bubble, but there are plenty of such tablets in the android offering space. A great many android devices are built around very mature 3D rendering capable graphics chips as well, so when you load up things like Winlator, you can actually do D3D games on them. Not terribly well, since its ARM64 emulating an X86-64 CPU, but good enough for most things that you would actually find pleasurable to play on a tablet form factor.

*High performance graphically and otherwise for the cost*
Look above in the comments for how a savvy buyer saved over 1000$ buying an android tablet, then get back to me on that.

It also blocks all those dildo popup ads when I'm looking for pirate software!

Thank goodness for Texas!