...the end of the end for the VGA port. It's probably been easily ten years since I've seen one on a laptop.

"Technology has allowed actors to make ridiculous amounts of money doing work once and then getting a cut of sales forever"

It's called "royalties". What does technology have to do with it? It's a practice that's been around since the most sophisticated piece of accounting technology was the pencil.

Not so much. The only thing that's being infringed up is his right to be a pain in the a$$. If he wished to silence his phone, he would have been welcome to continue to say whatever he wanted.

...the whole Nissan Computer story from 30 years back. A man named Uzi Nissan registered the domain nissan.com for his computer business. He then spent pretty much the rest of his life defending his right to the domain against Nissan Motors: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Government and traditional media are not arbiters of truth. The only arbiter of truth is the universe. If a statement can be verified by observing the universe, it's true. Else, it's false.

That's pretty much the end of the story.

The great thing about C as a language to learn programming is that it doesn't protect you from your mistakes. Making a mistake, seeing how it impacts the execution of the code and figuring out how to fix it is a great learning experience.

And Assembly Language. Understanding how a computer works at the level of the instruction set is invaluable.

...when they're calling something "iconic" and you can remember when it was brand new.

...Arthur Andersen when you need them?

I can't think of anything that would increase the lifespan of an iPhone than making the battery consumer-replaceable. I'm not likely to want to spend ~$90 to replace the battery in a four year old phone that's otherwise perfectly serviceable. But I'd definitely spend $25 to purchase a new battery that I could pop in myself.

...someone who calls me uses one of these, they get blocked.

Problem solved.

We need a law that prohibits counties (or other entities) that ban alternative energy projects from importing power from outside their borders.

"... that directs you to a random video when you don't know what to watch."

If you don't know what to watch, why not do something else that's not a pointless time sink?

In the right situation, this can be OK. Imagine you need to print a lot of stuff in a relatively short period of time (say...I don't know...maybe six months or less). Getting all the ink you need to do this for free* can offset the $85 purchase price of the printer. When the free ink deal ends, donate it to whomever will take it. The tax deduction will offset the purchase price even more.

* I have not read the fine print of the HP Plus contract, so I don't know if there's some limit on the free ink deal.

...ice cream, and mayonnaise, and soap. How do you make mayonnaise in the cloud? What does "cloud mayonnaise" taste like?