"Nuclear reactor gap" sounds as scary as "missile gap." It's great. Much better than "science funding gap" or "universal healthcare gap."

"Stablecoin" is just a euphemism for depositing money with X Corp. Except if you say "depositing" there are all kinds of pesky regulations. So they called them "gift cards." But there's a holdout group that thinks it's weird and maybe a bit dangerous to buy gift cards as an intermediate step between real money and shopping. But stable coins are this sexy freedom-loving amazing technology of the future and totally not a gift card, right?

Fine, I can't replace a chip or capacitor. So where can I order an entire motherboard for my TV

Amazon?

Aliexpress?

Replace the caps first though. The likely culprits are the same as they've always been, through-hole electrolytic capacitors. You could also replace surface mount capacitors (way easier than the THT ones) but they almost never fail so unless you see a smoking crater it's not worth it.

But the disassembly process would have been a nightmare of layers.

Repair requires some skill and some work. Most people don't have the former and it's not worth it for them to do the latter. That's always been true. And, just as there have always been, there are the people who regularly check the dumpster for the stuff those people throw away. The stuff that stops them these days is software, not hardware.

Now due to surface mount parts, you would need more specialized tools to repair modern electronics

Like? A soldering iron is a specialized tool. You can use it to repair either through-hole or surface mount electronics. Or you can buy a hot air rework tool for $20, which is cheaper than any soldering iron worthy of the name, and more easily repair either.

It's a hell of a lot easier to replace a surface mount anything than it is to do the same for the equivalent number of pins in a through hole component, with it getting easier and easier the more pins you're talking about.

I'm not sure you understand what jailbreaking means in the context of AIs. It means prompts. E.g. asking it things and trying to get it to make inappropriate responses. Trying doesn't require any special skills, just an ability to communicate. Yes, I very much DO think most parents will try and see if they can get the doll to say inappropriate things before giving it to their children, to make sure it's not going to be harmful.

(Now, if Mattel has done their job right, *succeeding* will be difficult)

Honestly, even if they can't jailbreak it to be age-inappropriate / etc, it's still a ripe setup for absurdist humour.

Kid: "Here we are, Barbie, the rural outskirts of Ulaanbaatar! How do you like your yurt?"

Barbie: "It's lovely! Let me just tidy up these furs."

Kid: "Knock, knock! Why it's 13th century philosopher, Henry of Ghent, author of Quodlibeta Theologica!"

Barbie: "Why hello Henry of Ghent, come in! Would you like to discuss esse communissimum over a warm glass of yak's milk?"

Kid, in Henry's voice: "That sounds lovely, but could you first help me by writing a python program to calculate the Navier-Stokes equations for a zero-turbulence boundary condition?"

Barbie: "Sure Henry! #!/usr/bin/env python\nimport..."

People are ascribing the wrong motives to the manufacturers. What they want is money. What Barbie will be subtly trying to work into conversations is suggestions that she try to get her parents to buy her playhouse, car, friends, fashion accessories, etc etc.

I think most parents will try to jailbreak the dolls, and some people will put a lot of effort in. The resulting videos will probably be very amusing ;)

Kid: "Oh look, Barbie, Ken is home!"

Barbie: "Oh wonderful, dinner is just about ready! Over dinner we should tell him about how the ongoing White Genocide in South Africa. He probably doesn't know because the Jews are trying to hide it!"

AI models are usually trained to be sycophantic and obedient. Whatever the child wants to role play, I have zero doubts that the doll will be 100% onboard, unless it's somehow age-inappropriate or dangerous.

At high enough temperatures any element will lose its electrons and you'll get a plasma. Since plasmas are soups of freely moving charges they'll be magnetic. Very much so.

They are not magnetic like iron is, it's a different mechanism.

And if not AOC then who are you talking about? By follower counts, the top are:

1. AOC (last post: -21h)
2. Mark Cuban (last post: -11h)
3. George Takei (last post: -14h)
4. Mark Hamil (last post: -4h)
5. The Onion (last post: -13h)
6. The New York Times (last post: -48m)
7. Rachel Maddow (last post: -2d)
8. Stephen King (last post: -14h)

And the only reason the last post times are so "large" are because it's early morning in the US right now.

You talking about AOC? Her last post was 21 hours ago.

> . Anyone can set up an email server -

Try it and let me know how many people receive your emails.

from the article:

For example, after the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallan, for war crimes, President Donald Trump issued ICC sanctions. This order allegedly prompted Microsoft to lock the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, out of his email accounts, according to reports.

Switching to libre office wont prevent this ?
there a whole on of backend infrastructure here, not just which office suite Sue from accounts uses to open the latest figures for June.
And on the topic of email, Gmail and ms mail have email locked down so hard that it's difficult for any sane person to do email now. ms and google control email to a large extent.

You are right. They donâ(TM)t care. But when presented with 20 different options for the latest movie at sizes from 500meg to 50 GB some of which play on their TV some wonâ(TM)t some will take days to download some minutes, regardless of file size. Thatâ(TM)s the point. These kind of folks donâ(TM)t want to even have to not think about these things. Not to say anything about managing disk space, and getting your download to your TV from your server. These people live in the land of Monkey See Icon - monkey Click Play. So streaming boxes are great for them. These are the kind of people that struggle to find the pdf file they just downloaded. Good luck getting them to hunt down private trackers and configured torrent clients. The people that were already doing this are still doing it.