Do coral reefs really matter though? Sure, it's a milestone, but not an existential one.

Yes, they absolutely do matter, and yes it is potentially an existential one. Coral reefs are the most biodiverse part of the seas and are the source of many of the ocean nutrients that get carried around the globe on currents like the AMOC, so they play an essential part in the overall ocean food chain that many people rely on to survive. Removing the coral reefs from those people's food chains would be akin to the impact of removing Alfalfa from the US food chain that ultimately leads to all that beef and dairy produce.

Also, if their primary food source is unable to support them, they're not likely to stay put and starve for the greater good, are they? Where do you think they are going to start marching towards?

The AMOC relies on a cycling of warmer water in the tropics and cooler water in the Arctic Circle to generate the circulatory current. The warm water flows north, cools and sinks below the thermocline, then flows back to the tropics. It is not a loop on the surface like tidal flows, but rather a loop in an elongated cross sectional view that stretches right around the Indian and Southern Oceans as well as the Atlantic and is, in effect, a gigantic natural heat pump moving energy from the tropics to the North Atlantic ocean. The basic idea behind the potential shutdown of the flow is that as the temperature differential declines, so does the energy in the system, resulting a slowdown of the current and, ultimately (if taken to a logical conclusion), it stopping altogether - just as a heat pump would once the temperatures on either side have the pump have equalised.

In terms of impact, there's a bit more to it than that to do with variations in salinity between different parts of the ocean, which in turn being compounded with the inflow of fresh water from the melting Arctic ice cap and (mostly) Greenland's glaciers, that it also bring nutrients essential for the supporting the marine life in the Atlantic, plays a key part in sequestering the vast amounts of CO2 the ocean captures into the deep ocean (which is a whole other feedback loop). Even if it doesn't stop altogether, but only slows significantly, the impact on the entire biosphere, and especially around the North Atlantic, is going to be profound.

It would actually be quite wrong to just say "funded by taxpayer!!". It's funded by a central EU funding pot, yes, but that pot is fed from more than the individual taxpayers titheing money to their governments, which then use it to pay their EU dues. Both the EU's central pot, and the individual state's exchequer, will are supplied by more than the taxpayer and will include investment returns (that money isn't just sitting in a vault around doing nothing until it's needed), fines including the multi-billion $ ones levied against Apple/Google/Meta/Microsoft, etc., the sale of criminal assets seized through disgorgement like Bitcoin and tangible goods such as cars and properties, foreign visa fees, and customs fees, just for starters.

There's almost certainly a full breakdown of the sources on Europa.eu if you wanted to go and look for it; pretty much all of the EU's operational processes and finances are in the public domain.

Amazon Photos has been doing this for many years.

What's the big deal?

DiSH Network staff reverse-engineered the TiVo software and thus infringed on TiVo's "Time Warp" patent when they developed their in-house DVR. They then repeatedly failed to disable the infringing DVR feature and kept getting contempt of court and new lawsuits brought against them.

Charlie Ergen is a gambler and he lost this one big time.

DiSH stole their DVR technology from TiVo. The massive lawsuit settlement between DiSH and TiVo is why TiVo hardware has lasted this long.

I called Verizon FiOS to cancel my TiVo's CableCard and they said I can keep it. They don't support it anymore.

Looks like their financial windfall from the DiSH Network patent suit has finally ran out.

I loved TiVo and used them for 25+ years but they really should have innovated better than they did. After the DiSH Network settlement they just kinda coasted along. Their exclusion of both DiSH and DirecTV satellite services from their programming was a stupid move, too.

Best excuse of the year.
That'll won't hold up in court, for sure.

They bricked all of my Squeezeboxes.
And then they stopped making the Trackman Marble.

I'm done with Logitech.

OK, then how do to install to air gapped machines like in secure environments or in a rural location?

Also, I dislike the name my directory becomes in C:\Users when installing with a Microsoft account.

I like using C:\Users\Kriston, not C:\Users\Kriston~whatever

More like "Tesla's Lead in Car Software Bugs Remains Unchallenged," am I right?

I was a member.

I eventually noticed they didn't offer alkaline batteries, just dry-cell mercury-oxide batteries so I quit being a member.

Can you *really* root them, or are you just installing Google Play?

Udvar-Hazy charges for parking but the museum entrance is free.