Definitely a feature. I would pay extra for a phone or tablet without any biometrics, or at least with the biometrics disabled at a hardware level.

A good alphanumeric password in your head that you type in beats any biometric authentication which you may be compelled to provide.

If the prospect of having to breath through your butt doesn't convince the vaccine hesitant to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots, nothing will.

For additional fear, threaten to feed anti-vaxxers Taco Bell if they end up being hospitalised.

After all since they don't care much about the environment on Earth, a lot less money is needed for making habitable infrastructure on Mars to support them. It's a win-win! :)

Here is yet another stupid idea. Each year when we fall back in the fall we turn our clocks back by 1 hour and 5 mins in order to make up for the hour we lost when we spring forward in the spring, plus 8.33% interest.

Seriously though, rather than all of these daylight savings schemes, just stick to year-round standard time like many countries and some states and provinces.

Standard time is the closest time to astronomical time, in that in the ideal middle of a time zone, noon is the middle of the day in the midpoint between sunrise and sunset, and midnight is the middle of the night in the midpoint between sunset and sunrise.

Both noon and sunset have real astronomical meaning and we should set our clocks reasonably close to it.

For those of you advocating for year-round daylight savings, this is the wrong approach. Instead just shift school, work, and other activities including TV shows one hour earlier if that is more convenient, rather than FU*K with our clocks.

A way to completely remove Microsoft bloatware from the OS including: bing, cortena, & store.

Operating systems should be as clean as possible.

If anyone want this or any other crap, they should download and install it.

Unlike running Linux as a guest VM in VMware or VirtualBox, WSL2 does not provide its Linux guest VM with access to USB hardware devices such as mass storage, smart card readers, HID devices, etc.

So even if one uses WSL2 for Linux development, if one's applications uses USB devices, then you are out of luck if you want to test within WSL2.

CCP (Chinese Communist Party) who's policies are solely to blame for creating the unsafe conditions in wet markets which allowed the virus to mutate from bat to human, and surpressing action during the first critical weeks to stop its spread.

Many residential condo buildings have started to ban Airbnb due, to concerns of having a continuous stream of new visitors coming in and out, and increasing exposure of long term residents to the CCP coronavirus in common areas such a entrances, hallways, stairs, elevators, etc.

Especially when you consider that residential buildings and especially individual apartments which Airbnb uses are typically not professionally cleaned and disinfected to the same degree and frequency as most decent hotels which have permanent cleaning staff.

This measure can be seen as a propaganda tool by Airbnb against increasing bans. Especially when you consider that existing hotels are experiencing record vacancies due to the CCP coronavirus pandemic.

Since Microsoft deserves a big reward from the government for their NSA support, which went above and beyond any regard for customer privacy and customer security.

After all Microsoft installed backdoors into Windows and also placed telemetry not only into Windows 10, but also back ported telemetry to older Windows versions via critical Windows Updates that users typically install for security fixes.

In a transitional period...

The first essay that students should submit should be carefully written by hand for a human teacher to review and score.

And the second essay that students should submit would be automatically generated by a collective/shared "A.I." system for the automated essay scoring systems to review and score.

The marks assign to students would be based on the first essay. Meanwhile the collective essay generating A.I. would keep improving until it gets a perfect score from the automated scoring system on all essays it generates.

Then we can have an intelligent discussion on whether or not we need humans to write essays for automated scoring systems or not, when A.I. writing systems can do it better.

Or decide as a society if there is any value in just letting humans just write essays for other humans.

On a side note, teachers are being pressured to use automation whenever possible, regardless of how bad it is, due to budget cutbacks and increasing class sizes as a result of given tax breaks to the rich. Remember that Amazon makes billions and does not pay corporate tax.

Expect to see Tawain, East China sea including the Spratly islands, the Senkaku Islands, and other Chinese territorial claims which are not internationally recognised, all indicted in Huawei maps as all part of China.

It is quite clear with the Chinese government backlash against Canada for the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, that Huawei is deeply tied to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). So they will make sure that Huawei OS and preloaded apps will reflect CCP policies.

I would also except any children's apps related to Winnie-the-Pooh to be banned from the Huawei app store.
 

Not of much use, since most small purchases in Hong Kong are typically done in cash, so the cost of a couple transit rides won't typically be detected.

The only way to counter this is for consumers to also rent out their money they use for rented products.

If we can't own our devices, why should corporations be allowed to own our money?

I would toss in software as a separate company: iOS, Mac-OSX, iWorks, etc.

Microsoft to their credit can run their OS on older hardware.

But Apple abandons old hardware as quickly as they can, and doesn't even provide a paid software upgrade option for security fixes, or unlocks the bootloader to allows users to install alternative OS (such as Linux or Android) on older but still decent hardware.

We are still making money in the short term by overcharging suckers, while losing market share, and also pushing iOS developers away from the Macs they required.

This is the problem with the short term thinking and incentive structures in western multi-nationals corporations, who only care about the next quarter or so. Which is typically done at the expense of long term business viability.