Surely if buying Chrome is a "malicious actor's dream come true" then $20B would be the deal of the century and your comment that "Only an idiot or China would pay $20B for Chrome" doesn't make sense

The old names will remain in synonymy so they don't get lost. So what is the point? Also renaming a species can sometimes be a lot harder than people imagine. The name of the species places it a taxonomic tree and when there are disagreements (e.g. someone may have been unsure and simply identified the specimen to genus level). If the whole genus is renamed (e.g. Hibbertia) then it's not a particularly hard problem to solve, but if something goes from, say, subspecies to species with a different name it's an enormous amount of work. And what for? The original name will be retained as a synonym anyway

If you install using a local account it's not enabled. Maybe this is what you did?

The only reason I'm using Windows 11 is because 4K support is so much better on Windows 11 compared to Windows 10. Apart from the overall better support I'd have switched from 10 to 11 just for the more legible text (i.e. better fonts and/or font rendering)

Maybe I read things too literally, but somehow I don't think the craters were actually getting larger and larger

That wouldn't even cover my coffee expenses :(

Insurance and backups, yes. But that's not the point. I won't go into theft statistics either, because that's not the point either and I have no idea about what they are. The point is that these are perfectly good laptops being destroyed for no real reason at all and going to landfill (yeah, yeah, some parts might be recycled). It's an environmental disaster

So what causes the red shift in distant objects?

Are they personality prototypes too?

The problem is that any modern desktop-oriented distro of Linux also installs a whole lot of software that I'll never use (Gentoo and Arch are probably the only exceptions to the norm and they're not aimed at the general public anyway). Sure, I could go ahead and uninstall the useless stuff that Linux installs, but why bother? And the stuff Linux installs uses a lot more disk space than the Windows 10 health check (about 900 KB including the start menu link) if that's a concern.

I just ran it and it seems to do nothing that Windows 10 doesn't already do except put a bunch of things that used to be in different locations, or required the command line, into a single location. It doesn't even seem to be connecting to the internet unless you click on the related links at the bottom (at least that's the only way I can get my firewall to notice any activity).

Why is Microsoft insisting on these dark patterns to try and fool users into creating a MS account? It's almost, but not quite, as bad as the ridiculous onedrive set up that unless you're really careful moves many of your files onto the "cloud". Hint: I want a local account, I do not want my files on the cloud, I don't want my laptop desktop synced with my main computer (who came up with that ridiculous idea?) These dark patterns are offensive

Maybe. Robots like this tend to get tested in New Zealand first, before being deployed in the US. Sort of a scale model test.

Pretty easy for them to re-use a remote controlled car. They probably just didn't think of it.

A classic one with sensors is to detect no signal at all and mark the sensor as non-functional. I wonder if the miners in this case found a way to simulate normal demand?