I already said that in my original post.

Just what the fuck do you think I don't know?

Let me make this simple for you: Microsoft refuses to install Windows 11 the laptop. Support for Windows 10 is ended. I already told you I'm not jumping through stupid hoops to extend support for a mere 10 more months.

There may be shady workarounds for all of those known to MS MVPs, but this thread was supposed to be about the average Joe who allegedly can't figure out how to attach a printer to a Linux box.

Well it's not like the predictive power of a physical exam is all that great. So you might be looking at a big impact on your lifestyle or career based on a false or small increase in risk (you tell yourself).

I know in military aviation there are games people play to avoid getting kicked off the flight line.

or to the point, the King Air 200's certification does not require a copilot. Pilot incapacitated, you're hosed. I guess it makes sense this technology would start near the upper end of single-pilot aircraft.

They all continue to work just fine as a thermostat

They do not continue to work "just fine". The product you bought was called a Nest Learning Thermostat. The remote control function by app was always a critical part of the product, and the reason you paid $300 for a Nest instead of $10 for a mercury switch t.stat.

An API change is an arbitrarily unnecessary change specially designed to create incompatibility to use as an excuse.
As noted: the functions of a thermostat have not changed. And if in fact an API change had been necessary would ordinarily
be introduced end to end for any thermostats regardless of model number - Google controls the software at both ends, so
they are fully capable of ensuring all thermostats they ever made would have a compatible interface.

This is the standard usage pattern where a manufacturer changes the Functions of the "Smart" product after sale so that you have to start paying more for the smart function.

In this case; the $300 Nest lasting 5 years before Google turns it off amounts to an equivalent of a $60 per year sub.

So mount new radars on the most distant wind turbines. Then they'll get an even earlier warning on the incoming Belgian drones.

Never leave a tip on the credit card line. I --always-- put $0 and then put cash on the table or in the card-folio.

Sometimes I'll do it that way, sometimes I put it on the credit line. However, there's one chain of coffee shops where I'll always put the cash on the table, because the lowest tip percentage available is more that I think is proper for a tip except for extraordinary circumstances.

The Windows 10 partition on my laptop doesn't "work" anymore like the Linux partition does (and Windows 11 won't work at all). If I ever do boot into Windows on that machine again, I'm going to have to airgap it (no, I'm not going to jump through their increasingly silly hoops to "extend" support).

I guess the average Joe would just keep running that unpatched OS as usual indefinitely, since ignorance is bliss.

I think that one was more about image persistence. Old screens flashed one bright image each frame. Then LCDs showed the frame the entire time and suddenly animals could perceive it as more than a strobe light.

It was never about high FPS in a vacuum, but people don't know that so it just becomes HFR=bad for them. The thing missing is *shutter speed* needs to also adjust. By no means is it static, but if you show people 24fps @ 1/48 shutter and then 48fps @ 1/96 shutter, they won't be complaining about soap opera effect.

The challenge is that you need to do shooting, VFX, compositing, etc. in HFR and then apply some fake motion blur to the LFR version to make it seem more correct, and that's never going to look perfect but maybe it'll look OK enough.

Or you do what The Hobbit did and choose an in-between shutter speed that makes the LFR version look a bit too choppy and the HFR version look a bit soap opera effecty. Don't do what The Hobbit did.

I thought that the point of automation was to free us up from tedious tasks so that we have more time to do fun things like shopping for stuff.

If AI ends up taking over for *all* our mental activities, then what are we supposed to do with our atrophied brains? Maybe it's all a nefarious plot to turn us into H. G. Well's Eloi.

a non-functioning traffic light is always supposed to be treated as a 4-way stop

Supposed to. But I can guarantee this is not the case, As I have seen actual power outages.

And try getting onto a major thoroughfare from a side road that normally has occasional traffic light protection.
But literally 99% of the people on the main road in massive numbers just ignore the downed lights at the intersections entirely.

And at the main junction where Major roads intersect Is complete and utter chaos for the half hour before a police officer gets there to deploy portable stop signs and manually direct anyone to stop.

Think the current ownership even knows about ThinkGeek?

ThinkGeek is more like a historical footnote, and the counterexample to show geek gifts have not been a viable demographic.
And I'm not sure where the article is going with that. The Oregon trail is iconic among old people who were never geeks for nostalgic purposes as a famous game played when kids. Game Enjoyer and Nostalgic gamer are true demographics though, and these demographics are Not related to geekdom; any more than gift for Movie enjoyer puts one in a geek demographic.

Firefox merch and to an extent Github merch are not even gifts for geeks anymore, as these products are simple common items for general audiences and more widely used by non-Geeks than by geeks, but hey. The $55 Github magic ball has a geek theme without much appeal. It's just maginally geeky at most.

Considering ThinkGeekp ended up shutting down their online store, and their product line was absorbed by Gamestop. One of those retailers who caters to pretty much the opposite of geeks; Pop culture clientele and physical media-loving Gaming enthusiasts.

They know the things they are taught, but can not deal with new issues.

Not exactly a new issue. Power outages are a common problem.
Humans typically handle them worse than the teslas.. By treating the powered off light as a green light.

That may or may not be true, but in either case it doesn't matter. What does matter is the fact that it's up to him to prove that billionaires are anti-capitalism, not me.