Companies are promising their AIs will be able to outperform humans at just about everything in a year or two but slowing a car down, even given 5 years, it seems is not one of those things.

Yep. All the music should just be in a single generic database that nobody even knows the name of because we just use whatever front ends that make API calls to it.

Chinese spy or Redmond spy?

That sounds more like fog.

At any rate, fog has numerous advantages but disadvantages too, like being susceptible to fire or a single theft. Remote access isn't as good either.

What do you guys use instead of OneDrive for cloud storage? I pay for MS Office so I get a handy 1TB (for each family member!) which I can use to keep my photos backed up. You can also store other files, something amazon's storage recently stopped allowing.

I hope none of the burning man attendees recently completed a Tough Mudder in, uh, neighbouring California.

I hate it too, and I can barely get my intelligent, tech savvy friends to care about privacy. There's no hope for the slobbering masses to endure even the slightest inconvenience or increased expense in order to send a message that we don't want this increasing intrusion into our lives.

Agreed! Regrets suck.