they should use the heat from solar panels to concurrently use the heat generated / captured to push steam turbines.

FFS it's like the CEO is a goddamned toddler. You must teach AI to NOT BREAK THE LAW. It's their poorly-trained models that don't treat ethics and morals and laws with any respect. just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD.

Taction / Taptics typos, sorry. I just got carried away because patent trolls suck.

Taction Technology is a San Diego-based audio technology company that was founded and incorporated around 2014. The Patents Involved in the Apple LawsuitThe high-profile patent infringement lawsuit centers on tactile transducer technology (utilizing dampening systems, magnets, and ferrofluid to handle low-frequency audio and haptic feedback). The foundational patents were created, filed, and issued within the following timeframes: U.S. Patent No. 10,659,885 ("Systems and methods for generating damped electromagnetically actuated planar motion for audio-frequency vibrations"): Filed on October 3, 2019, and officially issued on May 19, 2020.U.S. Patent No. 10,820,117: A closely related continuation patent sharing the same core technical specification, issued later in 2020.*(Note: Taction originally filed the federal lawsuit against Apple in 2021, which recently went to trial resulting in a major jury verdict.)

Now wait, when did Apple add haptics to the Apple Watch?
Apple's First Device with Haptics
Apple Watch (2014): Apple first introduced its proprietary Taction Engine (branded as the Taptic Engine) in the original Apple Watch released in late 2014 to simulate physical taps on the wrist.
iPhone 6s (2015): The technology was brought to the iPhone lineup the following year with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.

So Taptics didn't start operating as a company until the time Apple built haptics into the Apple Watch. And they didn't file for a patent until 5 years later. That's sus.

Sony: Released the DualShock controller for the original PlayStation in 1997, which introduced built-in dual eccentric rotating mass (ERM) motors to deliver rumble feedback. (Note: While Nintendo introduced the plug-in Rumble Pak accessory earlier in 1997, Sony's DualShock was the first mainstream controller to build native haptic motors directly into the standard hardware).
Microsoft: Included dual rumble motors right from its entry into the console market with the launch of the original Xbox ("The Duke" controller) in 2001.

So haptic technology had been around in popular gaming products for 17 years prior to the Apple Watch and 22 years prior to Taptics filing their patent.

Taptics is a patent troll. They can Fuck Right Off.

Now they can do to Babylon 5 what they did to Star Trek.

Oh yeah. We are partying now.

It's not just phones. I recently switched back to FF from Vivaldi on my desktop with the death of Manifest V2, and in one day of use, It'll hit 3 GB of ram of more with 1 active tab. It's gotten very annoying

By protecting the lagging US companies, the government is doing them a disservice. If the big 3 want to be competitive with Chinese cars, you know, they cou ld always try INNOVATING. the hand of the market and all that crap.

Actually, Trump is not a singular cause. He was not the first. Back under reagan, he killed a great deal of our civilian oriented R&D saying that private business can do it , while moving some to DARPA. Thankfully, DARPA still funded basic science.
Then W did more cuts, but pushed a lot of DARPA spending in UNI over to companies and forced cuts in basic science.
Biden also did major changes and pushed funding to go from merit based to DEI.
Trump is just a continuation of this and not even the worst ( reagan or W were the worst ).

Trump is in the pocket of Coal, Natural Gas, and Gasoline, so he's banning the tools we need to cut ourselves off the grid.
Fuck that guy. Boomers would rather us die in a global heatwave than cool our homes with solar, wind, wave, geothermal, nuclear.

climate change may not be happening fast enough

$900 transparent XBox, sells out immediately, zero improvements over existing opaque black plastic xbox.
INSANITY

not helpful for me until I can upload my collection of comics and D&D PDF files to access from my ipad.

First President to completely send the US economy into freefall TWICE. We should make him drink from the firehose.

It's not really a marketplace. In the future, we will own NOTHING. That's what the corporations want: for us to rent our entire lives from them.

that's why the cops break the law every goddamned day