I'm sure you probably know this, but gasoline is not chemically stable over months, so a preserver additive may be a really good idea over the long term - reduce filter load etc.

Great to see the manufacturer built in a "turnover" cycle automatically.

It's because the graphics were designed with a CRT as an integral part of it and look really awful when displayed an a modern, clean, flat screen.

Like older movies look terrible as you can see the wires etc. of all the special effects that would be hidden by a fuzzy 16" screen.

I have heard that some actresses have had to have plastic surgery redone due to HD.

I don't think the problem is the availability of the app. I think the problem is that no app can be secure if the hardware platform and/or OS are backdoored.

Android in China is not Google's, nor are the hardware platforms. iPhone and Android+ Google Play are inspected, reviewed, and signed/encrypted from the moment they are made.

I believe the push for Windows 11 to require the tpm security chip is to force PCs to be a more closed platform like phones, with everything from the BIOS up "trusted" by signing and encryption.

It's about time the national security question of food production is taken seriously! No company should be able to remote lock a serious percentage of a nation's agricultural tooling for any reason, repair or not. It's an obvious achilles heel waiting to be exploited.

I also strongly believe in the right to repair and the right to buy parts at a reasonable price - all the pro arguments I've seen so far are about control and profiteering.

How many times do the employees know that a management decision will bury the company for short term gain & investor profit, putting them out on the street?

How many have the ability to argue against it without being canned? Unions can help with that.

Is it All Fools Day already?

This is not to say you are wrong, but there are two broad rights in the USA (and other countries as it is in the Berne copyright convention) which the copyright holder keeps after sale and resales:
1. The right of paternity, which is to be credited as the creator of the work.
2. The right of integrity, allowing the author to object to any changes to their work that may harm their reputation as an author.

An example of this would be a band forcing a politician to stop using their song despite the politician licensing it. A lot of bands don't want any political uses of their music

I think his point is that Russia in it's current state is due to the payments for fossil fuel exports from outside. That funding stream is somewhat easy for a government to leveraged to pay for war / internal policing etc. and can produce a lot of corruption etc.

Whenever we find these unbelievable programs costing millions I can't help but feel that money must be being spent on secret projects? Every time we find a budget for divining rods, for telepathy research etc., I feel like someone is giggling at us feeding us their "cover story".
"Sir, sir, a reporter is on the trail of the finances for Black Heli squadron 3!". "Don't panic private, let me see ... hmm ... I have it - hide it under 'over project HORNY: investigating how to weaponize fainting goats'. Experience says that will stop them."

Ummm, work literally moved to annual licenses of office - word charges by the minute even when you are not using it!

Jamming Bluetooth is pretty hard, and would be very obvious. Bluetooth was especially hardened from the ground up with spread spectrum and frequency hopping/ switching techniques so you have to spam energy everywhere at once if you get what I mean, or have a very smart active jammer

I agree, but they also have deep integration with the silicon foundries, even Intel.
Why yes, I'd like to license that octa-core arm CPU and cache cluster tuned for and preverified on the silicon process vs implementing and verifying my own. It has extensive debug capabilities, with rich performance measurements you say? Delightful!

With how it goes off topic, starts talking crazy, and making things up, its like talking with my Granddad all over again!

Thank you Microsoft for bringing this back into my life.

Watch out for the new ones - my father in law has a Canon that announced it must stop working because the internal ink soaking pads - remember all that wasted ink that it uses every time it turns on? those were full.

It had a timer counting down to it's death in it's firmware from the moment it was bought.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.usa.canon.co...

How does moving parts make it faster, again vs. rows of normal SLS w. robots which ... zip parts around. Hm, there must be something good behind the paywall.

Additionally for the SLS metal parts I have dealt with you need to keep them in a protective atmosphere or their surface corrodes as well as managing temperature within a certain temperature range. Semiconductor fabs do this so I guess I buy the idea of pods racing around on robots between machines which can align to the partially completed wafer to carry on building the chip, but those are multi-billion $$ facilities.