Two things help me avoid the algorithm and sponsored posts on Facebook:
1. I look at only my feed by adding ?filter=all&sk=h_chr at the end of Facebook's URL
2. On the rare occasions (twice a year) that FB starts sneaking in "Sponsored" ads, I report every one as sexually inappropriate.

I feel like a lot of these same observations can be said for people that over rely on libraries and frameworks and don't actually understand or have any control over what they're doing. At a certain point, the AI is just patching frameworks together and implementing libraries without understanding them .. just like some programmers do.

Absent an order of magnitude improvement in battery capacity and charging rate, Canada is a terrible country for this.
A good example: the Alaska Highway. "Major" cities and gas stations are very far apart, and the infrastructure to deliver enough power for car (let alone truck) charging does not yet exist.

Key highways to remote areas are much more sparsely populated, and the cold makes matters much worse.

Still not installing Chrome.

Q.E.D.

Biosphere 2 is still vacant.

It's New Zealand you Muppet. We don't use pounds.

A classmate gave us a bootleg copy of the full version of DOOM (3 diskettes).
My roommates and I installed it, played it for a while... and then called ID Software at the number in the credits.
"Hi, someone gave us a bootleg copy of DOOM, and we want to pay you. Where do we send the check?"
I sent a check.
A few weeks later, a box showed up with an official copy of DOOM and a bunch of DOOM & Castle Wolfenstein swag!

I bought my first PC in the fall of '93 at a computer show, knowing very little, guided by my roommate. It had a Cyrix Cx486DX2-66 processor, 8 MB of RAM, and Windows 3.11 on a 250 MB hard drive. No sound card or CD-ROM. Connectivity: a 96/24 modem (9600 baud for faxing, 2400 for everything else).
Most desktops at the show came with 2-4 MB of RAM; my roommate had pushed me to get more.
His first evaluation: "Gawd, this thing's fast."

Thatâ(TM)s the beauty of F/OSS, youâ(TM)re free to fork it.

Many agencies just have an unencrypted âoedispatchâ channel and an encrypted one for running drivers licenses and dealing with private information. It makes more sense logistically speaking anyways because every cop doesnâ(TM)t need to hear the results of another cop running a drivers licenses and if they do they can put their radio in scan mode.

I've done enough carrying, shooting, and training to know. These "smart guns" might attract a few new gun owners, but nobody who is serious about guns will buy one.
It's all about reliability. I carry a Glock because it just works, with an incredibly tiny chance of malfunctions. My ex-wife preferred a huge 8-shot .357 Magnum revolver, because she didn't want to train to clear malfunctions.

Seriously, my carry gun is a Glock 19, my rifle is a M1A, and my shotgun is a Saiga 12... you're not selling me anything less reliable, which any "smart gun" would surely be.

I was a hard no on NFTs... but I grew up in the '70s, had all their albums, and I'm still smokin'.

the only time we used it was to ask, "What time does Costco open tomorrow?"

I did desktop support at a company with thousands of Windows 95/98 clients, and I encountered quite a few Windows ME boxes in the mix... so I built a few to mess with them in our work area.

Windows ME would kill itself in three steps:

1) It took forever to shut down, so users would eventually force shutdown.
2) After a forced shutdown, it would run CHKDSK.
3) CHKDSK would eventually decide that the System32 directory was corrupt, and delete most or all of it.

It looked like they were going to use it at one point, so I talked my bosses into deploying a few ME machines to executives "for final acceptance testing."
Within the month, most of them -- and the proposed ME rollout plans -- were dead.