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Comment This was announced a year ago (Score 4, Informative) 24

This was announced on June 12, 2024.

It doesn't mean Android and ChromeOS will share a common UI. Android already supports several distinct user interfaces for different platforms (mobile, wearable, auto, TV), and there's lots of customization even within those spaces. I expect that once the transition is complete, ChromeOS will still look and act much like it does now. It may run Android apps a little better than it does now (though it already runs them fairly well). It'll just share a lot of infrastructure with Android underneath the surface.

Comment Re:human safari (Score 1) 192

This is the face of the ruzzian 'soldier' today, putin or not, it is the individual people who are making every day decisions. AFAIC ruzzians are now all legitimate targets, every one.

So prejudice is back on the menu and all it took was the murder of one completely innocent child in Ukraine. Why didn't the killing of absolutely innocent children in Gaza or Sudan or half the fucking world make you prejudiced? Why is it specifically a child from Ukraine that disturbs you?

Disappointing.

Comment Re:Superman is not an interesting character (Score 1) 116

You are on the right track here with that analysis. Imagine a person that had no weaknesses (even kryptonite). What does it really mean to be a force for good? What is good? Saving an old lady crossing the street and about to be run over? That appears to unambiguously good; however, now let's say that she is the owner of an evil corporation that is using children as mulch for lawns... is it still good to save her?

Obviously contrived example is obviously contrived. Obviously; however, the question still remains: What is good? Having the examination hampered by weakness clouds the analysis.

Comment Re:Wikpedia for your connvenience (Score 1) 84

During 1995, plague was confirmed in the United States from nine western states.

Wikipedia is a weird resource. I did some volunteer work in the forests of New Mexico back in the 80s and we discussed how "the plague" was active even then and was carried by small mammals. Wikipedia is like a guy with dementia. Sure, they can prove that that plague was acknowledged in the 90s; however, it is then pretended like nobody knew of the plague out in the wild prior to that... which is absurd.

Comment Re:Immoral (Score 1) 62

It is the final step in our society saying that we do not give a fuck about people.

Is there something wrong with acknowledging the truth? We are constantly bombarded with the message that society cares and that if you don't care you are a piece of shit... and yet somehow or another, the reality of the situation is that, as a society, we really do not care about an individual unless they have lots of money. We pretend we care about children more than the adults in the society, and yet, somehow or another, a kid just died in a car because a mother had to work and couldn't afford day care. A bunch of children just drowned in the middle of Texas because "the libs" offered money for an early warning system and was rejected on that basis.

The truth is, society only cares about money regardless of anything else that is said or done. Truth? Justice? Those are not The American Way.

Comment Re:Tax Increases Inbound (Score 1) 56

All American seniors already do have socialized healthcare.

In theory, this is true. In Reality, it is a maze of paperwork and exceptions that are so difficult to navigate that the only real care that you will receive will be some checkups and ER visits... although, due to navigation difficulties, an ER visit can rob the senior of their home/living situation.

Comment Re:Not even three years (Score 1) 61

Incredible. Some of these devices won't even be three years old when they will stop working. They're making sure some people will never ever buy a connected device again. And they'll be better off for it.

People call me a pessimist; however, I like to think of myself as a realist. I am rarely wrong (but I am definitely wrong sometimes). In this case, I was absolutely correct. As soon as the device needed to communicate outside of my own network, I knew it was going to get knee-capped at the manufacturers discretion. Why else force the product to communicate outside of the local network network?

What is even funnier is that they use security devices that are connected via wireless. Thieves merely jam the signal and the cameras and alarms all fail to do what they were purchased to do. It is absolutely hilariously terribly stupid.

But somehow or another, they sold numerous rubes billions (trillions?!) of dollars of shit. I am so disappointed in how stupid manufacturers and society are when put together.

Comment Re:Work/Life non-balance. (Score 1) 288

We should need to study how to balance the need for profit with the need to continue having a viable population.

Huh? The balance is this: One person gets everything and everyone else services that person. If you are not servicing that person's will, then you have no resources to exist. That is the balance, simple and easy. We are still a long ways from that lofty goal, but we are charging towards it at light speed.

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