For around the house networks, you cant run fiber to wall ports and terminate it easily. It requires special connectors and cleavers to cut and do right. It doesnt bend freely like CAT cable. You need special optics at each end, depending on many parameters, they are sensitive. CAT6A will do 10Gbps around the house at 300ft and CAT6 will do it at 160ft. There is no need for FTTR, especially to then power Wifi devices, when the wifi devices cant even do power over fiber. The ethernet standard is the way to go. Huawei is advertising fiber from the gateway to multiple access points around the house cabled with fiber. That is just stupid.

TFS sounds like the boat itself caught fire, not the cargo. Conventional car carriers never catch fire.

I use a canon color laser jet for my home because for use like charts and graphs it works very well, and the ink doesnt dry. It's reliable and the quality remains at that nice 90% throughout the life of the printer. If I want to print photos, I go to Fedex Kinkos or some other place where they have canvas and bitchen printers. Seriously this like investing in a box truck because you want to move mattresses around. Dont buy an ink jet for your home. Dont buy an ink jet for your offices. Leave that to the print houses. Use a color laser jet for schoolwork, office documents, etc. It works well enough. For the few times where you want to print your DSLR pic and hang it on the wall, go to a print shop.

Seems like Sam Altman doesnt care about any agreements he made and to whom in the past, and just wants to do what he wants to do. Unfortunately for him, he is going to learn, if you come at the king, you better be fatal. Microsoft will end up owning OpenAI for less because of his antics.

Teams is another Microsoft miss in the world of chat apps. Like Skype it destroyed, MSN Messenger, and Live Communication Server before, Microsoft cant get chat right. Moving to the cloud only model also alienated a lot of government and enterprise IT shops, who just see their licensing costs skyrocket. People want to run it the way they want to themselves. They should have made Teams an installable Windows Server product, and make it communicate with external parties using fancy DNS resolution, a-la email.

Conflict is to control human food, bird seed can be literally sprayed out of a plane. I dont think we would need to, mosquitoes are not a primary diet of any species in high numbers.

It would be trivial to maintain a population in captivity that you could release if the effects were starting to have consequences you didnt see coming. At the rate they multiply, it wouldn't take long before you have stable populations again. I say go for it.

Africa can absolutely feed itself and the notion that it can not is horseshit. Famine and hunger and food insecurity is not caused by a lack of food, it is caused by a lack of security. Food in Africa is used as a weapon by one population against another. Do you really think if we just donated a few more shiploads of food that the continent would suddenly have food security? That is as dumb as thinking the people in Gaza have food insecurity because we dont grow enough food. We do, by a very wide margin. Now in Africa, west nile, dengue, malaria, those are real problems that this would solve.

If a private citizen does it, like a photographer, fine. But if government does it:

The government should not be allowed to conduct a search until a warrant is listed. That means (to my interpretation) that if you are walking in public, the government can not document where you are or when, unless they get a warrant to "tail" you. They should not be allowed to install license plate readers to drag-net search. I feel like that is a violation of the 4th amendment. as is drone surveillance. I feel "surveillance" by the government or by any actor operating on the government's behalf should be illegal until a warrant is issues, describing the thing to be surveilled, which must describe the crime and the specific thing.

It will be filled with another part of the food chain. It isnt like we can't feed birds and bats if we needed to. We should absolutely do it and start thinking about our human condition as definable by us through sheer ingenuity and stop worry about shit we can control. We can produce insane volumes of food and feed wildlife until it adapts on its own. Kill the fucking mosquitoes already.
YES. We should.

Do VIPs use high-interest spot loans like Klarna?

Your view of the economy is for the present, not the future. The future economy will look vastly different than it is today. Notions of supply and demand will be changed, and human kind will become solar and then interstellar explorers. The rate of innovation will skyrocket compared to what we see today, and our grandchildren will benefit the likes of which will be as foreign to us as our lives would seem to our grandparent's childhood.

Imagine a world where for the first time in 50,000 years, peoples lives wont be dominated by learning to work, followed by working until they are old or dead. I think the lives of my grand children will be very interesting and wonderful, and I am optimistic.

Presumably there would be a driver

Nope. I mean in the 90s when all of your issues were already resolved, but we didnt have the kind of shit we have in food today. We have gained 20lbs on average from 1990 to today.