I've been a TiVo user since the early 90s, maybe late 80s, including a couple DirecTiVos, combining with a DirecTV receiver.
It's been indispensable for OTA recording, especially for skipping commercials (although it's not always available).
Over the last few years, they continue to push new models at me, but only the cablecard-based ones, not OTA. I might have updated if they had a new OTA unit.

If they discontinue providing schedules for OTA programming, the "season pass" feature will be worthless, and I'll probably be stuck watching commercials on streaming, as I'm not willing to pay for the premium versions of Paramount, Hulu etc. (yes I know Hulu is going away)

But I highly recommend you read his book "Where the Axe is Buried" which features a Europe where all the prime Minister have been replaced by AIs, and a very Russian "Federation" is or by a series of bodies into which the same mind has been loaded.

This is exactly where the problem lies. There's a set of standards defined by an ANSI-certified group called HL7 that should make it all possible to transfer medical data. But the vendors, eg Epic, want to keep control, charge for exchange.

When I walk into a specialist's office, I should be able to click on the health info sharing app, select WHAT data to share, tap the NFC device on the receptionist's counter, do the MFA shuffle, then OK yes share that data with that provider.

1) patients must control who sees what. Your dentist doesn't need to know you went to Illinois for an abortion, gender counseling, etc.
2) No AI harvesting. No marketing. No ad targeting based on your medical data.
3) only medical treatment should be able to request medical data. Not your landlord, not your educators, not your employer
4) it's your private data, it has to be carefully controlled.

Over 20 years ago the company I worked for (now part of a much bigger company) did this, and a simple spreadsheet made it clear that I'd benefit for about 3 years, but because the base raises were slashed, I'd be behind after 6 years (As it is, the merger laid me off after 4).

And the company can basically avoid paying bonuses - the goalposts move, and are often based on corporate metrics that are opaque, and way out of your control. So you can with your butt off, exceed every target, and never see a bonus.

There are still a lot of ways pasted text could crap all over your document, mainly having to do with styles. Note in the linked article this only affects text pasted in from other applications -- that sounds like if it comes from Word, you're still subject to the old rules.
If the text you're pasting in has the SAME styles as your document, you're golden: Heading 1 in the old doc should get formatted like heading 1 where you paste it. That's good.

But if you're using a custom template that uses "PDQ Heading 1" and "PDQ Body" and what you're pasting from uses "WWF Heading 1" and "WWF Body", you're going to have those styles contaminating your document. If the text you're copying has corrupt style names, e.g. ",,Chapter,Heading 1" -- which admittedly doesn't happen as much as it used to -- that pink slime ends up in your document and is very hard to clean out.

I've written "Paste Safely" code (a couple times, each redeveloped from scratch) that looks at a list of known styles and how to translate them, pastes into a "quarantine" doc, translates styles, then copies pastes into your doc.

Also please remember that police can demand your fingerprint and other biometrics, but currently do not have the right to demand your passwords.
I'm not a criminal, but in case I ever want to be one, I'd prefer not to make it easy to have my information accessed by The Man.

An over-the-air PVR is the best solution for network TV. TiVo's commercial-skipping feature is pretty darn good. It appears to use crowdsourcing or at least post-processing to figure out where the commercials are, because it's more likely to auto-skip a day or two later versus watching immediately. Some shows (e.g. Late Show with Stephen Colbert) gum up the works by having the band play over commercials, but you can still hit the 30-sec skip button.

On streaming, it's hit-or-miss. Some services only put ads at the start, some at "regular" commercial breaks.
Sling, the cable-like service owned by Dish, permits fast-forward through commercials on some shows, and doesn't permit any fast forward at all on others.

Cool! You 3D-printed the Save button!

a bill helping solo owner-operators of long-haul trucks finance upgrades to driverless, support open (vs corporate) driverless truck stops, etc.

Without that, trucking will overwhelmingly be taken over by big corporations that will price out the solo owner-operator (because of access to capital), and lock them out of autonomous refueling, servicing and recharge (for when the electric trucks come).

Solo truckers are a big piece of the small businesses in this country, and will be pretty much wiped out by automation without this.

While it may increase the number of individuals, it's decreasing the genetic diversity, making survival harder.
If you're not incorporating genes from two parents, you're going to end up with magnification of any undesirable recessive traits.

OTOH, these days I get better, and more reliable service over 5G on my phone tethered to my laptop compared to the WiFi I get in a hotel that hasn't moved past 802.11b.

One of the first projects I worked on, 38 years ago, was a nightmarish piece of Fortran, that looked reasonable, but had truly awful performance due to the use of a BACKSPACE command -- worked effectively on tape drives, but for disks it would go back to the beginning of the file and read forward one fewer records. I rewrote it (in VAX Basic, which at times was indistinguishable from VAX Pascal, but that's another show), and it was dozens of times faster, just by avoiding the BACKSPACE.

And years later, I was asked to help the Word Processing support group with some WordPerfect macros, was horrified at the half-recorded/half-authored mess, and said, "give me that, and don't touch it ever again!"... which eventually led to my being an expert in several generations of Microsoft Word VBA.

But I know there's stuff I wrote that I'd never want anyone to fix, only rebuild (some '90s cookie-driven shopping cart Perl code comes to mind).
It's not just "tech debt", it's learning, it's changing of standard ways of doing things, it's just getting better.
That works for utilities, small projects, but is obviously a nightmare for million-line projects.

Imagine living in a country that claimed to promote the general welfare, and didn't verify the safety and efficacy of medications.
See thalidomide, and all the snake oils of the early 20th century, and the ethics of testing on prisoners.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fda.gov%2Fmedia%2F1104... is a good read