The US also has the best natural barriers to invasion in the world. The only access points are through the Arctic (good luck with that), or by traveling over a damn ocean to assault beaches on North American soil. When not only America has the largest navy in the world, but several of the runner ups are close allies, how do you plan on even getting to the US with your forces? You don’t.

As you say, the US is well positioned in this changing world. It’s one of the few countries almost guaranteed to continue to do well.

That is a massive price jump to $599. The SE (3rd gen) was priced at $429.

Apple has completely killed off the only mid-tier phone they offer.

Edit: This picture…

Yep. The core issue is Congress continues to give the executive more and more power every administration (both D and R). Congress needs to take back some of their own power.

This announcement is basically saying he’s going to micromanage the fucking entire Executive Branch government.

That is pretty much the point of the executive, and by extension, the president. Congress creates departments with powers and the executive administers them.

We got all this dooming 8 years ago as well. We were fine then, we will be fine now.

Try out LibreOffice, been using it for years.

It’s a constantly moving target. Yeah, you might block everything today, but then a windows update comes along and, poof, a bunch of the data harvesting is back on. I hope you were checking the detailed patch notes every time an update installs!

Hanna Montana Linux

https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

About zero chance in the US. But certainly doesn’t hurt to have some cash.

i sometimes need to watch youtube videos. these can be black and white only.

I think you want a normal laptop with a software that makes the screen black and white.

Yeah, my experience with it is that its…fine. Though I only use it on my work computer. I’m wondering if part of the issue is the home version ‘offering’ to hoover everything.

Davinci Resolve has download for linux button on their website. I have not used the software, but wanted to point that out.

How would Russia benefit from attacking Chernobyl?

Russia has consistently applied wanton violence as a tool in this war. This is a threat to Ukraine: take a bad deal or things can get worse for you.

Russia should have thought of that before they invaded in 2014 and invaded later again in 2022. Actions have consequences and Russia’s actions have been disastrous to Russians.

Why would one person, one SSN ever have two different birth dates? That sounds like an issue all onto itself.

Seems like bullshit to me, but I’m not a lawyer.

The Japanese patent system is so, so much worse than the US one. Where things like what you just described are possible. Honestly, Palworld is probably hosed over there. Palworld made a system years ago, Nintendo then patented it, and Nintendo is going to beat them over the head with their Japanese patent.

In the US, a solid defense to a patent claim is to show prior art. In this case, Palworld’s dev can point to Palworld as the prior art if Nintendo sues them; Nintendo’s patent existed after Palworld did. Palworld’s dev can also point to a giant mountain of prior art of other games that allow one to throw an object to capture a monster.

Nintendo is attempting to bully other game developers. They can’t enforce this patent in the US, but they can wave the patent and a cease and desist letter menacingly at their competitors. Thing is, it’s generating bad will against Nintendo and the first time a company calls Nintendo on their shit, Nintendo is gunna lose. The patent is either so specific it won’t apply to another game or its broader and there is a mountain of prior art.

From my reading, it’s the latter. The patent seems to try to monopolize the idea of throwing an object to catch a monster. Which has been done so, so many times before.

And even then, the US patent office often will grant unenforceable patents, that then explode in the patent holder’s faces the first time they try to use them.

The granted one in this case is about “the process of aiming and capturing characters”, which they either had to make so specific as to not apply to anybody else, or general enough that there are piles of prior art out there.

If a Democrat were in office inflation wouldn’t have increased.

It’s January numbers, a month Biden was in office the majority of.

Getting the real requirements nailed down from the start is critical, not just doing the work the customer asked for. Otherwise, you get 6 months into a project and realize you must scrap 90% of the completed work; the requirements from the get-go were bad. The customer never fundamentally understood the problem and you never bothered to ask. Everyone is mad and you lost a repeat customer.

AI mostly seems useful when you don’t know a specific concept and just need the base ideas. That said, given it’s often confidently wrong and doesn’t involve humans actively steering you toward better ideas, I still find Stack Overflow more helpful. Sometimes the answer to your problem is to stop doing what you are trying to do and attack the problem from a different angle.