The biggest failure of the US is ultimately its educational system.

So far!

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As a remedy, the NHSTA’s recall report notes, Nissan and Infiniti dealers will inspect the engine pan of these-now recalled cars — and repair or replace the engine if necessary.

But your shit quality process already admits that failure is progressive. What are you going to do for customers who get a failure years later because of your bad manufacturing?

Answer: nothing!

I love how in this timeline you can’t say it wasn’t ICE.

It’s just easier to be openly corrupt in this brave new country.

US dollar to zero speed run.

It has three AA batteries as a backup power source when removed from the stand. The small stand just under the radio provides power from the mains.

It only runs for about a day on batteries; it’s not meant to be used from batteries regularly. It doesn’t charge the batteries, but I use rechargeable batteries as the backup. It’s an Acu-Rite model 08550.

They didn’t care about them before either. It was just an excuse to perform horrible cruelty all along.

It’s kind of a celebration of life while still living.

My Christmas tree has been up for five years now. It’s become a generic celebration tree.

A VPN is fast becoming essential internet isn’t it?

A mere formality. He can just go ask the Supreme Court to declare that he’s not a felon or something. Does it make any sense? No, but does any of it?

This makes sense. I have a friend from way back in HS who interned there while he was working on his degree who said that cloud services was the priority at the time, and Windows was more just a vehicle that they continued to maintain. That continues to be the approximate temperature of the product and is in line with my expectations.

I could imagine a future where Windows is just a proprietary DE over a Linux system. I don’t think it’s coming anytime soon because of the development cost it would impose, but I don’t see why they would go to such efforts maintaining a system they could get for free if the desktop user base keeps shrinking. They’re just too greedy not to do that. Even the backwards compatibility with Windows software is becoming a solved problem.

Aside from my above rant, the PC is definitely fast becoming an enthusiast/business platform. I opened a retirement account the other day through my smart phone!

Precisely. Windows is a side project for Microsoft now.

They know. They’re OK with it. In fact, many millions of Americans are OK with it.

This is going to turn out to be the lead of our time isn’t it?

Again? But we spent all day yesterday doing the exact same thing.

It’s always going to be a subjective process. The difference is I try to base it on effort and value for time. I’m not a computer but I can influence what I value. I can appreciate a good argument or an opinion I don’t like. I’m not perfect, but I think I can strive for that.

If that feels like the same thing as approval, then I perhaps a moment of self-reflection on whether things can have value that one dislikes is in order. I hope Lemmy won’t become more of an echo chamber than it already is.