It is exactly this sort of thing that will keep Linux off most end-users desktop - not because the average desktop user cares about Gnome, but they see the arguments, the forked OS versions and general in-fighting and simply choose to stick with the stable, reliable OS they know.

Yes, "stable, reliable" - the vast majority of computer users (90%+?) manage to do everything they want to do in Windows, they don't care about the the historical issues Linux advocates remember from the last version of Windows they used (Win95? Win8?)...

I note with delight that Ubuntu 25.10 (the leading 'consumer' Linux distribution) has features that require - wait for it - TPM 2.0 to operate!

How delightful...

As a landlord, I can look at the newspaper and see what other landlords charge for similar properties and use that information - legal.

I can use my computer to go online and check out my competitors rents - legal

But somehow, having a program running on my computer that checks what other landlords charge is now illegal in New York? Really?

This is just pandering to renters, trying to look like the politicians are doing something to make rent more affordable...

Rent isn't high because of RealPage, it's high because mortgage rates are high, tax rates are high and inflation. Is high, but yeah, forcing landlords to figure out what to charge for an apartment is going to drive down rent prices in NY state.

What baloney.

Norway is sitting on a lot of oil, they only drill/produce less than they could.

Their wealth is from state ownership of the oil, and they use that wealth to help fund the govt, but let's not pretend Norway is some low-tax utopia, the citizens pay a healthy tax rate on most things (except, of course, EVs)

Norway achieved (essentially) 100% EV sales by eliminating all VAT and Tariffs on new EVs up to 500,000 Kr, $50K US....

The majority of cars on the road in Norway are likely still ICE cars, bought before the EV incentives went into effect.

When a Norwegian buyer went into the showroom, there could have been up to a 50% price difference, with the EV being half the price of the similar ICE vehicles.

This is great and all, but few governments charge similar VAT and taxes on cars, and if they do, they likely lack the ability to simply waive the VAT and other fees to incentivize EV buyers.

Help me understand - if this is true:

Then reporters are fine being restricted to certain areas of the Pentagon and they would never solicit classified information, then what's the problem with agreeing to stay in certain areas of the pentagon and to not solicit classified information? I mean, according to you these things never happen, so why not agree to not do these things?

By definition, Democracy = Mob Rule - when 50% plus one vote = majority, that is mob rule.

An organization willing to do that is still free to do that from outside the Pentagon, they just won't have a "reporter" inside the building.

Pretty sure a news organization without reporters "in the room" can get unfettered access to the pool feed/cspan coverage of all press events.

Seriously?

Because the candidate said "most transparent" obligates his administration to have no secrets, to publish everything they say or do?

Based on what I learned in 5th grade English classes, the Trump statement is "true" if his administration is more transparent than any administration that came before it.

So what's the issue:

Let's see:
- Won't release unauthorized information? Sounds a bit much, but...
- Revoke passes for security threats? Seems 100% reasonable, honestly, I dare you to defend people deemed security threats to keep their press credentials.
- Revoke passes for reporters caught with "confidential or unauthorized information"? Again, seem reasonable - being in the press corps doesn't give one the right to snatch confidential (or unauthorized) information, it really doesn't.

Doesn't seem that bad to me, but I'm not a journallist... I wonder, how many of these Journalists would willingly submit their questions in advance to KJP at the White House so that Biden's staff could craft an answer and instruct him to call on the reporter on his cue cards?

Was it whitewashing to pull statues and rename schools?

Why do we need to discuss slavery on signs in a bird sanctuary? Thats not denying slavery happened, its's taking the topic out of a conversation it doesn't belong.

Why do signs in a bird sanctuary discuss slavery? Japanese interment camps?

The same folks that pulled statues of founding fathers because "slavery" are now arguing we need to discuss slavery when talking about birds? Really?

I get why a sign in a park might reference climate change, but why do signs in a bird sanctuary refer to "slavery, Japanese [interment?] Camps, and conflicts with Native Americans"?

I never understood the post-George Floyd race to hide statutes and rename forts, bridges, schools, mountains, etc, but I have to say, removing references to "conflicts with Native Americans" in a bird sanctuary sounds sorta reasonable to me...

I'm sorry, are you saying to deploy solar panels to power water/electrolysis to generate electricity from water so you can have electricity when the sun is down?

Why not simply store the excess solar energy?

Who cares about the latency? Seriously? What is the use case that demands both a wireless connection AND zero latency?

This is like "I bought a car with onboard navigation 12 years ago. Now the Automaker announces they will no longer publush update DVDs for my navigation system." Have they rendered tbe car useless? Did you expect theyd offer updates forever?

They are ending a subscription service after 12 years, the speakers still work as a bluetooth speaker, andyou can stream any service you want from your phine, tablet, laptop or desktop - I wonder how many people were still relying on the built-in streaming support after 12 years?

Theoretically they coukd cobble together a firmware update that supports current streaming services, but as soon as the streaming service tweaks their streaming protocol, the support would vanish.

You can also stream to them over bluetooth, you know, in case you dont feel like ubdertaking a science project to stream music over a pair of speakers...