So can the US military. We’re talking about reality though, not what’s technically legal.

They’re going to make the soldiers’ life a living hell for not following orders all the way through the inevitable court martial trial.

Yeah it is clear as day here. Airflow is inadequate while the product is in use on hotter days.

It’s a screen made by Microsoft to match their aesthetic and settings pages, of course. But it’s the exact same Google account sync system that every Chromium has, unless you’re specifically using an unGoogled version.

This is literally the standard Google sync account stuff in every Chromium browser. Don’t want it? Pick a browser that isn’t Chrome based. That basically leaves Firefox or a handful of brand new alpha buggy browsers no one has heard of with dubious update potential.

Edge is a Chromium browser. This is the standard Chrome sync stuff from nearly every one of those.

The crazy part about this is we have no explanation for why they were using a modified version of Signal that allows for the type of message backup needed for archival purposes if they weren’t doing that. They might as well just have installed the regular version of the app. The only explanation that seems to fit is to purposefully create an unmonitored security vulnerability by having that access available.

Both were shot at their homes and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source said.

Impersonating law enforcement, or actual law enforcement? If they don’t have the suspect in custody yet, they have no idea whether they were impersonating law enforcement.

So not just a civilian, but a US military veteran who earned his citizenship via service to the country. I’d argue if they want to try and make different levels, since that’s clearly what they’re trying to do, that he’s more an American citizen than anyone that happened to be born here, especially more than any of the current Administration.

Also, how much you want to bet they’re checking every piece of paper in his immigration file to see if a signature or date was missed. Serving earns you citizenship, but it is not automatic. You still have to fill out the paperwork, and that leaves open the possibility of errors. We already have stories of people who have been deported because they don’t care about fixing paperwork errors caused by Immigration staff if it gives them an excuse to get rid of someone.

Jefferson wanted it to be every 20 years. Every generation essentially.

Instead we let the chuckle fucks in Congress stay as long as they want, into their 80s, across 4 generation. Determining laws for technologies and both global and local economic situations they have no comprehension of or even a chance at understanding.

They offered them a 64 box of Crayola. You really expect them to ignore that offer?

Keyboard, mouse, track pad, track point, all of them have limits. Sometimes just touching what you want to do is more convenient. And if you don’t want to use it, then you can ignore it with no adverse effect. It isn’t something that’s in the way or prevents you from using other input methods.

And at this point the technology is so cheap there’s no reason not to include it. Well unless your company’s entire profit structure is based on charging exorbitant amounts for minor upgrades and making the lowest cost option almost always have some sort of glaring deficiency to try to push users to pay hundreds more than they need to for the “optional” upgrades that should have just been included and cost pennies on the dollar for the company. Then using your cult like user base to gaslight each other and outsiders into believing they don’t actually want something you don’t provide.

Expanding like that usually is indicative of moves to make the UI more touch friendly. But since Apple seems to be firmly against touchscreen laptops for some dumb reason, who knows what their justification is. Probably something with the word magic or courage.

I’m torn on this because that is correct, but it also means that the average person hasn’t seen just how damaging those policies really are. The damage control is working well enough that many people aren’t noticing there’s much damage at all.

Ancestry stuff has been pretty popular in the US for decades, DNA testing for it is relatively new but just the next easy step.

While the collective memory is staggeringly short, Trump 2.0 is entirely the Republican Party’s fault. Their base will vote for whoever the fuck they put on the ballot, they clearly don’t think for themselves. Hell even the politicians do what they’re told by leadership. The party could have forced Trump out, cut him off from all support and made him an outcast, instead they decided to embrace him fully.

Adding additional backup communication methods is a good thing. Your home might be fine with one connection, but large businesses often have 2 or more separate physical connections for redundancy. I’m sure places like the White House effectively have as many as they can. One of the worst things for the White House is to be disconnected from communication with the outside world.

This clearly wasn’t intended for that purpose, but I’m sure that’s at least partially how they sold it to get it done quickly get it installed now for DOGE use and it can be added to those systems later, additional ongoing revenue as well.

Not sure that’s gonna happen anytime soon, if ever. Elon made himself the face of the company,without exception and his foray into fascist politics turned away many of the most diehard Tesla supporters. The ones that had been around because of things like the environmental goals and shift away from fossil fuels despite some of his previous statements.

But now there are other viable options available on the market, and within a couple years most of the hold outs from legacy auto are finally entering the market with interesting options. Supporting Tesla directly now means supporting a clearly and openly out fascist company leader. There will be some supporters that stick around, and some will come because of that, but for many the two are completely inseparable.

That’s because when it comes to Apple, hypocrisy is the way of life.

Starlink provides service to areas where fiber is impossible. Like the middle of the ocean and actual rural areas where fiber runs could be tens of miles or more between homes. Those are area where no one will build out fiber unless the homeowner is paying for it themselves, the various government programs would never cover those actual rural areas despite what they claim. At best they might cover city outskirts for new infrastructure, where fiber nodes are already relatively close by. They’re never adding fiber to existing rural farms and ranches.

They are not a 1:1 service comparison. You would need to compare It to other satellite providers, and there isn’t a comparison because all of those are dogshit in comparison to Starlink.

There’s a reason it’s as popular as it is so quickly despite satellite internet in general not being new. The low earth satellite constellation means a massive difference in capability compared to conventional geostationary satellites. Multiple second latency, slow downloads nowhere near advertised double digit Mbps speeds, single digit Mbps upload speeds and often monthly data limits as low as 50GB per month are what the conventional satellite providers offer.

I’m not making any sort of excuse and nothing in my comment came close to that. You should check your reading comprehension skills, because they’re clearly lacking.

I haven’t seen anyone write up a breakdown of what the fuck the actual agreement with countries like El Salvador looks like. Just some general numbers back at the beginning about some costs. No breakdown of whether the payments are based on the number of people, a general monthly cost for everything regardless of occupancy, something on a per-person level, time limits for holding specific individuals, etc.

No information on whether it’s purposely intended to be one way or not. You honestly think this Administration put in any sort of provisions for getting people back, or would they specifically word it as a one way deal? Something like we send you people and pay you $x per month, y minimum time, etc. and we never see them again.

Whether the prisons are considered US territory while occupied for this purpose, whether any US law enforcement has any jurisdiction, etc. You know, the types of things that normally are setup well before anything it built.

The entire purpose of these places seems to get the people out of the US and promptly forget about them, they don’t need to actually deport them correctly if you just get them off US land and hand them to El Salvador or whatever other nation to do whatever they want with them. With that goal it seems entirely possible that whatever the fascists wrote up for an agreement doesn’t have any provisions for getting people back, or might even have penalty fees for returning people because they never intended to do that.

There’s some sort of a reason why we’re seeing some people be retrieved from some places like Mexico and no returns from places like El Salvador. What is the difference?