It is a realization of the populace. If most people wanted the full control that Linux provides, Windows would have died years ago.

Consumer Linux isn’t going to be a thing until it gets packaged neatly as a product to consume.

I have a humidifier and air purifiers that are powered via USB-C. Sadly, my dehumidifier has a different connection.

And now he’s sober.

Define “legitimate”.

If you want to go for comedic reenactment, Saturday Night Live does it for events within a week.

How much shit?

Other EV’s have this problem too, so it isn’t just a Tesla problem.

I think the main issue is what happens when software support ends. There are tons of industrial and medical equipment with outdated software that work well today, mainly because there is an air gap between their computers and the Internet. That air gap may need to be enforced onto cars as default in the future.

100 years: The EU has made English the default language across most of the union. Small nations went first as inter Union migration obliterated the ability for these countries to teach their local languages fast enough. Far right groups tried to preserve their languages, but they’ve largely been demoted to secondary status in their own communities to English, like Irish Gaelic. The last internal holdout is French, Spanish, and Portuguese as there is enough external demand of the language. French language law mirrors Quebec law, Spain and Portugal aren’t harsh about it.

I don’t see that much shift in the Americas except the possible loss of French. Mexico may become more English speaking as more Americans move to Mexico for lower cost of living, especially with retired populations that won’t learn Spanish. Spanish in the Americas may standardize as cross-border media becomes bigger.

I expect Africa to be in a three way struggle between English, French, and Arabic as the lingua franca.

I expect languages to standardize in Asia, but I expect that India and Pakistan will choose non-English languages.

The person is writing from a business prospective. If people are replacing their phones less often, it means that fewer phones are being purchased each year. If your company makes phones, that means adjusting to a shrinking market no matter what your company does.

Socialization is work that people forgot to practice. So, a lot of people became introverts and don’t have the stamina to socialize like they used to.

One group of friends went to signal. One group of friends stays in SMS.

I don’t really have the ability to dictate the messaging service app to others.

There are tons of technology historically that were implemented with gigantic fundamental flaws which were properly identified and later solved or mitigated. These flaws were openly published and there was a discourse in society about them.

So, unless you can use that knowledge to immediately brick all use of that technology, that flaw is likely less severe than you think.

Yeah. Lemmy’s former growth came from external events which brought users to Lemmy. Without more of these shocks, I don’t see Lemmy growing.

There are a few skyscraper server farms, but they are usually in major metropolitan areas like Manhattan. But, as you touched on, it is usually cheaper to build out instead of up.

I know I’m mature. I know I’m put into positions of responsibility. I still feel like a teenager.

There are a lot of large PAC’s that effectively do this, pulling together a sizeable voting block and donation base. AARP, an organization for retired people, is one of the larger ones. It just happens that it is hard to a large group of people to agree on policy.

Define the metrics for hiring based on merit.

What’s the alternative?

And China didn’t veto the Gaza peace plan.

You need to have a conversation regarding the feelings surrounding this with your spouse and what each others’ love language is.

It sounds like part of your spouse’s love language is gift giving, which may be why your rejection of their gifts hurts so much. You may view it as rejecting an object, they may view it as you rejecting their love.

I expect this to be a hard conversation, in part because it is a discussion on how you love each other.

Even if OP is autistic, it is still an issue that I can see being a problem. OP and his in laws have fundamentally different ideas on what good gifts are. Also, OP has shown an ability to interpret emotions being displayed, possibly better than the neurotypical family members.