It's a good thing the Republican leadership is as incompetent as they are morally bankrupt, but that doesn't mean they haven't managed to stumble their way into pushing the US to the brink of a dictatorship. As the KGB used to say, a lot of them are "useful idiots" which can be orchestrated by careful external manipulation.

Talk about a terrible way to go. For everyone involved. That's a lot of people that'll need trauma counseling for sure.

The HP Reverb G2 v2 was the highest resolution headset on the market for a while. And it comes with the same headset solution the Index uses.

Sure. It has some flaws, such as the hand tracking accuracy not being as good as some other headsets (some people felt the inside-out tracking wasn't as accurate as traditional lighthouse based approaches, but it's still plenty accurate for pretty much any game I've played with it) but at the price point this occupied when new there was really no better value for people that wanted a headset with as little setup as possible and absolutely fantastic fidelity and resolution.

It's a true travesty that Microsoft can just axe the entire platform with no way for users to continue using their still perfectly functioning devices.

And what, pray tell, is the alternative here? A surrender to Russia is tantamount a full on capitalisation of the west and a defacto encouragement for Putin to keep pushing aggressive expansionist agendas. Ukraine will have an ongoing border dispute that can turn violent at any time with an adversary that's been emboldened by a proven lack of support by Ukraine's allies.

There is no winner in war, but this would be about as close to winning as Russia could possibly get.

You're not wrong, but as privacy conscious consumers we have more ways to force Microsoft and other tech giants to bend the knee than just disengaging with their product and leaving less savvy users to fend for themselves. One such example is legislative action, take a look at how the EU has been wielding their internal market to force companies into more pro-consumer practices. Another is class action lawsuits, there's a long history of successful suits resulting in lasting change.

You might not agree with me on whether those options are the right path forward here, but I feel that we, as security and privacy conscious owners have a duty to speak up about these things for the majority that can't or won't due to their technical abilities.

I love how all Germanic languages can pull that stunt. Be it German, Swedish, Dutch, they all have this magic "turn a sentence into a single word" ability.

Yeah, that's what made me get premium. Even before the adblocker crackdown, the prospect of supporting creators and being able to ditch Spotify's horrible artist compensation model made it a simple choice.

I don't think it was ever available outside of Europe, but it had some major advantages such as a completely bonkers 8 hours run time per tape, perfect still images without distortion, and the ability to reverse or fast forward without the artifacts you'd see on VHS and Betamax.

Exactly what I was referring to actually.

Career planning is just about the biggest scam we're sold when selecting an education.

Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, can predict what the job market will look like 5-10-15 years into the future, and yet we're asking people to gamble in the casino of life to get an education and take on debt (even if you are going to a less expensive school - the person you're replying to had parents working minimum wage, nobody in that situation has the kind of spare capital to fund any education without a loan) in hopes that their chosen profession will a) still exist when they leave university b) remain viable long enough to repay their debt and c) the economy doesn't contract significantly while they are in school, resulting in a "lost generation".

You need to have a seriously high powered crystal ball to make a prediction that accurate, or just admit that we're effectively forcing kids to gamble with their futures.

Exactly. All the memes and stickers about letting the CEL stay on are funny, but if you don't know what code is triggering the light, you are gambling with your car, or even your safety. Seriously people, get a CEL checked out, and then decide if you feel it's worth fixing. Most auto parts stores, dealers, etc. will happily do it for you, often at no cost, but at least be an informed consumer instead of just hoping it will be okay.

That's actually the most reasonable explanation I've seen so far, and it helps explain a bunch (one small correction: most states have a towing speed limit of either 55 or 65 mph, so just about the same or slower than in Europe. Canada is even worse with most provinces limiting highway towing speed to 80-90kmh). That said, it still doesn't make any sense that our tow rating does not take into account the presence of a brake controller (that is to say, the stated towing capacity does not list braked and unbraked separately in most cars except trucks).