"Modern Standby"... And yes, it never works properly

absolutely pointless option - disable in the bios and live a peaceful life.

TPM is part of the system that means I can't my phone for wireless payment or use all sorts of other apps if I also want to do something outlandish like record phone calls, change the theme or delete Facebook... and everything it achieves can be done by other means anyway, making the device's owner a 2nd class citizen is a lazy solution.

I've always heard this argument but never understood it, what other ways are available to have a SRTM?

It's the uncertainty of train delays (in the UK) and your powerlessness as a passenger that's really painful. You get at least one of:

- delay announced increasing by 1 minute with every minute that passes

- no time given, just "delayed"

- trains that were delayed cancelled after 20 minutes wait

- except when you find another way, then they turn up

- additional stops, not announced until you're onboard (so useful to nobody)

- skipping stops/terminating early, again not announced

- announcements that the train will terminate early, only for the driver to announce he's heard nothing of the sort and carry on

etc...

I've been on a train twice in the last ten years.

On the one ride, it was hot so it expected to arrive about 45 minutes late. You can't go full speed on hot tracks.

On the same ride, there was construction, so we sat and waited for about 45 minutes in the middle of no where, in the dark. It was long enough they told us to just let our kids run around and brought the snack cart around for free.

That's a lot of delay for a 3.5h ride.

Ontario, Canada.

My in-laws use trains to travel between cities a fair amount. More delayed trips than not.

It says a lot that Ontario was my first guess when you started listing your complaints.

Not Amtrak, not some third-world country with a corrupt government... Ontario.

The LRT in Ottawa is going well too!

Who would have expect it to snow? Or be warm?

I didn't expect it to fall off the rails though. Not that soon.

I have relatives like that too. They always want us to pick them up at the train station. I have never seen a Canadian passenger train arrive on time.

Canada is not a train culture.

With every release the "desktop experience" gets marked more and more as an optional extra you probably don't need, I find that amusingly optimistic but maybe I'm the odd one.

It is a deliberate plan by wealthy elites...

to outsource raising children to places that can do it for less & ensure competition for low-paid jobs stays high...

what difference does it make

Still have to get through that stage though with some good results to show for it, even if we suspect healthy bodies would handle it much better (although I wouldn't personally lose faith based on one instance)

Seven weeks with no sign of immune rejection is a good result here, for the very first attempt. It's largely what they would have been hoping for.

They introduced this idea that you're paying for a certain amount of concurrent streams, it's not that surprising that people see password sharing as a fair way of getting your money's worth rather than taking advantage.

The initial premise seems slightly manipulative to me I guess, if you paid by the hour or something, no password sharing problem but less profits

It all depends on laws/incentives, landfill locally would surely be cheaper than shipping around the world for recycling/"recycling". So we would need to invent the process and pass a law that encourages or forces its use.

The comment you replied to said North Korea not Putin though

Both the PRC and NK are the (ideological) children of USSR.

(UK) At some point it started to feel like stirring division for its own sake, since everyone will be exposed to the virus regardless of whether we get another 0.1% vaccinated. Luckily it seems to be calming down now.