You and I are in full agreement.

Kernel updates can require it, but even then you can often get away with replacing the specific module.

Yeah… Harris was an OK option for president given the state of national politics. But California can do far better.

There’s no reason why some sort of augmentation system couldn’t improve the navigation situation with the big dig. Stick some low power beacons that provide GPS-like signal in the tunnel based on their predetermined location and we’ll have GPS accounting for special relativity, general relativity and continental drift.

Do you live in Michigan or is there somewhere else that was this idiotic too?

Correct. But that means 512 GB is not half a tebibyte.

512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.

Man you must have some unhappy house cats. My cat went out onto the patio, realised he could get the same smells from the open window, and went back inside.

Cat tax before you animals demand it.