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If we're really lucky, those replacements might even become competition for the original products outside the EU, and drive the data vultures out of business.

(Something has to go right in this timeline eventually, right?)

letting cats roam outside is objectively harmful.

That's very situational. If you're in a rural or semi-rural area that has small wildcats (or foxes or similar) already, adding a handful of domestic cats isn't going to disrupt anything much. The only reason to keep cats inside in such a place is for their own safety (from larger predators like coyotes, and from highway traffic).

If you're in Australia, Antarctica, or a protected island biome with no native small wildcats or canids, or you have a known endangered species in the area that cats are likely to prey upon, that changes the equation. If you're in a highly urban area, that changes things in a different way, because the danger to outdoor cats from traffic and other human activity rises exponentially.

Very unlikely this person is a grandparent—up until about 40 years ago, most cats outside highly built-up downtown areas were allowed to free-roam, so an older person would see it as normal.

Many countries don't use a lot of electricity, especially those where the grids are spotty or in poor repair, or the overall population is small. Even without the AI garbage, I'd expect large tech-sector companies to use more energy than many countries.

(In other words, the headline for this was really poorly chosen. "Microsoft and Google pour more electricity into AI than 100+ countries use" might have gotten a bit closer to the actuall point, if it's actually true.)

One thing that's helped me a bit in similar circumstances was to find the manual (by searching on-line, since the paper ones don't tend to survive in our household). Even 30-50 years ago, they were pretty good at telling you what to absolutely not do, in order to reduce the number of lawsuits flung at the manufacturer. Also a nice-to-have for maintenance purposes.

(Now if only I could find the one for that damned drill press . . .)

. . . instead of just doing it by scraping Wikipedia articles. Examples of that have been showing up on Amazon for years.

It seems she died for attracting RCMP attention while Indigenous, something that seems to happen far too often (even once in the history of the RCMP would be too often). Since disbanding the RCMP and starting over isn't going to happen, how do we get this toxic racism out of them?

The Liberals are spineless and not willing to fight the status quo unless prodded by some other party that's propping up their minority government.

The Conservatives are evil.

Neither are ideal choices, but I'll take spineless over evil any day of the week.

Cookies have non-infringing uses, like identifying you to Lemmy's Web interface so that you can post from your account with the settings you've chosen for it. Problem is, even sites where they have a proper purpose don't set them at the appropriate time (as part of the login process, or when you first add something to your shopping cart for ecommerce sites).

Ad tracking has absolutely no uses that benefit the user, unless they're the type of weirdo who actually clicks on ads voluntarily, which I'd guess is less than 1% of the population. Those people can use the opt-in toggle if they want.

The zero-effort method of pointing a camera and mic at the screen as it's being played back should be sufficient if they can't do it another way. Given the tape's age, the resolution is unlikely to be high enough to lose significant details that way.

One key term to search for is "digital signage". Since they're built to stay on 24/7 for years, you'll probably need to buy another one, which offsets the higher price to an extent. If you can make do with a smaller panel, a large monitor with HDMI input is another option.

You can also sometimes find a shop that's selling off someone's warehouse remainder of older dumb panel consumer TVs, although that's getting much rarer as the number of new-in-box units decreases.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Provided it's an analog clock.