Agreed, I’m not an Apple fan, but the headline is vague enough to make things seem worse than they are.

You’re not personally responsible

While I agree with your overall comment, I disagree with how it starts. We are all responsible for the decisions we make, once we are educated about those decisions.

Example: You can buy bamboo toilet paper for less than Charmin when purchased online. This reduces the deforestation of old growth trees by reducing the demand. Now that you know this, you are responsible for the choice you make on what you purchase. Or buy a bidet. Every person who talks about this spreads education, which is what influences larger scale decisions about regulation (albeit much more slowly than campaign donations).

For those whop ask, source: https://savetrees.co/products/bulk-toilet-paper?variant=44493957431458 vs https://www.walmart.com/ip/Charmin-Ultra-Gentle-Toilet-Paper-18-Mega-Rolls-231-Sheets-per-Roll/2846366584

$0.0039991667 per sheet vs $0.0048027898 per sheet for Charmin.

The Sengled ZigBee RGB or white bulbs work well for me and have tunable white LEDs. They seem to have a good DC/AC conversion. But they do require ZigBee.

For the US, a study was conducted on this showing the industry provides a lot more funding than government: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10349341/

In this cross-sectional study, phased clinical trials of 387 drugs approved between 2010 and 2019 were associated with $8.1 billion of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, primarily for clinical research. This amount represents 3.3% of total NIH funding for basic or applied research related to these products and 9.8% to 10.7% of estimated industry costs, including less than 26% of phase 1 or 2 trials and less than 5% of phase 3 trials.

The findings suggest that NIH spending on clinical development focuses on early-stage trials, representing a small fraction of estimated industry spending.

And if we look at the UK, NHS spent 453.56 Pounds on all research in 2024 (Annual Report: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-annual-report-202223), a tiny amount compared to the US, even without taking the huge inflation issues into account, meaning the US is driving that development.

“Couldn’t exist” is fair to call out, though, I should have said “in their current form”. I mention taxes would have to increase to cover the costs, but I may not have been clear enough.

Yea my healthcare one quickly got down voted. Someone used GPT to try to disprove it. I’m even a big propilonent of public healthcare, but you can’t assume it is perfect.

I have 20+ years in healthcare, much of that with payor/pricing, including US to UK. Or, you could trust AI.

In any event, for 1 and 2, GPT confirmed the merit. And these are statements I’ve personally heard from VPs and up at major pharma companies (that work in pricing). I even mention taxation in my comment, taxes go up if healthcare costs go up and no private system is put in place.

For 3, read a more current article. Assisted dying is the bill on the table right now: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew2jj94zwyo

European and UK universal healthcare is able to exist in it’s current form and at it’s current cost because the US has private healthcare.

Healthcare Companies give heavy discounts to UK/EU to make extra money, they are fully funded by US payors and thus patients. If US healthcare went public and it ate into profits, and other countries run low on healthcare funds (the NHS, right now), private insurance or more likely, increased taxes, in those countries may be required. The NHS is already considering pay-to-play models.

Note: This is a simplification of lots of details around the international transactions and legislation.

Note 2: Before disagreeing, pick a pharma company and look at their annual report.

Note 3: Clarified form and cost based on an astute commenter below.

Yup. I use one of those micro PCs with 4 network ports as a router, and that’s it.

A key here is to use Floccus on one machine running Chrome and Firefox, and the normal sync on all other browsers. This simplifies things a lot. I use a Webbian instance on my server for it.

I feel the same way. But I have been informed this is because most Itallian American dishes are not the right sauces for spaghetti. And its not bronze cut.

Isn’t this a standard CCTV setup? I mean “no wires” is impossible unless you’re talking battery operated trail cams.

The ultimate social media scheduling tool, with a bunch of AI

Mmhmm

To add to this, don’t buy a server at all, upgrade your desktop! Then use the desktop as a server. Then recycle every desktop for the rest of your life into the new server. Been working for me for decades.