I’m much the same way. Wasn’t really a conscious decision either - it’s more of I had better and more interesting things to do and gradually the amount of time I spent watching TV and movies dwindled down to basically zero.

It’s actually from the Cold War.

1st world = USA, NATO, and their allies. 2nd world = USSR, the Eastern Bloc and their allies (the 2nd world doesn’t really exist anymore). 3rd world = anyone not in the 1st or 2nd categories.

You are right though it’s not about any real statistics. It’s about political alignment.

That was there for a CD-ROM add-on, which was planned from the start but never actually released. Nintendo was working on it as a collaboration with both Phillips and Sony. After it got canned, both Phillips and Sony still had rights to some of the technology as part of the collaboration. So Phillips decided to release their own gaming system based upon what they had, and that was the (largely forgotten) CD-i system. And of course Sony did the exact same thing, and that became the Playstation. The rest is history.

I’d really like to know where you are buying 15 year old GMC trucks for $2000-$3000 that presumably run and aren’t beat to shit.

SD cards. They won’t be completely gone, but will probably be regulated to pro cameras and a few niche applications. As storage goes, hard drives outside of data centers. Right now they are still hanging in there as cheap external storage for things like backups, but in 10 years they’ll probably be gone in that application.

Fluorescent lighting. Granted it’s already on the way out, but in 10 years you may have trouble finding bulbs and your only options for an old fluorescent fixture will be either to replace it or an LED retrofit kit. Possibly the same thing will apply to sodium vapor lighting.

Manual transmissions. While the internal combustion engine will probably still be hanging in there, my guess will be finding a new car with more than 2 pedals might be a challenge.

Meanwhile, my work Windows laptop is significantly slower to wake up now as I’m forced to hibernate it thanks to them removing S3 sleep in favor of the modern standby shit.

I thought the Ender’s game universe was interesting with the instantaneous FTL communication with the ansible, but no FTL travel. They had some tech that could accelerate ships quickly to very near-light speed, which meant you could travel between planets in a few weeks ship-time thanks to time dilation, but years would pass for the people on the planets. So while you could talk with people on other planets instantly, if you wanted to visit them, they’d have to wait decades for you to arrive.

Then later in the books they figured out …

The Conquerors trilogy by Timothy Zahn had the opposite - FTL travel but no FTL communication. Smaller ships could also travel FTL faster, so you had a bunch of small ships running around to different star systems essentially delivering the mail. It’s been a while since I read the books, but I don’t really remember it playing a big part of the story other than a way to isolate the battlefronts because once the mail service gets shut down by the enemy you have absolutely no idea what’s happening outside of your local star system.

I actually had some hope for that because we needed something to break the Flash monopoly, and I trusted Microsoft slightly more than I trust Adobe.

However, it never went anywhere because everyone expected Microsoft was just going to kill it, and of course Microsoft killed it, and that was that.

Walkie-talkies would be fun. They’d figure out how to use them pretty quickly and what they could use them for. At the same time they’d be completely like magic to them.

The disagreement doesn’t really seem like a contradiction from my reading. The studies that give Tesla good marks are doing it based upon crash test results, which Teslas tend do pretty well on. The studies that give Tesla bad marks are doing based upon actual statistics from the field, and the numbers don’t lie.

My assumption would be there’s a few factors for this. It could be partly due to the sort of people who drive Teslas are more likely to crash them (this is probably why Buick is also so high on the list - too many senior drivers). Though my hunch is Tesla’s self-driving implementation is a major part of it.

If you use the book’s pace of 4 MPH, which is actually what many people would consider a brisk walk, 300-400 miles would take 75-100 hours, or around 3-4 days. That’s a long time to stay up without sleeping, let alone being physically active the entire time. I’d guess someone who is really fit might be able to do half of that before collapsing, with most people probably not making past the first 24 hours.

Someone who was using drugs or doping might be able to do it, but even then I’d be skeptical.

The last of the IBM-branded ones are Core 2 Duo machines that can, with some upgrades, passably run a modern Linux distro. With that said, they are still nearly 20 years old.

The last of the IBM-built ones are still 32-bit machines.

Summer is ending up here in the Northern hemisphere, so I’m going with this being in New Zealand, which makes it about $4600 US.

The really stupid thing about the party line is the thing they are attacking Kimmel for wasn’t even about Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was talking about MAGA.

Some people also have a lot of trouble understanding that Kimmel is a comedian.

But hey, if we’re pulling things off the air for intentionally spreading misinformation for political purposes on live TV, then lets shut down Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN too.

That every other version thing hasn’t been true for a while now. Every version after Windows 7 has been terrible.

I would say you’re looking for Texmex cuisine, which is the Americanized version of Mexican food that’s heavy with the cheeses and sauces, and Sino-American cuisine, which is the Americanized Chinese food and also includes things like fortune cookies which are most definitely not Chinese in origin.

Though I might just say “American” cuisine as that would include those things, and also very American foods like pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs.

We easily produce enough food to feed everyone with our current technology level. Making it free and available to everyone is mostly a logistics and economic problem.

Along somewhat similar lines, I wouldn’t mind a fan that monitored my temperature while sleeping and adjusts its speed accordingly.

Not really. The pieces are already in place with UEFI and Secure Boot. All that would need to happen would be to force Secure Boot to be enabled, and only preload keys for an approved list of operating systems. With that, your fancy new motherboard may not be able to boot and run the OS of your choice.