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Especially since they've currently got a big, expensive war on their hands, that they're all-hands-on-deck for.

As an example, medical care/inheritance rights are one.

Back before the days of gay marriage, there were no end of horror stories of LGBT people whose partners were dying from HIV, and were forbidden from seeing their dying partners, or for estranged family to swoop in and kick the "friend" out, preventing them from seeing their partner, often taking everything that belonged to the deceased in the process.

A relatively famous art piece has a similar story, where Boskovich's boyfriend's family swept in and took everything from their shared apartment after he died, effectively erasing their relationship in the process. All that was left was an electric fan.

And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don't.

People would be more likely to use it that way.

Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you've now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and at worst, is the house being filled with carbon monoxide from the combustion.

What did you expect, it literally has Virgin in the name (!)

Paper would fall under that these days, wouldn't it? You can't just fit a word (8 bytes) onto a punch card like the old days, and you'd need billions of the things go even start matching up to modern storage.

It does make you wonder if it at least a little bit by design. You don't need to pay bailouts if the person who would be receiving them is no longer able to do so, and you are still approving them outright.

Fair, though in my experience, Debian and Ubuntu weren't that much better in that regard.

I just went with Arch, because some of the stuff I wanted to use was much newer on it.

I've had similar issues with Arch Linux for years. The front panel outright refuses to work on Linux, even after modifying a whole bunch of things.

Your average person is more likely to get frustrated that stuff is broken/doesn't work, and switch back rather than having to alter module configuration files and things like that to fix it.

And the insurance can boot you off, or refuse to cover you if you're too expensive.

So if you got cancer, and had to spend a million dollars to treat it, your insurance could just go "okay, your treatment is too expensive, we're not covering that, you'll have to pay for this yourself".

It used to be worse. Many years ago, they could outright decide not to cover some medical conditions of yours, deeming them to be "pre-existing". So if you had diabetes, sorry, that's a pre-existing condition. We don't cover those.

Nail in the coffin is that Americans spend more money on healthcare, per capita, than most other countries, without marked improvement in care/outcomes.

I can't imagine self hosting an LLM-based search engine would be too viable. The hardware demands, even for a relatively small quantised model, are considerable. Doubly so if you don't have a GPU to accelerate with.

He's going have the biggest, the greatest, the best tariffs.