Because the city/PD wants it. That's why they're paying for it, and why they'll probably pay for the new ones.

So a post-apocalyptic fantasy rural frontier/urban civilization center split is fully within the realm of.possibility.

With US cities and states beibg pretty autonomous most things considered (for now at leas), it could easily happen without the US splitting as far as the world map goes.

Obligatory Israel -> Abreal

Case in point:

1. Israel's actions as of now are less surreal and more unreal or in germanesque: abreal
2. The original 6 degrees of seperation guy (a polish-jewish mathematician) liked to joke about Israel being "Isreal". This is just the logical next step given the state's illegitimate actions.

But that weakens the economy (cries in corporate)

As if everyone living paycheck to paycheck and with no confort and luxury in their lives doesn't

Honestly, Chromium seems to have the basic features like history and passwords figured out way better than Firefox (or rather, Chrome does), while stripping most of the junk away, as it luckily happens to be proprietary Google bullshit.

Firefox has a bunch of telemetry and bloat, but the fact that my only real dealbreaker for a browser is quality adblock makes Firefox pretty much my only "vanilla" choice.

A "10-month lead" less than a month ago at that

I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.

As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.

Wrong, fully possible as far as ActivityPub is concerned. Instances may (and most do) set the requirement themselves though.

No, i get it. The propaganda's collapsing in on itself and I'm here to make fun of it.

I remember whn Linux hit 4% as if it was yesterday.

In the laisses-faire market, any levy and any price is perfectly legal by definition.