And in the second series there's a video of Garfield and Odie making a home video. They created YouTube channels for the in-video characters with actual character relevant content, including that home video, 5 years before the second series was posted. Absolutely amazing work, hats off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NLa4ebX4E

Those numbers don't add up.

Indeed, I hadn't heard of the movie either, but just added it on my watchlist in case it pops up on one of the streaming services.

> Basically almost every consumer ISP offer mandatory includes an ISP managed gateway

Is that really true? I never thought Internet subscriptions would require use of ISP's own device. I for sure have been using my own DSL modem/router/wlan device for my own connections (EU).

Well, yes and no.

Providers are (I believe) required to let you bring your own equipment. Every DSL or cable service I've seen has allowed this.

However, it is also required that the modem you plug into the network accepts and runs firmware provided solely by the network operator. They can update your device at any time and there's nothing you can do about it.

So yeah, you can run your own hardware if you want, but the ISP will run their software on it whether you like it or not.

Definitely not the case. How would the firmware even end up in the device, which protocol delivers it? And which ISP would have the expertise to patch a collection of random devices in the network?

See TR-069

Thanks for the pointer, today is another day when I'm learning something new.

East Coast US here, I can bring my own cable modem with any cable ISP I have had in the past 10 years.

I imagine fiber is a different story.

For what it's worth, I always carry cash, including coins. I pay the smallest purchases (like a sandwich) with coins.

Drones were banned from cities already a good while ago, and I don't see that changing. Drone delivery could work on the countryside, but urban areas will be limited to delivery robots on wheels.

> Even babysitting 2 checkouts is still better than employing 2 cashiers.

This assumes self-checkout is as efficient as a cashier? I'd say a good cashier is at least 5 times faster than I am, some discount store cashiers maybe even 10 times faster.

Assuming one isn't interested in their fight for freedom: they are paying for this in blood. Ukraine is dismantling Europe's only local threat, and the oldest geopolitical rival of the US. They have already destroyed most of Russia's Cold War arsenal of conventional weapons. If we put this in a bit of a cynical way, the situation as it stands is an extremely cheap deal both for Europe and the US.

If one isn't interested in their fight then cheap=/= maximally profitable. Foot in door by luring proxies to trade blood for $. Once proxies dependant and fully sunk cost, enshitification commences. If one is cynical, RU as future competition is done, extraction of UKR can begin. Dead horse still worth something as glue.

Whenever I read theories like this, I am saddened that we don't live in such a utopia where eg the US (and Russia etc) have perhaps some weird and questionable goals, but go about achieving them rationally and efficiently.

There's no chance I would be able to recommend some Waterfox or Iceweasel to family or friends. Current status is Chrome or Firefox, and there's a long long way ahead for anything else to become relevant. Death of Firefox would mean immediate death of all the forks too.

Zen is perfectly usable by your family.

Browser is such a critical piece of software that it has to be established, with a large and accomplished dev team. Which practically means a budget in the millions at least.

Anything smaller I could use myself, but would absolutely never recommend to others. As I said, current mainstream enough options are only Firefox or Chrome.

Civ 5&6 apply zone of control well, I think: you are able to move past enemies, but it takes all of the unit's move points. So the advancing is slow and dangerous.