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So we dont buy US military kit. It's got kill switches and hard to keep running without their support. It's increasing looking like they aren't aligned with the free world.

The consumer can only really be expected to do so much. Fail of governments / regulators can't really be fixed by consumer action. Realistically, you can't get many to understand and care. We need to pressure governments to do their job. Now the problem isn't academic. It's national security and the tax money and control lost to American big tech is now a political problem. Be a lot easier if they hadn't been a sleep on the job and ignoring digital rights and competition experts, but we are where we are.

Sounds like more reason to get off Microsoft/Apple/Google/Meta/Amazon/etc

It was never clever to allow such monopolies, but now it just geopolitically dangerous.

Canada should be trying to move as much to open source as it can, as fast as it can.

If they use means more funding to foundations & projects, this helps everyone. You can see a feedback loop were more and more things hit critical mass. This is a nightmare scenario for the big closed source houses.

Can't talk of heatpumbs, but EVs are great. Been two years being an all EV family. I still don't see enough curb side opposition for people without drives. Home charging x10 cheaper than dino juice, but public chargers (80p per kWh), are basically the same cost. So without home charging, there is little to no cost saving. Which is not only unfair, but will slow EV adoption.

The series is the next book on my list, and I flew from them first time. Looking forwards to rereading (I never normally reread). :-)

We remember/interpret it slightly differently. I'll be rereading soon. See what I second time round. 😀

But the whole point of the modifications was so it could pass as human. Which means beforehand, it was a struggle to.

Poor researched articles is normal. Real journalism is rare. You said Munich was a failure and that really isn't true if MS had to work so hard to squash it.

Agreed. I hope they pull it back. It's clearly where anyone would prefer to live!

After ART's modifications. Other secunits would know from it's gate and general movement, etc.

I remember it being a clear thing, but I'll be rereading soon. It's the book after the next one.