Canada did the same. It’s depressing seeing them all cave to Trump’s demands of the week. It only guarantees there will be more demands next week.

Hmm, I wonder what the difference is.

There are real limits to repairability in modern devices, some placed there just in order to force you to pay the manufacturer more money. But you’re right that there’s a lot we could do that we’re just not bothering to do.

Then you must be American. Only the USA never stops telling itself and everyone else it’s the only free and democratic country. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/cpi-report-inflation-june.html?smtyp=cur

But if you hate your data there’s no quicker way to lose it than a single 36TB Seagate drive.

I like the understatement. Shame they spoiled it with the “game changing” claim at the beginning.

Ol’ Grandpa Lisa (he/him). Slightly odd assumption by the headline writer.

The US under Donald Trump, meanwhile, is drastically reversing course on a renewable future. His recent Big Beautiful Bill includes an end to tax incentives for new buyers of solar panels and batteries, and grants massive subsidies to the fossil and biofuel industries.

To justify the move, Trump blamed solar and wind infrastructure for skyrocketing energy costs, despite overwhelming evidence that solar energy makes the broader energy grid more stable, and energy much cheaper. That being the case, it’s probably no shock to discover the president has more than a few ulterior motives.

The USA is trying to hold the whole world back. Currently they’re putting pressure on Canada and other countries to back off electric vehicles and other renewable energy projects. For its own survival, humanity needs to kick these regressive right-wingers aside.

It is odd how the report gives that two-line exchange between the pilots, but in paraphrase rather than quotes, and with no statement of which pilot said which thing. It seems to invite speculation with its vagueness. Maybe they can’t yet tell from the recording whose voice is whose, but that seems a little unlikely given the importance of figuring that out.

I think the black hole swallowed a word.

I abandoned Rogers years ago after they billed me for a service that they then told me wasn’t available, and denied me a refund. It took a total of 7 hours on the phone to their customer service and eventually losing my temper so badly I was yelling before they made any effort to sort it out. Since then they’ve been sending reps to the door who all assure me their customer service is totally transformed and much better than before. I always told them I doubted it and would never return to Rogers. Seems my instincts were right.

You’re no more likely to lose keys with KeePass or KeePassXC than with an online password manager, as long as you keep good backups, and maybe sync KeePass to cloud storage.

They also kidnapped the grandmother, who was traveling with them on a valid visa, and have her imprisoned elsewhere. Then they snatched the father separately. The mother and kids don’t know the father is imprisoned. They’ve been given no phone calls and no access to legal representation.

If Dexter’s office had not been told about the situation, it is unlikely Merlo’s friends and family would have been able to find her, said Mimi Lettunich, a friend of the Merlo family who has known Merlo for around 20 years. Lettunich attended Friday’s press conference remotely.

“When we talk about ‘What do we want in our community?’ — hard-working, of course. They go to church, and not just participating. Jackie is the worship director at the church,” Lettunich said. “(They) are collaborating with community outreach and things like The Salvation Army. … Their kids are in Christian school, and they are involved in all kinds of different activities and sports. They just won a music competition, just a few weeks ago, and a trip to Disney. I think about how their community is sending them to Disneyland, and our government is sending them to detention.”

As a member of Congress, Dexter has access to the CBP facility and was able to see the family through a window but was not given permission to speak with them.

“They have no idea who I was. I was not allowed to speak with them,” she said.

On July 3, five days after the family was detained at the U.S. and Canadian border, Merlos’ husband, Carlos, was detained by ICE agents in Portland. He has been detained by ICE. Because Merlo has not been able to talk with anyone outside the CBP facility, it is unlikely she is aware of her husband’s status, Dexter said.

Dexter’s office and Merlos’ attorney, Nedved, have access to Carlos in the Northwest Detention Center but still cannot speak with Merlos in Ferndale.

“We cannot connect the two of them to make sure that they understand the situation that the other is in,” Dexter said. “It is absolutely a travesty.” Because nobody has been able to speak with Merlo or her children since she has been taken, it is also possible Merlo doesn’t know she has legal representation, Nedved said.

“We have an issue here where CBP is taking a role where they have detained a family for a period of a couple of weeks when these detention facilities are really only designed for short term,” Nedved said. “They (the family) have not been provided access to contact loved ones, access to contact council or understand what their rights even are.” Nedved said Merlos is unlikely aware of her situation and is making a decision (whether to voluntarily deport) “potentially under duress.”

https://archive.is/gU5iu

Direct link without going through X:

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-191-10

Obama’s jibe came after years of Trump stirring up racist conspiracy theories against him. It’s not like Trump wasn’t asking for it.

It still astonishes me that a country with 340 million people can pick this guy to be its leader and public face.

And yet there was also this poll just the other day that showed a majority of Americans approve of what ICE are doing under Trump:

https://www.newsweek.com/hispanic-support-deportations-rises-sharply-ice-raids-donald-trump-2097163

Getting something in writing and signed by Trump isn’t worth much. He’ll still change his mind and tear it up next week.