Not to mention that the vote was boycotted by Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova.

They were sooooo keen to return to the Russian embrace (/s).

Is it was so great, why did most of the conquered nations run west as fast as they could as soon as they could? Must have been because the USSR was so ‘progressive’.

Let’s start with the second part of your question? How do you make someone understand that invading another country is not a good thing?

This. Has changed my life.

I downloaded it to try out the AI in Bing Search, but now I only use it for Teams or other Microsoft cloud apps.

Same as for Chrome. It only gets used for Google Apps.

I gave up on the Teams app and went with using it in Edge.

This seems like the digital equivalent of burning books. Rather than controlling what people can read, shouldn’t we be doing more about the underlying reasons that mental health has taken a dive, such as the cost of living, climate change, the cost of further education and, you know, giving people a reason to feel optimistic about the future?

Finger limes. Tastes like lime sorbet but with the texture of roe.

I came here thinking it would be a Reddit alternative. I stayed because I realized it wasn’t Reddit 2.0, it was something better.

Why don’t you offer to start by ‘baby sitting’ the child while the mother is at work. That might eventually extend to sleep overs.

I agree with the comment about medical care and therapy. Like it or not, she’s still his mother and would probably see any offer in this direction as meddling or judgemental and close the door completely.

Many of them can only be controlled from a smartphone app that requires both the phone and the robot to access the cloud. ☹️

I spent many years trying to be as FOSS as I could. I tried many different Linux distros, hunted for open source operating systems for my phone (at the time, none did even the basic things I needed it to do) until one day I decided I was sick to death of having to spend hours researching and trying multiple arcane cli commands to get even simple things to work (like WiFi). I realised that I was wasting an enormous amount of time being all-things-open-source.

My next purchase as a macbook as it was based on a *nix and I’ve come to realise that while Apple is a walled garden and in some ways is ‘evil’, it’s less evil than Google is now, or Microsoft was back in the day.

I also like the way that the various Apple devices work really well together. But I hate the fact that it’s harder to hack things to be the way that I want. Don’t get me wrong, I still love open source software, but I have too few years left to waste them on modifying config.org files, or whatever they do now, so I’m much more selective with what I use. I tend to use FOSS applications on MacOS where the software works well enough.

Not trying to bash FOSS, just my 2 cents.