Having any of the firewall in the kernel is one Linuxism I've never understood. I tried to set up an old computer as a VPN server, and I had to recompile the kernel or switch distributions, because the kernel wasn't compiled with a packet processing feature I wanted to use.
They're pretty common and cheap on the used market, though. I bought mine from a thrifts store for $30, and the console itself regularly goes for ~$50 on eBay.
Financial transactions aren't protected, so if you pay, you can personally be tied to the account, but they don't have access to the internal contents of the account.
What I get out of that pitch is "use us because we're local to you, and possibly because you're required to, not because we're and good, or that we'll even try".
I mostly interact with smaller contributors to their field, and they tend to be unique and bold, because that's what is needed to be competitive. When they get their uniqueness and boldness out of just being who they are, it doesn't tend to foster the type of uniqueness and boldness needed to make a good product.
The way we are now, it is a liability to rely on foreign technology for anything critical, we should be back to the cold war days, were plenty of countries had their own computers, operating systems, programming languages.
It is going to be pleasant? No, and it is going to take a few decades, however we cannot afford to have kill switches in the hands of foreign nations, even if their software is the best in the planet.
In the current climate, using MS Office is a business risk for European companies. Who knows what idea will pop into ol' minihands' head next time he has a bad day at the golf course? Like, it would _not_ be particularly shocking if at some point in the next 2.5 years he attempts to interfere with the ability of US companies to sell services to Europe. You can no longer depend on "but that would be an obviously terrible idea, so they won't do it" as an operating principle; see the tariffs.
Frankly, right now, there is a lot of money to be made in just providing safer alternatives to American cloud stuff. They don't need to be _better_, they just need to be based in a stable jurisdiction.
Also, nova is a Latin word, so obviously it means nova is Spanish. Saying it gets read as "no va", is like saying English speakers read carpet as "car pet".
Spanish "new" = nuevo, nueva . "nova" is not a Spanish word. You are right that the connotations of any non-word may not be determined by the most obvious decomposition into syllables. But "Honda 0" (car) hits entirely differently from, say, "Coke Zero". (btw, "honda" is Spanish for "deep".)
As I mentioned earlier, it's a Latin word, and Latin was already a dead language when the term was coined, so it doesn't get translated; every language uses the Latin term, or its transliterated equivalent.
Regardless of the etymology, when the car was released, the term "nova" had long been in use, for the astronomical event.
Club seating is pretty controversial. A large percentage of passengers absolutely will not accept a rear facing seat. Chrysler had Swivel 'n Go seats in the center row, that could optionally rotate to club seating as an option from 2008 through 2010, but dropped it due to low interest.
Also, accessibility requirements are about compliance, not market interest. Obviously, they don't matter to most users, and generally the extra usage from complying isn't cost effective. Theoretically, a company could do market research on users who would use accessibility features, but the results won't generally match legal requirements, so it's a much safer option to ignore accessibility needs and instead defer to accessibility regulations.
Clearly Zoox hasn't done the market research, or as is more often the case, did the research then ignored it, so any party of more than two is far more likely to use their competition.
I'm going with a group of friends to go see Project Hail Mary. It's the first time in years that most of us have planned ahead of time to see a movie, because it's mostly been garbage. I think the last time was Avengers Endgame, but we were all pretty disenfranchised in the series by that point.
Having a good home theater does mean I watch far more movies at home than in the theater, but almost none of them are new releases, and the ones that are are usually released straight to a streaming service.
Content protection and accessibility are in direct conflict with most approaches. Working on making the a11y layer something I handle properly rather than just hoping CSS ordering is enough.
I agree wholeheartedly to the first point, but then why undo that by using a set-top box that only works after phoning home? I'd rather the manufacturer not even know my IP address, let alone get a full login.
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