The military had a similar problem with fitness apps for a while.

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/

See also first sale doctrine:

“Lending of physical books held by the library is permitted under the first sale doctrine. In other instances, such as making copies of articles and checking them out to students, libraries may rely on fair use to justify course reserves. A recent landmark case related to electronic reserves is Cambridge v. Patton, in which a group of publishers sued Georgia State University for their liberal e-reserves policy. The courts held GSU to be the prevailing party, finding fair use in the majority of alleged infringements”

https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/copyright/libraries#:~:text=to course reserves%3F-,A.,use to justify course reserves.

See also Ben Franklin:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ben-franklin-invented-library-as-we-know-it-180983983/

I think it depends on the station and the host. I will expand on my previously flippant comment to hopefully provide some context as to why I made it:

Most fm radio in the US is corporate owned and uses a centralized pre-recorded DJ (or team of DJs) who usually add nothing but inane banter and laughing at their own jokes as they play whatever the record companies are pushing this week ad nauseum. In such cases I would welcome an AI host that simply offers the news, weather, and the list of played or upcoming songs.

There are still a handful of independent stations that actually have DJs who hand curate their own playlists and do deep dives or interviews about what they play — but these are getting to be fewer and harder to find across the US. AI could never replace this.

Why do we need radio hosts at all (AI or human)?

“Fair Use” is a thing. Someone needs to go back to law school.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Thousands?

Thinking of all the cool products this CEO has killed off. I would love to see this company split up so that maybe they could innovate again.

Not disputing what you said — just clarifying that other upgrades are not part of the $212 mil and what is meant by “whole system”. The $212 is just to replace the floppy based system with something newer that includes a service contract.

“Beyond the floppies, though, the Muni Metro needs many more upgrades. The SFMTA plans to spend $700 million (including the $212 million Hitachi contract) to overhaul the light rail’s control system. This includes replacing the loop cable system for sending data across the servers and trains. The cables are said to be a more pressing concern than the use of floppy disks. “

Supposedly the new system is five gens ahead of the old system and would have additional features. Some would say “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but whatever. I’m sure it will be as fancy as upgrading to Windows 11 at that price.

According to the article, the other improvements are priced separately from the $212 million de-floppy-ing.

The loop cable and other non-floppy improvements are priced out separately according to the article.

T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.

Sounds like a grift. All you need is an emulator and a disk image.

Start tracking politician phones. Oh look who paid a visit to the lobbyist house this week! That shit will get shut down real quick.

Yes. A repair website would rather you repair your phone than recycle it. You are free to do that.

And if you don’t want to go through ifixit to do that, you can go through Apple for the first five years of the product life (7 in California) and even do the repair yourself:

https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair

You can take your iPhone to any authorized service provider for a replacement battery. Apple charges around $99 for it. It’s a trade off to make the device better sealed to increase waterproofing.

And if you want to do it yourself, you can:

https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair

Sorry, but this article is mostly bullshit. Apple is a leader in recycling their products, and in making them out of non-plastic materials like aluminum and glass. They take back their products at their stores for recycling, and have even built machines that disassemble them into individual parts. iPhone has one of the longest lifespans in the industry — receiving updates long after competitors have abandoned models of similar age. Repairability has also been improved on the recent iPhone models.

Apple adopted both USB C and RCS. These are ridiculous talking points.

Airpods — yes, the design isn’t serviceable, they’re made from Virgin plastic and their tiny batteries aren’t replaceable. I agree that should be improved. But at least Apple recycles them for free.

If you really want to bitch about something hard to repair — look at the current iMac design. Again though, it’s mostly aluminum and glass.

I wonder what the investors like Condé Nast/Advance Publications think of this?

Pull their sheets off and start filming them. See how they like it.

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Cher can rock out when she wants. Dionne is more soul and easy listening.