They hacked a nuclear lab to ask for what would be genetics research... facepalm

The solution is the same, though. Chances are non-Google Android forks aren't going to implement this, just like how Chromium-based browsers that aren't Chrome (or Edge) ended up implementing solutions for the depreciation of webRequest in Chromium's implementation of MV3. So if Google does do this, just unlock your device's bootloader and flash Omnirom or another Android fork onto it.

So, what they're basically doing is loading straight from long-term storage into each core's memory cache, and just running a crapton of cores? That's actually a pretty good idea provided your long-term storage access speed is fast enough.

Not all aliens are furries and not all furries are aliens.

My point is that the inverse is true as well - some aliens can be furries and some furries are aliens. It's just a matter of whether the particular species has animalistic traits or not.

Off the top of my head, I can think of Lumenier and Lynxmotion. They're kits but the electronics are plug-and-play (well, solder-and-play in the case of Lumenier, but just for the power connections). They vastly outperform DJI's drones due to their lightweight construction, and are vastly more configurable as they're designed to use off-the-shelf hobby parts as opposed to DJI's completely proprietary designs.

BLADE used to make a direct competitor to the DJI Phantom series in the form of the Chroma. Unfortunately they've completely left the multirotor market simply because DJI was able to build more market share via big-box stores vs BLADE only selling through specialty retailers, even though the Chroma was superior to the Phantom in performance and feature set.

The only reason I can think of for people to be downvoting you is if they think you're talking about the car company, not Nikola Tesla. Probably should have used his full name.

Though the system he came up with was, well, flawed for lack of a better word.

It actually does make sense. Besides the whole "getting WordPad users to buy Office" thing, there's also the fact that they won't have to continue updating WordPad. It's one less thing to worry about for security and compatibility on their end. The user might not benefit from its removal, but Microsoft does.

Just pointing out that it's not just for the sake of changing things.

I've had zero issues loading .doc and .docx files in Writer, and the same goes for .xls and .xlsx files in Calc. The only thing that might have issues is anything with VBS built-in, but that's not commonly used and I haven't run into that yet.

I will say that I agree with you on Excel's UX, but with the caveat that spreadsheet programs in general are just a pain (still better than trying to do anything manually in QuickBooks Online, though).

LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there's really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about "non-standard software", threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).

I'm glad I'm running AMD CPUs on the computers I actually use for anything that could be considered sensitive.

This is a good example of why you don't put accessible ports on devices that don't need them.

I've got three current fursonas with different stories as to how I picked their species.

Tofu (Zenko Kitsune): I actually had a lot of trouble narrowing this one down, and the final decision literally came down to being on a discord server about foxes and what I could do with DazStudio. The character that became Tofu could have been a Kobold, a Land Form Shaymin, a Sphinx (as in the Greek/Egyptian mythical creature, not a Bingus) or even a "scrap yard special" protogen with cybernetics made from recycled and/or repurposed parts, but eventually I decided on a Zenko Kitsune with five tails, who's tails represent her age in centuries.

Sloan (Serval): If you can't tell, Sloan's my main. Tofu is very much not like me at all but rather more of a way to self-explore, so I decided I wanted to make a fursona that could act as my mascot. I thought about what traits are typically associated with various fursona species and settled on "lesser" wildcat, and then went with a serval because I'm tall and so are servals.

Amara (Land Form Shaymin): I liked the Land Form Shaymin concept I had when trying to decide on Tofu's species, so I decided to use it as a separate character/'sona.