They need to be cooled to absolute zero. The hardware to do that weighs a couple thousand pounds, and needs a truckload of liquid helium. There’s no real way quantum computers will ever be portable, or even home units.

Generally speaking (not just computing)
Front facing or Frontend is what the end user sees and interacts with. The public side of a system.
Backend is the hidden part of the system that allows the front actually do the things people want it to.

Who else’s taxes do you pay?
Are you paying the taxes for everyone?
Or do you only pay the taxes you owe?

It was trying to show how Star Wars could grow into more complex storylines than good Jedi vs evil Sith. How the concept of balance the previous films tried to talk about could be reinterpreted as a search for balance within one’s self. Reconciling ones own light and dark aspects makes a whole person. An idea epp 6 started with the turning of Vader at the end.

Also there was the idea of getting away from the power of dynastic bloodlines. The idea that The Force could choose anyone.

Finally there was shoehorned in there a message about the inequality in the galaxy, even with the new republic having taken control. There was still the ruling ownership class, and the exploited working class. That part I’ll admit, was very forced and inelegantly tacked on. Should have been saved for the next trilogy.

Privacy is about activity.
Anonymity is about identity.
Security is about ensuring the other two.

I would say: Privacy is everyone seeing you come and go from a house with no windows.
Anonymity is when you’re covered head to toe when you come and go. So nobody know who lives there.
Security is a measure of how good your locks and coveralls are.

Real world examples: Going to a protest with a mask is anonymous, in public.
Sessions with your court appointed therapist are private, not anonymous.

Epp 8 had something to share, say and show the world.
But some of the fans weren’t happy about it.

Again, the middle one was the best.

So many people conflate privacy with anonymity.
They’re largely unrelated.

I was going to say, this is almost completely because it’s an unprotected bike lane. It’s too easy for people to ignore it.

I don’t often use the All feed.
When I do, I want it All.

Typically, the promotional budget for a movie is roughly equal to its production budget. Add also the portion the theaters get. A $60M budget needs to take in at least $120M. Better $160M+. Any less and they loose money on the movie.

Calling a $60M movie a success for grosing $100M, is wrong. The studio lost money on that movie. It might be a “success” for other reasons. But then it’s budget doesn’t matter to those reasons.

I’m not impressed.
AI agents are a dream.
One that’s pretty far from reality.

They don’t work at all right now, and there’s no evidence they’ll work reliably enough to be useful anytime in the next decade or more.

This makes perfect sense, no matter the mode of transport.
People are going to choose where to work or live so their commute is this kind of time range.

Short answer is no. All new cars do it. Dealers can’t disable it. It is what it is.

There are a few niche cars that don’t have all the tracking cruft, good luck getting one.

It’s almost certainly just your thinking different about the music. There could be real effects. Different masterings, different DAC in the old player. But those are likely less effective than it just being your own perception of music you own vs stream.

Also, I’d recommend ripping your CDs into FLAC for permanent storage, then converting to other formats for any specific purpose.

It is a money toss.
Tossing money is how problems are solved. Heat goes out? Throw some money at it. Car breaks down? Kid can’t get into collage? Company not selling enough widgets? Country won’t sell you resources you want? Toss some money at it.

Saying your looking for solutions that aren’t tossing money, shows a complete misunderstanding of how things work.

Well, the middle class is defined as the middle 20% income percentile. The 40-60% range of people.
Of course I’ve always found that definition to be unhelpful. Instead, I’d define it by what percentage range can own their own home, cover all their basic living expenses, and still have 20% of the income left over for discretionary spending or saving.
With that definition I imagine it’s closer to only 10% of people and they are somewhere between the 60th and 80th percentile range.

Money is the problem of the middle class.
Tossing money at it, is the only solution.
So I don’t really understand what you’re asking here.

I literally just got back from picking up my new glasses.

You said you don’t see the joke. You didn’t say anything about it being funny.
You might not believe it, but jokes aren’t defined by being funny, as funny is subjective. So if you understood the meaning on the face of it, you saw the joke. You just don’t think it’s funny. That’s you, not a joke problem.

Then you said it’s not a pun. That immediately indicates you didn’t actually get the meaning on the face of it.
It is a pun. Specifically a homonym. One which it seems, was too deep for you. That’s another homonym pun.

Edit: There it is! Congrats

Yes.
Or I suppose where the other option is death.

I suppose you could say it’s required in order to do something. But you’d need that specific qualifier.

The internet has always had a way of siloing people off into separate communities

That’s not so much the internet as people generally. People are all about creating groups and categories, of each other as much as of things.