The problem is that then governments are slaves to the populist vote, and the population will always vote for the quickest benefit to them.
There's been quite a few projects and policies in Australia that have been short term pain for long term gain.
They're not missing funds though, it's not a discrepancy in accounting. They overpaid , they know where the money is, and it's simply a business decision whether to recover it or not.
They could have simply filtered on overpayment above some arbitrary value based around recovery vs goodwill.
Or they could have let it slide, but still notify people so that they wouldn't be wondering if it was an accounting error.
But no, they want to recover 23 cents which is well below the cost of everyone's time and effort to deal with, on both sides of the transaction.
Not only driver issues, UI issues. A workmate deleted an image that was being used as a background on the desktop on an office PC, oops presentation manager crashed and it wouldn't boot to a GUI. That was in Warp 3.
Well you see, engagement is down, and the whole "sponsored content" thing is in a death spiral due to AI slop. So Meta has decided to cut out the middleman and generate their own AI slop, because surely their version of personalised AI slop will solve the whole engagement problem and keep line always going up, because if it's one thing users love, it's an endless torrent of AI slop.
Try "lspci -vv" first to see the devices on the bus and to figure out which device is causing this.
Secondly, check all your BIOS' "performance" settings, such as memory timings, bus speeds, and etc, and set them to default.
See how things go after that.
Off the top of my head I'd say:
Not carrying the flag I think is a big crime basically everywhere
Hence why flying the pirate flag is a big deal. You're indicating "no laws here".
You're being sarcastic but for the average person it's simply: "Garage small, atmosphere big".
They look down their street and can see a dozen cars in their field of view and then they see the all-encompassing sky with an endless amount of fresh air available. Conclusion: not a problem.
And holy shit does their algorithm latch onto any minor interest in their content.
Accidentally tapped on a floor tiling video the other day, three days of tiling and handyman videos jammed into my feed and me pressing the "not interested" button on every single one.
Facebook, I am there for the rare post from my 150 or so friends and family. That's it. Nothing else.
The reason we don't use it anymore is because actual posts from real humans we know are buried under a torrent of shit. Sometimes their posts take days to surface leading to all sorts of chain-mail posts on how to "get your feed back". None of which work because the whole business model is about jamming sponsored shit down your throat.
Trying to, because there is no more money to continue development.
Hopefully they can pull it off and do the same as Pebble did when they released a last firmware update for their watches that allowed third party servers to be used.
The distinction is "through which users".
Merely putting something online does not make it social media. The key is the ability for users/passers-by to add their own content and/or comments, which then allows for interaction between users.