Why not? The “war” consists of intermittent bombings then pulling back and sitting on their hands while handing out limited economic sanctions to the extent China won’t flip out on them. Not much to endure for the US besides high oil prices and frankly the US has been there, done that before for the zionist entity during the OPEC embargo in the 70s when cars got like a 1/3rd the gas mileage they do now.

Iran is refraining from striking the zionist entity so interceptors running out isn’t a problem as it’s just GCC vassals who get hit. US can just ignore Iran aside from a few feel-good strikes on radar and mine deployments across the strait while encouraging GCC countries to build pipelines. That way those countries never end up paying Iranian tolls, never falling under Iranian influence.

Trump doesn’t want his meeting with Xi this month cancelled so after that, by October or November after the elections he could slap on much harsher economic sanctions against China to try to pry it away from Iran. May be just the thing to crash the economy which I increasingly think they want because it will wipe out retirement funds for workers, drive up prices, etc which makes workers more desperate and exploitable while funneling that money to the top.

Seems he has since been fired.

Found a different article:

Thornton’s attorney, Allison Hart, has strongly denied that her client engaged in any illegal activity and offered an explanation for why he was in the chatroom.

Hart told TMZ that Thornton became involved in suicide prevention advocacy after losing a close family member to suicide two years ago and had spent time in online forums supporting people experiencing suicidal thoughts.

According to his attorney, Thornton regularly visited the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website, but was sent a wrong link and ended up in a chatroom for people with thoughts of pedophilia.

Yeah that explains why the guy talking about being on a plane (presumably him) is talking about how bold it is of him and how it’s his middle finger to do it in public. Because everyone is so ashamed of chatting to suicidal people on IRC right?

I don’t get why someone would do this. Was it a power thing? Flexing on people? Well he just found out he didn’t have the power to do this and keep his job. He can probably keep doing this on planes if he wants since it isn’t illegal but he’ll have to do it without his well paying job.

No. Western governments for decades have been running automated keyword systems on all calls listening for phrases like “bomb” and flagging all such calls. Get flagged enough and a human reviews it.

This is done with full cooperation of the big telephone companies and has gone beyond intelligence use to “lawful access” requests from the police. The Snowden revelations were not that this was being done (I mean it’s mentioned in Enemy of the State so it was an open ‘secret’ by 1998) but rather that the NSA was doing this for all internet traffic, for all emails, for webcam sessions, that they were storing things that were not even flagged in a vast database of innocent people who hit no keywords and thus had no reason to be under suspicion. That was the big outrage, that and the hacking and national security letters to big companies and the fact it was all searchable by humans like Snowden (and now with AI can all be analyzed in detail unfortunately to create detailed records on every single living person).

Linux works with 4k. Jellyfin, Plex, Kodi, etc can all stream 4k streams to Linux assuming you’re using your own content and not content from commercial services that impose DRM.

HDR and Dolby Vision are another matter because even on Windows those are recent and limited implementations.

Linux hasn’t implemented proper Dolby Vision and HDR can be finicky but does mostly work on wayland. This is down to it being a lot of work, closed source and DRM and licensing problems from Nvidia, HDMI forum, etc that make it hard and very slow going. To be fair Dolby Vision doesn’t really work on Windows either for streaming your own videos purposes. I think LG has an application that can sort of make it work with certain models of theirs but I believe it’s mainly for gaming.

Media company DRM refuses to allow it. They fear the pirates (who bypass their DRM regardless using hacked android streaming devices) will use it to pirate their stuff more easily.

Even on Windows which has a locked down DRM pipeline you have to use Google Chrome or Microslop Edge with widevine for this and a few services STILL refuse to let you watch above 1080p on anything but a streaming box/stick or mobile OS because of their incredible fear of pirates and incredible hatred of general computing devices and user freedom.

Do you need works out of the box without a ton of work on your part but the privacy isn’t totally perfect? Then Apple TV 4k.

Do you use no major commercial streaming services and only your own hosted content from Plex/Jellyfin and you want to do some very light cloud gaming from the couch/bed? Then an Intel N150 mini PC or AMD equivalent (at present with RAM prices expect to pay at least $400 though if you want you can probably get a used SFF PC made recently (important for energy saving hardware decoding of video codecs) may work for you with either Jellyfin client or Kodi.

Caveat: HDR on Linux isn’t happening anytime soon and forget Dolby Vision. Also forget above 720p, maybe 1080p in Google Chrome for online streaming services.

Vero V by the OSMC people is also an option but won’t work with commercial streaming services though it is more private but you have to use your own content. It’s more plug and play than the mini-pc route and does support HDR and such. But unlike mini-pcs you can’t even open a browser to jankily watch commercial streaming services using it.