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Maybe we find a company recording the public that is attentive to public relations? They sure had a quick response when the ceos' home was placed in Google maps.

Seems like their PR fire is self induced by sucking up to Money and whatever they qualify as investors?

Re:How California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:26PM (#49986208)
Some of the residents appreciate a higher quality of living; for those that don't there's always Tuolemne or Shasta counties....
What's the use case to use a darkroom tool outside the dark room?
Class compliance means something; first party support means something too.

The dongle era sucked then and sucks now. All the minefields of FW chipset era with none of the disclosure on usbC controller du jour.

No; the cruel libertarian streak that has been at the basis of the show since inception is still ever present.

They are still very good about not punching down and I think that is one of the nicer things to say about the show but their shtick got old during the 45th admin and I haven't tuned back since.

Plain old, madagascar vanilla artificial obsolescence.
Connected is a euphemism for inside trading; someone with knowledge of future actions. With the pedotus giving access via his crypto grift who knows?
Re:iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:49AM (#47503447)
I don't want to put information into a black box of mystery that can then be used for other monetization purposes. I am still waiting for a realistic local solution.
Do you actively trade on a 401k or other savings instrument or do you leave it up to the bank/brokerage?
But on what time scale? Before a few connected entities make a profit or after?
I read the article saying they were testing service changes on paying users without knowledge or explicit consent of the user, that the user had to test and determine why they perceived their sevice changed.

That is a dark pattern to inflict on users expecting consistent output.

Re:AirPods Max 2 on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:08PM (#47408127)
Did those headphones have a band over the top?
I troubleshoot thermal printers for work and the error is rarely in the hardware. I have no issue with this work request; TPs are deterministic and predictable.
Informed consent for a paying user is inconvenient?
Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:37AM (#47233011)
The profiles work fine in Apple Classroom mode. Just a question of SSD space for the active profile(s) and a cloud source that can be used to swap them around if the SSD saturates.
I'm having trouble understanding if muskler ventures are hampered in this proclamation.

Gooses and ganders, y'know....

Re:Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:35PM (#45852964)
This 'red line' was quite apparent around 10.14 when macOS and iOS were set on the collision course we see today in Ta-hoe. So much wasted visual space in the last 5 releases, making room for touch.

I doubt we'll see a pseudo macOS mode on mobileOS, but the mirroring for iOS in the last 2 major releases of macOS is just a jump to the left of local emulation.

Be good to your neighbor and try to mentor the motivated. Inculcate the same lessons they gave you in others.
For the unitiated where was the conflict?
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:17PM (#43800057)
I pretty much subscribe to your list, with the further caveat the router I got for Comcast service has a USBA network drive port that can run a 64GB thumbstick of content. A single piece of content can serve 5 devices this way before you start seeing buffering issues. Great for car trips.
Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @10:01AM (#43772330)
I was learning dos command line on my grandfather's lap at 3/4.

Reminds me of the time I tried using pkunzip to expand a shareware demo and filled the C drive on accident.

You could be taught to use those machines respectfully, if you knew games were available.

What does a family computer with minimal internet access look like in the constantly connected modern era?

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:10AM (#43718056)
Is there a modern parent sysadmin reference?

I miss portability of settings; configuring restrictions for an mdm is soul sucking.

Re:Why Layoffs Don't Work on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:06PM (#43311123)
What was the age range of the referred 2023 sample of workers?
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:33AM (#43216896)
I look at the regulatory capture of tech in the US and applaud the EU regulation that can't get traction in the companies' originating country.
Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:57AM (#42866554)
Your reply doesn't read like a refute to me, mnky9800n.
Re:Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling? on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:55AM (#42853005)
I thought it was, "those who can't teach,"?
Is that what we can call Project2025?

Creativity from constrained minds?

Re:Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling? on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:53AM (#42852960)
Would you care to quote the parts that highlight the incompetence you induced from the comment?

All I see is the parent watching their students teacher conduct class in a paradigm that wasn't trained, for the first time. Nobody liked the isolation period, but to base judgement on the system on those criteria is childishly petty.

Be curious to see where their student stacks up now. I know all ages were hit with learning and social issues due to the isolation period, but the 5/4yo entering the edu now are back on whatever 'normal' is considered.

The double edged sword of export controls.
Re:Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling? on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:11PM (#42714744)
"The trigger was Covid, but what really happened was suddenly millions of parents could directly see what their schools and teachers were like because we watched our kids work remotely all day for a year."

This kind of myopyic outlook that conflates the then-traditional instruction period to the remote instruction paradigm greatly cheapens every other point of your argument.

None of the teaching staff that had to adapt to that period of time were trained to make that experience 1:1 for the prior expectations and to use that as a basis to judge their entire ability is petty as fuck.

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