Over 20 years ago, Dr. Irene Pepperburg and other members of the MIT Media Lab created the "Interpet Explorer". It was designed to see if the Grey Parrots would interact with what was on the screen. I think the study concluded the birds preferred working with people in person. My old Grey liked watching kids programming because she liked the sounds the characters made. I have one now that doesn't care for watching the TV but when I am on Teams calls and he is in the room, he loves making a ruckus by whistling and smashing his toys around when he sees the screen has my attention.
https://lafeber.com/pet-birds/...

This. We have a laptop and an HP business desktop at home that have more than adequate resources, but the TPM chip is not compatible with Windows 11. All Linux distros have no issue with the hardware. Windows 10 still runs great, but I was all ready to upgrade to Windows 11 (and pay for the license) until the readiness checker told me I couldn't.

If Microsoft wants to treat their OSs like a chromebook, I'm not buying more than one for the household.

One word would be "SaaS".

I've been a VCP for over a decade and worked with ESX since you had to configure iSCSI from command line.
This last renewal period for my cert though, I finally made the decision to let it lapse. No employer I've worked for has used the partner benefits and the support has been lacking when there is really an issue (to be fair issues have been very few and far between).

I haven't done a new install of a VMware cluster in just over 4 years. Anyone that is still running it has been letting their clusters die a slow, ignoble death of apathy and migrating to Azure or AWS.

We're running it at my client now, but it's gone when our cluster hardware falls out of support.

It doesn't seem to catch spelling errands though.

I hadn't heard of one in years. I left in 2008 when I was told to move from Chicago to Dubuque for the data center there. No relocation package was offered. And to add injury to insult, they were going to reduce my salary for "Cost of Living" adjustment. I asked my boss for a voluntary separation package instead if he was given any to reduce his headcount. As luck would have it, my account contract ended and I got a separation.

Mein Betriebssystem ist voller Aale.

I'm honestly shocked that they aren't running OS/2, but this seems like something that would work well with Dosbox and Wine, or KVM.

We have Amazon too. If I'm going to buy an entire season of a program, I want physical media.
Also, the nickel and diming of users and forceing ads unless additional fees are paid is really what drives people away. I should never be forced to watch ads when I am paying for something. I understand why people want to pirate shows, but I'm taking it one step further. If companies are going to shovel a crap product at me and expect me to pay for it, they're in for a rude shock. I'm simply cancelling the subscriptions. My hard-earned money is too valuable to spend on crap products.
Of course I'm just one person, and streaming companies will wring their hands and their well paid lobbyists will lament to congress that piracy is the reason for their woes and not having an unsustainable sales stream.

I don't know about the opening, but his final movement was "King takes Dook".

I was just thinking my 15 year-old Thinkpad was showing its age running Debian 12. Looking forward to seeing these laptops hit the used computer market.

Same here. I've been watching this story and haven't heard anything from Mr. Cooper. Even when I reached out a month ago. I had the feeling that the breach was far worse then they had disclosed. I have already frozen all of my credit reports. I learned my lesson years ago to never allow utilities or mortgage holders automatic withdrawal access to your bank account because they will ALWAYS betray that trust.

At this point I'm very interested in being a class representative for my state when the class action suit is announced.

So now we have 360 arc minutes of Michael Keaton?

These weren't "tech" startups. They were get-rich-quick schemes by the founders.
Seriously, an owners house is worth more than his company now?
A company once worth $7.6 BILLION now worth $15 Million?
Someone really needs to have their books audited.

My wife and I had to lock down our credit reports with the bureaus in 2020 when we sold our house and someone tried to use our address as a drop for unemployment benefits and other financial applications. We fortunately had a mail hold we placed the week before the house hit the market so we were able to intercept everything that came in. The state unemployment agency didn't give a damn and just told us to destroy the cards. They didn't even want to know the names of the people who had been compromised. When credit applications started coming in for our names, we reported the identity theft and that's when we locked our reports. The bureaus don't make it easy to navigate their sites to find how to do that. It needs to change.

Unfortunately, our mortgage is with Mr. Cooper. At least our reports are still locked down because these guys couldn't even properly calculate the escrow amount needed to cover taxes so now we have to make up the shortfall over the next year since it took them most of the year to fix the issue.

Until holders of personal data in the Insurance and Financial industries start facing serious punitive damages for failing to secure customer data because they are so desparate to share it, this issue isn't going away. I've worked in IT departments for both industries and the corners executives cut are appalling.

I nominate Quentin Tarantino for that task!