Didn't they invent some really cool drone jammers that can make them crash or land by now?

And we promise we won't spy on you. Pinky swear. No, you can't audit it in any way, you have to trust us. You trust Facebook, right?

But at least we now know just how much money your private data really is worth. You're gifting Facebook with 250 bucks every single year.

If that makes you feel like a sucker: That's because you are.

They're now trying to swindle the Nigerian princes out of their money?

Talk about trying to teach an eagle to fly....

STMicro support isn't the best. True. Still heaps above Espressif who'll just suddenly and for no valid reason simply pull the rug out under you and disable whole portions of their firmware because it would allow you to actually do with the hardware what you want to do instead of what they deem appropriate.

Certainly. But it's not a drop-in replacement. You can't just replace a Z80 with a STM32 and be done.

There's nontrivial costs associated with redesigning hardware, along with writing a new firmware. I highly doubt that anyone who designs anything new will reach for a Z80. Or has for the last 20 years.

But believe it or not, there are implementations that have gone unchanged for 30 and more years simply because what the hardware needs to do didn't change. So why design a new hardware?

It's probably dirt cheap and for a lot of applications "good enough".

Then they will have to find another place to produce their stuff.

With a bit of luck, eventually jobs will have to come back home because everyone else would want to steal the whole production.

Well, since I plan to neither go to China nor Russia but might have to go to the US, I guess that's the lesser evil.

Management working? Yeah, that's some far out shit, unheard of here.

In other words, even Indian programming wasn't bad enough to drive the bottom feeders away, let's try to put the quality limbo bar down a notch.

Hold on, they want management to work? And 6 days a week?

The difference is maybe that raping someone is illegal while selling your services to Israel isn't.

How many accounts will be in the name of Mr. Fook Yoo and Mrs. Nona Yobiz.

Yeah, by the way, in what semester is that mandatory lobotomy in that MBA course?

It's actually the other way around. It was volunteer duty. Very few had to do it, there always were enough who volunteered.

Personally, I think that's worse.