I don't know about the US but in Ontario they use the fax a lot in the medical practice (and between pharmacies) when there is no electronic interchange available. They are not allowed to use email because it's not secure. My doctors office just has the documents go directly into their electronic system and if they need a paper copy they print it out from there.

oddly enough, someone emailed me yesterday asking if it's possible to attach a fax machine to VOIP. And even stranger, it apparently is possible.

"very expensive"?

I don't think most people would consider $10/month "very expensive". It is a small amount of money by almost any measure.

Is it worth $10/month? That's a personal question... but there's no way that's "very expensive" to anyone with a steady job...

I simply don't hear radio much anymore. My kids don't listen to it, I don't hear it in cars driving by, I don't hear it much in stores, and I certainly don't listen to it. But the simple numbers that tell an absolute and unmanipulable truth is the advertising revenue. Every other statistic is a complete and total fabrication created in an effort to prevent the total freefall of existing sales and stock prices. A great example of these desperadoes is that they often show revenues from 2009 to the present. This makes it look like a growth industry but in reality it is a recovery from the disaster that was 2008. Quite simply people don't want to be told by a bunch of baby boomers what music to listen to. They have a device in their pockets that gives them total control. Remember these are the same sort of people who loved putting one good song on each CD so that people were effectively paying $20 per song.

People still use the top-40 echo chamber to tell them what to listen to, details at eleven. They need netflix for the same reason.

Sirius/XM? yes. Why anyone would tolerate 10 minutes of music 10 minutes of DJ chatter, and 40 minutes of commercials I will never understand.

Microsoft participates in FOSS a lot more than you may realize. For instance, Microsoft is a member of the GNOME foundation

It means big pharm will have something to say about it..

The more features something lacks, the more likely a work-around hack will prove to be a liability.

I'd like an app that'd help me diagnose bad noises my car makes

You know, when VR was in the spotlight the first time?

The police just killed a unarmed, white, middle-aged guy in PA. By the way, this wasn't the first time. I thought maybe you didn't know that, being in your racist echo chamber.

The right to bear arms doesn't give you the right to actually use those arms. Just having the right to carry a gun doesn't implicitly give you the right to commit a murder (whether in self defence or not).