It's only a horrible business plan if you're not being subsidized by people who like the idea of capturing that freedom.

Many people don't actually read emails. I sympathize with people who hate meetings, and I admit many are unnecessary. But acquiring information from other places in the company is an essential part of most jobs, even if you don't want to. Half of the problem with many meetings isn't that they're not needed, but that the participants wish they didn't have to do that part of their jobs, and instead would rather be doing a different thing.

Time for the US to nationalise all things vehicle. Registration and taxes. Emissions and smog checks. Safety inspections. Dealership laws and regulations. Driver licensing (including for trucks, busses etc). Road rules. The lot.

It is possible to preserve previous structures for compatibility while accepting changes for newly compiled software. For example to support 64-bit time_t on x86 build add the compiler flag D_TIME_BITS=64. Decades ago similar changes were made to allow for handling of large files in Linux without breaking backwards compatibility.

My son works for his high school newspaper. He brought in a battery powered Panasonic cassette recorder to do interviews, complete with the cheesy chrome microphone it came with. It got people more interested in the interviews and he got some good copy out of them. He also brought in a portable typewriter we found on the side of the road being thrown away. He fixed it up and uses it to type notes in newspaper class. Everyone in that class loves it.

The theater I go to has none of those problems. Tickets are cheap, munchies are also not obscenely priced, the picture and sound are great and the closest I have come to distractions and noise was when I went to see Moana 2 with a bunch of kids in the theater (and even then it wasn't distracting enough to be a problem)

And the experience of seeing a movie on the big screen is going to be far better than watching it on my 32" 1080i TV with inbuilt speakers or my 1080p computer monitor and somewhat basic Creative Labs speakers.

If it was a cheaper, had a notchless and holeless IPS display and was able to boot OS images from SD card like the PinePhone I would pick one up. Would also love to see one with an integrated LoRa radio.

No because at any reenable speed they would have to totate rather faster than ideal, or are you talking about wheel thickens not diameter?, well on that subject would a 2mm thick weel be able to carry enough weigh? For passenger coaches maybe, for duoble stacked intermodal cargo, I doubt it. Disclaimer: I'm not an engineer so if anyone with the relevant exoertese would like to correct me I would appreciate it

seriously, slashdot? It's 2025 and you still can't do the Euro sign?

Even so the prices are excessive. If I want to upgrade the SSD in the current MBP from 512 GB to 2 TB that's +750 â

Meanwhile, a Western Digital Red SN700 with 2 TB I can get for a bit over 200 â.
A Samsung 990 PRO 2 - 245 â (was just rated the best M.2 SSD on the market by Tom's Hardware).

Whatever exact chips Apple is using, they're not 3x as expensive as other high-quality SSDs.

Even if "locked in place" is your underlying assumption, anyone who's even heard of the real world from their mom who has a friend whose father once visited it should know that there is no rule without exceptions and even if that is perfectly true, a small number of those particles will not be locked in perfectly.

I get the impression that a company like ADP requires that an employer employ at least some minimum number of employees in an area. Otherwise, ADP appears to fall back to printing paper checks for the employer to mail. I don't know the specifics; I just know that I got ADP paper at one job after a bunch of layoffs, and I got ADP paper when I was the only remote worker in a particular state.

You just know that some dufus at the gym would bring a 10kg steel dumbbell into the MRI room and ruin things for everyone.

No.. this would have to be a locked restricted room where only MRI techs and their clients may access.
However; the equipment is A. Very expensive. Your Gymn is not likely to buy it.

B. Due to the expense.. It is likely that your nearest local Hospitals will guarantee you are not able to obtain the necessary permits in order to protect their monopoly. They've got a huge investment to protect, And they actually have to successfully sell MRIs at those rates to make the return on that investment. Can't have some random additional facility installing one nearby. Guaranteed it would be blocked by the government due to the availability of another provider's location and the lack of public necessity for yours.

There are still places I write out checks because I get a discount for doing it.

In my experience at my last three jobs (in the midwestern USA), small businesses that don't have enough employees in an area have to print and mail paper payroll checks instead of paying their employees through direct deposit.