They would like to sell you a cloud storage subscription, but they do give you the option to use local physical storage (or iCloud) instead.

Well, the big problem is many employers are the ones forcing taxpayers to subsidize their employees. Most SNAP recipients work full time - Walmart is a famous employer who helps employees apply for benefits upon employment. In other words, SNAP benefits are going to Walmart - Walmart gets to mooch off taxpayers by not paying employees enough and relying on taxpayer programs to make up the savings in payroll.

Now consider what happens when those benefits were cut.

Western companies only interested in creating jobs overseas, and helping other nations with tax payers.

What happened to "America first"? :(

Effect of tariffs. If you're making a widget, you can make it in China and make it in the US. Because of US tariffs, making it in China is no longer an option. So you create jobs making the widget in the US. But what about worldwide demand? You could export it from the US, but because the US tariffs cause reciprocal tariffs, it's not cost effective to ship US made widgets to other countries. It's cheaper to retain your Chinese factory making widgets to sell to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the US customers pay for the US made version. It would be cheaper than the Chinese made part plus tariffs, but probably also more expensive than the Chinese made part before the whole trade war began.

Meanwhile US exporters are hurt because reciprocal tariffs but also by the fact that their customers may seek alternative suppliers for the product, which hurts the US company more because now their customers are choosing the competition. And those customers once lost, may never return having found an alternative.

it's why US tourism operators are worried because tourists are going everywhere but the US, and they may find somewhere else to be their holiday tradition.

Trade wars are not easy and there are a ton of unintended consequences "America First" sure, but that may also mean "Everyone but America" for everyone else.

Is anyone finding that the quality of Indian IT resources is getting even close to being comparable to US resources? My experience is abysmal.

Depends. The good ones don't tend to stay in India but emigrate to other countries. All the US did was basically chase them out of the US, and now they get re-hired outside of the US.

"use their personal card for work travel and then file paperwork for reimbursement"
Oh no, you mean like 80% of businesses do?

THE HORROR that someone is actually checking this shit off and signing for it.

Oh, and then the person themselves gets the rewards for their travel which is pretty awesome, instead of the organization using some GSG9's ff miles so Hegseth can pinch the stewardii in first class.

And soooooo unexpected!

Yep, pretty much. Not all of them but far too many. And some of the malicious ones are exceptionally loud in addition.

For most people, the LLM is "smarter" than they are because their skills regarding understanding and insight are essentially zilch.

So you angrily repeat things and shout a lot?

I see the victims of bad tech are, again, out in force and insist the bad tech is actually good tech. How pathetic.

Your comment does not make sense, hence I interpreted it as insult and gave right back. A prototype that has been running 5 years without major problems is a successfully proven prototype but in no way "proven technology". That requires a bit more.

In other words - basically nothing has changed over the past several millennia.

Tell me you don't do actual work without outright saying it.

The kind of people who are wanting/trying/thinking about killing excel are, in my view the same people who believe the same thing about email, and think you can do useful ongoing work communication on teams or other shit-chat platforms.

In May DOGE deactivated more than a HALF MILLION credit cards that were just floating around in Gov't slush drawers that couldn't be attributed to a specific employee, and this was noted as "nearly 10% of all the official credit cards held by the federal govt"...meaning the gov't had 5 MILLION open cc accounts.

right, they modded me troll decade and a half ago here when I said the nations will fall apart, governments will fail, libertarian ideas will take hold. They are modding me troll today, yet it is exactly what is happening. It is possible that people are actually afraid that my comments will cause ot to jappen somehow should more people read them. My comments are not the reason anything happens, that is magical thinking by the fearful moderators. My comments are a prediction and the reality is moving in the direction of my prediction.