I like still having one or two USB-A ports on my laptop, but I can't say I've ever been annoyed by having to "lug around" a USB hub (with a gigabit ethernet interface) in my laptop bag. It weighs around an ounce.

I also think the article complaining about shit like mice, keyboards, and headsets is a bit out there, since any of this crap connected to my laptop is connected via bluetooth which has been around over a quarter of a century and has been ubiquitous in laptops for at least 15 years.

I agree that the claim is eye-roll inducing, but you could have at least read the next sentence before replying with the exact thing that it references.

As I said, that's decidedly possible, and I agree that knowing who is actually doing useful work is definitely more important that knowing that you have bloat in the first place. Taking a chainsaw to the org is probably not going to have a positive outcome.

That's decidedly possible, but when it involves one of these multi-billion dollar "startups" I'm very inclined to believe most of their employees aren't actually doing anything useful. Uber having >30k employees would be an example of this.

I mean... people literally demanded this. Remember "cable unbundling?" "Why should I pay for a package of 1000 channels I never watch, I only want to pay for the ones I do." Well, now you get to pay separately for Disney, and Amazon, and Netflix, and HBO, and...

And no, I'm not okay with this, and if prices continue to climb I will likely end up giving my money to one of those shady IPTV services that are probably run by Russian organized crime.

Presumably, Apple thinks that "I went to another country and my expensive translator stopped working" has a higher risk of a lawsuit than "someone with airpods may have heard me regurgitate private information in a public space" does. Knowing how the EU has been operating over the last decade or so, I don't know that I agree with that assessment.

I was this many years old when I learned that "revolution" was "law enforcement."

Yes, I understand that. Please read the last sentence of my comment again.

I went to a Catholic elementary school where "Religion" was an academic subject for all eight years. My 5th and 6th grade teacher for both Religion and Science class was a nun who taught hard science with the understanding that religion was the "why" and science was the "how." We followed the same curriculum (and had the same text books) as the public school across the street yet also got better academic results.

I realize that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data" and that there certainly are schools where it is as bad as you're suggesting, but opposite cases exist as well.

What happens when the people you're seizing the means of production from don't want to let you seize it? Asking for a friend.

Here's a list for you. At one point, OSHA demanded every employer with more than 100 employees require everyone be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. "Some" military personnel was actually "all" military personnel. All federal contractors. All federal employees. Noncitizens utilizing air travel. All government workers in 15 states. Teachers in multiple states.

I'm not some anti-vax nutjob, I got vaccinated when it became available because I am in multiple high risk groups, but it's infuriating to see people pretending that things that happened simply didn't.

Congratulations on pissing off both New Yorkers and New Englanders.

You're either mistaken or a fucking liar. The article summary at the top of this page even states it was raised from $200 in 2016.

The de minimis exception was $1 in 1938. It was raised to $5 in the 1970s and $200 in the 1990s.

Augmented Idiocy doesn't require "AI" or "maybe." People were following their GPS off of bridges and into lakes long before ChatGPT.

If you're buying retail licenses, then take your Windows 10 license, put it on your new hardware in accordance with the license terms, and upgrade it for free to Windows 11. Still not seeing how this is a cash grab on Microsoft's part.