And most of these new Pixels don't even have SIM slots. Pretty sure they'll all eSIM now, like the iPhones - EXCEPT for the Fold. Pretty sure I read that one still has a physical SIM tray.

I'll anecdotally second this.

If it's not an Apple Watch, I see quite a few Garmins (including my own).

I had a few different Pebble's back in the day and they were awesome... so I'm naturally in on the preorder. The 30 day battery life (even if it somehow turned out to just be 20 days) is a HUGE draw for me, in addition to the simplicity. Battery life is a huge reason I have a Garmin. Two weeks on a charge? Yes please.

While the fee itself is overall dumb, it wasn't a fee for just "unplugging a cord". It was a fee for unplugging a very specific cord to the equipment that monitors the for-purchase, in-room snacks/accessories (like a minibar fridge but not a fridge). That piece of equipment uses pressure-sensitive triggers to charge guests for items that are removed, so if it's unplugged, presumably, it wouldn't accurately monitor those things or know what to charge for.

Yes, still, the fee is absurd for what it is, but those people would have been totally find if they had unplugged the lamp instead of that thing.

And that hotel should absolutely do a better job of either making that fee known or hiding/securing that plug (but why would they bother to do that when they can make $50 every time someone mistakenly unplugs it).

I just switched both of our lines from T-Mobile to US Mobile - and so far, so good. Got a promo that was basically 2 unlimited lines (1 "premium" and 1 "starter") for 1 year for $390. Yes, we paid for the full year up front - but it works out to just a hair over $16/mo. total. We were paying $144/mo. with T-Mobile. Outrageous - even with all of the "perks" that T-Mobile offered.

For all practical purposes, until our actual voting system changes, voting 3rd party is probably the worst option. The math essentially makes a third party vote one for the person you like the least.

I've always liked this video on FPTP (first past the post) voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (especially at about the 5 min mark and the "spoiler effect")
And then some additional detail on the "alternative vote": https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not that the AV is necessarily the "right" answer - but FPTP isn't it. People in the US are obviously free to vote for whichever candidate they choose, but our system will basically never allow a third party candidate any kind of reasonable chance to win without a drastic overhaul.

They've FINALLY restarted construction on the Jeddah Tower - why not get that done first and the whole "economic city" around it and then worry about the next one. It's taken them almost a decade just to start building again.

I haven't completely deactivated mine as I have a club page that I occasionally need to admin on - but I've stopped using it for myself for at least the past 18 months or so. The thing was that I wasn't missing "updates" from friends or family or anything - because almost no one actually posts updates about themselves or what's going on in their lives anymore (at least not in my circles).

Almost everything I was seeing was just sharing of generic memes and stories from the alphabet soup of "funny" Facebook pages. I don't need FB to see memes. Or to see anything funny. There was just no value in anything in my feed anymore. Just that and the ever-increasing number of ads, "do you know these people" blocks, irrelevant stories, suggestions, etc. So why bother? All of that on top of the things you mention like mental health, tech bros, and so on.

In a round-about way, you're not completely wrong. Many of those "best company for _____ of YEAR" awards are based on self-nominations from the companies. You'd have to read the details of some particular award, but for a lot of them, your company is doing the legwork of applying based on whatever criteria the award has defined. Doesn't mean they haven't earned it or are evil because of it or anything... but it also doesn't always mean they were hand-picked out of the blue by some external entity because of how awesome they are.

You may have already read it in a couple of the replies above, but this wasn't his work computer. It was a personal computer at home. So not really much "unauthorized" about that or "permission" required. They got in through his then compromised 1Password account where he had apparently stored Disney credentials. Of course, should he have been storing work account info in a (assumed) non-work password manager? Don't know what Disney's policy is there.

While your overall thinking is mostly correct... TFA says it was his home computer, not a work one.

But they were able to compromise his 1Password account on that computer, which had Disney credentials stored in it. And I don't know about you, but I'd suggest that many corporate password storage policies are not as clearcut as their software/download policies. Was it his personal 1Password account that had work credentials in it? Does Disney have recommended password storage guidelines or requirements? Was he following any of those?

I'd suggest that it STARTED as a way to save power as OLED screens started to become more common. But I think a combination of things happened soon after - 1) people realized it made screens easier to look at and read in some cases and 2) seeing that people liked it, developers and designers started making "dark mode" options that weren't actually black anymore, which kind of negated most of the potential battery savings of OLED and black pixels. So why bother anymore? Just make things dark shades of whatever for your dark mode and give yourself some design freedom.

Saw this pop up a bit ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/2...

I don't read that as him (or the board) not being informed... just that they are publicly commenting on the news story for the thing that they already knew about.