I am seriously confused about the rationale here.

You thought Dell was a good fit for your next purchase. You've done some research, and Dell appears to have met your needs for quality and price.

The owners of Dell pledged $625 billion to a system that should help children in various ways. There have been a lot of complaints recently from young people about how the system has failed them: housing is too expensive, not enough high paying jobs, they can't afford to get married, own a home, and have kids.

This donation seems like it would be a start towards fixing this. Perhaps other high-end donors will add to the accounts.

Having an easy way to add to your children's future over time seems like it would help fixing this, it's simple and a "no brainer" for parents: they don't have to learn financing or do research or set up accounts, everyone online will be analyzing the accounts and tell whether they are a good idea. Parents can focus on parenting and rely on expert analysis for whether this is a good idea.

And you are so miffed at this that... for some reason... you've decided to boycott Dell and spend your money elsewhere?

I'm completely at sea here. In what universe does your decision make sense?

Addendum: Looking over the edit page of this post, it occurs to me that there is a universe where "jacks smirking reven" is not a US citizen, and is just making troll posts to foment divisiveness in America. I've seen a lot of really funny news accounts (example) of political shitposters on X being from foreign nations. Are we in that universe?

And will Slashdot ever add the "account based in" feature?

(BTW, I'm from the US, I promise :-)

I see you haven't bothered to type a single search criteria and then vet the sources, which tells me you don't care about investigating the topic, you just care about being right.

That's fine, but I don't think this discussion can go anywhere if your sole point is going to be "I don't know, therefore it can't be, and I don't want to know".

Yep. That nicely sums it up. And a ton of idiots in denial praying to the new LLM God.

That is exactly what pricing I outline above already has been doing for a while.

Welcome to the future shitholistani peasant. I'm sure it will arrive to where ever it is you reside eventually, as most such things do over time.

What else is new? YouTube is full of videos of similar stupid things outside of the IT space.

Google "UK is a developing country attached to London".

In fact, let me give you the crown jewel of UK's propaganda apparatus, the people with extreme interest in claiming that UK is great being "nobody considering UK a "developing country"".

https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...

If you perform the search I listed above, you'll find countless others.

As you appear utterly ignorant of what UK is and how its systems work, I probably should also inform you that City of London is not the same thing as London.

This year in late october and early november a lot of popular youtube techie channels did a bunch of "gaming on Linux" themed reviews and opinion pieces.

They generally focused on Linux on desktop, and there was a lot of pushing of Bazzite, which is a distro with a very windows-like UI and that is generally configured to have best possible compatibility with steam for gaming purposes.

Marketing works.

At work I could've bought a fiber Ethernet tester, a copper Ethernet tester, and a Wifi tester. I would've spent around $8000 for all three for the degree of testing I was buying.

Instead I bought a $12,000 tool that can test fiber, copper, and wifi. Because carrying around three tools and using three tools if up troubleshooting a streetlight-mounted terragraph backhaul device or AP is really cumbersome.

It's cumbersome to have to carry multiple devices if one device can do the job. I can think of lots of applications where this would be useful if it's durable enough, and they all boil-down to neither having to carry multiple devices nor having to carry a large, rigid tablet.

I'm still flabbergasted of the claim that the original pad that Gagarin launched from is supposedly being set aside as a museum. That simply doesn't make economic sense. First reason, pads are not free to build. They're quite expensive. Second, the facility is not in Russia, so its utility as a museum for Russian propaganda purposes is questionable.

It would make a lot more sense if they simply chose to do upkeep on only one pad, and for whatever reasoning they chose the pad with the now-broken equipment, and the the other pad at the site is so hopelessly out of date due to a series of refreshes to the in-service pad that the costs to refurbish it into usable condition are quite high. That at least would be logical, and frankly isn't a sign of decay in a program either. It makes sense to not spend money on something disused when budgets are finite. But to claim that it's reserved as a museum? Bizarre, to say the least.

Usually they'd book a flight to the nearest coastal city.

Honestly the reason to use such a service in lieu of owning a car is a combination of the day-to-day lack of need to own a car based on how one lives and wants to live, not having a safe, reliable place to store a car when not using it, and the general expenses of owning a car over the term.

In the country or the suburbs, one's day-to-day life might well require using a car if one is going to be able to really go anywhere, at least in a reasonable amount of time. Likewise one might well have plenty of space in which to park said car. And even if one's life may not require it, the time saved driving versus walking or biking (particularly in inclement weather) might simply make the convenience of a personal car a lot more important. It's not pleasant if going to do a fifteen minute task takes an hour when driving there and back would make it take a total of twenty minutes.

I'd actually expect in some ways that it could be easier in the countryside, if one's village is walkable in ten minutes, and if the mass-transit to leave one's village takes one to useful places quickly. If the village is too spread out to be easily walked or if the mass-transit takes too long to travel to other places one might need to regularly go, it would be difficult to not use private transport if one doesn't want to be essentially homebound. If the village is small enough then it might not be worth the company's time to place a rental in town if it simply won't be used enough.

those other devices are largely irrelevant now in 2025, you'd need a study in 1960, 1970, 1980, etc. to disprove TV was just as bad. Having been alive back then, I can assure you some kids were big fat depressed couch potatoes glued to the tv, not playing outside

the land is very valuable, that's where Ukraine's resources are. Couple that with control of the sea front and Russia will get centuries of return on its "investment" (they don't care how many of their soldiers get killed)

The "exit strategy" is Russia controls a valuable chunk of Ukraine.

How do you imagine we could "end the war anytime we like"? Seems you're disconnected from reality and maybe ignorant of the subject of warfare.

Just as you live on land that was taken from someone else by killing, so it is with this. How mankind acts, sadly.

Again, this is a very specific, unique field, and you're trying to generalize it over the rest.

This case is about City of London financial analysts. They're a very unique position in the world. About the only other place in the world that is comparable is New York's financial analysts, and those have even higher starting salaries because NYC is even more expensive than City, while actually having less intense work schedule.

In large part because NYC is not quite the global financial hub that City is in terms of complex international analysis needs even after all the problems UK managed to create for the City in the last decade. Also if you ever wonder why UK is still considered a developing country, it's because it's attached to the City. That small place in the middle of London alone is generating so much revenue with its financial activities, that it's basically carrying the rest of UK which is actually somewhere between developed and middle income country after you cut City out of GDP calculations.

You can google the work required of junior analysts and bankers in the City. There should be quite a few stories still around from that one widely publicized case, though they were a bit dramatic and mostly seemed to focus on "women can't handle this tempo at all, and so this is almost fully a male field. This is misogyny and we need to give women more of these high paying jobs without the intensity of work".

This is a guess but it's based on how people were when I was in college. The market for these would be people who occasionally need a car for something where they cannot borrow one or where they cannot get a friend to provide a lift.

For a short-duration trip where this service makes sense, that's probably going to be a chore or an appointment. The chore could be shopping where hand-carrying isn't practical and where the shopping needs to be done in-person and delivery isn't practical or available. For appointments, I could see needing to visit doctors or the like where they may not be convenient to mass transit, or where post-visit there may be other chores like picking up prescriptions or going to have bloodwork done would mean an inordinate amount of time on mass-transit.