They're better than the cryptocurrency cheerleading articles, anyway, which seems to be Slashdot's other favorite topic.

Yeah, if you haven't switched to OpenJDK or some other open source Java variant at this point, you pretty much deserve the auditing pain that's going to be inflicted upon you.

I mean, come on... you have had years of warning at this point.

You would think that a place like northern Minnesota would have a much lower risk of tropical storm damage.

I'd expect that this problem is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I'm just thinking about those tens of millions of Amazon Echo and Google Home devices that were bought around 2017-2018. Amazon and Google are probably going to end support for those soon. The only real question is if they're going to give up on this unprofitable platform entirely, or just force their users to upgrade to newer smart speakers.

It might also be that people are realizing that 45% off of MSRP isn't really a "deal" for items that never sell at MSRP.

Most of the stuff I checked for Prime Day usually cost around $500, but were "on sale" for $450 with discount from a basically meaningless MSRP of $800. It's going to take more than $50 to get me to pull the trigger on those items.

The CNBC summary of the bill does a good job of describing what's in it. There are a handful of middle class tax cuts in there, so it's not ALL doom and gloom.

I gotta admit, the 13" Macbook Air is a good choice for college students. It's relatively fast, built well, reliable, and isn't nearly as overpriced as a Macbook Pro.

If my kid used this presentation on me, I'd be sold. Although, personally, I'd like a Lenovo T series instead because I know that I'm going to have to deal some at least one oddball software version for a class that only works on Windows.

They both look pretty content in that picture. Makes sense... Bill G got control of most of the world's laptops and desktops, while Linus got control of most of the world's servers and smartphones. It's almost like they decided to spilt the entire IT ecosystem in two, and also decided to keep Apple around for sport.

I'm assuming that you're using the Enterprise version. The Home version is an ad filled mess.

Plus, we've read this story on Slashdot many times before. It usually ends with Microsoft "Generously" offering discounted or free Office licenses to the next IT executive in order to bring them back into the fold.

Yeah... Apple is finally going to have charge time estimates on their home screen, something that most Android devices have had for the past three years. Such "innovation"!

I'll answer your question with another question... does it really matter that the Trump administration thinks about this problem? AI probably isn't going to take over the majority of jobs by 2028, so it doesn't really matter what the Trump admin thinks the "solution" for this is. Sure, unemployment caused by AI takeover will slowly increase over the next few years, but we're probably not talking 20% unemployment rates like it was the next great depression.

This will likely be a problem for the next administration to fix, or the one after that.

Looking at their sparse and weird product listing, I can see why they might be in financial trouble. You would think that a store called "American Science" would have a good selection of solar panels for experiments, but when you do a search on that, you only get one real option for a 100mA panel and a handful of solar flood lights.

Likewise, I did a search for 3D printers and found NO printers available and only one roll of filament. But... they have a selection of lawn statues. Why, I don't know.

I can't imagine modern Linux versions running KDE running on 10 year old hardware is going to be a great experience. Especially if they're still using a PC with a hard drive for storage.

Sure, they're probably used to a horrible UI experience by using a Windows 10 PC loaded with years of bloatware, but this isn't going to seem like much of an improvement to them.

Of course, this is Frontier we're talking about. Their incompetent customer support department couldn't resolve billing issues or connection issues for their customers 90% of the time, so what makes you think that they would do any better when it's Universal or Sony making the demands for assistance?