The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

If you don't plan correctly in an ICE, it doesn't start at all. The 12v battery won't turn your engine over.

There are drawbacks to EVs still, for sure, but we talk about ICE vehicles like they've solved the problem of extreme temperatures better and they really haven't.

I mean, you tell yourself that if you want, I guess, but there are two eras: pre iPhone and post iPhone, and the Android phones before the iPhone did NOT look like a modern smartphone. That was Apple. And Samsung and various Chinese brands still copy Apple to this day.

It's really just a fact, though you can cover your eyes and wish it weren't so, if you want.

Apple's phones never used thunderbolt. If you're talking about lightning, you'll note that before Apple made a cable where it was impossible to plug it in upside down, Android phones used micro-USB, one of the worst interface standards. There has been some talk that Apple itself was the progenitor of USB-C and they gave it to the USB standards consortium, but I've never been able to verify that. They WERE on the committee that developed it, though.

Wealthsimple will refund up to $5s in ATM fees if you have an account there. I think it might require an account minimum, but their chequing accounts pay out something like 3% (it's pegged to the Bank of Canada rate).

Anyway, I got super sick of the fees at TD, so I've switched basically all my banking over. I feel strongly that everyone in Canada should take a look at their bank and probably switch to either a Credit Union, or some sort of online bank. It doesn't have to be Wealthsimple, just get away from the big 6 banks. They're bleeding you dry with high fees and strongarm sales tactics.

"His concerns are echoed by Mercedes CEO Ola Kallenius, who recently warned the European car industry is "heading at full speed against a wall" and could even "collapse" if the EU doesn't reconsider."

Why is everyone a capitalist believing that the market will give us the solutions we need up until the time where they were caught sleeping and now they want us to please be nice to them?

We do not have time to coddle these babies. Figure something out or die, that's not my problem. My problem is that fires get worse every year and the droughts get worse every year, and more people die in heatwaves every year.

1. That's not true
2. You'll have to back that up better

Whether you like Apple or not, the SoC is still the most powerful one on the market, the cameras are still excellent (and better than 2021 cameras from any manufacturer), the video is still better than anyone else (and has been basically forever).

Like, there are plenty of reasons to not want an iPhone and I could name a bunch if you wanted, but this is a stupid comment that completely ignores reality.

It depends on what you mean by 'innovating', I guess. They deliver a lot of functionality for a price that's much lower than dedicated hardware would. Even for small-time creators on tiktok or instagram (or even YouTube), with no modifications, the iPhones pro are probably the best video camera you can get if you can have only one thing. So yes, I guess? They're miles ahead of anyone else with stabilization, video quality and features, and that happens to be pretty useful these days.

And despite that, everyone slavishly copies their phones and their UIs, for better or worse.

It doesn't matter if you think they're bad or not, the claim that they're the centre of the tech universe has been objectively true for years. Where Apple goes, others follow.

Are we starting to see that fade a little? Maybe. Nothing that you said was a counterpoint to what you quoted, it was just stuff to (rightly) be angry about.

I'm also for this, yes. I agree that the protectionism has done us no good.

Nobody's asking to DEPEND on China, but we already import a shittonne of stuff from them, why not cars? The whole point is to untether ourselves from any industry or nation that demands that we go all-in on them. That means we import Chinese cars while they're a good deal. If they stop being good for us, we'll import something else. Or build something else. But the status quo is busted as hell.