I'm so glad I got off the Apple bandwagon when they started ignoring the Mac for iPhone.

I actually had linux running on my MBP for a while before buying a PC laptop to when it was time to upgrade.

Every convenience feature is potential spyware when they could have done it cryptographically secure from the beginning.

I actually had a good chat with on-staff cryptographers back in the 90's. This one gal was a genius at elliptic curves

Those were the days.

I use rsync and syncthing to do those.

I happen to generate all my scripts out of puppet modules with reflection but for just a few devices you can absolutely roll it by hand.

> Sure it sucks, but it isn't dire.

Dropping the kids off at McDonald's at 7am in a snowstorm is indeed dire.

These providers usually have enforced monopolies which always come with wealth redistribution.

Fix all of the above problems before dunking on poor families subject to these policies.

Some of these comments make no sense in the reality that remote schooling is now mandatary and enforced by law.

Kids in poor families who need to be on Zoom 6 hours a day do not have other options claimed here.

Unemployment meetings, seniors' telehealth, etc. all fit similar patterns. There is often no choice given.

Fix those maybe before claiming that a 1GB cap is plenty.

I, for one, support the ban of nuyde apps.

Naked apps running around flaunting their bits are just gross!

Put an interface on, for crying out loud. Think of the children!

hawk

blocking enough of google's trackers also seems to trigger this.

one would *think* that after the first couple offices you killed them, the police would catch on . . . but then, I suppose they're sill stuck on the captcha . . .

> Wait. Why on earth are you using an account for television.

So you can watch your YouTube videos on your TV?

Cut off the pharmaceuticals for a few years and we'll have all-new politicians.

I stopped asking them after years of a "coming soon" ticket if they were going to support tor hidden services and they were like "no really, soon!" every time.

OK, Lucy.

Don't assume only one intelligence service here.

(it takes one guy a day to set this up).

Sure, Americans pay taxes and inflated costs of goods to provide military security for Europe, drug development, technology development, etc. so they have more money for healthcare, arts, and leisure.

Everybody should need to work less as technology and productivity increases while maintaining the same standard of living, but nooooo, we can't have nice things.

Materialism plays a small part but GenZ has correctly realized that they can never live as well as their grandparents under this regime.

Boomers are happy to shout "avacado toast!" at them from their country-club golf carts.

I wrote here about coming Age Wars a decade ago. Let's hope somebody comes to thier senses.

how much is the cheapest TV today compared to the 90s

You can't eat your TV. You can't drive your TV to the grocery store. You can't take your TV into the bank and get a home loan, nor can you take your TV to a home seller and get a reasonable price. You can't hand it to the university and be handed back an education. You can't give your doctor your TV and receive surgical or even preventive care or the meds you need.

Your problem (other than the root one of spewing disingenuous nonsense) is that you're looking at the pricing in the electronics sector and pretending it's representative of the extremely high basic living costs I called out (which of course it is not) — nowhere did I say anything about either the pricing of electronics or the need for a TV to achieve a reasonable cost of living. Nor should you have. But here we are.

They are probably building hybrid plants but getting EV plant tax credits.

They'll "update" their plan in a few years.