Please share your Linux alternative for Intuit?

Also if you have one... Active Directory?

I'm not doubting you, I'm hopeful you've got answers for me.

Is it possible that you're both actually correct to a certain degree, and "the poor" isn't a monolithic group that either of you can speak about as a whole with any authority, because there's actually a hundred different scenarios or more for why people are poor?

Oh, and for context, I grew up upper-middle class and never wanted for anything... and then at around 18 I ended up rather abruptly taking care of myself, my wife (married between junior and senior year), and my kid (born during my senior year, yes, yes, do the math ;) ) all on my own with no support. And we ended up on public assistance a few times with times when the choice was decent food for us or diapers and the expensive formula (allergies) that our baby needed (the baby won, always). With years of choosing which bills I could pay and which ones I was going to make phone calls for arrangements to and learning exactly what day services would get turned off for non-payment for pretty much all of them.

So I know that the well-off can be oblivious from my own recollection of my parents and my own idiot young early teen self, but I also know that my wife and I made the right choices for the most part (no expenses for drugs, alcohol, or frivolous material stuff) and still ended up in a bad way a lot... and I also know that I saw plenty of people in similar circumstances making terrible choices who couldn't figure out how my wife and I were "doing so well" (HA).

None of which is to say that this situation with broadband isn't utter BS. It is a NEED in our society, and some most basic form of it should be a publicly funded good by now- nothing fancy with super-high speeds and good gaming latency or whatever, but at least a decent 10 up and down. For this reason and sooooo many others, Congress sucks.

How do they know the race of the students? Personally, I've refused to answer that question on pretty much everything ever, because it's BS. So either the students are volunteering it without thinking about why it is problematic to do so, volunteering it because of some other advantage it provides them, or the colleges have access to the information from some other source. All three are problems, but all three have pretty obvious ways to correct them, too.

Anyone else remember back when Microsoft used to regularly forget and let their domain registrations lapse and make a joke and even a contest of it when "regular civilians" would renew the registrations for them? Good times. This is the company you're expecting security from. lol.

This exists (if you use a USB-A to USB-C adapter), but given the recentness of this announcement, I doubt they've bothered to make iOS drivers for it yet.

While they're at it, they might want to make the printer driver installation box no longer default to drive A: when you browse for a driver. lol.

It's a fair point that Microsoft, specifically, has been pretty good about this. But you always have to follow a statement like that with "so far", because as soon as some chucklehead executive there sees Intuit getting away with it or manages through convergent de-evolution to come up with the genius friggin' idea himself as a way to increase sales, all bets are off.

Anyone who has ever had Intuit (for example) stop providing the activation code when they tried to reinstall software that had a "perpetual" license knows better than to think that one day that might not be made part of that "5 years of support".

And no, whether or not my client who insisted on using their older Intuit program even after I explained the reasons that might not be the best idea SHOULD have gotten something newer is not the point here. They *bought* their software - as long as the OS was still compatible, and it was, a software vendor has no business pulling that crap. But they do...

Sure. Because there's no way anyone in the government / military looked at these stories and the reaction they normally get from the more general public and said, hey, there's a pretty good cover story for some of our experimental stuff - let's encourage that some.

Because I have a recording of him saying that he *doesn't* want them banned. ;)

Most people don't understand this. I'd give you mod points if I currently had them. I'd have gone with BDs, though. ;)

I realized after I posted that it might have sounded like I meant that for data *belonging to individual citizens and private entities*. If I had, I agree that you'd be right. What I was *thinking* was regarding data that the government keeps about citizens (the DMV, for example) and government matters that are *collectively* owned by citizenry through government (the government's copy of secret military equipment plans or its contracts with the companies providing ingredients at public schools, for example). Inevitably, that stuff will probably be connected to some kind of AI for convenience and (maybe?) efficiency and better insights, and the AI used for that definitely needs to be "loyal" for lack of a better word.

I'm not buying it as a sales pitch for Nvidia specifically, but yes, absolutely, every country that is going to have their people's data in an AI - or any system, really - should have it domestically rather than entrusting it to servers and datastores in other countries, unless they REALLY trust those other countries (like Five Eyes, maybe).

Freaking DUH.

Better ask for 10 million - in this economy and with this inflation, 1 might not even be enough to retire with.

Trickle down *can* work... it just has to be paired with a shit-ton of regulation and tariffs and enforcement of those to keep the wealthy re-investing it in their domestic businesses and employees rather than spending it in places with cheap labor, low worker and human rights standards, and adversarial forms of government to our own, or just sticking it in their pockets. (And it still won't be as efficient at stimulating the economy as putting money into the hands of people on the lower end who will spend it pretty much immediately because they need to.)

But for "some reason" trickle down is always promoted by people who ALSO push DEregulation and weakening of enforcement. Can't imagine why.

"The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didnâ(TM)t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands." - Will Rogers, 1932