Early versions of Discover didn't work for me, but it has been greatly improved since then. I do all of my system updates using it, and it does the job well.

While I like deb packages, I have grown to prefer snaps for most programs since they are usually more up to date than the deb repositories (when the program has a snap at all, which isn't always the case).

This has to be the eighth time in the last twenty years that Microsoft has declared security to be the top priority, yet nothing ever changes. The Press treats each declaration as the most important statement ever made, and the Microsoft apologists proclaim the announcement as proof that this isn't your father's Microsoft.

I somehow doubt the cycle will be broken this time.

We would, if our government were trustworthy.

It most certainly is within the scope of any company's rights to refuse service to anyone the company finds unconscionable, including (and especially) U.S. law enforcement. The latter has no legal authority to compel service from any company.

And just yesterday, there was a story about how Google wants to up the H1B limit because they can't find any qualified American employees. That's because they keep laying them off.

I see where you're coming from, and it's sensible enough. I subscribed to Urban Air for my kids, and canceling was very difficult*. And I've heard stories about other companies. I was limiting my thoughts to the topic at hand in this case, though, and not about bad companies in general.

* I looked on the website, and there was no option to cancel anywhere. I called the location we visit, and they said they couldn't cancel memberships. I don't remember if I found the phone number in the signup contract I saved when I joined, or whether I found it online after a lot of searching. In either event, they make it easy to join and difficult to cancel.

All significant news outlets are owned by the same small handful of large corporations, and they collude to present a unified front to the public.

Select Account and then Manage Membership. The cancel button is a large red one that says, "Cancel Membership". So it is definitely easier to just cancel your membership than to cancel a credit card to avoid subsequent charges. In fact, anyone who cancels a credit card just to avoid future Netflix charges is a flaming moron.

Don't ban TikTok! Won't you please think of the children! Oh, wait....

They were in a public space where there is no expectation of privacy.

Despite common sense, though, Ring subscribers seemed to believe they had some expectation of privacy when uploading their recordings to someone else's servers. It's a truly bizarre situation. It's a bit like someone running naked down the street and then suing everyone who looked.

In unrelated breaking news, Dracula has been named CEO of the Federal blood bank, Dr. Frankenstein has been appointed to head the National Institutes of Health, and Bill Clinton has been placed as the head of the Women's Sexual Safety Administration.

Nurse Mcgee? Hello, Nurse!

Every Snap I've seen is alongside the deb package, so the choice is there.

I remember a time when I could call a company's help center and get actual help. That hasn't been the case for about 35 years now.

We're not having a population decline. Not in the slightest bit. What we're having is a decrease in the rate of increase. That will be temporary at best.

Very few people think that. I thing Mark Z. was the only one who thought that. Everyone else thought it was stupid.