I recently had United cancel the flight for a family vacation literally the night before the departure date. They offered to find me another flight, but there wasn't an immediately available flight with them. A couple of clicks later and I was issued a refund. No arm twisting or drama required. I ended up using another carrier so I could still fly out on the original departure date and the refund credit showed up on my credit card account a few days later.

So one will be able to cut travel time between two destinations that I can't imagine wanting to ever visit.

Wake me up when there's a bullet train to Mos Eisley. Now there's a real den of iniquity.

Same here. I've had a Tesla 3 since early 2020. I've driven about 10k miles a year and in that time I've had the same experience. I rotated the tires a couple of times and just replaced them as they were worn out. I've also replaced the windshield wipers twice and added a few gallons of washer fluid.

And that's it. I charge mostly at home and with my local electric rates it costs me about $10 to drive 300 miles. This is easily the best car I've ever owned when it comes to the maintenance cost as well as the fastest (I have the performance version of the Model 3).

I can't see myself going back to a gas or diesel car for a daily driver.

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I think it's because greed trumps their desire to attack their nemesis. Without the US economy end point for their production, their own economic house of cards will quickly collapse.

Sure, that's the way it works if you hold the "correct" political views. Some of those folks that were in the US capitol during the Jan 6, 2021 protest were guilty of nothing more than trespassing and have effectively been detained for YEARS (some without even a trail yet) and others give remarkably stiff jail sentences.

That is the stuff that your average American thinks happens only in third world countries and now we have it here.

At worst, these entitled Google SJW's will lose their job.

On a recent vintage Macbook Air, you don't. It's not a user serviceable part. When the SSD fails, you throw it away and get a new Mac if it's out of warranty.

I have a recent vintage Mac and a thin notebook PC (running Linux). I use the PC a bit more, but I'm comfortable using both. If the Mac failed tomorrow, I wouldn't buy another one due to the inability to upgrade/service them after the fact. When most PC's are also not user serviceable, maybe I'll re-evaluate that stance. My kids are perfectly fine with Chromebooks. They are also not upgrade-able, but they are dirt cheap and I don't mind the disposable nature of them given the price point and the fact that Google manages to keep them patched for a few years. If they survive long enough to outlive Google's willingness to patch them, I throw them away and get another one (since they cost less than a high end phone these days).

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The impacted cpu's list above only included Intel parts. The article doesn't mention AMD at all.

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Difficult to do when a relatively small number of whales are holding onto a significant portion of the available coins and they aren't selling.

Eventually one of them will blink and the price of the tulips will crash again.

Crypto will continue to be a domain that exists mostly to enable criminal activity and a novelty for most other people.

Good luck with that.

Anything that helps facilitate dumping the jackals at Broadcom is welcome news. It will be interesting to see if the corporate exodus from VMWare is enough to ensure they never recoup their $69 billion investment.

Good riddance.

There is always Openstack. :) It can be a bear to manage, but you won't have some vendor like Broadcom breathing down your neck and trying to shake you down for their vig.

https://www.openstack.org/

They gave me 50% more speed down and 100% more speed up than I was getting for "free." 575mbits down and about 23mbits up for $100/month.

Not great, but not horrible either. A couple of years ago it was 100mbits down and maybe 6mbits up on a good day for the same fee. I live out in the countryside and am relatively "lucky" to have a cable provider. People not far away are stuck with satellite or DSL service.

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Broadcom could have acquired them. Count your blessings...

Use Firefox or Chromium instead and switch to Linux or MacOS.

I haven't felt the need to use Chrome or Windows for years.

Why give them the opportunity to charge you at all for that? The modems aren't particularly expensive and you easily recoup the cost. I've been using the same Arris modem for my Comcast account for a few years now. It's paid for itself several times over already.

Why would anyone want to flee crime, filth, high taxes and high cost of living....

And I get moderated as a "troll" for daring to say it out loud.

**shrug**

The victims ARE ENABLING the people that are victimizing them. So yes, I suppose I am blaming the victims for electing folks that perpetuate the policies that have brought the city to where it is today.

You can't expect people to WANT to be in SFO it is an unpleasant place to spend one's time/money/energy.