Take for example how Office refuses to save file backups to non-OneDrive remote drives...

If you try to use a non-MS cloud storage provider such as Google Drive or DropBox, Office behaves differently, and that's done entirely on purpose to push you to use OneDrive.

This is just one example out of many sneaky and nefarious anti-competitive measures they employ, and because users are basically held hostage through their crappy OS, Microsoft happily abuses that position of power.

Look into Zsh, OMZ, Fig and imgcat, should give you most of what you've asked for.

We're already using paper bags, and the reason for switching back is that there's now a whole self-sustainable ecosystem of recycled paper. The paper bags we use right now are 100% from recycled material, so it doesn't hurt the trees. There's an excellent documentary that explains how cardboard boxes and grocery bags made from the same material are now 100% recycled and how efficient it's become, and I urge you to watch it instead of hating on the amazing American state of California! (also, come visit!)

Exactly right - knowing the actors, this is all staged with the money now owned by the AI.

Let me guess, you're trying to read this while connected to Airplane WiFi?

Jokes aside, I fly weekly and I use Airplane WiFi all the time. It absolutely SUCKS. Half the time it doesn't even work. When it does work it's slow and cranky.

Hear me out: The Apple Card has this UI on the phone where you can supposedly control your next payment amount. Say your balance is $2,000 and you can only pay $400 this month, you can swipe this cool looking circular widget. It calculates the interest rate for the amount you're picking.

Unfortunately, every time you move that slider and submit, that's a NEW payment which does NOT replace the previous payment. Let's say you were paying off $500/month, and you now select $400, you'll be charged $500 AND $400 for a total of $900. Pretty nasty surprise for most people, if you ask me.

This happened to me several times, over several months. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, and I confirmed it on a phone call with their support staff. The way it functions is extremely counter intuitive, and I can totally see how it screwed with a lot of customer's cash flow to the point of preventing them from making payments.

Any time you invest into yet another "social network" is a huge waste of time. We all know Microsoft will eventually kill this, in around 2~3 years, possibly sooner.

What would really help is if you voted representatives into government who will make your state more consumer friendly, as opposed to favoring corporations above everything else and treating them like god's solution to humanity's problems.

No, you're wrong. You see, Trump can fix this. In fact, nobody is better than Trump at fixing this shit. Salt? He knows salt! Arsenic? He eats it for breakfast and HE'S JUST FINE! See?! Just re-elect him, and he will fix all of this. In fact he will fix it all!

Which is very important, as suffering & stress are not good for your health

We use QR codes to pay for parking here in California, there are no scams, and when implemented correctly it works far better than any other method.

There's adequate signage, and the meter responds immediately when paid.

If you paid for a parking meter via QR and the meter doesn't activate, you can call your card issuer and charge back the transaction. That would get the fraudster's merchant account shutdown in no time.

The QR based apps are insanely cool and absolutely useful, if only because you can extend your stay remotely! It even tells you 15 minutes before expiration, and you can go back into the app and add more time. Went into a restaurant and your date is going SO well you want to stay some more and maybe get dessert? No need to go back to the car! Just whip out the phone and add another hour.

That parking enforcement team in Texas is just full of shit.

They avoided both the ransom from the attackers, and the bigger one, from Microsoft!

Nothing will ever compete with Fiber, for networking to your house/business. For seriously fast connectivity with extremely low latency, people are going to use fiber for at least the next 20~30 years.

A lot of people left their rentals and moved back into their parents garages or basements, when Covid-19 hit and they were laid off. That means less people are paying for internet access.

At our workplace almost 40% of machines are now Chromebooks. And you know what? from an IT perspective they are our BEST laptops. Absolutely zero maintenance, zero complaints, the laptops just work. We got the "fancy" ones that flip to become tablets, and people love the touchscreens, and they still cost a third of what a similar Windows/Mac laptop would cost.

I can totally see how in schools a fleet of Chromebooks makes the most sense!