Is that his real name?

But seriously, MaximumPC was the only magazine I got in the mail and now I'm stuck reading it on an e-device after registering for an account on pocketmags.com. I have read this magazine for years and have about 1 year left on my subscription and won't renew. Maybe I'm old but I liked flipping through the actual pages and dread having to find an iPad, phone and/or computer to read a magazine. On the plus side, I don't have to go to the mailbox as it'll be full of advertisements at this point.

There were so many red flags, and this dude still went along with the “date”. What car do you drive? Bring cash with you. I don’t wish evil on lonely guys but he almost deserved what came to him by letting this person drive his Jag around Methville at 2am.

Isn't cheap is an understatement. A well-off neighbor has a geothermal heating system and it was around 50K to have it setup. I love the idea and I hear it works great, but the price is a definite turn-off.

Meh, I've shadowed a junior worker remotely and it was fine. That's why headsets were invented.
Back when I was in the office, I don't recall any lunchtime discussions with other teams. It was just our group going out for a bite, not a strategy session.

How do you pick the 4 underachievers? What if all 12 were equally good workers?

The problem is we're inundated with advertising. I remember back in the day when cable TV didn't have any ads (yes I'm old). Now we have 800+ channels and sometimes I flip around trying to find content but only seeing commercials on every.single.channel. I can't freakin' escape ads!

My solution is a browser ad-block + network pi-hole and it seems to work pretty well. If ever I see a normal person's browser session, I am amazed at the ads on the side, top, everywhere. If a site I frequent goes out of business because they don't get ad revenue, so be it, I'll go somewhere else.

Let those "influencers" or "youtubers" get a real job instead of trying to cash in on some shitty video as everybody and their momma has a podcast.

As a multi-gun owner because 'murica, the gun stores would love to take even more of your money to teach you how to shoot. A free or discounted program to at least give gun buyers some time 'behind the wheel' would be a great idea IMHO.

For the CCW process, you actually had to shoot a bit at the end, so that's something.

Wait, wasn't this article about sleep apnea?

I have to ask about the 1000 tabs. I’ve had about 100 open in FF because I wanted to read them later, or sort of use them like bookmarks without actually bookmarking them. What would you possibly need 1000 tabs for?

I'm no math wiz but that's one manager per regular worker. Sounds like a wonderful place to work! Does anyone even have satellite TV any more? Out in the boonies, I'll occasionally see a dish on the roof, but that's few and far between.

Exactly. I remember there were (are?) mood rings back in the day.

I wonder if he just stole, say 5K, he could have flown under the radar. With 3B in bitcoin, there's no way he could have spent it with folks specifically looking at the transaction chain.

What state might that be? I'm around a major US city and have seen a grand total of 2 EV charging stations.

I know, right? I'm not all that entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, but I would buy a new Air with a 15" screen to replace my 2015 Air. I don't want to pay 2X the price for a Pro laptop when I don't need all that power in a laptop.

I absolutely hate the notch. Every time I see an iPhone's screen, yup there's that distracting cut-out. That stupid notch is the main reason I stopped buying iPhones and moved over to Android on a Google Pixel.

What hardware (CPU/GPU mainly) are you running to have multiple 4K streams at 10% utilization? I'm concerned about heat and power usage, so I go for low-mid end AMD CPUs with no graphics card.