I often ended up with elderly phone service customers experiencing long service outages. According to premises techs and dispatch reps the intermittent problems don't get fixed because corporate doesn't want to pay for infrastructure repair. On my walk home today I saw yet another example, a Comcast bucket truck leaving multiple cables dangling from overhead lines and the pole to the ground. That's Comcast's "10G" network they've been advertising in a desperate attempt to mislead people. The Xfinity branding lifetime had run its course so they had to make up some new lies.

Capitalism is when freedom loving free market economics proponents want to do business in authoritarian communist states. I can't think of anything more capitalist. Our corps are addicted to the advantages of nearly free labor with few rights, poor environmental controls, and cultural customs that encourage blind loyalty to authority figures. It's perverse.

is going broke paying for diffuse green energy sources while France has been green since the 1980s thanks to nuclear. Germany is still required to dump carbon into the air because they refuse to adopt nuclear for baseload. I wonder how many decades it's going to take before they and others realize what's happening directly in front of their faces.

they forced people to buy the Kinect by packing it with the Xbox One. Many promises and no good deliveries. Imagine the price competitive advantage if Microsoft had nixed the Kinect and removed the cost of it from a standalone Xbox One. Microsoft would've dominated the console market, but instead they began their decline. Microsoft got high on it's own hype supply.

I installed Edge on Fedora just to be contrarian. It runs way better than I expected but I wouldn't call it good by any account. Brave is pretty bad on Linux too.

Looks like it's time to reinvent the wheel again.

It's only the jobs nobody wants.

Maybe the zoo should set up a giant tv for them to watch constructive videos? Teach the Gorillas how to do certain tasks for themselves?

that there are so many Linux distributions, desktop environments, text editors, and on and on.

Only if you have a very expensive higher end HDR spec monitor. Otherwise it makes everything dark and hard to see for the majority of people who aren't using those monitors. The rule "know your audience" has been discarded.

It's the same for audio and video, especially with this HDR nonsense. The web has standards designed to adjust to the user's device, audio and video need the same thing.

taught us that UFO nonsense is a scheme to get R&D cash to build many military technologies. They lie to corporates saying they possess alien technology capable of certain advanced tasks. That kind of tech is so tempting for prospective contractors they just can't pass up access to it. In reality anything leaked to these corporations is purely theoretical. According to Corso a couple examples of this turning into real products are night vision and self guided cruise missiles.

I have a seething hate for useless lazy error messages.

We need a mobile OS that can install on phones like Windows or Linux does on a desktop. Google does not seem at all interested in making that happen. Hardware without software to match is worthless.

I recently installed Windows 11 clean and when I got to the desktop for the first time I noticed that it had somehow already installed Gigabyte's "APP Center" down in the system tray area. That then told me I needed system drivers but it also tried to install Norton Internet Security as well. Coincidence?