Germans want to blow up the Kirsch Bridge even more than they want to engage in buggery.

Listen to the leaked tapes from last month.

Now they are forming a pretext.

Ah, so they won't be able to ID a little girl by her face but sexual assault is still OK with them?

These people are sick in the head.

The problem of airplane terrorism was solved over a field in Shanksville PA ninety minutes after a plane hit the North Tower.

We'll have to take back the Fourth Amendment if we want it - it won't be returned.

And older people should have an approval process requiring a family member when spending more than a couple of hundred $$$.

I would look at it as homophobic. Men are afraid of being "tricked" into attraction with someone with the wrong parts. That's why these things only ever talk about trans women.
J.K. Rowling doesn't care about men's fears, her and the other TERFs are merely upset that a group of men have found the shortcut to easy mode in life, become a trans woman. But feel free to join the misandrists and blame men for getting upset by trans women using the "ladies room".

If you need trained technical support to troubleshoot an issue with a switch you aren't much of an IT Professional, IMHO.

In 20+ years in this profession I've never needed technical support on a switch for anything other than a hardware failure requiring RMA/warranty service. Cisco would certainly be less frustrating in this regard, because I wouldn't have to jump through the Tier 1 nonsense to convince them it actually is a hardware failure, as opposed to an ID10T error, but I haven't dealt with enough switch failures to justify the Cisco Premium for this scenario.

I could be a real snob and make the same statement about routers and firewalls. Admittedly a higher bar there, more that can go wrong configuration wise, still, unless we're talking super small business here, you should have enough in-house expertise to manage them with whatever configuration you need.

Externally or put serial into cisco web site or show version results or ???

> I'm paying for it.

You'll stop when you get less value from it than the fee is worth.

It sounds like they're lazily destroying their value proposition but Subjective Value Theory says that set point will be different than everybody else.

It's still stupid of them to remove features for paying customers. Probably they are losing devs or hiring unqualified people for non-merit reasons. Their shareholders should be pissed.

FWIW when I was a teen I probably spent $100 a months (in 2024 dollars) on music so I can see why so many people subscribe.

I still own my CD's but only ever listen to the mp3 rips.

Which one do you like best now? Clementine was petty good when I went looking last.

Integration and sync with KDEConnect would be the bee's knees.

I like the convenience of batteries. Just good ones, for example, lithium primary cells like what they put in 10 year smoke alarms contain more energy than alkaline, last like 5 times as long in "standby" role, won't crud up the battery compartment by leaking, they're much lighter, etc...

Don't like the cost, but oh well.

I am unconcerned about default search settings - that can be changed to DDG.

I am far more concerned about things where there is no option at all to disable. Windows 11 doesn't allow turning off telemetry, for example, only turning it down. Actually, Microsoft in general is far more of a threat than Google/Alphabet is to privacy. All of Windows 11 is spyware. They bought Github and trained their LLMs on GPLed code and use it to produce derivative works without having the resultant code be GPLed. They bundle their products together, taking advantage of their monopoly status in the OS area to push dominance in other areas. Why does Windows 11 need a key shortcut to launch LinkedIn? Oh, Microsoft does. Why is it near impossible to remove OneDrive? Why does Office increasingly push all of your documents into the cloud, where they can violate your privacy? We know the answers to these questions, but I guess the DoJ is happier now with 2024 Microsoft than they were with 90s Microsoft, even though what they are doing is much worse, now that Microsoft is doing what they were supposed to do all along - bribe politicians with campaign donations.

I would love to see it used by the feds to catch fraud and waste.

Fixed that for you. ;)

Also, on a more serious note, I know it runs counter to modern day TV, but I would argue the very last thing Trek needs to be is a franchise. TNG was novel because it was all that was on the air at the time. By the time they got to ENT the franchise was burned out and ratings reflected it. I have a lot of issues with NuTrek, but I do really enjoy SNW, can find redeeming things about DSC, but if they try to make it into the Trek version of the Marvel Universe or copy what Disney has done with Star Wars they're going to burn it the fuck out.

Greenshot can be launched via PrtScn too....