First hit the little icon thing in the upper left corner (your "snoo" I think it's called, the avatar thingy). Then Settings, then u/[your id]. Under the section "Personalized Recommendations" you'll find "Enable next-generation recommendations". Turn that off then enjoy.

Considering how long Reddit's been around and how relatively new I am to it (I dunno, 4 years or so?) this is probably old news, but in my experience the Reddit app is circling the drain. First this unavoidable RPAN thing shows up. Then a few weeks ago after a reinstall it started showing all sorts of suggested posts/subs to the point it more or less outweighed the actual subscribed content (thankfully I tracked down the offending setting just this morning).

It's kind of like Reddit is learning all the wrong lessons from Facebook, whose UX development trajectory roughly resembles the murky brown rising tide in a stopped up toilet. All these companies main products are following the ugly path that resulted in 1990's Ford Thunderbirds.

Our legal code is testament to this. Or tax code. Or building code. Or university departments.

Name me one politician who campaigns on and actually votes for removing laws and getting rid of departments, and I'll show you a jackelope.

OK, so privacy implications blah blah blah. There's a reason that I mostly only plug these types of things in when I'm using them, and the few I can't unplug (thermostats) I disable as much as I can unless I'm using it (and I'm still not convinced it's not listening).

Anyway, my big question is whether this will work any better than the miserable Echo Show? I bought one for "reasons" on the most recent Prime Day. After getting it running it was slow, laggy to touch input, you couldn't turn off the display short of unplugging it, the interface was less than intuitive, and it just didn't do anything interesting that a non-Show couldn't do. I returned it and got my money back. Of course that just meant an in-law decided we needed one for Christmas... :(

Either I'm not the target for this thing, it's just a solution in search of an actual problem, or it's a piece of crap. I'm really not sure which. Maybe all three?

Exactly. Headquarters is where you have the bulk of your accounting, marketing, legal, HR, finance, real estate, and the like. Not to devalue them, but many people with those skills can be found in sufficient quantity in any major metropolitan area. It makes no sense to locate such employees in high-cost areas such as the Bay Area when there are plenty of capable employees in low-cost areas. In HPE's case in particular Houston already hosts their largest operational site and HPE's needed to replace their regularly flooded facility for a while now.

Now, something like engineering and R&D is more of a mixed bag. There are several aspects to this.

First, a concentrated amount of such talent wants to be located somewhere like the Bay Area or Seattle, and can just as easily work for many other companies located there. If you want to tap into that pool you have to have a presence there. It doesn't have to be your headquarters, it doesn't even have to be the majority of engineering/R&D, but you need something substantial.

Second, due to network effects and the fact that sometimes locality and face-to-face does matter, you need people in proximity to the partner companies you work with. In HPE's case processor, memory, and storage manufacturers have headquarters or heavy R&D presence in the Bay Area, and many of their important data center customers also happen to have a heavy presence there.

Finally, on the other side of this, there's lots of talented engineering/R&D people who don't particularly want to live in the Bay Area. They're much more dispersed geographically, often in pockets of specialties. In order to snag them you need smaller sites all over the place. Plus there are some pretty incredible people that are perfectly happy to work from anywhere they can get a solid Internet connection. Thankfully COVID-19 has made it perfectly clear that they can be (not necessarily are, but can be) just as productive at home as anyone in an office.

So yeah, headquarters location isn't always all that important for many companies. If you were in the finance and banking business you probably need almost all your operations and executives in some place like New York, London, or Hong Kong, and your headquarters probably needs to follow. If you manufacture water treatment plant equipment, it probably makes no difference at all where your headquarters is as your customers are everywhere and the talent you need isn't concentrated in any one place. Somewhere in the middle are many other mid-sized to large companies -- there are centers of importance, but not necessarily for HQ type functions.

Exactly right. I have no idea why HPE didn't adopt a new name when it was split off from HP. There's likely a half-dozen legacy names they could have dusted off that would have been better at differentiating the businesses and avoiding confusion. Compaq, DEC, Convex, Apollo, and Tandem come to mind right away; I'm sure there's more.

But another way to differentiate the two: If you or your office staff touches it, it's HP. If your data center staff touches it, it's HPE.

In a strikingly parallel development, my city is enlarging the sewer main near the center of town.

This smells familiar. Oh yeah, I remember why! https://xkcd.com/927/

The lack of 10GbE on these class of Synology products is what has kept me from snapping one up. I have a fair amount of video and photos I like to mess about with, and an NAS with several drive bays would be a great fit for storing it. I even popped for the $100 10GbE option on my Mac Mini with an eye toward directly cabling it to a NAS, despite zero other 10GbE infrastructure.

But Synology has been dragging their feet on this, and so I've been sorely tempted by QNAP many times. But Synology's UI and software is just going to work way better for my household (I'd be comfortable with either), so I haven't pulled the trigger. A 920+ with 10GbE would be my sweet spot for a product.

So, without trying to be dismissive of astronomer's concerns, to me it seems worth it.

Communication satellites in orbit bring measurable value to people's quality of life each and every day. As best as I've been able to figure out, astronomy brings an occasionally intellectual "that's cool" moment to a few people's lives, but in any practical terms doesn't contribute to improving people's quality of life.

After we figured out how to use the position of stars and other celestial objects for navigation and timekeeping, and dispelled harmful myths about how the cosmos worked, I don't see how astronomy has further benefited civilization. I get the attraction of learning more of the mysteries of the universe, and even knowledge for knowledge sake, but when it's that versus helping people communicate more effectively/efficiently, personally I'd opt for the satellites every time.

Same here. But I do find it depends on the brand. Name brand Q-Tips are sturdy, but many off-brand cotton swabs with paper stems are worse than plastic ones. I make sure to only buy Q-Tip brand ones for that one reason alone.

Chrome's killer feature for me is built-in (not add-on) bookmark and settings synchronization across devices. If I'm sitting at work and run across something I want to look at later on my own time, I can bookmark it there and have the bookmark waiting for me at home. I can pull up any bookmark I've created on my phone. That's the reason I stick with Chrome.

Before I used Chrome I used Xmarks to accomplish this on Firefox. Then Xmarks turned to crap and became Foxmarks, and at the time Firefox was a total pig, and Chrome was svelte and snappy, so I switched. From some reading it looks like maybe Foxmarks has gotten better again, but, meh, it's about a horse apiece, without much to argue for one or the other either way, so inertia wins.

Which any application can already do by including its own DNS resolver rather than relying on the one provided by the OS. Nothing's been lost on that front.

I suppose you could previously restrict outbound DNS traffic to specific destinations, however if we're considering the level of maliciousness for an app to be implemented with its own version of DNS, there's nothing preventing an attacker from setting up their own DNS server on a non-standard port and having their application contact that. So, still, nothing's been lost here except against low-effort malware.

I doubt Facebook would be doing this if it weren't for the fact that their current office environments are based on open seating plans, without even so much as a cubicle to separate employees from one another. If this anti-employee real estate policy hadn't been implemented in the first place, there'd be no need to permanently transition people to work from home in order to protect health.

A also agree with ffkom that this is all about reducing costs. Even if they get 25% of people working from home, that's a 25% reduction in spending on office spaces.

I worked with a gentleman who I believe discovered rowhammer in parallel with the research which led to the the original paper on the subject (i.e. we were aware of this issue before "rowhammer" was a term). His discovery was made while writing diagnostics for machines in the class of the largest servers and (non-cluster) supercomputers.

So, definitely not just a laptop issue.