They used to. Boeing is a case study in what happens when you let Next Quarter MBA assholes run an enterprise. The story of the last few decades of American capitalism has been such assholes hijacking virtually every company of note. It's not enough to be profitable, you have to be MORE profitable than you were last quarter, where you were MORE profitable than the quarter preceding it. That appeases the Wall Street beast, which boosts the stock price, which is all you really care about in the C-Suite since stock options make up the majority of your compensation.

Now, it's obvious to those of us who don't have MBAs that you will eventually reach a point of maximal efficiency/profit where further gains can only come at the expense of safety, worker's rights, product quality, customer satisfaction, or most likely, all of the above and then some. And here we are. To quote John Oliver, "We went to business school. Get on our plane!"

Some additional backstory if you're interested.

Everywhere I've worked where I had involvement with the CCTV systems aimed to keep at least 90 days. I've never heard of 10 days, that seems awfully low, might have made sense in the analog/tape era but digital storage is cheap.

One of my locations is on an accident prone intersection. We get a lot of requests from insurance companies and drivers for footage of accidents. When the requests come from the insurance carriers it's pretty damned rare they make it to us within 30 days. I guess the bureaucracy slows them down. Requests from the drivers involved usually make it to us a lot faster.

Southwest's boarding process (more specifically, the people who abuse it: looking at you seat savers), lack of codesharing agreements to book you on another airline when things go wrong, point-to-point model, and lack of first/business class create their own problems you don't have to endure with other airlines.

At the end of the day pick your poison. I don't hate Southwest but I prefer Alaska.

Reserve your real pity for the chumps flying Spirit, lol. I have an image in my head of a decompression event on Spirit and credit card readers falling out of the ceiling instead of O2 masks. "In the event of a cabin decompression, please pay for your oxygen before paying for your seat mate's."

Being fat isn't a protected class no matter how much the obese wish it was.

You must be the single unluckiest traveler ever my friend. :)

I fly at least as often as you, judging by your other posts, and even on coach/low cost seats/airlines, it's pretty damned rare to wait 30 minutes for bag-drop. It's usually less than 10 minutes. Even at SEA.

If you fly internationally as often as you say, why don't you invest $100 into Global Entry? I used to go through JFK all the time, I promise you that customs queue is worse than SEA, but who cares if you have Global Entry? The $100 pays for itself the first time you bypass that queue.

Why wouldn't you go buy new stuff in that scenario? The airline has an allowance for exactly this contingency. I've flown hundreds of times over the course of my life and exactly ONE time my checked bag went missing. Why would I load up my carry-on for a scenario that has happened to me less than 1% of the time?

I fly into SEA at least as often and I cannot recall ever waiting more than 30 minutes. It's usually closer to 15. Exit the aircraft, find a bathroom, refill my water bottle, walk to baggage claim, and more often than not bags are already coming out. That is my default experience at nearly all airports. The only bad time I ever had was at PIT, on an Alaska Airlines flight, 90+ minute wait. My supposition there is it's such an infrequent destination for Alaska they outsource the baggage job to someone else. There was no on-site Alaska representative to speak to and the 800 number was clueless. *shrug*

Dude, I'm a heavy Apple user too, normally inclined to side with them, but the App Store monopoly is not necessary to maintain the security of the platform. The EU isn't trying to change how the iOS security framework operates. It's trying to break the App Store monopoly. Apps installed from third party app stores aren't going to magically have root access to the file system, break storage segmentation, or otherwise gain some toehold in the OS that breaks our experience.

The iOS security model is independent of the app store. Your third party app from a different app store is still going to be subject to the same security model, storage segmentation, and restrictions as any other app from the app store. Installing a game from the Epic Store is not going to allow that game to access downloaded Netflix videos under any circumstance. It won't be able to access your personal photo roll unless you grant it permission to do so.

I manage roughly three dozen Azure environments and have no complaints with the first two. My use cases are not so intense that I could proffer an informed opinion on the third. Ironically, I've had more complaints with 365 than I have with Azure, random service outages for Exchange and Teams, outrages that Microsoft is rarely transparent about. They typically just quietly fix whatever the problem is. The real bitch is you have to follow their Twitter for updates when these things happen. The admin console in 365 is usually several hours behind the Twitter feed for meaningful updates.

365 is on the same infrastructure as Azure, so, there you go, Microsoft can't make their OWN shit as stable as third party applications within their cloud, lol.

Was it the cableco's that were greedy or the content providers they had to license channels from? The big boys don't reveal numbers but the little regional players sometimes do. The conclusion I've always had is TV became a loss leader towards the end of the ouguts for Internet and voice services. Today there are occasions where you can't even get TV as a standalone service.

I've traveled with my Apple TV. It's not really a huge burden in the context of a bag already filled with laptop, tablet, and all the related fixings.

It's very rare (less than 1 in 100) for us to get an Amazon delivery via USPS. In any reasonably sized metro Amazon has their own delivery and logistics operation. I'll spare the wall of text on how bad this operation can be, one amusing anecdote though, I work for a company with a warehouse operation and ONLY Amazon has an issue delivering packages to us. Weirdly, UPS, USPS, and FedEx, their drivers know what the sign that says "Receiving - Building C" means. The Amazon drivers usually stop in the driveway and call us to ask where to go. Sometimes (I assume when they're behind schedule) they just bounce the delivery altogether. But I digress....

It's exceptionally common (more than 90% of the time) for my Mom who lives in the rural boondocks to receive Amazon deliveries from USPS, UPS, and FedEx.

The bitch here is, USPS can and does charge more money for long distance package shipments. Only letters have universal pricing. So what Amazon does is deliver all the parcels to the local postal sorting facility themselves and then relies on USPS (or FedEx/UPS; they do the same with them) for the last mile. They cut out the portion of the route where USPS could make money and rely on them for the expensive last mile portion.

It doesn't help that the USPS/Amazon contract is apparently so one sided that the letter carriers are told to prioritize the Amazon parcels over first class mail, which, amongst other things, includes prescription medication that people rely on to stay alive. We have letter carriers in the family and not one of them has anything positive to say about the Amazon relationship or current USPS leadership. First class is what is withering on the vine because of various changes (not just the Amazon contract, though, that's one of the big problems) mandated from on high.

His point is some Apple services bypass VPNs on iDevices. Now, having researched that, I don't think it's anything nefarious. It's mostly network detection tools and things like automatic failover for non-functional DNS (Android does this too: Give it a DNS server you control via DHCP then shut that server off. It'll start going to 8.8.8.8) but the point remains. The only way to be sure 100% of your traffic goes through the VPN is to do the VPN upstream of the iDevice. Even that isn't a surefire thing, an iPhone will continue to communicate with Apple via cellular data when on Wi-Fi unless you explicitly turn off cellular data. Again, not nefarious, it's there to provide a path if the Wi-Fi network sucks.

Personally, I never use third party Wi-Fi unless I truly (complete cellular dead zone on both my SIMs) have no other choice. That said, my solution, I implement DNS-over-TLS with a configuration profile to trusted DNS resolvers. Quad 9, Google, and Cloudflare all support this, and have reasonable (Quad 9's is the best, IMHO) privacy policies. DoT closes off the biggest data leak (unencrypted DNS), hijacking, and privacy risk of untrusted networks.

For the rest of my communication, I trust TLS. Every app of consequence I use already communicates via TLS. The vast majority of webpages these days default to TLS. Wi-Fi calling (if I'm in a dead zone I likely need this) is also via a secure (IPSec VPN) encrypted channel. If someone is playing games with TLS I'll get certificate warnings. Unless they've owned the root certificate authority, in which case, you got bigger problems than untrusted Wi-Fi, lol.

The VPN path he has is valid but I think DoT is easier. For bonus points, you can enforce it on cellular data if you're so inclined, so you're closing off any data monetization games your cellular company might be trying to play with your DNS queries.

What solution did you use for this? I home built one for my Mom, which builds a site-to-site back to my house, then announces a Wi-Fi network for all of her streaming devices. This was my middle finger when the crackdown started on password sharing. Mom is disabled and lives on under $1,000/mo of SSDI, she doesn't have the money for streaming services, and until that crackdown started it was a nice little benefit they allowed me to give her. :-(