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Comment Re:Wow, no Federal pre-emption of state laws? (Score 2) 58

Nothing so far reaching. They simply said that they exceeded the authority that they were given by congress in this case.

Time will tell if this ruling can be used to overturn other regulations.

(Congress can also grant them the authority to do this, though that law would almost certainly be subject to a lot of legal challenges too.)

Comment Re:Exploitation (Score 1) 102

Well, yes. And they've had multiple days to do that at this point. Like I said. I'm sure they'll record it in accordance with their company's time keeping policies.

Whether it requires a formal request, advance notice or just a quick "hey boss, I'm going to do a thing tomorrow, I won't be in" seems unimportant.

Comment Re:Exploitation (Score 0) 102

Is this even a strike?

I'd be willing to bet that 99% of them are going to come in the next day and record the day off in accordance with their company's time keeping policies and continue as if nothing happened. A lot of them will probably put in extra hours to make up for the work they didn't do that day. Maybe someone's manager will get annoyed because they had to reschedule a meeting.

Comment Re:Let's review. (Score 1) 69

True. It's not like Dropbox is a monopoly. If someone doesn't like their policies, they can go with one of those competitors.

Which, incidentally, I did. I moved to one of their competitors who offers a paid middle tier.

If Dropbox offered a middle tier, would I have just gone with that?

Probably.

If I ever need an upper tier, am I going to switch back to Dropbox?

Probably not.

Comment Let's review. (Score 3, Interesting) 69

Dropbox...

1. ...is more expensive than most of its competitors.
2. ...does not offer a middle tier paid storage option.
3. ...is, shortly, going to be forcing a bloated file manager app on their customers.
4. ...limits free accounts to three devices.
5. ...only supports ext4 on Linux.

And they only address one of those items.

Okay, good luck with that.

Comment The more things change... (Score 2) 116

... the more they stay the same.

I remember going through all of my USB Mini-B and Micro-B cables a few years ago and plugging them into a tester. I then proceeded to destroy and discard all the cables that didn't have the data lines and/or couldn't handle at least 1A of current. It made my life a lot less complicated.

I suspect there will come a time when I have to do the same thing for my USB-C cables.

Comment Windows-like App Distribution (Score 1) 209

It's interesting that application distribution on Linux keeps getting more Windows-like.

Whether it's extracting an archive in /opt or one of those fancy "installer" systems like Snap or AppImage or even Docker images, the tendency of developers to ship all their required libraries and not rely on the libraries in the distribution's package manager is interesting. It's a bit like when Microsoft said that all of a program's libraries should be installed in "C:\Program Files" instead of dumped in "C:\WINDOWS" (and the hell that came along with doing the latter,) though nobody is forcing that change in the case of Linux.

I suspect it will work about as well in Linux as it does in Windows: Less likely to break at the cost of making everything larger.

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