From a fundamental standpoint, I 100% agree with this level of fee on H1B visas. It was intended for bringing in people who had specializations that didn't exist locally, not for bringing in people who would simply do the work cheaper then the local labor pool. This has led to all kinds of stagnation in compensation especially when there was high demand for the jobs as well as rising cost of living.

That being said, remote work has shown that some of this can be done without being at the office anymore. I think some businesses will look at this again and review their recent back to the office policies, and the need to have workers live/reside near certain tech hubs/centers, and will use it as an excuse to then pay the going rate of where the person resides, not the rate of compensation for the work itself....

Exactly. This is why my blood pressure spikes whenever I see some damn kid (#GOML) squeaking that "comments are a code smell."

The original point has been lost, corrupted into cargo-cult stupidity.

People have been worrying about AI for a while now. Now, at least when the AI goes haywire and starts taking things over, we'll have a little blue one who can save the day.

I mean seriously, how important can they be if they don't even bother releasing them in the USA or Europe....

Yeah, it's just bad "UX" on top - the "internal" drive icon looks more like an external drive than the "external" drive does.

Execute "Reindeer Flotilla"

Pretty sure the opposing lawyer caught it and brought it up, which is why it was in the appeal in the first place. They just were not able to convince the judge in time for the original claim. Many of these kinds of things were probably cited in various fillings with limited time to respond (some things have less than 7 days to respond, which does not give enough time to dig down to all the citations, and may only provoke a more generic response that they could not find the case/reference).

Everyone gets a tracker!!!!

I mean, really? Really? The government's own policy is to not wear health and fitness trackers because they can and are being used to track people's locations and exposed quite a few "secret" locations around the world where there happened to be concentrations of people doing workouts and training in remote bases and small camps of soldiers/special ops units who were maintaining their fitness and readiness.

More of the do what I say, not what I do....

Games are $80 not $90. And that is still a huge discount from what games cost back in the 80's, 90's, 2000's when adjusted for inflation. NES games in the 80's were either $55 or $39.95 at discount. Inflation adjusted that puts the games at between $120 - $165 for the NES at launch.

The SNES games were $59.95 at launch, which inflation adjusted would be $140. Even PS2 games which were DVD based stamps (i.e. much cheaper to make than NES/SNES/N64 cartridge style) were $50 - $59 at launch, which is still $90 - 108 inflation adjusted.

So yes, games are still not as expensive when adjusted for inflation as they were back in the 80's, 90's, or 2000's.

So much wrong with your statements. Just to start, the original NES was released in 1985 at the price of $179.99, which inflation adjusted to today would be over $530. The SNES in the USA was released for $199.99 in August 1991, which inflation adjusted to today's price would be $470....

Show me a single modern phone that will use 20W of power using it's CPU+GPU capabilities. They are all much lower power, lower performance chips that will typically at most use 8W (think about this logically, you don't have a phone that has a heatsink and fan capable of dissipating that heat of the high performance parts used in the Switch 2).

I mean, seriously, this is not that surprising. It seems like Nintendo delayed the hardware 1-2 quarters to allow for more time to produce more of them ahead of release, and even imported many of them to the USA at least two or so months in advance to avoid all the tariff uncertainty.

I guess the only surprising things might be how quickly it sold out in the USA. Japan was almost certain to sell out, given the pre-order "disasters". But the USA selling out typically being Nintendo's largest market was not as certain. That said, the backwards compatibility and essentially upgrades to 4K+HDR capabilities, was pretty certain that it would be a good seller, even at the higher price point than people had been originally anticipating (I believe fans were hoping for a $350-400 range, but given that it has essentially sold out within 2-3 days of launch across the country at $450, it shows the market could support that price).

If "Lumen" is the same as "Quantum", then since I was forced to drop my slow-but-rock-solid DSL for the quantum "upgrade" a year ago, it's been neither "stable"
  nor "reliable." (And a double fuck-you for blocking *INCOMING* 25. WTF is that all about?)

And the hits just keep on comin'

We don't want muffins, no toast, buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no teacakes, no potato cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smegging flapjacks!

> Since Ubuntu Server doesn't typically have any Wifi drivers baked in you need to (hope that you can) use your LAN port or otherwise sneakernet the required packages across

Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but I just did a 24.04 server install two weeks ago. I was expecting to have just that problem when I did the initial setup on my workbench (currently lacking a hardwire after an incident with the puppy), but it supported my USB wifi dongle OOTB.

Has Heroic made it possible to paste a password into the store login yet? Last time I tried it on my Deck, a couple months back, it was a non-starter, since I couldn't be arsed to transcribe the 32-character random string from Bitwarden on the on-screen keyboard.

There was a github issue open for a while, but it seemed to be being ignored.