Yeah...

The good ones are designed for repairability, because that's done by field service technicians.

Not only is literally every part replaceable, they provide a detailed list of which parts will and won't void the warranty and the warranty ones are a surprisingly small list. Things like replacing our even removing the SSD don't do if you don't have on site repair, or are very untrusting, you can return the laptop without the data on it for repair and reinsert they SSD when you get it back.

Oh also, and this is a really nice touch, the back has captive screws so they're really hard to lose during a repair.

I suppose there are some other crap models but I've not encountered them.

How granular would the permission be? If web browsers start blocking all animation and post-load layout shifting by default, including CSS transitions and animations, this would encourage website operators to structure the page to coerce permission to animate in each document. For example, a website operator could make each page load blank other than a notice to the effect "Tap or click to view 'Title of Article' on Name of Site."

In my experience on laptops and tablets, I've found the exact opposite (eager loading) helpful in some situations with limited or no data. I would download an entire page on unmetered Wi-Fi, go offline, and read while riding as a passenger in a car or bus.

I sincerely doubt that 14,500 USD per year (full-time minimum wage) is near enough to pay for income tax, rent, food, health insurance, and a round-trip taxi ride every weekday in most of the United States. I'd be interested to read examples of budgets that you have in mind.

Recent graduates tend to be stuck with hourly food service and retail jobs. These tend to treat availability outside 9 to 5 as a condition for hiring, not to be doable from home, and not to pay enough for a taxi. Even a cyclist needs a backup during bad weather.

If someone happens not to have this privilege, then how would they go about traveling to or from work at night or on Sundays, when all the bus drivers are at home with their families? (Source: Citilink in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA)

I imagine that most gamers are unwilling to pay for business-class service if business-class service is the only "real" service offered at their home address.

How are you going to host a game server on a home computer if you share your IPv4 address with other subscribers to the same ISP in the same neighborhood,[1] and the combined modem and router that your home ISP requires all subscribers to use lacks an option for port forwarding? Both of these are true, for example, of T-Mobile US Home Internet.

[1] Many home ISPs apply carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to conserve IPv4 addresses since the worldwide exhaustion.

Anyway, how is ol' Boris doing?

We had the good sense to not put him back in again. He's relegated to being some TV personality on crappy entertainment channels, not senile dictator in chief.

And yours is a monarchy

Yes and?

We also have a national anthem with a lightly veiled threat against said monarch. A threat we've executed before of you will excuse the pun! Keep Britain weird, that's what I say eh what.

Thing is your constitution doesn't mean Jack diddly squat when it comes down to it if no one's prepared to actually enforce it. Democratic laws are only as good as democratic norms. Lots of places have marvellous constitutions, and hey Putin still holds elections! You've not got widespread gerrymandering, special protections for corporations with no restrictions, open, legalised bribery of supreme court judges, a president prosecuting his political enemies, armed thugs murdering and deporting American citizens, and so on.

Yeah I'm happy to criticise my own country but I'm not going to take shit from an American who's trying to make his own shit show off a country seem somehow less bad. Especially when your only idea of how the country works is culled from right wing Americans who also don't understand anything.

Your country voted in Trump so you don't really get to be on a high horse about the quality of American voters.

He's got congress and the supreme court in his pocket, so they won't lift a finger.

Don't undersell it. Only 57% of the population (that's only a little over half) actually disapprove of Trump. 36% still actually approve. 7% are somehow undecided.

He's got congress, the supreme court and a really substantial fraction of the population either cheering him on or standing aside.

Regardless, I've long advocated for removing party affiliations from ballots.

That would just result in Aaron Aardvark getting elected.

You missed the part where as a cyclist you are most likely to die due to a car accident, and with less cars on the road (and less peak hour stress causing less anger among motorists) your trip becomes safer. So sure *you* may not benefit since you have a segregated path, but other cyclists would.

Look don't get me wrong: fuck cars. Anything that gets angry, reluctant drivers off the road is good, but frankly I can get behind Sadiq's Londonistan (as supported by er... Boris?). My current route in is on mostly LTNs, which forbid through traffic, and without the ability to go anywhere useful drivers mostly avoid it.

And this is precisely why you didn't understand the premise being made. Small companies are not the cause or even a contributing factor here. The problem is corporations.

I use to work for a big company. I fought long and hard against RTO when I was a manager there with about as much success as you may expect. So, fuck you I understand on a visceral level. We offered *new hires* flexible working which the company reneged on. I fought as much as I could then quit. Not over that specifically in isolation (lol there was more lololol), but it was a contributing factor. I do not like tome made a liar and I will not countenance that. I suppose that's why I can count many former coworkers and reports among my good friends now.

And yet.

Some people, well, quite a lot of people don't work effectively without someone looking over their shoulder. That's a big company thing by the way. At a small place you can hire well. At anywhere big, you won't brat the average by much. Pay can push the mean slightly, but even with that it's tough, and that's ignoring all the incentives to hire bad hire quick. And also despite the relenetless whining from the peanut gallery, yeah ther eis use in time spent pair programming or around a white board. There is use in teaching and learning.

If you can't, or won't work from home, having work from home still benefits you.

I'm not claiming WFH is always bad or anything. But the "WFH is only a problem because of evil real estate owning bosses" are full of shit.

First, if people around you are working from home, suddenly rush hour stops being such. You benefit because the roads are less busy so you get a smoother commute. Less traffic on the roads means you get to your destination way quicker and time spent commuting goes down.

Second, if you have to fight for parking, well, less people to fight with which means you probably can find a parking space much quicker or it's just less packed overall so you're not hunting for that one empty space.

Missed the part where I ride a bike to work? :)

Having fewer people on the road is a benefit in terms of less pollution and better buses. But traffic doesn't affect my ride at all,since my ride in is pretty much separated from through traffic. Also, I'm usually in by 10:30, I am not a morning person.

Third, if you're packed in the office, fewer people means more space.

I mean this is true but only a bit. I'm at a very small company. We have one fully remote employee (different country), so obviously he doesn't have a desk. This means we need to spend less money on office space which is nice at this point.

All this means everyone saves on gas - working from home people save on gas. Everyone having to go into the office means gas isn't wasted in traffic jams of hunting for parking as well.

None of use drive in. The entire building (we sublet space) has maybe 5 parking spaces tops.

It's just like how improving public transit options helps those who have to commute by car as well - someone taking the bus means one less car on the road. A full bus means several blocks worth of cars are taken off the road making the road less congested overall.

I am all for this.