Whenever I've gone into the mountains & wilderness, even with GPS devices, I seek to buy topographical maps from an outfitter store and carry a compass. I'm probably going to take an orienteering class again soon to refresh my fading memory of how to navigate with map and compass. When your batteries run out, the old ways will save your bacon.

MS threw a lot of faux error message dialog boxes on many applications in order to fool average business users to think those applications were inherently unstable and buy licenses for MS software equivalents. Even though it was uncovered in lawsuits in later years, it was too late for those competing firms because most of them succumbed to dried up revenue streams and were no longer operating when final verdicts were announced. MS had absorbed all market share and shut them all out.

Why was this speaker turned on during an air flight? he shouldn't be playing audible audio inside an airplane to bother everyone else aboard the plane in flight.

actually, I don't gotta believe

17,500 employees at LinkedIn... omg, what in the world do they need seventeen and a half thousand people to do, it's a silly engagement site that posts alleged job listings are those tens of thousands of folks spending all day every day scrutinizing the job listings for accuracy and credibility?

True, everybody has a cellphone | smartphone and the price point has taught consumers to hold on to the device for many years. The device makers have to find a better value proposition that appeals to the vast majority of consumers who can't afford to toss a grand every year on yet another tiny incremental update.

For myself and my wife, I held onto a pair of Samsung Galaxy S10 series phones from 2019 through late 2025 when I finally felt it's time to upgrade, and then we went with Pixel 10Pro phones. The S10s actually are still functional and I'm trying to decide how to continue using them in some way, but over those many years I just couldn't justify dropping another couple grand on new phones until I could see there were no longer any security updates coming, and some app updates were now having difficulty with an outdated Android version.

I was a school kid then and it was most horrid to stand outside in the cold dark waiting for a school bus, it was a terrible winter in the upper midwest

the wrong half will get over it in a jiffy

I'd say that's true, at least the store nearest to where I live. That specific store replaced a well known chain supermarket when Amazon cut a deal with the developer [rick caruso] to push out the big chain and take over the space. Even so, it took over 2 years to remodel the former grocery store into a Fresh store, and in the past 5-6 years I've never seen the parking lot more than half filled, as opposed to the past market where it was overflowing almost every day of the week. Truly the Fresh store generated little interest and probably no loyalty. I suppose I'll go walk inside to at least see it once before the lights turn off for good this weekend coming.

I never trust anyone to pick produce or meat|seafood for me, I've seen those instacart weenies at the local markets and they rush around the store just grabbing stuff without regard for quality, only speed to fill the basket and meet their quotas.

I once had an '87 B2200 and it was the greatest small pickup, 5-spd std transmission and no power steering, but it never got stuck in snow or mud. Sadly, it succumbed to rampant iron oxidation from road salts and humidity after only a decade.

Precisely.

I've not willingly bought a GM automobile in over 40 years, and not likely to ever buy another GM product during my remaining days. Many other vendors continue to provide Carplay |Android Auto compatibility and they will get more business.

the real problem in the recent 2-3 generations of programmers is they aren't really "programmers", they are code kids who learned one computer programming language, having almost no background education in engineering and mathematics disciplines, so they have little diligence to learn a fairly simple language like COBOL.

You the customer are now the tester. The advent of phone apps, thank you so much apple,has led to several generations of developers who care nothing of computer science or software engineering discipline, they alpha & beta test on the consumer by blithely updating apps whenever they have a *fix* to release. No structured QA validation nor release notes, just throw it on the wall and see what sticks.