Only if you don't live near a Staples, CVS, Walgreens, etc. You'll get even better results because (at least CVS but probably everyone) has dye sublimation printers, which are vastly better for photographs than color printers.

For other color prints, Color laser printers are not that expensive, but I haven't had much success. I'd recommend stick with B&W, and outsource color stuff to office supply / pharmacy type stores.

B&W laser is so vastly cheaper and lower maintenance, particularly in a sporadic use case, that it's not even a competition - Last time I bought a laser printer, the starter toner was good for 1500 pages at 5% coverage, and it worked fine even if I last printed something 8 months ago. Compare to a typical inkjet in which a full toner pack is good for 200 pages at 5% coverage, has to run ink through every so often to keep the tubes clear, and (for the last HP inkjet I owned) prints black text using all colors despite having a full black cartridge.

Caveat: if you are planning on printing addresses on envelopes to be mailed as a substantial use case, go with the inkjet. Toner fuses to the outside of the paper, so it can get stripped away by the sorting machines.

At least make it sound as if you're not being paid to write this, for crying out loud.

Back to the article: basing any insight on the number of job adverts is bogus. Everybody knows that most adverts are for jobs that don't exist (ask any recruitment agent that you know socially).

And the skills available come from self-reporting. Guess what? In a boom, everybody says they have the skills. A friend of mine is selling herself as an AI expert when she graduated in fashion and has worked in retail for decades. Don't get me wrong. She's a smart cookie in her domain. But AI expert? WTF?

Do you think when I said "script" that I was literally referring to a kind of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" document rather than employing a simple metaphor?

Seriously?

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Please tell me who voted for Ursula von der Leyen? Or maybe it's not me who is talking "about stuff you know nothing about"?

And who voted for Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen? Nobody!

This is now becoming the script to suppress democracy, namely:

1. 1. Get the intelligence services to make a claim about Russians and TikTok supporing your opponent.
2. 2. Refuse to release the full evidence for reasons of "nationaly security".
3. 3. Get a friendly judge to overrule the peoples' vote
4. 4. Watch useful idiots claim that we're safer with unelected officials who can't be ousted when the people watch the wrong TikTok memes.

Any other purpose would certainly be suspicious.

But are they trying to sell the latest phones, by having it, or clear out their stock of older phones by not having it?

Can recommend. Didn't actually use a sleeper but just spent 2 weeks travelling as a family of 4 (two kids nearly 10 years old) on trains around Europe.

When you factor in flight delays, security and the fact trains terminate in the city centre, trains are (generally) faster door-to-door than planes. And when they weren't, we spent a night in another city.

"Who wants a day in Paris, kids?"

To sequester zinc and a small amount of copper in our nations landfills? Why not just.. leave it at the store where they gave them to you? Drop them in the take-a-penny tray[1])?

[1] The existence of a take-a-<thing> tray should be more than enough evidence that its time to retire that unit of currency, as it means people are willing to round up to not deal with the burden of carrying them around.

The last iPod before they started the iPhone had some form of all of the major features of the iPhone except the cellular radio, so one could argue that the iPhone continues the iPod lineage, including having less space than other devices at the same price point.

The "village idiots" meme has been heard loud and clear by a generation of potential converts. Which is why Windows and the Mac still dominate the market.

This feature doesn't actually affect most people - it currently requires specific hardware - Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite - so it seems like you might have to go out of your way to get a machine infected with it. Those people aren't going to complain because they're buying the machines to get that as a feature.

I'm sure they will keep salami slicing until it covers everyone, but every step of the way it will only be a minority who are actually affected so there won't be enough outrage at once to get something done before apathy and "industry standard practice" kick in.

I'm a bit concerned that we are now using the term "ransomware" to include situations where data have been exfiltrated. It used to only mean that the data were encrypted in place, and the ransom was for the decryption key (which you still can't trust, btw. How do you know that the data weren't altered during the encryption or decryption process?).

A case where data are exfiltrated is more properly referred to as a breach.

Are we just being sloppy with language, or does calling it ransomware give companies cover to avoid penalties and responsibilities associated with breaches?

They're just coordinates.

This might even create a market for the older hardware, if that's the only way you can prevent being upgraded....

Is it better than "nothing" though? How many snow days does NYC have? Shouldn't the kids have a chance to go sledding, build snow forts, have an epic snowball battle?

They used to just build it into the schedule that there would be a small number of surprise skip days. Is that really so terrible? It's not like remote learning addresses the daycare issue - parents need to have a plan for the home day whether their kid is outside getting exercise or inside staring at a screen.