It also seems to have pushed smaller companies to offshoring. If you're assembling a widget now there are varying tariffs on the components because you can't buy everything in the US. It quickly became easier to just have the item made in China and then you only have one tariff to pay, things are more stable and predictable.

I just want HDMI ports and ports for external speakers. No web browser, no 500 additional "channels" of streaming crap (does anyone watch those?). And definitely don't play ads on my TV.

But I did not like the TV shows. The Klingon Reboot alone was terrible. A starship powered with mushrooms? What? The spinning ship going into warp? Also silly. There were some bright lights and potential, but I lost interest. I know a lot of people loved Academy, but I made it maybe halfway into the first episode and realized I wasn't even watching it. And then there's Section 31.....

...the five cameras in the corners recording everything. Just as long as a pair of Meta glasses aren't recording you.

But those monitor prices are crazy. They look pretty, but $3k for a monitor?????

I'm ready to cut all the services and just stick with YouTube Premium. The services aren't kicking out good shows anymore and how many times can I watch Narcos? I can get most of the football games that I care about OTA with a $20 antenna. I guess I'll stick with Apple TV also. They have enough new stuff that I find interesting and now it includes soccer and F1. But if I can get past the AI created crap on YouTube, there is some interesting and informative channels out there.

...to see if he can fly. But won't be of high enough recognition to make the Wikipedia Suspicious Russian Deaths page.

I'm not 10x more efficient and can't say that I haven't written a line of code in 2026 or whatever, but AI - Claude mostly, has taken over the mundane part of programming and I get to think at a higher level for most of the time. Two years ago, I thought AI was garbage and it was at that time. Now I've opened my mind and tried things again to much better results.

AI works well today. Is it perfect? No, but I haven't seen any 1.0 code that hasn't had bug fix releases when coded "the old way" without AI.

Probably get better results than when they just assign someone to you.

I had a stroke several weeks after an mRNA vaccine (not kidding). Of course, my high blood pressure, high cholesterol and inactivity couldn't be factors. Nope, it was the mRNA.

Hear me out, I'm not entirely crazy. I'd rather see the "better" apps than be swamped with tons of AI generated crap apps when searching for an app.

...sold out of Hyaluronic Acid. Recommended dose? Asking for a friend.

...and they were amazing. Like I told someone yesterday, two years ago AI was crap. Today, it's not too bad but I wouldn't get on a plane that had its code written by AI. In two years, I'll probably jump on the plane and take a nap.

It seemed like there were layoffs every Friday for a period of time. When you were getting the axe they would disable you in Active Directory by adding an underscore in front of your name. So, the internal website, "Death Watch", would just look for accounts that were changed to _username and list them on the website.