Not to mention, for many of these new recruits they don't even have a "traditional college degree" (whatever that particular phrase is supposed to mean). There's not a lot of routes to that degree of job security and, assuming you put in the work to rise through the ranks, that level of pay without having a college degree. I can definitely see why there'd be a great level of interest.

If anything we need to encourage switching between environments with some degree of frequency. This is how you build fluency with computing concepts rather than system-specific skills. Concepts are more robust and flexible in application than a bucket full of highly-tuned skills, and I'll argue they'll lead to better lifetime outcomes.

Or let the camera spin and stabilize it in software. As long as you have an orientation reference it should be straightforward.

I must 100% agree with this. I've never subscribed to any of various politics, religion, pop culture, or other such subs that are sure to be a cesspool. But I've found great value in homeowner, personal finance, robot lawn mower, retirement (crossing my fingers), tech, hobby, and other special interest subs. The only ones that get crappy with any regularity are the local state/city ones, as political bowels inevitably dump their load there.

We din' even have chisels, we had to scratch out our O's and I's with our fingernails. Lazy kids these days.

In fairness though, sometimes that signature can change for stupid reasons. I had no end of problems with a KVM switch which triggered this issue. Take my work laptop home and plug it into the KVM, Bitlocker triggers. Enter the unlock key, system boots. Take the laptop to work, no KVM present, Bitlocker triggers. Enter the unlock key, system boots. There was no storage/etc plugged into that KVM, so nothing that could conceivably mess with the secure boot process, and yet there it was. Turns out this is a long-known problem. A dumb problem. Workaround was to boot the laptop before plugging it into the KVM, and only after booted plug it in. /shrug/

That said, yeah, otherwise completely in agreement -- 100% user error. Doubled down with a lack of backups.

Couldn't restrain myself. The entire point of my post is in the subject line.

I can hardly think of worse hands to entrust this thing to. In my view, Meta has zero credibility with respect to ethically constraining its own behaviors in pursuit of the almighty buck.

Not necessarily suckers.

My father subscribes to YouTube TV so that he could then subscribe to the NFL Season Pass. He lives out of market from his favorite team, and that was the only way he could reliably see their games. It's stupid expensive to pay that much money to watch sportsball, in my opinion, but it brings him a lot of joy for a couple hundred dollars every year, so it's worth it to him.

He had previously tried various sketchy ways to view games online, with all of the predictable results. In the end he had to pull the plug on his virus-infested computer and mail it to me to salvage. A couple hundred bucks a year to avoid that type of recurring nightmare is well worth it to both of us.

I bought a Panasonic plasma TV in 2013 shortly before they ended production. The picture is still gorgeous, and the TV has given me zero problems aside from the fact that the rather dated version of HDMI ARC it supports doesn't play well with even my mid-tier soundbar from last year. For what was on offer for a more premium but not outlandishly expensive TV when I bought it, I couldn't be more pleased.

TIL that 50" TVs are small laughable things. Geez, I remember 24" or so TVs being an above average home viewing experience.

Now get off my lawn.

One hit for me -- imgur. I barely ever use the thing, and it's half-busted in certain ways anyway, so that was an easy deletion.

Looking over the list, the easiest way to avoid most of these problems is to not install game apps.

/. did funny April fools jokes? All the ones I ever saw were just annoying and dumb -- never funny. If that tradition has died I'm happier for it.

My wife and I must be the odd ducks. We have Prime primarily for the video content, a little for the music content, and the shipping is a bonus. We generally find more of interest to watch on Prime than on Netflix.

That said, the next time our Prime subscription is up it's going to be that much harder to let it renew. If I wanted ad-supported streaming there's plenty of other options to consider.

Someone still has to have the virtual machine for you to use. I would imagine many corporate data center machines are running at substantially less than full capacity, as is their storage. Consolidation across many customers at a cloud service should allow for more efficient use of hardware and thus power, running as close to full capacity as possible at any given time, and with cooling systems built out at a larger scale which increases efficiency. This is where the cost savings are to be had.