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.

Until last week I was still using an 6s (released 2015, purchased mid-summer of 2016). I was very impressed that it still received major iOS updates until 2022, and has received bug and security fixes ever since. This was such a refreshing difference compared to the updates for the original Galaxy S and the Nexus 5 I had used prior, whose updates were frustratingly short-lived (3 years in the case of the Nexus 5). When even the Nexus didn't merit any sort of long term support I knew that Android probably wasn't what I wanted to continue to invest in. The factor that finally drove me to upgrade from the 6s was a few critical apps (e.g. banking) that stopped supporting iOS 15 a few months ago.

I don't love the entirety of the walled garden I find myself in, but for my needs it does the job for the least amount of money, long-term.

I jumped and bought a Panasonic plasma TV, a TC-P50ST60 when they announced the end of production in late 2013. Nearly 11 years later it's still going strong, with the only real problem being that it only supports ARC, not eARC, so my JBL soundbar produces crappy stereo rather than a presenting a clear centered channel for dialog (easily remedied by sending the HDMI first through the soundbar before reaching the TV -- man do I ever need to get a real sound solution).

If I had to replace I don't know what I'd end up with. Probably OLED, as picture quality is by far the biggest concern -- I don't need eye-searing blinding brightness.

Anyway, I welcome the return of my Panasonic overlord.

So then, may I suggest 30 years old.

Yay! Finally justified to eschew broccoli and Brussel sprouts! Cabbage and onions might be a tad tougher to go without.

Because if this were the case, then nobody in their right mind would willingly become a C-level executive. Without these people there wouldn't be a functioning company, so there would be fewer companies doing fewer useful things. Progress, heck even maintenance of what society has already figured out, would skid to a near-stop. This isn't the way.

A far better way forward is harsh financial penalties against companies for using less than industry best practices. Those penalties can come from either the criminal or civil legal system, or both. All but the biggest companies would purchase malpractice insurance to cover this eventuality, and the insurers would get very good at pricing the policies based on risk analysis and audits of company practices. The biggest companies would self-insure. No matter how it's accomplished, it would be in each company's best self-interest to minimize the financial impact by improving their practices. This wouldn't fix everything, but if the legal system turned the financial pain dial up high enough, it would make these occurrences far less frequent. The trick is finding the right combination of penalties where you don't put a small local in-home pet euthanasia non-profit out of business for accidentally exposing a half-dozen customer records on their web site, but there's enough pain that the biggest of the biggest companies take it serious as hell.