If I have to click 5 times to do something hundreds, or even just dozens, of times a day, and I could pay a wad of money to make it only take 2 clicks to do the same thing, I'm willing to pay hundreds of dollars to eliminate that frustration and drudgery from my life. Time is money and I don't want to spend time figuring out how to make my OS work when there's another OS that generally just works.

And that's only one example of the ways Linux makes things more difficult than Window. Modern distros are improving, but they've still got a ways to go before they're as user-friendly as Windows (and Mac, I'm assuming).

Never liked their mice. Logitech was always better.

But I did like their ergonomic keyboard for my work PC.

Huh. I thought the PS5 came out with no answer from Xbox. Marketing could be part of the problem here...

Yeah, I don't understand how these models can "learn" from millions of scraped websites, but can't scrape some atomic clock website once a day to at least be relatively accurate with time.

I mean, if you want to give up all of the privacy features, using the Proton Bridge is a no-brainer. That stops no shows.

Proton is $7 a month and offers so much more, but seems to have fairly slow adoption. Considering the market penetration of the Thunderbird email client, I don't see that they're offering anything that will get them more than a tiny sliver of the market.

Some of them really get my blood flowing!

I just didn't think it would be scientists that conceived first.

Can you not just copy MP3 or FLAC files directly to your phone?

But then how will they skirt the restrictions on hiring foreign workers only when American workers aren't available?

Pray, prey... Same difference...

Because Amazon has already demonstrated that they can, and will, simply delete a book from your account if/when they want to?

Ironically, they did it for the book "1984."

I'm an original Pebble backer, and am also now using an Amazfit (the Bip). I'd also pay for a Pebble successor. Really, I just want all the functionality of the latest smartwatches, with the months-long battery life of the Pebble. I think e-ink is the only way to do that, although advances in battery tech or maybe some algorithm for turning the display on only when it knows you're looking at it (not just when it moves a certain way) could do the trick. My Bip does last about a month on a charge (but it doesn't have anywhere near the functionality that I desire).

You should do the tiniest bit of research on this one.

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Every federal department has their own OIG. Every federal department has their own contracts, although sometimes, particularly to take advantage of economies of scale, other departments will "piggyback" on contracts from other parts of the federal government.