Been on Firefox since Quantum and got rid of Chrome when they blocked ublock origin a year ago when they forced you to turn on the flag.

Edge still supports it and it's sunset status is still TBD. If they're smart they'll keep it that way, since they can gain some share from this debacle.

I get what you're saying and believe me this college was anything but normal, but from what I seen it wasn't much different regardless of the college, it's size or student target.

Our college president at the time was nuts about studies and data. He did tons of studies and research of how students perceived us vs other colleges/universities. One of the studies I saw focused within a 250 mile radius of us and came back that we were the "safety college" when other colleges wouldn't accept them and we would be either their second or third choice. When you dug deeper into it, the students that did come to us didn't get accepted by 1 of 3 close to us large universities which I though was very odd because 1 of them (a very large Big10 state university) had satellite campuses all over the state (4 were in that radius alone) that was in the same boat we were in and were way under-enrolled, would accept anybody, and these satellite campuses were basically back doors to get into the main campus once you passed through freshman year.

Out of 40+ college and universities in that radius, only 5 were either at enrollment or were over-enrolled to the point where they were in a position to turn down students. 3 were large state universities and 2 were specialty universities larger than us. 2 colleges merged into 1 college due to dwindling enrollment. All of the rest were under-enrolled and ranged from being extremely small community colleges to state funded colleges easily 5 times our size. Price wise we were below average for our size and were best value ranked in US News and World Report at the time so cost wasn't considered a factor vs other colleges in our region.

The response by the president armed with all of this data was that we needed to stand out more from the crowd, offer incentives and postgraduate degrees and ultimately expand and focus on our strengths similar to a specialty university. Unfortunately the faculty heard him say the U word, freaked out, and he was gone by the end of that year.

Harvard is the exception. not the norm.

First off, they have a huge endowment. They could literally run their college for almost a decade on their endowment alone.
Second They have huge donors. Big shocker. Lawyers make a lot of money. And they like tax write offs. So they tend to donate to schools either directly or through scholarships to save tax money.
Third. Everybody and their dog that wants to be a lawyer wants to graduate from Harvard. They have a huge line of applicants at their door, so huge that only 4% of applicants get accepted. That way they can cherry pick the best of the best students to maximize both #1 and #2 and since it's such a privilege to get accepted there, nothing short of a nuclear holocaust will make a student drop out and lose his coveted spot forever, thus ultimately affecting final graduation rate.

That being said, very few colleges and universities have the luxury that Harvard (or Yale, Princeton, ETC) has when it comes to applicants. The college I worked for was a small religious oriented college with relatively large donors with at the time approximately 1000 students (out of 1500 max capacity) and declining. 25% of income spread across endowment, donations + scholarships, freshman students and all other students. When I left early 2010s their tuition was $30000 per year, with scholarships and student loans paying much of the tuition costs. Just about everyone that applied got accepted and the only reason they didn't enroll is because they got enrolled at the college they really wanted to go to. Most other competing colleges around us was in the same state we were, all competing for the same small number of undecided students left in the pool and would bend over backwards to attract them.

So if a student want's to pay $30000 a year so him and his basketball can get a well rounded college education, more power to him.

I'm sure the home automation / security wing will go bye bye as soon as this is finalized. At least you can go to Wyze since they were basically rebranded Wyze devices anyway.

Personally, I tended to recommend Roku streamers to my friends and family, primarily because they were stupid proof and had a long shelf life since they tend to support the older streamers for at least 10 years, unlike Google which reinvented their streaming platform 4 times (Google TV, Chromecast, Android TV, NEW Google TV) in the span where Roku finally stopped supporting their Roku 2's. Nvidia shields are way to expensive vs the other platforms. Fire sticks are an app desert unless you jailbreak them because of Amazon's insistence of supporting their archaic dead app store, and smart TV's (except for Roku's TV) tend to never see another update after their 2nd or 3rd year.

Roku as a company however was a dumpster fire. Between jailing their platform to starting quasi carriage disputes with app providers, their leadership brought them to the point where YouTube's app went dark and Smart TV companies threatened to all jump ship to Google's dumpster fire TV platform of the day until they finally backed off. So TLDR, they'll fit perfectly with Fox Execs.

Because the College doesn't care but the kid. They care about the kid's money.

Most freshman don't get past their freshman year (over 50%) but since there's so many of them, they account for over 1/4 of the typical college budget. Considering that on average each freshman is worth about $40000 all you have to do is recruit 4 freshmen and you pay for an adjunct professor's salary.

My favorite story from my old college work days is how our college recruited a horse. Seriously. There was this freshman who was a valedictorian that was interested in our school because we (supposedly) had an equestrian program (we didn't but My Little Pony was all the rage at the time so we were working on it) but the student couldn't be away from their horse. So the college on the college dime transported the Horse from 5 states away and the College president's secretary boarded and fed the horse (again on the college dime) so they could recruit this student. Next year when the student also needed their dog in their dorm room on top of the horse the school finally put the hammer down and the student left for another school that apparently allowed their students to have animals everywhere. The horse of course had to be bussed back home again at school expense but they still broke even after transporting and feeding a horse. So as far as I'm concerned, the college recruited a horse.

And don't even get me started on Spalding, The world's most educated basketball.

Honestly, I'm not concerned on Datacenters doing AI. Love it or hate it AI at least has a somewhat constructive purpose. And obviously Cloud Server and storage is useful for businesses that don't want to deal with managing systems on premises or needs an off-site backup solution.

"Datacenter's" doing Bitcoin Mining do not have any purpose other than being a slot machine that eats wattage instead of money. These are usually the ones that give datacenters a bad name and should be either banned or heavily regulated.

Also. Using underdeveloped or undeveloped land for a Datacenter also should be banned or heavily regulated. There is literally miles of brownfield in rust belt Ohio complete with water and large grid electricity access. Building a Datacenter in these zones not only repurposes the land, but usually mitigates the noise problem since most brownfields are away from residential areas or are already close to industries making more noise than the center would ever make. The only issue would be cleaning the land to remove waste like lead, asbestos and PCB's but it's not impossible and they're rolling in dough anyway so...

I'm pretty sure that whoever at Microsoft wrote that response won't have a job too much longer.

I'm sure that every Citrix and Terminal Server admin running multiple users on their server will sleep well at night knowing that there's absolutely no way Karen from HR will open an resume attachment that uses a PDF exploit to further exploit a windows privilege escalation vulnerability that opens the door to steal half of your 5000+ employees' stored browser passwords hours before they perfectly time their ransomware payload drop so can sneak in and steal all of your companies money from their bank's website (as well as some of the employee's bank accounts as well because who doesn't do banking at work amirite) while you're too busy panicking from the ransomware chaos to notice.

I guess on the bright side it wouldn't be as bad if you were running VDI and disabled browser password storage like you should.

Musk aside, the #1 change that absolutely destroyed X as a platform was by default sorting a users feed by likes rather than by post date.

The entire point of Twitter was to see what that account is doing right now and not what the most popular thing that account ever did was.

And no. I don't want to login to sort by date and then be tracked by some algorithm so it screws up my random feed like YouTube does when all I want to do is look at a tweet from a news article. Especially when I didn't have to do that before the X changeover. I also don't want it to be a walled garden like Facebook where I have to login to see anything.

To be fair this is the correct play.

Most of those communities are used to the noise from a steel mill and would welcome any tax revenue even if it's low. Electric grid is either already in place or worse case needs to be refurbished rather than completely built and rezoned for large line runs, Truck and Rail lines are usually available for large scale shipping if necessary and most brownfields are close to a water source such as a river or municipal plant which can be further filtered if necessary.

The Youngstown/Warren and Akron/Canton areas alone could provide miles of usable brownfield for data center space.

My college professor in a user interface design class back in the 90's said it best after telling us a story about the NASA space program and it's UI design for Apollo:
If you can't train a monkey to use it, you can't train a human to use it.

I'm sick of apps that look good. I want Apps that WORK GOOD!

I'm sick and tired of having to relearn an app or report endless bugs because some just out of college app designer wants to vibe code some fancy app remake so he can say "I DID THIS MOMMY!!" to his parents like he's a fucking kindergartner holding up a finger painting.

Worse, I'm sick and tired of having to retrain other users and clean up bug mess because of said app designer.

I want a program that works. That is all.
I don't care that a program that works looks like something out of Windows XP. I don't care about bullshit features and UI elements that never work. I especially don't need a fucking box popping up every fucking five minutes to tutorial me about your bullshit feature or design that no one wants or cares about with a "GOT IT" button like a stripped down text based new age Clippy.

Firefox has (or at least used to have) skinning. How about working on that so that the kindergartners can play with their crayons and the adults can get work done instead of babysitting your slopcode for the umpteenth time. It's bad enough I had to create a theme so I can easily see what tab was active without having to waste time thinking about it because some idiot in your UI Dept thought white on white for the tab UI was a good Idea because some idiot at Google though it was a good idea instead of white on black or at least offsetting colors so you can easily differentiate like a good functional UI should be. I don't have time to retrain employees or submit endless bug reports and feedback loops because your "My First Sony" obsessed VTech Leapfrog Toddler app team is trying to justify it's existence again by reinventing the wheel for the 15th fucking time.

This is way I miss cutthroat managers like Steve Jobs. I hate Apple products but I have to admit that Jobs kept this bullshit in check at Apple when he was alive. If it didn't make sense, broke things, confused people or wasted time he would shoot it down and if the designer kept insisting, he was fired which kept the other app designers in line. The split second his body was cold you started seeing Apple UI's redesign themselves to the point you have a UI that's more art than function and then you wonder why your customers are bitching because they can't understand or even see your glass looking UI.

And if you happen to work as a manager in a App development studio. Print this post on wallpaper and hang it on the wall in your break room instead of some bullshit motivational speech or word cloud to coddle the kindergartner's safe space feelings. You'll probably be facing a harassment charge from your HR dept afterwards but It will be more valuable to your team and your customer's overall heath than any motivational new age crap you were going to put there anyway.

It's the computer.

More accurately, it's the power of the computer. It's too capable and it encourages students to doomscroll AI slop more then learn.

If I designed a school for education, it would literally be a better built Brother Geobook: Dirt cheap. Vastly under powered. black and white screen with optional backlight (preferably e-ink if the price was right to purposely keep screen refresh low to discourage videos) with a huge battery to get battery life measured in days instead of hours, and can only browse basic internet sites and email. It would have cloud connectivity for storage backup and the like, but just use a basic word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and notebook software. It would also have built in programming using either python or basic.

When I was in high school. I had a Ti-92 and later in college I had a Palm IIIc. I took all my notes on it did spreadsheets on it and programmed anything else I needed that it couldn't do on it. Saved a ton of paper and was easier to sort notes once I got home at my computer. Anything more powerful than that is basically overkill for learning and is all but guaranteed to suck kids focus from learning to playing.

All this does is contribute to Textile Mountain
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The best option would be to not overproduce at all, but that makes people unemployed so...

For the Longest time, I thought the future was either going to be the Demolition Man Future or the Robocop Future. I'm now convinced that the Idiocracy future is the most likely future of mankind.

And this is why you give out cash instead of gift cards. It doesn't tie the receiver to a particular product and some scammer from halfway across the world won't rip them off.

The only time it had luster was when it was pinned against the SpikeTV VGA's

When your competition is Funkmaster Flex rapping about how Good Madden was after it won Game of the year, you win by default.