This. Roku had the best set top streaming device for years. Roku held no allegiance to any platform and provided decent hardware at a decent price. Unfortunately, they started changing things that were not good for their customers. As my Rokus age out I will not be replacing them with Rokus. In the meantime, they get restricted internet access.

3-2-1 rule comes into play. LOL

I'll assume (probably incorrectly) that they $20M was for total sales across all states. Fines aren't enough. The people running these companies need to be held accountable... and that ain't happening.

This. .. did @BeauHD even bother to read the submission?

I don't disagree but I will say the screen time in school at least has some kind of learning involved. The screen time outside of school, not so much. Parents also need to parent. Take away the digital babysitters and have your kids go outside and be active or at least read a book if they won't go outside.

I agree but clicking ahead is not that hard.

Steven Wright figured it out in the 80's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Most of these companies (probably all) are trying to save money. Offer wages competitive enough and the right people will show up for an in person interview and occasional office visits.

Don't worry they will only use it in colder regions. ;-)

These days the term is Human Capital and corps see just about all capital/assets as depreciating in value over time. It's not just an accounting term. It's an executive viewpoint.

I've installed via Mint Software Manager, then APT, and now a Flathub Flatpack via Software Manager. All with the same results. Next will be a manual download and install. If none of that works then it must be some odd FF config I have gotten myself into.

This is an EDU org following MS practices and guidance. The MS Store for Biz and Edu was shuttered a few years back and customers were directed to use Intune. MS is the one circumventing their own mechanisms in order to pump Copilot into as many systems as possible.

I've been dual booting Mint w/ Win11 for almost a year now. 99% of the time I'm in Mint and only go into W11 for special reasons or to update it if I'm bored.

Mint is fine but I have been frustrated that I can't find a way to update browsers (FF and Vivaldi) without it resetting some of my preferences. Even with FF sync this happens.

Even with the MS Store blocked I was able to get Copilot installed via the store.

We have a few Copilot licenses to evaluate it for our org. For some reason my PC didn't have the Copilot app. I probably disabled it a few months back for reasons. I searched around a bit and eventually figured I would ask Copilot via the web chat. It was useless and could not offer me any insight as to how to get Copilot crApp installed.

This is what fixed it. I went to office.com (now Copilot) Clicked to the install link which showed the MS Store was blocked but it downloaded the install and ran anyway. So much for our corp policy blocking the store. I repeated this with a coworker watching just to be sure I wasn't mistaken.

MS is so broken right now. I think it is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Demographic Cliff in effect ? https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08...