You know that phrase, know your market? Someone needs to tell Mozilla.

Microplastics: Still wildly immature research and as yet unproven, but that won't stop them from trying to unlock a new marketable fear.

California is such a beautiful state, ruined by people who live there. Briefly worked remote at a place just south of LAX, would fly in once a quarter to rub elbows. Nowhere else have I witnessed people viciously stab each other in the back and climb over each other to get ahead, then just go to lunch and pretend they're best friends.

coming right out and saying you're a complete idiot. Notwithstanding the simplicity of replacing firmware, it is LEGAL to manufacture your own firearms. This lady is about as smart as a box of rocks, and that's being disrespectful to the rocks. The term "ghosts gun" is just mouth candy for morons.

No (or at least less) AI and a perpetual license? Win+Win

In a highly specialized talent industry?

Yes.

Only an incredibly tiny sliver of desk workers will need any storage more performant than their phone offers. Plus ... Answer the simple question of "where are most office user files stored?" The answer isn't 'locally'.

... and they usually are, why not make it simple and use the device you already carry with you? While I'm not a Samsung fan they had a good idea with DeX. Upper tier smartphones have all the computing power needed for your typical desk jockey needs. Obviously Microsoft wouldn't be invited to the party until they and businesses let go of the Windows as your OS incumbency. Pretty clear that's where it's headed, Microsoft in the workplace will finish the evolution to a set of delivered services where the hardware becomes largely irrelevant.

Oh no, you've come to the table with uncomfortable historical facts. The angry mob doesn't like facts.

Someone needs to tell appliance manufacturers that NOBODY WANTS THIS SHIT. We have a 2025 Samsung fridge with the "AI Vision Inside" and it's useless. First, it only has cameras in the doors so it really only 'sees' what is in the door pockets. Anything else is a motion blurred image of what went in or out, coupled with some pretty laughter inducing product identification. How many times has any of these features helped us? Perfect zero. No camera in the freezer, and no camera in the middle drawer so you're missing half of the contents right off the bat anyway. What it can see has offered no utility.

Having a tablet on the front was honestly something I didn't care less about either, but we do actually use it for a couple things:
- Sticky notes: What's for dinner each day this week? Need something from the grocery store?
- Ring camera: When someone pushes the doorbell the camera shows up on the screen, handy if you're in the area
- Spotify remote
- Family photos on the background and the screen saver until it goes to sleep

This whole manufactured fear of plastics is wild. Anyone notice now there's always some big thing to fear being pushed every few years? Once something starts to burn out and people don't pay a whole lot of attention to it, there's already a new big fear in the pipeline to exploit. The simple way to know this one is pretty much fear mongering is it is non-specific. 'Plastic' covers an incredibly wide range of materials with wildly different properties, but we're being catfished into fearing 'plastics' generically?

Tell us you couldn't figure out how to set it up without saying "I couldn't figure out how to set it up".

Had a friend who worked at SpaceX from almost the beginning give me a tour of the old El Segundo facility way back in the day (and the Hawthorne facility later as an 'official' visitor a couple times) and I got to see all kinds of really cool rocket stuff I didn't fully understand. But it was amazing looking at everything, the precision machining, how they set up the tooling, and honestly I was really taken aback by the simplicity in the design work. As much as I would have loved to have taken a ton of pictures, I respected the operation and my friend, and kept my phone in my pocket. I did snap a pic of the Model S as a foam block on a steel square channel mockup frame though, and we got a nice group pic in front of Dragon.

Because the graded papers came home with A's? Because every single score and everything else they did was posted to his account? And because little kids are pretty excited to tell you about their day?

Pretty weird to think your not wanting to take a test seriously means my kids are the same.

This is the part we need to talk about for sure. The one size fits all model just doesn't work, and was a driver in our choices.

The school's outright refusal to allow my son to learn independently was the nail in the coffin. One thing that pissed me off to no end, was when my son got in trouble for writing a report. Get this, they were doing a module on how the world is made up of different countries. There's the USA, there's Canada, there's Mexico, etc. That raised an itch my son just had to scratch, so while in class he used his Chromebook to start looking up other countries. So he gets on Wikipedia and starts going down the list, which didn't raise any suspicion until he was on one of the nations that speaks Arabic. The teacher obviously quickly determined he wasn't on the same country when she saw Arabic script on screen, so he was scolded. Itch didn't go away though, so he simply waited until he got home to continue his research. Over the next few days he had researched every single sovereign state and built a Google Doc listing their name, their flag, capital city, and some short snippets about them gleaned from Wikipedia. Over 50 pages, and he was super excited to present it to his teacher and share everything he learned about all these new places. You would think the teacher would have maybe been a little impressed, or at least given him a 'good job' or something. Nope, he got sent to the office and was in trouble because he 'used the school computer for something the teacher did not instruct him to do.'

It is not so bad to try and find middle ground when you have a large class. It is not acceptable to just pull everyone down to the minimum. It is abhorrent to "discipline" a kid for going above and beyond, on their own.