Is this the new idiot trend like eWhatever and iWhatever were in the early 2000's? Everything is going to be "vibe" this and "vibe" that?

"They have lots of competition already."

It's not real competition. These "providers" are just middlemen reselling electricity at a heavy markup. They don't do any work or maintenance on the lines or generate any electricity. All these "providers" do is buy low, and sell high. Even when you get a "cheap" plan, you're overpaying for the electricity. Fitting that Enron, who did exactly this in California, is going to show up in Texas, which is doing the same "deregulated" schtick that caused so many problems for Californians.

Has acknowledged what all of us have known for decades.

Cool. Can we sue them for all the lies they've peddled all this time?

This was my take. Like, I get some rules for attire, like no crotchless or excessively tight pants, no super low cut/revealing tops, basically no wearing things that legitimately could be used for advantage by providing a distraction. Players shouldn't have to worry about anything except the game in front of them. Wearing jeans doesn't hit on that so it shouldn't be a problem.

I feel like this is intentionally written as a soft hit-piece. I don't know anyone who has said UBI is a "silver bullet" that will magically solve everything. All that is said is that nearly all of the times it has been tested, it has greatly helped the people who received it, and that is the point.

Work on addressing the underlying causes/issues? Nah, too expensive and takes too long. We'd rather keep applying lipstick to a pig.

In the meantime, VPN/proxy use will surge a bit, and the youth this is supposed to stop will just lie about their age, etc. to get on anyway.

of their existing HTPC cases. Kinda cool I guess.

I mean, sure I s'pose some folks were naive enough, but a lot of people I knew along with myself knew damn well from the wording of the ToS that they were using the data for stuff. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

They managed to hack it, nabbed the data, then handed it to the owner of HIBP. Is this to make some kind of a point about security? Or maybe to goad people into donating more so they can update/fix infrastructure or something?

I have plenty of friends who used to post actual thoughts and other things, now I mostly see tik-tok and other short form dopa-shit non stop. The moment there's any talk of stemming it, the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE begins.

Fuck it, the people have spoken, and ignorance wins. That's the bliss they want I guess.

More like AI's growing reach in fostering people's greed. There's no other way around it, all the flowery talk in the world does not change that any switch to AI is about keeping more of the money for yourself, using a system that used real work other people did to generate something for you at a significant cost reduction.

...and wants to get that jump started.

"...why would you pick Microsoft?"

Because you have little choice in some scenarios? If you're using AzureAD/Entra ID, it seems MS has made it very hard to use a different MFA provider. Even when you do, they often still try to find ways to shoehorn MS Authenticator in front of your users, hoping to get them onto it as well, despite your best efforts. Not at all unlike how Windows loves to inform you that various default apps have been reset due to "corruption" as a laughable horseshit way to try to get you to use Edge, etc.

"...Top 8s (the site's weird ranking system for your friends) and decorating our MySpace pages with as many flashing lights as possible."

I also remember that MySpace didn't fiddlefuck with your feed, stuffing advertising, sponsored garbage, and shit you never asked for like Facebook does. At least when you went to MySpace and hit a friend's profile, you saw their posts in a proper chronological order without all that other crap.

Everything I've read on maximizing battery life suggests never charging above 80%, and never discharging below 40%, which sounds kinda wild since it means only ever really having 40% of your total capacity available. But, I guess if you want the absolute maximum lifetime out of a battery, that's about it.