Finally found an ISP worse than comcast I see.

Yes, I use the name comcast still. I know they have tried to rebrand to Xfinity because their name was so bad. That is why I use it. It is bad. They shouldn't be allowed to get away from it.

Bluetooth latency from your phone to the speaker .... of all the things to scaremonger about.

Pretty positive that the speaker will react properly in less than 1/3 of a second most of the time.

As much as I hate to see companies brick smart features people paid good money for, lets face it none of these functions were necessary. The only possible legitimate feature is linking multiple speakers together properly. This can be done with more professional methods than some shitty app.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

Yes this. Mod parent up.

Everything the 'modern developer' uses the last 10 years is pure trash.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

Tovar said, "I wouldn't be able to speculate on it, as to why someone would do this."

Really? No speculation at all? A complete mystery you say? Why indeed.

I stopped dual booting for games 10 years ago...same time 10 came out.

Steam/Wine is mostly fine.

Win10 is a solid 10 years old.
Same as an Ubuntu LTS with a support subscription.

Honestly this is fair.

Operating system preservation is a dead argument. They aren't coming to your house and disabling it. It just probably shouldn't touch the internet anymore. You can still run it forever, you just can't on infinity manufacturer warranty support.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

I think it is pretty clear, even from the summary, that Norway could see the problem before it happened.

Also, I think everybody on the planet except the marketing people knew about batteries losing effectiveness when cold.

Who modded this race baiting shit up? Shame on you.
He was replied to a software stack rant that had nothing to do with race or nations at all.

I am fully aware of the limitations that made node.js seem like a good idea.

I will get down voted hard, but the problems occured when somebody decided that they wanted to run javascript for a core piece of software. The fact other people piled onto it just compounded the problem.

If you need a thing - you write the software for it. Javascript is probably 30 years old now, but it is still a bad decision.

It is exactly equal to all things container. Sure the idea of a discrete blob that isolates a thing is great...but this is not how anybody is using it. The number of nooblets building environments with hundreds of containers orchestrated to do a certain task is startling. Nooblets that don't have any idea how to actually set up or run a server, multiplying bad practices by the hundreds.

It isn't a harvest that you have to wait for farmers. Other organizations have acted a little quicker.
Curious why they took longer.
Sure, Google was faster to report. But companies like the middle eastern branch of Coca-Cola and Chanel don't exactly strike me as quick business or cyber response teams.