Before my time in computers I was in auiio recording engineer and similar work. So many times rookie engineers and musicians come in wanting to use our vintage microphone on cranked guitar amp and drums and we'd say no. They'd whine so we would say okay we'll do a blindfold test you can tell the different you can use the vintage mic's. They never won. Same with musicians on overpriced speaker and guitar cords, they could never tell the difference. We did tests on cables the super high priced and the good cables the difference was not audible by ear and barely different with scopes. Thsoe high end cables are a waste of money.

I used to say people should own copyright to their own data from birth, but with what happen in last week copyright no longer means anything. Two the major AI companies are leaning heavily on current administration to allow then to use copyrighted data to train AI on. The current administration loves tech so they just fired the woman who headed copyright and was fighting to stop AI from using copyrighted material without permission. Add to that Musk is pushing is buddy in office to get rid of law on IP so he and other can just use anything they want. Can we all say plutocracy.

Saw so many "old times were better" stuff on social media during the campaign it was insane. Now pulling rug from under education and new message men are suppose to do everything and women stay home and have babies stuff of recent weeks. The red hats falling for this are thinking it thru. Get a blue collar job and wife quit her job going to be real hard to pay the bills in this terrible economy and add in now going to have to pay for a decent education for your kids. It's not the 1950's any more.

Current administration going hard in immigrants who did all the low wage jobs, so who's going to fill those positions. Well without Dept of Education kids who didn't get a good education will. Even over the last few years the red hats politicians have brought up getting rid of child labor laws. All this was well thought out by the ultra rich and mega corporations. To bring back the dark times of ultra rich and everyone are their pawns.

Just listen to Spotify and you have all the evidence you need.

Profit margins are the holy grail of Steve Jobs Apple and Tim Cook continues that outlook. So putting the power button on the metal case probably would of increased costs about a dollar reducing profit margin so screw the customer. Then when users said it was stupid Apple immediately told is official fanboy Youtubers to say "who ever turns a Mac off". Servers you never turn off desktop computer turn it off and go out and spend some time in the real world.

I remember the first big shock wave when the very popular database software DB II quietly changed and their software to say you bought a license to use the software you didn't own it that was mid-1980's. People wemt nuts and slowly calmed down as more software started doing the same thing. PC software was starting to be sold like mainframe software always was.

As usual people brought this on themselves, software was expense but easy to copy and give to others. Companies would buy ten copies for a a hundred employees and people started copying all software cheap or expensive and sharing it. So this was how the software companies retaliated so they could revoke your license. Moving forward nothing changed and now we stuck with subscriptions and in music streaming. To me the worst is cloud license scheme so I have to be connected to internet to use my software. People have really screwed themselves.

I don't remember them being name PC's Limited I just remember PC Limited which is now Dell Computer. I was working for a small software company and we were growing and needed more PC's but owner didn't want IBM's. Owner want me to buy Radio Shack PC clones because they were an established company. It took a lot of talking but I finally got him to buy some PC's Limited PC clones and they were excellent computers. That IMSAI would be fun to play with CP/M again it was the main OS for small business systems then.

Spent most my life in L.A. and left after I retired because of all the traffic making was used to ten, fifteen minutes drives to an hour or more. So a rail system that you still have to drive all the way across town to get to a Metro station to take you out to the new rail station is a joke. From where I lived I could just drive to LAX in a half hour and catch a jet to Vegas about a 40 minute flight.

The thing basically should of gone South from Sacramento to San Francisco down to Los Angeles on to Orange County finishing going down to San Diego. Then a hub to go east to Las Vegas from L.A. A whole lot of business commuters and tourists would ride a rail system like that.

As someone who grew up in SoCal and watched the freeways turn into parking lots and buildings sprouting up on every empty lot I say thank you for moving elsewhere. I still live in SoCal I just moved out to the desert into a small city. I go back to my old neighborhood in L.A. and even the residential streets are packed with cars. Gentrification is sucking the soul out of little communities. What used to be a ten minute drive from my house in Venice to Santa Monica is almost an hour now the traffic is so bad. So people leaving CA doesn't bother me at all, I think its a win-win people leave are happy and those still here are happy.

I remember it being explained when I was in school as it gave farmers an extra hour of daylight to work. We haven't been an agricultural based country in fifty years or more. We are moving into a tech based country and business being on a global market so there is no need for the Daylight Saving time

Tik Tok is being made a punching bag because they are foreign so blame them instead of the US mega corporations who are collecting tons of data on us and selling to each other and the government. Typical US politicians find someone easy to convince others to hate, blame them and distract people from the looking up at the real problem the mega corporations and super rich that are pulling the puppet strings of the US politicians.

The internet needs to become a public utility first to regulate prices, speed, infrastructure. We are the country that created the internet and we pay the most for the slowest speeds compared to other countries.

The internet is the highway and any kind of private business can open along the highway. So the businesses on the highway shouldn't be public utilities, but the highway should be.

I have in the past telecommute to work completely and at other times worked from home a few days a week and came into office a couple days. Splitting home and office was the best for getting things done without distractions and then going in a couple days to work/meet one on one with my project teams. That was perfect to me.

I screws over musicians and songwriters. Record companies and publishing companies lease their entire catalogs of music the artist that do get tracked are paid thousandths of a cent per play. So it's killing the creative environment of musicians and songwriters.

You have an artist you really like buy their work and preferably directly from them when you can.

I worked for a number of years for a group led by vegans many were raw vegans. They didn't force anyone working for them to go vegan but a fair amount of influence was used. I was amoung the non-vegan group. I have to say the vegans seems to get sick more often and those could afford it consumed a lot of supplements to makeup for what the diet didn't provide. The vegans tended to be health obsessed so were also the ones that did exercise regularly, which probably did more for them than being vegan.

I will go vegetarian for months at a time keeping dairy products helps get protein and B12 into the diet vegans run low on. But I do best in when eating limited meat, mainly poultry and some fish and rest typical fare. I do exercise regularly nothing crazy and it seems to work. I think it's all just about understanding what body needs, and keeping fast food and the comfort foods as occasional treat and not daily is the key.