They are accepting applications, but they are not hiring.

Seriously, half the restaurants in my area perpetually have "Help Wanted" signs in their windows, but if they like your application, they will maybe call you in 6 months. Or maybe not.

"It works until it doesn't" is not a rental. A rental should specify have a very specific access period.

A new word to describe this doesn't really help. I consider it to be downright unethical for companies to offer a service and reserve the right to cut you off at any time for any reason with no recourse or legal liability. This is now standard practice in the software industry, but should NEVER have been a thing in the first place.

On an individual level, you can make your own decisions. From a cultural level... hell, no. There is no freedom in letting other people make all your decisions for you. Maybe you like living in a disposable society, but not everyone feels the same.

Yeah, but which dozen? It's not that everything is important and worth preserving, but today you may not realize how important something will be to you in the future. At the rate things are going, we are moving towards a society with 0% ownership of everything, so you won't even have the choice of re-watching one movie, let alone a dozen. Even if you don't care about owning things, you should support other peoples' right to do so.

I've barely deleted anything in the last 40 years, from my Amiga games to all my e-mails to all the music and artwork I've created. Why? Storage space is cheap, and I'm good at keeping things organized and easy to find. I've thrown away the physical media for a lot of things, but all the content is totally under my control on local storage. There's no way I'll rely on someone else's cloud.

Or when software is "no longer supported", and the vendor activates the kill switch to "keep people safe."

I'm still pissed about Adobe using a kill switch to ruin Flash, and even more pissed about how the geek community unanimously celebrated it with thunderous fanfare.

What do you mean enjoy? Virtually everything I loved about the Internet in the 90's is now dead.

I remember when the worst thing I had to worry about was broken layout in Netscape because IE did CSS a bit differently. Now, everything is an app, home pages are dead, web search is useless, and a huge chunk of web sites are either functionally useless or give me a blank page if I don't have a Chromium-based browser.

I like that the Internet bandwidth is more plentiful than what it used to be, but I'd love to have the old WWW back. AI isn't going to make anything better.

Person1: "I don't know what to use!"
Person2: "What do you normally do with your computer? Is this for home or business? How often do you use it? Etc..."

More choice isn't a bad thing. What's bad is when you can't get the information you need to make a decision.

Worst case of this I've ever seen was HP's old web site that had a drop-down menu list of over 100 laptops listed by model number, and no easy way to compare/sort models by their features. I was dumbfounded at how such a large company could possibly be so incompetent at selling their products.

A more relevant example is how Linux distros tend to offer you a choice of 3-5 desktop environments, but don't give you a quick explanation of their features or even a few damn screenshots. Hell, I just checked out Zorrin Linux, and they don't even tell you what an ISO is or what to do with it until after you download it. WTF?

Linux geeks are great at giving you choices, but are really, really bad at design. That has always been true, and I don't think it will ever change.

The order doesn't matter when both posts have equal significance.

I don't. I'm sick of stuff breaking every time they "improve" the extension security model, especially if they should be core features, like menu organization and grouping. You really have to go out of your way to fuck that up.

The real problem, of course, is that they insist on fucking things up. Alas, the reality is that a ton of 3rd-party extensions isn't going to fix that. That's exactly why Mozilla is dying.

Prioritize? You can move things around on the classic Start menu, you know.

If you don't have basic organizational skills, you shouldn't use a desktop at all. Go ahead and use a phone and look at ads all day.

Ah, yes... I've seen YouTube videos of this game. Apparently, armies of raccoon are particularly good at stealing everyone else's vegetables.

Not sure that would helps to reduce my stress levels, but... to each their own.

My biggest problem with AI is the same as all this cloud/SAAS/DRM nonsense. At any moment you may have the rug pulled out from under your feet.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that if all this tech will be under a subscription, you'll have to keep paying forever to use it, and that's bad enough should you become dependent on it. The bigger issue is, what happens if an update breaks your workflow? Even if you pay your subscription, you can't do your work because your "tools" are busted. Bonus points for "morality" updates that make certain wrongthink illegal. Can't hurt the corporations feelings, you know.

I'm glad I'm retired. Everything about the tech industry today feels like it's built for failure.

So, they can't just have the client work in "offline mode" forever? They will forcibly delete all content?

This is why my gaming rig is a Win7 machine, and I pull the Ethernet cable every time I launch Steam. Steam throws a tantrum about not having a network connection, but amazingly I can still run my games. Good luck being able to do that in the future, when an Internet connection is mandatory just to power on your device, and any forced updates will brick all your content.

systemd?

Seriously. I almost never buy games anymore except an occasional indie title. I don't know why people buy this AAA crap, regardless of the level of DRM.