"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies" --Jon Stewart

For the "discounted phone" situation, we have a carrier here that, instead of giving you a phone for cheap and locking you in (which is illegal here now) or having to incur operational fees chasing you if you don't pay your "balance" when you cut your contract early, they have you pay for the phone as if a BYOD, but gives you a discount on monthly bill, often up to 75%. That way, if you just dump them, they didn't lose money on your phone since they had you pay for it; you do have to pay a lot out-of-pocket up-front however so people on a tight budget might not be able to get high-end phone (in a sense, maybe they shouldn't either ...).

With inflation, especially for beef which tends to be rather "fat", maybe it's just that people have no other choices than to eat less and/or cheaper food such as beans which, coincidentally, is overall healthier.

I think most of the jobs being cut or at risk are those "low added value" coders that needed spoon feeding even after years. When someone needed fully fledged specs and coding directions to do anything, well that's exactly what an AI does, and much faster. If you work at a place where you are still only getting one-liners and have to hunt left and right for anything, you're safe lol

Isn't that what outsourcing to cheap countries already did? The only scary difference is that AI can pump out crap code even faster, I can already see that turning into the finale of that "Sundance Film Festival" South Park episode from season 2.

Read "Stolen Fucus" by Johann Hari, at least the first few chapters. A big part of the problem is that there is a while economy around capturing your attention and keeping it: the famous engagement metric. The book argues, rightfully so I believe, that we get way more information than we used to, but in a way that is so fragmented, that we are losing our ability to sustain a train of thought. That is what books had that today's medium rarely have. I don't think it needs to be whole books, but even reading assays of a few page kind would be a move back in the right direction and perhaps teach people the lost art of argumentation, instead of just throwing insults at each other in an eerily idiocracy-like fashion.

Since Pixel 6a major updates support ends on July 2025, this means owners are likely to get it as well. Kind of a good news if Google doesn't screw it up.

It's not the first time they are using the "Radeon" brand for non-GPU hardware; for over a year now they have RAM also.

Might want to check OMNet++ as well then, it's probably not as complete, but it's free and you can build your own modules.

I would probably take the extra time to do exactly the same thing I've been doing regarding my current reincarnation: ask myself why the hell do I keep prolonging my stay here ...

Salt is now good for both water AND data rentention YAY!

Companies don't force anyone, people's ego does ... big difference. Stop defining yourself by what you own, but by who you are and you should be fine :P

Can Dell/Apple survive in a mostly user-serviceable components future? They would probably do much worst that NewEgg in a (very doubtful) post-PC era.

If that site doesn't ring an alarm, them perhaps you should teach your children right-way to stay away from vans like this one as common-sense doesn't seem to be in your genes.

I'm also sure the PC as we know it will disappear or at least change radically, but probably not in the next 10 years. Their mainstream adoption, in the meantime, will probably fall back to the same proportion as people who had PC in the 90's; people who wanted PC because they wanted a PC, not because it became a common household item and a commodity.

Ultimately, I think the trend will go toward wearable computers and perhaps personal household servers when people realize the "cloud" is probably just that: vapor. You will probably end-up with some kind of G modem on your belt, a display/keyboard on your wrist and an earpiece, all connected to your home-server and/or cloud.