I haven't completely deactivated mine as I have a club page that I occasionally need to admin on - but I've stopped using it for myself for at least the past 18 months or so. The thing was that I wasn't missing "updates" from friends or family or anything - because almost no one actually posts updates about themselves or what's going on in their lives anymore (at least not in my circles).

Almost everything I was seeing was just sharing of generic memes and stories from the alphabet soup of "funny" Facebook pages. I don't need FB to see memes. Or to see anything funny. There was just no value in anything in my feed anymore. Just that and the ever-increasing number of ads, "do you know these people" blocks, irrelevant stories, suggestions, etc. So why bother? All of that on top of the things you mention like mental health, tech bros, and so on.

In a round-about way, you're not completely wrong. Many of those "best company for _____ of YEAR" awards are based on self-nominations from the companies. You'd have to read the details of some particular award, but for a lot of them, your company is doing the legwork of applying based on whatever criteria the award has defined. Doesn't mean they haven't earned it or are evil because of it or anything... but it also doesn't always mean they were hand-picked out of the blue by some external entity because of how awesome they are.

You may have already read it in a couple of the replies above, but this wasn't his work computer. It was a personal computer at home. So not really much "unauthorized" about that or "permission" required. They got in through his then compromised 1Password account where he had apparently stored Disney credentials. Of course, should he have been storing work account info in a (assumed) non-work password manager? Don't know what Disney's policy is there.

While your overall thinking is mostly correct... TFA says it was his home computer, not a work one.

But they were able to compromise his 1Password account on that computer, which had Disney credentials stored in it. And I don't know about you, but I'd suggest that many corporate password storage policies are not as clearcut as their software/download policies. Was it his personal 1Password account that had work credentials in it? Does Disney have recommended password storage guidelines or requirements? Was he following any of those?

I'd suggest that it STARTED as a way to save power as OLED screens started to become more common. But I think a combination of things happened soon after - 1) people realized it made screens easier to look at and read in some cases and 2) seeing that people liked it, developers and designers started making "dark mode" options that weren't actually black anymore, which kind of negated most of the potential battery savings of OLED and black pixels. So why bother anymore? Just make things dark shades of whatever for your dark mode and give yourself some design freedom.

Saw this pop up a bit ago: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/2...

I don't read that as him (or the board) not being informed... just that they are publicly commenting on the news story for the thing that they already knew about.

Sure, but looking it up, it's just shy of $7 per package for you and me walking into a FedEx and shipping something. It is going to be way, WAY less for a large commercial contract. I'd actually be shocked if it's more than $1-2 on that big of a contract. But OP's post implies it's a FedEx decision anyway, since they'd be the ones profiting from a driver back in the truck to the next delivery.

2024 rates: https://www.fedex.com/content/...

This doesn't make any sense. FedEx doesn't make the decision to require signature or not. AT&T does (just like Google does when you buy a Pixel from the Google Store and Samsung does when you buy a device from them). And why would they care if the FedEx people are in the truck on their way to the next delivery?

I'm not saying it's not physically possible or that he's wrong - I'm saying that in reality, it's not an actual concern. It's something parroted as a "problem" by people who doesn't actually use them. And it's totally fine if they're not for you in general or someone doesn't want/ to/can't spend the money on one... but this bullshit of scratching with a fingernail is so incredibly overplayed, it's completely ridiculous.

I've owned 6 different foldable devices over the last 4+ years and have never damaged a single one with a fingernail (or anything else, for that matter). Turns out, I don't use my fingernail to interact with my phone. I'd find it strange if you do.

If you're talking about the #TeamPixel stuff that came up a few weeks ago - those aren't your average reviewers. They're very specific people that are basically marketing partners. Everyday YouTube reviewers are NOT subject to the nonsense you're trying to spread.

https://9to5google.com/2024/08...