I've seen comments that downtown Denver has never recovered from the COVID exodus, so maybe the economic knock-on damage of emptied business districts is worrying more decision-makers than you might think. A purely personal theory is that many managers are extrovert types, and many want the audience that 3D employees provide. I'm sure it does not help them assess how much or well their employees are actually working. How many of us have experienced performance management/assessment systems requiring us to "sell" our achievements to managers who clearly don't already know who has done what.

Maybe they finally squeezed all the juice they could out of 'Trek. My $0.02? A "BSG: Crusade" reboot might work better & be better received now.

Because I could never remember a name (person or place) for longer than @ a minute.

If you agree that every year dependence on software / systems to perform everyday tasks increases, and that every year software / systems dependability decreases, the outlook is discouraging.

No mystery. Look on Hunter Biden's laptop.

Possibly naively, I'd always thought the #! ChromeOS differentiator is security. Is that not, or no longer, the case?

(palms forehead) Of course! So obvious. Why did the so-called experts not realize immediately?

Their travel-time estimates for any Metro are wildly optimistic & have been for years. From an Android device, try finding a "feedback" page to tell that. You'll need persistence & determination. "Putting the user first"?

IIUC social-media posts are already being used as predictors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What "Putting the User First" looks like in the real world.

As soon as I saw the sentence about making use of commercial networks in addition to DoD I started pondering all the ways this could go horribly wrong. If you accept the gloomy premise of "Murphy's Law", it would only be a question of "when".

"It's OK to love your job. Just don't expect it to love you back." If experience has shown you that layoffs don't necessarily correlate to an employee's ability or effort, why would you feel "engaged" to the degree your employer would like?

A piHole looks ever more compelling.

I worked for a big tech company that took computer security very seriously & reckoned they had trouble finding enough good people to do it. Last year even they laid off some of their specialists. STM breaches are now so common & frequent that "reputational damage" is no longer a concern. It may be felt "cheaper" to offer the usual insincere apologies & pay for some credit monitoring than to spend the money required to try to achieve effective security.