My Samsung TV is a couple years old, but it has the option of defaulting to the last known input - bypassing their launch screen completely. If you use an external device like an Apple TV or Roku, you'll pretty much never have to see the Samsung screen again.

I thought we lured them all onto Facebook then ran for the hills?

Maybe the jacket has a kevlar fiber for support?

Of course they would do that.

Of course with UTF one can come up with fake sites whose URLs are visually indistinguishable from the real site.

That's one nice thing about a password manager (if the site in question requires authentication)... it doesn't fall for that.

What is a soul anyway?

Fiction all the way down.

You should imagine the IT guy checking off a box once the phishing campaign is complete and you've been assigned the extra training that you volunteered yourself for.

This is not fun. It is not fun to do things that make people dislike you. Your IT team probably has regulatory requirements, and/or insurance requirements, that make these things mandatory.

I live in a semi-rural area, which may be why I get good (non-oversubscribed) Comcast service right now. My wife is from a small farming area in northeastern Washington state - even they have had (non-Comcast) cable internet available for 15-20 years.

I'm sure there are places where Starlink was the first non-dialup internet available, but I suspect the list is smaller than you believe it is.

If that's what they're trying to do, they're doing a piss-poor job of it!

I get measured speeds of 2.4G down, 300M up from Comcast for $80 a month. I have to say that works fine for me, even on my remote work days.

No $40 monthly deals have shown up here...

When I last looked at Starlink, they were charging more than Comcast.

Translation: The money is given to the politicians.

> One older cpu went flakey with "cpu errors"

That's often the thermal paste drying out. Clean the fan, repaste the chip, good for a few more years.

Usually.

A recent psychology study suggests that heavy AI users can improve productivity and lose the ability to focus at the same time.

Forgetting which list is in the To: could be an example of diminished focus.

Pure spec.

Explosive Diarrhea Tuesday

Oh why did we have AI for dinner again? Swore not to do that after last time.

They should call it skose.