It is like this all over the world. The statements I made were based on a conversation with a friend in Dubai and his experiences. USA is not even mentioned in my comment, coz this has more to do with corporate greed than anything else.

Oh come on guys. No one is that dense. We can all see the multi-million dollar record profits that companies are making, in a bid to shore up their stock price. Then putting in the profits into stock buyback to further shore up the stock. Hiring has simply been frozen and more & more work is piled on-top of existing employees.

The existing employees donot dare rebel, and simply do as they are told, as they have seen the firings and are just doing whatever they can to scrape by. The situation does not seem very stable currently

And then we have adults like groobly here, also lacking in actual intelligence, or common sense.

I have never understood how this was ever legal in the first place

Back in the 2000s, I remember Apple asking people to âoebuyâ a feature from the Apple Store for $0, to unlock extra functionality for the iPod. The reasoning was that they cant just change the product that they have sold.

At the bare minimum, a product should do what it says on the box. If online play is part of the game, then it should remain active, as long as people want to play.

Glad that lawmakers are taking this issue up.

They already have the warehousing and delivery network. Also with rising shipping costs post-Covid, there probably is a lower cost market that Amazon can easily capture without much retooling.

Sounds like the Mobo died

Motherboard prices are up like 300% of what they used to be. You used to be able to get one for $50-60 on the lower end, but now they start at like $200. I think, people are just running them longer

So there are people are literally, anti-human? Like WTF? What is going on?

Social media can also be used passively. One can just scroll through, look at some memes and ignore any hate you get.

It only starts to become a problem when people create content. Such as sharing a post or comment, and then obsess over the reactions of others.

Basically looking for validation from others is going to cause problems. Especially online, due to the lack of real world cues & hints

The answer is simple. Remain passive or learn to ignore most people

Is this the purpose of war? To get rid of the dumbest and most violent people?

People who advocate for AI taking over tasks, should be help personally liable for the inevitable failure of the AI system

Aren't these the same guys behind all the short selling attacks on American companies?

Commercial access should definitely be charged, either in terms of money or developer contributions. If others want to profit off my work, they should have to share them with me, fairly

This is one problem with locking down the OS. With enough motivation, hackers are able to find ways to get around the security to access the deep system layers. However, users and legitimate apps are locked out and must rely on the OS provided APIs and tools.

This creates an imbalance in the security of the OS. A power user can't launch a root terminal and just take a look at what's going on. They are bound by the OS level sandbox, and can only access so much of the system. Which also means that any user level security solutions are mostly useless, and one must rely on the OS to keep attackers out

In some ways a PC is more secure, than these so called "hardened devices"

Govt like - "See, there is no reason to cry about the economy we destroyed or the retirement savings we squandered away".

60 year old Americans still have another 20 years to save up for old age. Get to it