This is the spec sheet for the Pixel 10. Please point where it says it has Thunderbolt.

This is the spec sheet for the Samsung Galaxy S25. Please point where it says it has Thunderbolt.

Please name one. There is a difference between a USB-C connection and a Thunderbolt connection.

How about the hardware does not support it? To use a Thunderbolt connection, the motherboard must have a Thunderbolt controller chip. I do not know of any phone that has one currently. Due to cost and space limitations, phone manufacturers do not include them. Laptops and desktops can have them.

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

How is that an oxymoron? Code that works does not always mean it works well or reliably. For example, some AAA game titles in the last several years have launched and ran poorly on the hardware. It sometimes takes a few patches before those games are playable. In the realm of video games one legendary code optimization is Carmack's Reverse which was used to generate realistic shadows. id software's John Carmack discovered the technique independently of William Bilodeau and Michael Songy from Creative Labs. Before that time shadows under players and objects were generic ovals.

At one of my companies, one of the marketing managers decided to use his department's budget to buy desktops directly from Dell instead of going through IT to get his employees computers. His justification was it was cheaper to buy from Dell directly than request Dell computers through IT. Except he bought consumer models and didn't know why that was a bad idea. So they were not covered by the company's service contract with Dell and the IT department had to support them out of pocket. Also being consumer models, they had Windows Home, and some hardware had to be upgraded due to lack of drivers for Windows Enterprise. In the end, those cheaper models cost the company twice compared to company supported ones he could have ordered.

To no one's surprise, people with knowledge and experience often have to fix what people without them did. Businesses were shocked to learn that amateurs really do not know what they are doing. When asked for opinions, trades people in other professions like plumbers and electricians laughed.

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

From my perspective, lithium ion battery is a mature technology; however, not everyone who makes/uses a lithium ion battery uses the highest quality materials or practices. A quick scan on Amazon will show many devices of varying price and quality. If that battery fails in six months due to fire, it will be high unlikely that some of those companies would still exist on paper.