Does "too lazy" include no budget for a domain name before the proof of concept is complete? Let's Encrypt doesn't work unless you buy a domain name and keep it renewed. To satisfy a DNS-01 challenge, you need to host the domain's DNS at a provider with an API that an ACME client can use. To satisfy an HTTP-01 challenge, you need to be on an ISP that allows incoming connections on port 80. A lot of home ISPs block inbound port 80 because they use carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) or want to upsell business-class service or both. Nor does HTTP-01 work for wildcard certificates.

I'm fairly sure it's a matrix reference.

[dad joke]
Q: What would Steve Jobs say if he were alive today?
A: Help! Someone get me out of this box! I’m not dead!
[/dad joke]

If I pay on one site, every single other site still has ads. So this locks me into the viewpoints preferred by the curator of one site and to the production values that one site's business model enables.

[sarcasm] The solution is easy: Just have another AI fix the mistakes of the existing AI. Then use another AI to fix the fixes of the second AI. Where is my executive level bonus for implementing this? It should be at least 7 figures.[/sarcasm]

The problem with your question is it is binary. Both situation could occur as AI creates more work for the people that EA did not lay off because EA thinks they could reduce staff that they could not. Remember EA specifically is being bought out in a leveraged buyout. The new owners may only care about the quarterly savings they get when they continuously reduce staff as they sell EA assets piece by piece.

An issue that most people are not aware is the possible switchover to ATSC 3.0 and the sunsetting of ATSC 1.0 for OTA broadcasts in the US. The main problem is ATSC 3.0 has DRM encryption when 1.0 did not. When ATSC 1.0 is retired, all older TVs will need a new device to decrypt OTA signals. Complicating this transition is the ATSC 3.0 deployment has been poorly and stupidly managed. It was rolled out last year with zero compliant and "authorized" boxes. As such many new TVs especially budget ones do not have the decryption hardware because the standards body took so long to authorize devices/manufacturers.

Citation needed.

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

Say an employee with attention deficit or sensory processing disorder uses Teams on a separate device as a way to improve productivity on their primary device. Refusal to accommodate these conditions can get an employer in trouble under the ADA and foreign counterparts. If you end up fired for this, ask an equality lawyer about your options.

Hey if Star Citizen has proven, people will pay $27,000 for items in a game that has never been finished.

Based on what I have seen from the current CEO, long term planning is not his focus as much as short term investor gains. After all the last CEO spent a lot of time and effort trying to get back Intel on solid engineering. But those efforts close too much and did not provide immediate returns so he was fired, I expect those CPU gains to run out next year and the CEO wonders why AMD and Apple are kicking Intel's butt again when it comes to processors.

Not directly but HIPAA requires everyone who has access to the data must be cleared first. When the data is in the cloud, a company has less control over the access of their cloud provider. Adding to that is complication of things like notices of breaches.

Sears and Montgomery Ward had large mail to order businesses but they dropped those when it looked that type of business would disappear. But in reality that business was just stagnant until the internet became available. The shipping infrastructure needed for mail to order would have been exactly what would be needed for online ordering. The only thing that changed would be how the customer ordered the items.

I agree. The functions provided by this bed do not require internet connectivity AT ALL, let alone some ridiculous cloud based architecture. $5000 is enough to include a $200 miniPC to monitor temp and positional sensors.