Yeah, outlook - in all its variants - is awful in Windows (in all of its variants). But there is another outlook that is even worse.

Namely, outlook for iOS. I've been forced to use this (along with outlook for windows on my work laptop) for years and it never gets better. It generally gets at least one update a week from Microsoft to patch the various security holes that are constantly being found.

What's so awful? We can start with the terrible search system. We can continue on with the completely arbitrary - and non-configurable - way that it decides which messages to keep offline for reading and searching when you're disconnected.

But those aren't nearly the worst. The worst has been around for a long time and there is no sign of them ever intending to change it. The worst problem with outlook for iOS is - strangely enough - not present in outlook for windows. The worst problem with outlook for iOS is that the default reply action is always reply all. This doesn't sound awful at first but if you work for a giant corporation of 10,000+ employees it can quickly become disastrous. An announcement to the company triggers an avalanche of replies that flood mail boxes around the world.

Being as no patch has ever changed this over the years it must be assumed that Microsoft sees this as "a feature and not a bug". Can we change the behavior on each device? Probably, but there is no way to roll that out throughout our enterprise.

When was the last time Microsoft actually fixed a bug or noticeably improved their OS?

I routinely have to use USB drives on PCs as part of my job. Yet windows still throws the useless message of 'device is in use' or some such worthless verbage that of course does not tell me what program is using my device. Most of the time I do nothing, wait 30 seconds and hey presto it's resolved. Rarely is there something actually using the USB drive.

We've had USB support in Windows for around 30 years now (going back to the second edition of 95). They've never changed this. GUIs for Linux figured this out a long time ago.

Any "real" Republican you are thinking of doesn't matter any more. Lincoln and Reagan would have both been chased out of today's MAGA party for being too soft and liberal. That kind of Republican simply is not allowed to exist today; Republicans support Trump or they lose their jobs, there is no middle ground.

Nations have split from other nations with minimal bloodshed before. The dissolution of the union of Norway and Sweden comes to mind - not truly bloodless but not catastrophic either. The question is whether the MAGA party would allow any territory to leave the country when they view outsiders as "subhuman" - that is the kind of rhetoric that is easily used to take - and not cede - territory.

I would be more specific. I think the United States of America is doomed, our democracy will end soon.

However there is a chance that something useful could come out of this once the national divorce is finalized. It won't be painless but it might actually be overdue. We might see the emergence of 3 or more new nations that can each go and do their own thing, and ride their preferred philosophies to their conclusions. If this can be done in a courteous manner this could have more winners than losers. Of course then Trump will be remembered as the last POTUS of the 50 states, but I suspect he might see that as a win.

I think the bigger questions that will be left to be answered if we go down that path include what happens to the national debt (at least the international parts of it) and of course who gets ownership of various national resources.

People in the middle rarely place 100% of the blame for anything on one person or party.

Yet the critters in congress with an "R" after their name are tripping over each other to show they can praise Trump more than anyone else can. The MAGA brand is worth billions here in the US (and virtually worthless anywhere else).

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Certainly a democrat wouldn't have rushed to play that card. And being as 100% of elected GOP officials (at the federal level at least) are 100% in-line with MAGA, it is fair to assume that the person who made that statement is aligned with the Trump party.

The summary says that the transaction was verified by two people. Why would two people need to verify a transaction of $280? That seems like a pointless consumption of time, especially for a bank of that size.

If the IRS paid that much attention to a tax return of $280 we'd see it all over the front page news and the MAGA party would be celebrating its discovery.

Gotcha. I had to look him up on wikipedia as I didn't recognize his name right away. He's just another techno-fascist who likes to hang out with fellow fascists. I didn't really think of him as being all that important but maybe he's doing something I wasn't paying attention to.

As much as I wanted to organize a "day without (paying attention to) Trump", I realized long ago that was completely hopeless. He's arguably the most effective camera whore since the invention of the camera. The bigger challenge with the current administration is finding the most important matters to pay attention to. Previous iterations of GOP fascists have only done 1-3 awful things in a week. This administration does that before breakfast. The problem of course is that when they play it that way, much of the bad shit gets overlooked because we're focusing on the wrong bad shit.

I'm honestly not sure who you are referring to there. While Trump of course thinks himself to be a great genius, we all know that is not remotely close to reality. Trump isn't smart enough to have an endgame, or even a middle game. All he has is decades of astonishing luck getting him from one place to another.

MAGA does not endorse learning. After all, learning is generally based on reality and reality has a known liberal bias.

The GOP still has it as official policy to blame anything they can on Bill Clinton (who was POTUS at that time), if it cannot be blamed on Biden or Obama. It's no surprise that conservatives in Miami would place blame for their problems on a mayor who left in 1998.

In November 2022 I bought a 14tb WD USB external at a local brick and mortar retailer for $199.99. The cheapest it has been since then is $249.99. As of this morning that drive is selling for $279.99.

Yes I know that SSDs and HDDs are made on different assembly lines, with few of the same parts. However they do have overlapping demand. If SSD prices are plummeting that should shift more consumers in that direction away from HDDs. Yet the HDDs prices still haven't come down to where they were over 2 years ago.