Gen X also. I paid my way through college by working. I didn't get any scholarships or financial aid. As for direct government funding, you wouldn't know it had been cut by how many buildings the university has built in the intervening 30 years. The campus is nearly unrecognizable. It has twice the staff in half again many new buildings, but enrollment has dropped about 10% since then. So, they're getting money from somewhere.

That crap was on the internet before politicians knew the internet existed. Go read some unmoderated NNTP groups from the early 90's.

Coding was dead with 4GL. Then again with RAD tools in the 1990s like PowerBuilder. I've heard people argue coding was dead with UI coding tools like Scratch. Coding has been dead for decades. Still a lot of coding jobs, though.

The deals on electronics aren't great. I'd imagine tariffs have something to do with that. Most seem like they're doing the jack the price up then reduce it scam. 1TB Samsung SSDs for $75, which is about what they normally go for not on sale. Junk like that.

There are good deals on movies, though. Scored UHD Jurassic Park and The Maltese Falcon for $10 each. The way I calculate it, if I rent it twice for $4 a pop, buying it has just about paid for itself. Also, a nice four-movie Alfred Hitchcock UHD box set for $30.

Warby Parker https://www.warbyparker.com/ Marcolin https://www.marcolin.com/en/ Moscot: https://moscot.com/ The local chain I get my glasses from only have a handful of Luxotica kiosks, most are from other companies.

Fun fact: feeding the output of a LLM back into itself makes it slowly output complete nonsense. A podcast I listen to fed the transcript of one of it's shows into NotebookLM and asked it to create a summary. They then fed that summary back into NotebookLM and asked it to do another summary. Every iteration introduced nonsense that had nothing to do with the original summary. The show is a technology and politics podcast, and by the end the summary-of-a-summary was talking about football games and the weather.

Freevee was, in my opinion, always meant to be rolled into Prime.

Here's the order of operations:

• Start "free" ad-supported streaming service
• Start showing content from the ad-suported streaming service on Prime, with ads.
• Replace *all* content on Prime with Freevee content, with ads
• Shut down Freevee

And voila, ads are now on Prime.

The only solution is to contact the label and tell them that you are a huge Lorde fan, and would love to own a physical CD of her music. However, since they haven't released a CD but some weird proprietary CD-like thing, you won't be buying her new album.

It's not about connecting to the open internet. The OP was talking about Cisco completely dropping ipv4 support. Cisco is a major supplier of industrial ethernet switches and routers, so that isn't going to happen. These industrial machines use ipv4 to talk to each other, and it *has* to be ipv4 because a lot of them predate the ipv6 standard, and there is no upgrade path to enable ipv6 support.

Cisco will never end ipv4. Not anytime in the near or mid future, at least. The industrial vertical makes up a big chunk of their profit nowadays, and a large number of companies are running old hardware on plant floors. Think million dollar stamping presses and injection molding machines and CNC mills that run on OS/2 and Windows NT. These things must be networked to support the production execution system, coordinating with conveyors, robots, PLCs, inventory systems, SPC and inspection systems, etc...

It's the same reason a company still sells a PDP-11 emulator.

https://www.stromasys.com/solu...

Put plastic back in the ground. Unless the point of use for recycling it is, literally, next to the collection/aggregation point, it's not worth recycling it.

Anyone remember the hacked firmware for the early Kodak digital cameras that let you do run arbitrary software, like MAME? I don't remember what it was called.

When I went to Vegas a few months ago I managed to walk across a dozen casino floors without spending a dime. The only thing remotely appealing was the Sigma Derby machine at the D, mainly because it's the only one left in the world, and it's an amazing piece of engineering.

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I dropped $50 at the Pinball Museum though.

It becomes the government's business the second a doctor is involved, unless you want to deregulate the medical profession.

This has been going on with Microsoft for a while now. I had a cheapo Windows 8 tablet (I think it was MicroCenter's house brand.) The Windows 8.1 update broke a bunch of features, like screen rotation and the light sensor, as Microsoft pulled the drivers from the update. Maybe they had to be recertified or something, but I can't imagine there being a massive difference between 8 and 8.1.