Most of these companies (probably all) are trying to save money. Offer wages competitive enough and the right people will show up for an in person interview and occasional office visits.

Don't worry they will only use it in colder regions. ;-)

These days the term is Human Capital and corps see just about all capital/assets as depreciating in value over time. It's not just an accounting term. It's an executive viewpoint.

I've installed via Mint Software Manager, then APT, and now a Flathub Flatpack via Software Manager. All with the same results. Next will be a manual download and install. If none of that works then it must be some odd FF config I have gotten myself into.

This is an EDU org following MS practices and guidance. The MS Store for Biz and Edu was shuttered a few years back and customers were directed to use Intune. MS is the one circumventing their own mechanisms in order to pump Copilot into as many systems as possible.

I've been dual booting Mint w/ Win11 for almost a year now. 99% of the time I'm in Mint and only go into W11 for special reasons or to update it if I'm bored.

Mint is fine but I have been frustrated that I can't find a way to update browsers (FF and Vivaldi) without it resetting some of my preferences. Even with FF sync this happens.

Even with the MS Store blocked I was able to get Copilot installed via the store.

We have a few Copilot licenses to evaluate it for our org. For some reason my PC didn't have the Copilot app. I probably disabled it a few months back for reasons. I searched around a bit and eventually figured I would ask Copilot via the web chat. It was useless and could not offer me any insight as to how to get Copilot crApp installed.

This is what fixed it. I went to office.com (now Copilot) Clicked to the install link which showed the MS Store was blocked but it downloaded the install and ran anyway. So much for our corp policy blocking the store. I repeated this with a coworker watching just to be sure I wasn't mistaken.

MS is so broken right now. I think it is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Demographic Cliff in effect ? https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08...

Office is now Copilot. "The Microsoft 365 Copilot App" (https://www.office.com/) Sure, it is a bunch of marketing BS that only piles onto the already confusing Copilot product/app/service.

This. No matter how much you tell YT to show less shorts, they just keep coming.

Companies want to save money and decide to employ operators rather than engineers. Then when they need to contract "experts" for projects they go with the lowest bidder. What do they expect to happen? You get what you pay for.... sometimes less.

Who cares? Two of those three schools are private businesses and one is specifically a music school. The one public school appears to offer it as an elective. College won't magically make every student intelligent but it should make them a bit more knowledgeable in general. If they choose a degree that lands them a job as a taxi-driver then so be it. It doubt it is their degree that is the the real problem.

Yep. Forbe's lawyers may have bigger balls than C&D's lawyers.

Why say "may have" when the articles clearly state the data included name, SSN, and driver's license number? I'm pretty sure that counts as personal data without question.

Also, why link to the C&D article that adds little or nothing of value to the sourced Forbe's article - https://www.forbes.com/sites/l... ?

Exactly. This is an old retail tactic and you see it more around the holidays. Sometimes they will even raise the price a few weeks prior. Why would Amazon or any company be any different?