The scamminess*

They said that when people started to commercialize the Internet. And when YouTube got big. And Facebook. And Instagram. The scanning doesn't ever go away, it just gets scammer.

The goal is to make the most money possible.

Well, half my library is h.265

I'm saying it shouldn't matter because while I buy 5 and they buy 5000, their budget is guaranteed to be more than 1000 times mine.

I have already been over this.

Ok so you order your laptops with one usb port, a power port and one HDMI port because that's all you need then? These components are such a small cost. At one time they would just be thrown in to make the device as practical for the customer as they could while keeping the cost reasonable. We are talking about $5 here.. even with my meager salary I don't care about $5. Maybe if these trillion dollar companies care about saving money more than I do then we really need to look at why these corporations don't care about the consumer any more and ask ourselves if this is the path we want to walk down.

It's making life harder for customers for pennies.

I do not care. I just don't want another way for companies to screw me over.

This doesn't change the fact that hundreds of kids are going to college not knowing how to do math.

Does it really matter what they say the goals are? We all know what the goal is, no matter what they say.

Boo frickin hoo. Doesn't mean they should be making a blatant attempt to try to save a buck on people who don't know better. I'm getting tired of a world where every company thinks of any way to screw people over without it blowing back on them.

And they still use the Troll downvote because they don't like what you say.

To be fair to my manager, he is a decent manager but they recently let go of another manager that helped him with other teams. So now not only does he have twice as many people, he has all kinds of other responsibilities as well, like direct profit seeking responsibilities. His job doesn't sound fun but he is probably continuing to do it because where else is he going to go? All companies always go the same way.

It has been known for a long long time that the American education system is basically the worst in first world nations. Now kids are arriving at college either even being able to do middle school math. Maybe this is even better in the end for the religious wingnut families. I can't say it bodes well for the future of America if so few have enough critical thinking schools to navigate a world full of misinformation.