I was willing to stomach $80, but they tried to double it again this past year up to $160 or so and I bailed to Joplin.
I'm convinced the company is just 3 MBAs in a trench coat.

It's absurdly easy to voice your objection by following the link in summary above.
Write a quick, polite note - it takes minutes.

Yup! And those faux surround bars have been doing that for over a decade now, and they didn't sound too bad - in a small portion of the room. The effect broke outside of that sweet spot, and if you were way out of it, like 45 off the side of the speaker within a few feet, you'd get some bizarre psycho-acoustic artifacts that were almost disorienting.

Unrelated: Great Sig.
My other terminal is a Data General Dasher D200 :)

Bring it on - they could cover college tuition for every child in NYC if they were able to enforce this and extract their fines. I live in Northern Manhattan; I've been here 20 years, and this neighborhood has seen a measurable decline in quality of life since the pandemic. I'm pretty appreciable fraction of stimulus money & unemployment checks in this and surrounding neighborhoods has gone to buying cars, loud stereos, exhaust mods, dirt bikes, and ATVs. Spending $2,000 to make your $5,000 honda sound like a $1,500 honda seems to be all the rage around here (we get it, you're a male in your 20's with a 4 cylinder car). Drag-racing, donuts, mobs of unregistered ATVs.. it's fucking mad-max up in here, and aside from being a serious annoyance, when it gets out of hand it is a real, physical danger to others. Fine every last one of the scumbags. Confiscate their cars. Destroy them. Make them watch, I'll pay money to help. I'll pay more if they have to sit in the car while I do it.
Unfortunately, these are the kinds of enforcement tactics that you need sometimes in more densely populated regions, and I hope it works. If it wasn't one of the most congested places on the planet, I'd call it gross overreach. If they tried to pull this shit 100 miles north of here, there would be well deserved backlash.

Eyah, pretty sure the 5 digit UID says they were born before the 90s...

Until it is illegal, or more just as ideally, dangerous. How come we never hear about CEOs or Bankers washing ashore sans heads, mysteriously disappearing, or being brutally murdered in front of their families? Some of these characters MUST have pissed off the wrong guy at one point...

That's because they keep trying to make the damn things needlessly thinner. I'm on my... 4th, 5th? Macbook (going back to powerbooks) and the thickness was never a complaint. Hell, I'd take the chonk of an old G3 Wallstreet or Pismo if it gave me a good keyboard, decent battery life, a real GPU, didn't howl like a leaf blower, and freed me from the Dongle Lifestyle that Apple seems to keep pitching (I'm convinced that Apple is just transitioning to a dongle company).

I clicked on a twitch link once - my fans immediately went full throttle and my CPU meter pegged. I just assumed it was malware / mining crypto / some other bullshit I don't want on my machine, and quickly closed the window.
Never clicked on twitch link again...

Classic Techno - Oh the ounces of herb I smoked to this album...

I mean, good for you if your house costs $80k because you live 5,000 northeast of nowhere, and $75k a year is reserved for the 4 richest kings in all your lands, but $100k a year is barely middle class for us coastal elite scum. Guess I'll just keep buying used gas guzzlers then.

Is this literally all you do with your day? Copy & Paste this same little schpeal?

I feel like Bezos brought Wally Funk along for Karmic good-will of sorts... Like we can't all hope for the rocket carrying Lil' Lex Luthor to explode on launch if it's also got her aboard...
Jokes aside, I'm glad an amazing woman got this well-earned experience, and that this story is bringing another lesser known pioneer of space & science to light.

Agreed -
"by measuring electromagnetic waves, which change when the RNA particles of the virus are present in the body" sounds like woo-woo fancy-talk for "infected people run hot, and we can see that with infrared"

Except those legacy boxes are the only places where you can actually do any serious sysadmin work.