This might be true for some, but it's rather simplistic.

We've lived in the same house for 30+ years. My commute, both pre- and post-Covid, often runs 1.5 hours. When Covid hit I was getting ready to file my retirement paperwork because I thought I was tired of working.

What Covid actually taught me was that I still enjoy my job, quite a bit. What I HATE is the commute.

Post-Covid, I've been able to still work from home three days a week. Those two commute days are still wearing, and I probably am going to retire in a year or so - but I was absolutely sick of the commute before Covid was a thing.

Of course we need income to live, but I don't think it's that black-or-white. At least some of us also factor in wanting to work in an environment where we feel like we're making a difference (e.g. non-profits, educational institutions), which typically means a relatively lower salary than is the industry norm.

IIRC that happened around 2003-2005... which was when I left Windows for good. Although arguably it was already happening even earlier. I was dual-booting Windows and Red Hat earlier than that on my old Dell Inpiron laptop.

Yeah, either there's something wonky about how their counting... or they just asked ChatGPT to gather the "statistics" (which I guess will fall under the former). There's no way there's a five percent swing in such a short period.

According to Block's engineering team a single code change on March 1, 2021 caused the firmware to silently fall back to a software-based generator instead of the hardware one.

What are the odds that a COLDCARD insider has been playing the long game, and it just payed off?

Yeah yeah yeah.

In general, people are just holding onto their cars longer - whether ICE, hybrid, or EV. I imagine it's largely a function of price nowadays.

I still intend that my next car will be an EV... but I'm probably gonna wait and see what the upcoming Ford small truck is like. The Slate is too bare-bones for me.

But I wish they also offered audio translation on embedded videos. Regardless, it was interesting to read about and watch.

How about a "this whole site is AI slop" button?

Is "not able to post on Facebook" a good thing or a bad thing?

LinkedIn is (virtually) inhabited by humans, so - yes, of course it is.

Haha! I came here to ask whether the Model Context Protocol also wanted to kill Tron.

Of course Costco's price, compared to the corner gas station, is saving you a lot more than $0.01 per fill-up...

Most of this narrative is complete garbage. If they're not selling real products to real-world humans, then any inferences or observations are basically pointless drivel.

For example, do you really think that a 1-cent price difference between machines will result immediately in 100% of real humans not purchasing from the machine charging $2.15 instead of $2.14?

Do they have a robot that resembles an elderly, overweight man with a comb-over and who keeps nodding off in important meetings and at events?