This worked kind of opposite in my district, every classroom had an Apple II and then the library had a few nice computers (with CD ROMs!) so the brand was associated with old crappy stuff for us.

Public school in the first place was to provide factory workers for industry and literate conscripts for the military. See also the push for more kids to get into trades because they can't build the AI Slop factories fast enough.

Easier to disable, harder to steal, I'd think. How would you get and maintain control of it vs just pushing it into the cosmos to never be seen again?

Could be, sure, plenty of normal reasons to have bought video game hardware to resell if you think it'll sell out. It also wouldn't surprise me if there are paid randomized lootboxes for some of the games for in-game hats that people put real money in for or similar type behavior that pools money that is otherwise nontrivial to extract again.

You literally post this on every article about Firefox. Aren't you tired yet? I have replied numerous times that they are *NEVER* going to do that. And then I pointed you to using policies, which will disable updates.

Which is why I don't bother with surveys from company. If they're not going to listen to their customers, why bother doing the survey?

Having to create a policy is not the same as a simple checkbox to disable something.

One would think if customers keep complaining about something that a company would look into changing it. Such as people who complained at having to use a screen in their car to change a/c or temperature or something simple. Car manufacturers went back and put buttons and knobs in to make things easier.

Apparently Mozilla isn't interested in simple. Like so many other companies, the object is to make things as complicated, convoluted, and inconvenient as possible.

The costs of nuclear are addressed all the time.

The problem is the nuke fanbois either ignore the costs or hand-wave them away: "Nuclear is only expensive because of protests and regulations. Next time will be different. Blah, blah, blah."

Even without considering the costs of waste and accidents, nuclear costs four times as much as wind or solar and has a 20-year lead time.

Tens of thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Catalina Island, but the vast majority are non-radioactive chemical waste.

DDT leaking from the barrels is a much bigger problem than nuclear waste and shows up in the local sea lion population.

Anyway, there's nothing realistic that we can do about it since any attempt to retrieve the barrels will likely make things worse.

For all they keep doing, the one thing they can't seem to do is make a checkbox to stop being harassed about updates. Apparently there is no way to do to this. It's much too complicated for them to figure out.

Perhaps they should put out a notice asking if anyone has the skills to create the checkbox and make it work.

I buy games there, I don't use it to store money I need to cash out by pawning hardware and can't be bothered to figure out why anyone would do that. I'm just aware it is 'a thing'.

When the controllers went on backorder instantly I'd heard that it can be hard to "launder" money out of Steam, and so first party hardware that you can sell third party is more attractive than most platforms. I'm not sure how people tie excessive value into Steam that they want to cash out in the first place but perhaps it is more prevalent in genres of games I don't play.

Acupuncture and chiropracty are examples of things that are mostly scams, but do have some narrow treatment windows where there can be some mild benefit. But you'll see chiropractors claiming to be able to cure allergies and other nonsense. Likewise, acupuncture for anything other than pain management is going to be woo.

Yes a laser is different than the LED mask at the grocery store. It's also going to obliterate exposed bacteria in the area, too.

See that's something where you could at least imagine a benefit, or for skin regeneration, but an affect on the brain from light exposure seems pretty woo.

Reminds me of the scene in War Games where Joshua is playing the various games over and over and over:

Jennifer: What is it doing?

David Lightman: It's learning.

Get back to talking about how we're whooping Iran's ass at no cost to oursel-- SHUT UP, I SAID NO COST!!!!1

You won't see this on the Fox tabloid, but the acting Navy Secretary admitted at a Congressional hearing that Iran "blew the hell" out of a naval base in Bahrain such that the USS Abraham Lincoln (sound familiar?) couldn't dock for resupply.

So yeah. Whooping Iran's ass at no cost.