I think you've hit the nail on the head. "Engineers" have standards and responsibilities to meet those standards. This does not exist in the software industry.

There is another strong force against "expensive" software and that is FOSS. Justifying "expensive" versus "inexpensive" when there is competition that is free is extremely difficult for manglement who can only see $$$.

Remember that when a mangler sniffs and says "I can't hear you if you don't speak to me in MY language" they really mean "You have to tell me how you are going to make me money or GTFO.".

"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

He's fighting back against enshittification. GOOD for him!!

I suspect that fossil fuel and non-plug-in hybrid drivers would LOVE to replace their fuel bills with a 3 cent per mile charge.

They won't say because Microsoft doesn't want to tell you to install Linux.

Let me know when they change their minds and produce the Spaceballs set and I'll get out my wallet.

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Good little dig at the tories there. Nice to see that the soft left are doing the usual job of making sure to slander decent conservatives at every turn.

The LPC has continuously bent over to the USA whenever there was any form of conflict. They have only paid lip service to most Canadians' reasonable concerns and mild distrust of the Excited States.

Even Diaper Diddler Donny has stated that he prefers Carney to Poilievre: He likes a pushover when he dictates "deals".

If Amtrak doesn't start looking into grabbing a bigger share of the transportation market, they are idiots.

Trains work.

It's like watching a tube man.

It's time for Microsoft to ditch Windows and adopt Linux as the core operating system. Too much legacy garbage code and house-of-cards architecture. If Google can make profit off Android/Linux, then so can Redmond.

If I wanted to sign up to just give more and more money to a multinational corporation AND put all my personal information on someone else's servers to help train AIs and enable scammers who can get through Microsoft's "security", then I'd consider this. Only Microsoft has the gall to charge you for being their product.

But no, I think I'll keep my money for myself and protect my personal information from Microsoft farming it out to whoever.

"Preview". Also known as "Let me help you by running this anonymous code without asking or even checking to see it is is suspicious and I won't even give you the chance to decide whether or not to run it!"

"Microsoft considered harmful."

"Preview". Also known as "Let me help you by running this anonymous code without asking or even checking to see it is is suspicious and I won't even give you the chance to decide whether or not to run it!"

"Microsoft considered harmful."

This has happened before in other pool reactors. He should be OK. If he had dived down and tried to have sex with the reactor core, then that would be a different outcome.

Look up all the techniques to get rid of mosquitos. Get rid of standing water, use every tool you can find to get rid of them. Get a screening program in place at your harbors and airports. Drop everything and GET RID OF THE MOSQUITOES!

If you want to understand how urgent this really is, send a representative to Nunavut in the spring. They will learn just what's at stake.