No, windows installer for Win 10 or Win 11 is *easier* than, say, an Ubuntu desktop install -Windows doesn't ask the installer about LVM/disk layout. That isn't a hard question, and a sentence saying "if you are unsure, just accept the default choice, it's suitable for most users" could neutralize the issue, but my point is Win 10 and Win 11 installer is really, really simple. If you think it's hard, you haven't tried it lately.
I once worked as a programmer (Mainframe, back in the late 80s/early 90s) so my experiences back then (last century!) probably don't relate to today's job market, but if programmers (in general) think they have an issue the unions can solve, go for it...
BUT, understand that you run the risk of your programmer union becoming like the teacher's union, where every teacher is considered equal, and any sort of merit pay is (literally) prohibited. Teacher's unions (the union most Americans interact with) treat each teacher are interchangeable/entirely equal cogs, with the only distinguishing thing about them to differentiate pay levels are "time on the job" and "level of education". Of course, tenure is a unique monkey wrench in the comparison - teachers unions enforce tenure, private unions don't.
Programmers, in my experience, believe themselves to be like snowflakes, each one unique and different, each one possessing a unique skill set that makes them worth just a bit more than the programmer next to them - a programmer's union would likely struggle to accommodate that belief.
Cory talks about "enshitification", unionizing "programmers" would be embracing "commoditization" of themselves - unions can be great when the worker skill set is easily defined and the workers can easily be replaced, it gives commoditized workers the ability to even the power dynamic between worker and company - programmers, on the other hand, neither regard themselves as "commodities" nor easily replaceable, and they will have to do so to be successful in a union environment I suspect.
My biggest issue with unions is that the workers form a union to address some (presumably) righteous mistreatment, but too soon the "union" thinks it is an equal business partner with the actual owners of the business and try to dictate business practices, etc. The cautionary tale for me is the Stella D'oro Bakery strike in NY years ago. See https://bronx-yes.com/en/etern... for a very worker-friendly version of the story, there's also a worker-friendly movie "No Contract, No Cookies" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1...
Like Christ on a pogo stick, the snake has eaten itself. The world would really be better off with Gnome. Doesn't even work on FreeBSD anymore because Gnome has decided that systemd is now an essential part of Unix.
It is exactly this sort of thing that will keep Linux off most end-users desktop - not because the average desktop user cares about Gnome, but they see the arguments, the forked OS versions and general in-fighting and simply choose to stick with the stable, reliable OS they know.
Yes, "stable, reliable" - the vast majority of computer users (90%+?) manage to do everything they want to do in Windows, they don't care about the the historical issues Linux advocates remember from the last version of Windows they used (Win95? Win8?)...
I note with delight that Ubuntu 25.10 (the leading 'consumer' Linux distribution) has features that require - wait for it - TPM 2.0 to operate!
How delightful...
As a landlord, I can look at the newspaper and see what other landlords charge for similar properties and use that information - legal.
I can use my computer to go online and check out my competitors rents - legal
But somehow, having a program running on my computer that checks what other landlords charge is now illegal in New York? Really?
This is just pandering to renters, trying to look like the politicians are doing something to make rent more affordable...
Rent isn't high because of RealPage, it's high because mortgage rates are high, tax rates are high and inflation. Is high, but yeah, forcing landlords to figure out what to charge for an apartment is going to drive down rent prices in NY state.
What baloney.
Norway is sitting on a lot of oil, they only drill/produce less than they could.
Their wealth is from state ownership of the oil, and they use that wealth to help fund the govt, but let's not pretend Norway is some low-tax utopia, the citizens pay a healthy tax rate on most things (except, of course, EVs)
Norway achieved (essentially) 100% EV sales by eliminating all VAT and Tariffs on new EVs up to 500,000 Kr, $50K US....
The majority of cars on the road in Norway are likely still ICE cars, bought before the EV incentives went into effect.
When a Norwegian buyer went into the showroom, there could have been up to a 50% price difference, with the EV being half the price of the similar ICE vehicles.
This is great and all, but few governments charge similar VAT and taxes on cars, and if they do, they likely lack the ability to simply waive the VAT and other fees to incentivize EV buyers.
Help me understand - if this is true:
You seem to have a misconception of what access the press pass actually provided. It allowed them to be on site, yes, but didn't give them unlimited access to the whole building. Secure areas were still secure. Journalistic ethics prevent them from soliciting classified information.
Then reporters are fine being restricted to certain areas of the Pentagon and they would never solicit classified information, then what's the problem with agreeing to stay in certain areas of the pentagon and to not solicit classified information? I mean, according to you these things never happen, so why not agree to not do these things?
By definition, Democracy = Mob Rule - when 50% plus one vote = majority, that is mob rule.
If MSNBC wants to report fake 'leaks' or classified information or otherwise be a threat to nation, our military, or the administration in general there is no reason to contribute to their success.
An organization willing to do that is still free to do that from outside the Pentagon, they just won't have a "reporter" inside the building.
Pretty sure a news organization without reporters "in the room" can get unfettered access to the pool feed/cspan coverage of all press events.
Didn't Trump repeatedly promise to be "the most transparent President" and have "the most transparent administration" in history?
Seriously?
Because the candidate said "most transparent" obligates his administration to have no secrets, to publish everything they say or do?
Based on what I learned in 5th grade English classes, the Trump statement is "true" if his administration is more transparent than any administration that came before it.
So what's the issue:
The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won't gather any information - even unclassified - that hasn't been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.
Under the policy, the Pentagon may revoke press passes for anyone it deems a security threat. Possessing confidential or unauthorized information, under the new rules, would be grounds for a journalist's press pass to be revoked.
Let's see:
- Won't release unauthorized information? Sounds a bit much, but...
- Revoke passes for security threats? Seems 100% reasonable, honestly, I dare you to defend people deemed security threats to keep their press credentials.
- Revoke passes for reporters caught with "confidential or unauthorized information"? Again, seem reasonable - being in the press corps doesn't give one the right to snatch confidential (or unauthorized) information, it really doesn't.
Doesn't seem that bad to me, but I'm not a journallist... I wonder, how many of these Journalists would willingly submit their questions in advance to KJP at the White House so that Biden's staff could craft an answer and instruct him to call on the reporter on his cue cards?
Was it whitewashing to pull statues and rename schools?
Why do we need to discuss slavery on signs in a bird sanctuary? Thats not denying slavery happened, its's taking the topic out of a conversation it doesn't belong.
Why do signs in a bird sanctuary discuss slavery? Japanese interment camps?
The same folks that pulled statues of founding fathers because "slavery" are now arguing we need to discuss slavery when talking about birds? Really?
The order gave a deadline of September 17, and by September 20, some signs were already going missing, including signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that referenced climate change, and another at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City that referenced historical events like slavery, Japanese camps and conflicts with Native Americans, according to the Washington Post.
I get why a sign in a park might reference climate change, but why do signs in a bird sanctuary refer to "slavery, Japanese [interment?] Camps, and conflicts with Native Americans"?
I never understood the post-George Floyd race to hide statutes and rename forts, bridges, schools, mountains, etc, but I have to say, removing references to "conflicts with Native Americans" in a bird sanctuary sounds sorta reasonable to me...
Most likely the process will use solar power for electrolysis of water into hydrogen gas. From the standpoint of timing, excess solar power would be used to create hydrogen gas which could be store and used at night or other times when solar cannot be used.
I'm sorry, are you saying to deploy solar panels to power water/electrolysis to generate electricity from water so you can have electricity when the sun is down?
Why not simply store the excess solar energy?
Who cares about the latency? Seriously? What is the use case that demands both a wireless connection AND zero latency?
This is like "I bought a car with onboard navigation 12 years ago. Now the Automaker announces they will no longer publush update DVDs for my navigation system." Have they rendered tbe car useless? Did you expect theyd offer updates forever?
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
