I wouldn't trust those stats. Using my experience as an example, I was a uni dropout in the 90s. I still managed to have a solid career. A policy change by the employer meant that those without a degree are grandfathered at their classification, but no promotions were possible without a degree. The employer supported any employee who wanted to attend university and since I was only a few courses short, I took them up on that. I was making $70K before returning to uni. I was making $70K and had a job upon graduation and was promoted and earning $90K within two months of receiving the red envelope with a piece of paper saying I'm part of the graduate club.

I am grateful that I was able to return and finish, dropping out was a big regret. Out of context, these are stories that universities love. It's not realistic for a 22 year-old to expect a degree in economics would land them a $90K job. It was a cororate policy changed that triggered the completion of the degree which then allowed for career development. University education does increase incomes for graduates generally and reduces the likelihood of unemployment and poverty, but they oversell it.

Point taken. My Wink hub found its way to my city's electronics recycling centre. It wasn't an expensive mistake and the lights and sockets work without a server. It makes me a little leery to buy device that requires an internet connection when the terms of service can be changed dramatically years after purchase.

I miss being able to cross the border. I used to look for things on Amazon.ca, then look for the same item on Amazon.com. if the difference was worth the $5.00 that the Fedex store in Ogdensburg NY charges for package pickup, then I'd buy from the US site. Once there were enough packages to pick up, I'd go over on a Saturday, do a little discount store shopping, grocery shopping in Potsdam, top up my gas tank and come home. The savings weren't massive, but it was enough to pay for the trip, save a small amount of bucks and give me some alone time in the car.

Courier New was good enough for WordPerfect 5.1 in 1991. It's good enough today.

My Wink device ended up in the egarbage bin after their BS. Plus ça change ...

Years ago, I entered mine with a Canadian area code &"-"& 867-5309. Once in a while, Facebook wants to validate it. Let them try.

I'd pay the $20 per month if YouTube banned the ads that the content creators put in as well. I don't care about Skillshare, free to play war video games or the other companies that pollute the videos.

Emphasis on right wing rather than American. Many of us outside the US have also had to deal with right wing mendacity.

To use an old Slashdot cliché, "I wish that I had mod points to mod this up."

I've had my Slashdot account since 1999. I think every year has been year of the Linux Desktop. Maybe they took 2009 off. Who knows The issue for most of those 20 years has not been Linux performance but application availability. In my use case, I always am running Outlook and Firefox and most of the time running Excel, Tableau and SAS. Out of those five applications, only Firefox and SAS are available for Linux and SAS is picky on what distro it will run on. Until vendors sell Linux versions along side Windows versions, I don't see Linux on the desktop in corporate environments. At home, I run Mint on a retired 2014 Mac Mini. It meets all my needs. I also don't run anything other than commonly available free software on the Mac, so I don't foresee needing or wanting a Windows PC after my government drone days are over which in sha allah, will be before the decade ends.

Forget about that. I'm worried about accidentally butt-dialling an upgrade to my grapes.

I don't know why people in the UK think that it's a good idea to name their towns after cities in Canada or Australia. You're creating your own problems.

My university has been good about pro-rating non-tuition fees. I got two months of my parking pass refunded. I don't know why they didn't just keep the money. They still need to maintain facilities even though they can't let people on campus. They're still granting credit for completed courses and issuing degrees. I see no reason for them to return tuition. I admit that I can afford to write off $75 without much concern, being a part-time grad student studying for the sake of it and not dependent on family, SSHRC or student loans to fund it. Regardless, would the small amounts that would be returned make that much of a difference in people's lives?

Schools can look at the fall semester and decide whether they can or should reduce tuition next year. For this year, they leave it alone.

I have one of those things and haven't got the email. I'm in Canada. Does anyone know if they are just jamming American users and they'll get the rest of us later of if they can't play this game outside the US.

You can build a pet feeder with a Raspberry Pi Zero, servos, buckets and some python code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...