This is another reminder on why one should not buy new games as they come out.

Things like:
Missing features
Huge bugs
A lot of the content moved to DLCs for separate price.

I stopped buying new titles quite many years ago and instead I just wait until they hit the bargain bin, preferably in an all inclusive version that includes all the DLCs maybe two years later. Also the biggest bugs should have been fixed by that time and so on.

In some cases it is hard to wait, but so far I have held fast. Fallout 4 was the recent "difficult to not buy" thing, but since they are almost done with the DLCs for it, I can likely get it some time next year for a more reasonable price for the all DLCs included version.

I agree. Basically any product made by Google or purchased by Google means it will likely shut down in few years.

So learning to use and/or switching to any of their products is kind of waste of time and effort that way.

I do use some Google products(mostly Mail,Drive,Maps, Chrome and Android), but I do make sure I have all the information also outside their unreliable environments.

Unreliable being the keyword.

Bad enough I have to use adblock to browse the web, But needing an ad block for using your operating system...

>Once upon a time the idea was also that if you paid a subscription you got the whole package, not a bunch of cherry-on-top paid DLCs for games etc., but like the above idea about ads those days are gone and will never be coming back.

That is why I never buy new top games, I wait until the "ultimate edition" with all the DLCs comes out a year or two later. It also tends to be cheaper than the original so it is a win in many ways for me and in the end the company gets less total money from me than if they just released the whole game at once as then I might buy the full price version.

Finland.

...where we have laws against using technical means to watch others who are in protected areas.

Basically anyone can use things like drones, cameras and so on in the public places and similar(where there is no expectation of privacy), but using anything technical to look into someone's home(and some other locations) is forbidden. The protection of homes is actually pretty strong in other things too.

And yes this includes old ladies with binoculars peeping.
A fun case was when some old biddy complained to the police about someone stretching in their 3rd floor window nude that she can see clearly with her binoculars from across a park and she was the only one charged with a crime since she was using a technical device(the binoculars) to secretly look into a protected area(The other person's home).

As there should be also damages for people copying the copies and such...

As Israel might be trying to make new drones that US cannot spy on!!!

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

Lets encrypt does the checks for control of domain like the other certificate authorities.

And really people should use DNS Certification Authority Authorization(RFC 6844) to only allow the certificate authorities they want to use. Though I am not sure if all certificate authorities follow it yet, but at least most do so it is risk mitigation.

The emphasis on Lets Encrypt is likely because that way Trend Micro will get more visibility for "the new thing is bad". Trying to say "the old thing is bad" mostly causes yawns though it is a known problem.

So simply: marketing.

While mostly true that the answer is usually/often network, there are some high data loads where actual database performance might still be a bottleneck and others where the actual calculations or other manipulations(=cpu) are the slow link so there is still a need to look at the values.

Given that at least Lenovo installed such on new computers a while back I would not be surprised if many producers of computers did not get a lot of such proposals,

I do not know about recent UI people as I do not work with such, but when it comes to other computer education, people with recent such seem to have a lot of horrible gaps in their learning of basics way too often,

We have had people with masters degree in Computer science that has included a large number of programming courses when asked "Name three sorting algorithms, describe the basic idea of each of them with a few words and tell when each might be a good choice" just look at you blankly. And many similar gaps.

So I am afraid that the UI people might well be the same.

Indeed. I wonder why people work so hard to ruin things.

The old saying of "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity", might be true in some cases, but it boggles my mind to think that ALL UI designers could be stupid. So I am starting to think that it must be a conspiracy to make using computers hard again or something similar.