Those kinds of shenanigans are a good example of why I remain self employed to this day. You can keep your Office Space style bullshit. Modern corporations, especially aggressive companies like Amazon, have gamified the workplace into just sucking every last ounce of energy out of their 'human resources'. You're more a slave and less an employee every year.

THAT SUCKS BRO

I think it's different people, Were you thinking they got the original team to come out of retirement for this? lol.

It would be an entire 7 years later before anybody managed to put a thermistor in the package to stop cpus from destroying themselves. An eternity in that era.

It's easy in the short term to cease development and switch to maintenance-only.

Then a few months later you start to discover why it's typically easy, but dumb.

Some intrepid sould would be forever thanked if they hosted a site (offshore, safe from DMCA takedowns) with user-contributed instructions on how to remove or disable the cellular modem on popular car models.

If they want my data, they need to pay for it. By, for example, making the car free or steeply discounted. Until then, fuck off.

You can't attack education, non-whites, non-MAGA, all your allies, enact random tariffs, and then disrupt the world's flow of oil, all while building a kleptocracy and expect anything but a major long term downward trend.

You can no longer trust the government numbers. They're lying, and anyone who won't lie gets fired. Unemployment is probably higher than they're telling you.

If someone wants to build datacenter, make them also build a solar farm to match capacity. Now you have 2x the jobs, no burden on residents, and a more robust grid. Perfect solution.

Obviously nobody will do it, because it doesn't grease the right palms.

The robot didn't 'pledge' anything - it mindlessly followed a script. A pledge requires self-awareness and will, neither of which this device has.

In other news, ASUS management reports that as much as 40% of all sick leave is taken on a Monday or a Friday,

Microsoft embraced Linux years ago. And so far, no sign of "extend". WSL2 is awesome.
Nadella is no Balmer.

Rich people like Musk generally just have the doctors/nurses make house calls. I have my doubts that Musk is going the legitimate medical treatment route but it's a popular practice. Michael Jackson had a Dr. Feelgood at his house basically all the time.

Firefox has an extension called Youtube Custom Speed. You can set arbitrary speeds from .05 to 16x in whatever increments you feel like adding. Not that it helps for the dipshits explaining how to type something in a terminal prompt, but it's definitely handy for speeding through laptop disassemblies and the like.

Chrome does appear to have the same thing so it probably works on whatever browser you like.

In Pocket Casts, the app I use, there's a playback speed control that can go up to 5x. I usually listen to podcasts at about 3x speed, which feels right to me. I lose a little nuance for audio fiction, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

16x audio playback speeds are typical for screen readers for visually impaired users. Maybe your wife configured something like that, but they take practice to get used to. I only have some familiarity with those because I used to have a blind co-worker and had to support his setup.

It would be much less expensive to put some mice in a rotating orbital habitat to see what low g does to a mammal than to send humans on long term missions to the Moon or Mars, but other than one limited Japanese experiment nobody seems interested in doing so.

That tells me that nobody is yet serious about such missions.