Ya know what? It's typically not Democrat states like CA which get called out for being overly conservative - and this absolutely is, verging on neophobic.

This is along the lines of conservatives wanting to ban the Internet because it allows people to communicate (this was a thing for a hot minute in the 90s).

Do that many people have such a problem with temporal permanency that they're not able to realize how rapidly things have changed over the past 5, 10, 25, 50 years? You can't hold back progress by banning it. Hell, there's nothing you can really hold back by banning it, and in many cases, banning it only makes it more prominent and more desirable.

In the specific case of AI, it's out of the bag. Anyone with enough computing power - something which becomes increasingly irrelevant as time passes - will be able to run any of the publicly available models, and anyone with enough money will be able to train them to do anything they want. Our governments (eg. groups like DARPA) have all started exploring how it can be used to kill, monitor, and control people in ways we can only now guess.

I fail to see what benefit the fearful approach provides here except feel-good placation of busybodies. Bad actors will do whatever they want, and the above-board businesses which weren't going to (intentionally) do anything that would be dangerous to their bottom dollar - and that's what keeps them (mostly) ethnical. It's just like every other time they try to ban or heavily regulate things, whether it's knives, emissions, drugs, guns, or porn: good people are unreasonably jeopardized and inconvenienced and the bad actors "cheat" (as do many/all major corporations on almost everything that impacts them) or outright ignore the system itself and operate in the black.

(Forgive me if this was autistic, I'm offensive. )

Yeah, it's a steaming pile of garbage, with 10% coming from friends and 90% being suggested s**t from random pages that I have no prior association with. At this point, I'm operating under the assumption that most of the remaining users are bots, and that they're doing this because there's zero actual organic user engagement. Eventually, the advertisers will realize that their ad dollars are being wasted, and it will be a self-correcting problem as the whole thing goes belly up.

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The biggest three issues I've experienced in years are:

1) different formulas and way of doing them than Excel, so there's compatibility issues.
2) The UI is hideous on Mac (and Windows, presumably) at this point.
3) It's very slow to start (on Mac and Linux, haven't used Windows in years).

It's my go-to when I need to do things that I can't do in google sheets/docs, at this point.

I sympathize with your situation - this used to be a hard scenario to deal with, and there are a couple things you can do to make an upgrade break... but I don't understand how, frankly. I've not had an install break that wasn't my own fault in years (eg. specifying an arbitrarily small /boot partition).

apt update && apt upgrade, update the sources.list to the next major release; apt update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y and.... wait. Accept all defaults (unless you know better).

This has been foolproof for years for me.

The pay is fantastic, and as most of the Amazon employees working in an office are AWS employees working in "Sales", it's great for people who can babble and bullshit but with no real skills - particularly as their sales people don't work on quota and can do a very large number of things that contribute to looking busy but accomplish nothing. Even skilled people struggle to get anything done there due to their "gotta follow the rules" formulaic "success criteria" culture. This is partially why you end up with a lot of Indians working there.

Think of the worst parts of writing reports or doing homework in school - that's working at Amazon.

Let's not conflate things here.

It's trivial to click the "I've got a disability" box when applying for a job, and it doesn't necessarily mean you're disabled or have a disability, except per the definition of law.

Eg. things like alcoholism, prior or current, ADHD/autism, prior cancer, anxiety disorders, and/or being morbidly obese.

Also covered under the ADA, would be something like ripping a tendon or breaking a knee in a sporting activity and needing to (temporarily, albeit for more than several weeks) walk with a cane or need other special considerations.

I don't NOT have sympathy for a lot of these, but they're hardly a basis on which a person shouldn't be able to come to the office.

(That also doesn't change the fact that these RTO efforts are draconian and stupid, and 100% aren't being used for honest purposes by Amazon.)

AI is controlled by a human via promps. AI is using content originally played by a human to develop it's response.

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Well they did moan about those quite a bit.

You think your data is in that disk image? As If!

But seriously, I'll think about trusting it in three OS releases. I remember all the problems with sparse bundles and Time Machine, so that's not an "I'll trust it in three releases," but rather an "I'll start experimenting with it in three releases."

Ugh. That will teach me to use the mobile site. Useless because of Unicode bugs.

If itâ(TM)s #1, thatâ(TM)s a design problem. The controls for the two engines and the temperature readings should be in sufficiently different places to make such a mistake impossible.

BGP?

How is chosing not to be beholden to foreign interests a political statement? We (the US) have made it clear the rules are wildly variable and you can't trust that what we tell you today we will do tomorrow. It would be foolish to depend on us to provide software your government runs on (or cloud etc). This the sovereign movement.

Big providers see this which is why AWS and even MS have sovereign clouds in the EU ran only by citiens of EU nations and seperate from their US counterparts.

Countries shouldn't see using US-based software and services as a national security risk, they should KNOW it is a national security risk. Hell isn't that the point of removing our reliance on other countries in our manufacturing?

Every company I've worked at including my current one run their own smtp servers. Never any delivery issues. I run my own personal email server with no issues.