And your understanding of a "real world" workplace is... employees throwing pies at each other?

I feel bad that your only-ever job was at this Comcast office.

When it's your face being impacted, we know you'll take a different view. Infantile.

Positive on the idea of subscribing to another streaming service - bizarre.

I'm interested in the film - hoping it's that and not a 30-hour "miniseries" slog - but getting excited at the prospect of subscribing is still bizarre. I'm excited at the prospect I might be able to leave the house and see it in a theater. Been spending too much time here.

So they verify that a human was involved in creating the account. (They told me they already did that, though?) That doesn't say anything about the content that account goes on to post.

It works out well for Facebook, giving the impression that their site has real users. But I feel bad for people seeing the checkmarks and thinking that indicates some kind of legitimacy.

Windows treats these settings as a suggestion more than a command. I know at my workplace, MS Intune policies are supposed to be stopping driver updates through Windows, and I still see them slip through. Home users will get treated at least as badly.

I have one of the affected monitors. I checked in my W11 instance and sure enough the useless "LG Monitor App" was already installed. Didn't see any ads from McAfee, but I uninstalled it immediately.

You would think such an app lets you at least change display settings from within the OS, map them to a hotkey, but it doesn't even do that. Not clear what it does, really, other than show ads. That seems to be the only point.

In Linux, of course, there's no sign of it.

I'm not sure what's worse: MS giving peripheral manufacturers the ability to install software - Seriously, autorun AGAIN? - or LG for taking advantage of it.

If I hadn't already migrated away from Gmail a few months ago, this would have been the thing that made me. Not acceptable on any planet.

The way Google selects routes is always at odds with my preferred route - it sends me across railroads tracks which it does not monitor for trains crossing, or stopping within the crossing, a frequent occurrence here. Or it will send me on a route with 30% more miles and a toll because it's 2 minutes faster (which it isn't even). Selecting the "avoid tolls" option only partially alleviates this problem, and it excludes other tolled routes I am fine with using.

I check the traffic manually before leaving and don't rely on Google navigation in the car. If it had a mode that was "Follow this specific route, unless there are major traffic issues, then re-route within these parameters" - that would be useful for my daily drive.

I can see, if you are not a regular driver and knowledgeable about traffic pain points at different times of day and week, how you might feel the need to check every time. I guess I'm more of a power user, but the software kinda sucks.

Ford's gone over a decade without a $25k truck in the lineup. Slate happens, then suddenly Ford is trying to develop in that same segment. Chasing.

Apparently you had never even heard of Slate, so the idea that you have some commanding view of the market to school me with is a non-starter.

You're engaged in the same kind of thinking the automakers are, and it's why they are struggling. Think less about the people currently buying trucks and more about the people who would be buying a truck if it didn't cost $70k.

It's about making a market, not chasing a market. Slate seems to have understood this. Ford seems to again be chasing, only caring about that gap in their lineup since Slate started threatening them.

A similar disease affects many markets in the US, but housing and automotive are obviously the most egregious. Everything has to be "luxury" now, and the demand is that you pay for it, whether you like it or not. Set up a space where that doesn't happen, people will run toward it. Anyone with a budget to consider, at least. Which is actually a lot of people. All abandoned by Ford.

There are a lot of people on this site who understand that. There are also some who don't, and I question what they are doing here.

I feel bad for drivers who've started on one of these "self-driving" cars and never learned how to (for example) keep a steady lane, or the correct way to reverse (turning your body around). I feel even worse for having to share the road with them.

Many cars on the lot today seem designed to baby the driver to disconnect from the road and get in some quick FaceTime on the freeway. That's the "luxury" automakers are pushing today.

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For the 3 days a year that I need navigation, I don't have a problem sticking my phone on my windshield. Well-worth the privacy and security for the other 362 days.

I hadn't considered security updates, but I hope disabling all the remote features on the in-vehicle display and calling the manufacturer to disable the SIM has reduced the attack surface.

I would hope any critical safety/security updates have a recall notice sent out to alert me to visit the dealer. But I know that's probably not the case.

Whatever the company loses in MSRP discounts they'll claw back through monthly fees. Tesla buyers in 2026... the company sure knows its target market. I do hope the company stays afloat, and all those customers stay there, instead of contaminating the rest of the market with their burning desire for another monthly fee.

More likely is they take the brake pedal away entirely and give it to the computer. Which you in turn subscribe to, for amazing features like "accelerating" and "braking".