I switched from several euros worth worth iPhone 8 to $109 Doogee S40. You know what - it has very crappy camera - otherwise it lets me do absolutely the same as I did on then expensive iPhone. Instead I bought a used motorcycle for EUR 1100 ( Honda NX650 Dominator ) and I consider it much better investment than phone. Motorcycle is giving me much more fun than phone. It is 28 years old , but runs perfectly and will last ten more years or more. I am tired to spend money on tech gadgets every few year just because manufacturer does want you to buy newer gadget and prevents its use by planned obsolescense and software expiration. Hell I have a manual meat grinder from Husqvarna from 19th century and it STILL WORKS PERFECTLY. This is cool not shit made nowadays.

That was fine as US is fighting for freedom and democracy, but attacking US/Saudi is crime and terrorism! How dare they?

well I am following russian government trends - they often talk about having their own âoeindependentâ internet and are organizing own version of DNS for BRICS countries. I would not be surprised if they will indeed disconnect russia from internet - during soviet times USSR had their own computer WANs...

few montht ago when ukraine blocked some most outrageous russian propaganda sites , russian mass media was telling people that such blocking is âoenot democraticâ and pointless. At the same time they shown on state TV how to circumvent blocking with a use of vpn. :D Well , russian government is so russian, they are doing a job of ruining their country very well..

I haven't seen _hacker_ stupid enough to crack stuff from his own computer. So active countermeasures most likely will hit just other owned computers or innocent free wifi installations etc...

yes. But this time greed certainly cloud reason. In our organizatiom we have set certain course to free from oracle because of prices and agressive business practices.It started few years ago and next year we will reduce our oracle setup to two servers containing DB archives. And similar processes have started in many organizations. Good luck with yachting Larry :)

As an admin who had done a enough of java tuning i would suggest you to run more small instances behind a load balancer instead of one big java vm ( especially on multi core/cpu machines, if possisble of course) and garbage collectors more often,monitor gc log and memory- the smaller teeth for memory consumption,the better. But anyway I would like java just die. there is enough evil in the world even without java( and oracle )

I am a sysadmin. I am required by contract to carry phone and laptop around. I can't find unix sysadmin positions which do not require near-constant online presence 24x7. I hate being on call, all these night calls and e-mails written, but I just can't find a work which does not require that anymore.

Now employers could weed out those unhappy workers,who cannot appreciate being a member of friendly corporate family, Also governmentents could dispatch unhappy citizens to hapiness camps. And all completely automatic and cheap! Thank you good lords from MIT!

I have not Facebook account. But seriously , what do expect - facebook and google owners are You Know Who. It would be ridiculos if these companies would not support state of Israel.

It won't help , because all around the world govenrments consist of corrupt,selfish,greedy individuals. These people does not value humans like lower classes do. They will find out how to fill their coffers,not pass this money to children or roads. I would advise these 1%ers put their money in restoration of feudalism. When these people will become enlightened monarchs, they could change world, something democracy (rather oligarchy) failed to achieve. Neo-feudal society under planetary God-Empreror would be ideal. I am not naive and I have learned history about abuse of indentured servants in the past. On the other hand - at least here peasant had to pay 10% to the church and 10% to the baron land owner. Compare it with >50% taken by out "democratic" government, which stomp little people into the ground even more than feudal lords did.. P.S. I have witnessed socialism personally ( I grew up in USSR ) so I do not believe in socialist StarTrek style paradise , sorry...

If your work is your hobby - then fine. Otherwise,you are just slave and idiot. Indoctrinated to work , work and work. In the same time owners of companies get a lot of quality good time playing golf, riding horses and yachting. Taking vacation is not "screwing you coworkers" , it is getting rest to let you function effectively in a long run. .

I have 100Mbps fiber home optics. I can upgrade it to 200Mbps, but have no real need. 100Mbps - from local trackers I can torrent 4.7GB file in 10-15 minutes, netflix ,youtube on HD whatever works flawless. I indeed cannot imagine why I would need something faster than 100Mbps. Btw - most home routers cannot handle even 100Mbps... 10GBps - how can I utilize this ? I am not sure my computer cpu can handle such amounts of data.