I agree. I've been a T-Mobile customer since they were called VoiceStream. Up until [what feels like] five years ago, I LOVED them. Like, I almost felt an allegiance toward them, because they were one of the few cool companies that actually seemed to care about customer experience.

But, new leadership --> new direction, no more US call centers, the "forever plan" was bullshit... Now, I fucking hate them.

Although, I do have to admit, while I was spending time in the High Uintah mountains this past week, it was awesome getting 15 Mbps from my free Starlink access. But, that's more thanks to Starlink than T-Mobile -- at least, as far as I'm willing to attribute.

"Industrial Revolutionar"

The what now?

Y'all are lazy trash..

"Industrial Revolutionary"

The what now?

Y'all are lazy trash..

> it's amazing how little we know about what happened.

Agreed. This is definitely a PR stunt. Nothing but red flags in this PR (public relations vs press release, either way, lies to sell you more shit).

wine macos support is dead dead dead.

From the middle 1980's to around 2005, John C. Dvorak, like him or not!, was an icon in the technology journalism industry. With his passing, he will be seriously missed the more you think about it.

I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.

Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)

... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.

You do care because that money represents how much tech industry employers are willing to overpay you (using the money left over after they overpay C suite and management) to attract talent from going to other companies.

Without those billionaires throwing money at tech, hiring and salaries at all levels dry up.

Be honest: for the amount of work most white collar tech employees do, they are overpaid. Billionaires make that happen.

So its more like "I don't care what happens to overpaid tech workers' which is a fine opinion to have.

That speculative pyramid scheme VC money is also what keeps your tech heavy portfolio growing without bounds.

So "i don't care to tech heavy portfolios" that's fine too.

Free speech includes lying.

Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"

We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.

I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

Such a low slash ID for such a young child.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.