So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

Maybe the idea should be to tell a compelling story. Once you got that down, you can be as diverse and inclusive as you like, people will watch it. Not because it's diverse or inclusive but because it has a compelling story.

Take Star Trek. TOS. That was a revolutionary show back in the days. A black female officer at the height of the civil movement and a Russian navigation officer only a few years after the whole McCarthy era. And let's not forget the first interracial kiss in a nationally broadcast TV show.

And guess what, it was a success. It still is. Mostly because it actually had an interesting story to tell.

Even Goebbels knew that you can slip any and all sorts of propaganda into your programming, but first and foremost, people have to WANT to watch your show. They'll easily accept all the propaganda you want to add, but first you MUST entertain them!

Too bad, you could actually have learned something.

Oh well, some people just prefer to pretend they already know everything.

"Ok, folks, we're losing subscribers. Why did people sign up with us in the first place?"
"Well, mostly because they were fed up with cable TV and we offered an alternative that only only let them choose what they wanted to see but was also heaps cheaper."
"Great. So what could we do to be more like cable TV?"
"We could throw in some programs nobody asked for and up the price."
"Perfect, let's do that!"

Neither does anyone else currently subscribed to Netflix, but how else could you justify yet another price hike so soon after the last one if you don't throw in another shovel of garbage?

Well, it's sweaty guys in ridiculous outfits... yeah, it's sports.

Perfect security isn't one that keeps you from getting where you want to go by reminding you of its presence with every step you take.

Perfect security is so stealthy that you don't even know it is there until you try to do something that compromises it.

Security that gets into your way is something you WILL get rid of, and without a guilty conscience. You're doing it to improve your productivity. An example:

If you work in a warehouse where stuff gets stolen and security demands that the doors are closed and locked at all times, and your job is to carry boxes out to the delivery truck, your work cycle is like this: Pick up a crate, carry it to the door, unlock the door, open the door, carry the box through the door, close the door, lock the door, carry the box to the delivery truck, return to the door, unlock the door, open the door, step through the door, close the door, lock the door, start over.

How many times do you think the average worker will do that before there's a wedge under the door to keep it open?

You have to use our products.

You will be judged by your security work.

Double bind at its finest.

Part of that pitting smarts against the rule is to avoid the backlash.

The copyright of my country allow the circumvention of copy protection for interoperability reasons and that right cannot be waived.

In other words, watch your AI research go byebye to Europe.

Meeting attendance went through the ROOF when we started teams meetings from home. The bi-weekly speeches by our C-suite were pretty much dead, with only a handful of die hard bootlicks going while they were in person, recently they had to upgrade the streaming server to accommodate the amount of people that participate. Pretty much every single person in the company that isn't on vacation or sick is there!

If you really want attendance, get people to join from home!

Ok, now for the real reason behind it: It's 2 hours that you can "bill" on the "staff meeting" project. Now, since there is zero interaction and it's just the C-levels gilding each other's ass on how wonderful they are, you can easily push that window somewhere where it doesn't bother you (or just minimize it) and do some sensible work that you cannot bill on anything.

One of the suggestions in our Q&A was that we might want to do these meetings on a weekly base. We could use a few more hours that we needn't bill.

By the amount of human tissue found after everything burned down.

Glad to see that someone managed to streamline the "office work process".