Doesn’t anyone say ‘slashdotted’ anymore?

X sounds like a porn site of some kind

Ha, just like people gave you side-eye for mentioning ‘hotmail’ back in the 90s. “Hotmail, eh? Why do you need a raunchy e-mail address?”

I do agree that X is a stupid name.

Over Greedo’s dead body.

Cheap security cams with “enhanced night vision” might get somebody jailed.

Might? We’ve been arresting the wrong people based on shitty facial recognition for at least 5 years now. This article has examples from 2019.

On one hand, the potential of this type of technology is impressive. OTOH, the failures are super disturbing.

There’s a local company in my city that offers fiber to the home. I’m so happy not to be stuck with Comcast!

These states account for 147 million people, about 43% of the country. Not too bad for a pilot program.

Cute. Unrealistic, but cute.

Thank you!

I was pretty thrilled at how much use I got out of that laptop. I originally picked it up as a companion machine to a desktop, but about a year later, I switched over to using the laptop almost exclusively. I got a docking station and hooked it up to my desktop monitors, and all was well. It did limit the games I could play, but hey, I guess you could call me a “patient gamer”.

I did have to repair it a couple of times – I replaced both the cooling fan and the hard drive around 2015-2017.

It was funny, what finally spurred me to start looking for a new machine was a free giveaway of Total War: Shogun 2 on Steam back in 2020. Free game? New computer!

For me: I like to play games. It was still fine for games like Dwarf Fortress or Civilization, and it could handle Factorio decently well (enough to launch a rocket, not enough for a megabase, heh).

For my mom? IDK, I was already pushing it with how long I stayed on Windows 7. I’m not sure that this particular laptop would have been a good hand-me-down in 2021.

Finally…I have to repeat: I bought the laptop in 2010. I got eleven years out of it for a type of device that most people replace every 2-3 years. Why isn’t that good enough for you?

IDK, it’s a far cry from “dropping support for stuff 14+ years old” to “we’re going to coerce you into buying new hardware every other year”.

I bought a laptop at the beginning of 2010 and used it until spring of 2021. It was long overdue for replacement by then, so even that wouldn’t have been affected by this.

.50 cents

Verizon math? Or do you actually mean half a penny?

Are you referring to this incident?

If so, how would you want someone to refer to it?

I’m out of the loop on this one – I don’t recall hearing about this “dragged 20 feet” incident until now.

Okta is a tech giant now?!

Oh, oops :\

I’m pretty sure stamets is a person…

Alphabet spent $70 billion on stock repurchases last year. Their server costs aren’t a problem.

I was just going to upvote them.

This really annoys me, too. The layout makes me think there’s new, different information in each spot, but really it’s hardly more than repeating the headline 3 times :(

My wife used to work in a call center for a major corporation (started in mid-late 2020). During recruiting, they claimed that WFH was a possibility within certain parameters.

… After she started, it turned out that the most important parameter was “based on seniority”. Between that and their low turnover rate among longer-term employees, I don’t think she ever would have been allowed WFH.

She’s a lot happier in a different job now.