They saw it coming. This is a legal bank heist. The ultra rich rob the banks then will cry poverty (to big to fail) and demand to be rescued only rob the banks again another day. This isn’t the first time they’ve pulled this scheme, it won’t be the last. As long as it keeps working they’ll keep doing it.

My cousin kill a phone this way. He would leave it on the sink to listen to music while he showered and it died (old house - no exhaust fan). It happens.

BUUUUULLLLSHIT. He just doesn’t want to answer honestly to shareholders. The product is a scammy money pit propped up by tissue paper and the confoolery of our liar and chief.

You can use it without learning additional skills, but to truly know what’s going on with any operating system that requires higher knowledge. I’m including windows, mac, android, linux, etc in this. If we could fully understand technology by touching it tech support wouldn’t need to exist. Nor would the insane number of overpriced certifications.

AND that’s the problem with “safety” tech. It doesn’t act as an assistant it acts as a nanny. A nanny that makes mistakes. Sometimes harmless, sometimes irritating, and sometimes dangerous. Each driver should be allowed to decide what level of assistance they need/want without being forced or shamed about it. If we can’t trust drivers to drive then maybe we shouldn’t have cars and should redirect resources to public transportation infrastructure instead. (Personally I’m very on board with the latter.)

Yes but never forget they aren’t above building profiles on people and selling them. The US government regularly buys these sort of data packages as a loophole to bypass constitutional protections against search and seizures.

I don’t miss network administration. The long drag out conversations with clients to convince them that basic security was necessary while dodging the “it’s fine we’ve always done it this way” and “we don’t want to memorize new passwords” hot spots.

I’m sure this won’t be abused at allllll.

Because power interruptions introduce choas into systems which can cause curruption. Most times nothing will happen and we carry on as usual, but occasionally things will be effected in a way that prevents booting or borks some other item. Nature of the beast.

Fortunately removing/replacing fstab and running fsck fixed it. The pain in the ass part was needing to mount a temporary repair partition/shell so I could diagnose/run commands.

I have a UPS LMAO. Normally it prevents these types of issues but my computer was in standby when the power loss happened and did not like it.

As someone who spent the better part of my afternoon dealing with this nonsense thanks to an unexpected power outage:

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

You guys are hilarious with your “I’d just keep/buy an old car.” The EU is also making it illegal to repair older vehicles and forcing people to replace “outdated” models with more environmentally friendly ones. China did the same thing with a buyback and destroy of all their outdated vehicles. Their aren’t going to be any old vehicles. The only way to address this is to demand privacy rights and protection NOW.

Sure there is. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’ll work until it doesn’t. The people involved are just really good at moving assets around to give the illusion that line keep going up. To keep it growing they move assets from other safer markets (pensions to 401ks for example) and have lobbied to not be taxed or regulated so more and more capital gets dumped in. But stocks aren’t tied to anything more tangible then trust of the people holding the stocks. So long as the stock holders believe stocks are valuable they are. But like any good pyramid scheme eventually they will run out of suckers to bleed for cash and then BAM pyramid fall down.

The educated upper class, folks.

Wait wait wait WAIT. I said skyscrapers can and ARE built out of wood. And your response was to IMMEDIATELY move the goal posts to bUt ThEy’Re nOT tHe TaLLeSt.

To that I say, not yet.

Taller “plyscapers” are being built. Oakwood Timber Tower is currently under development in London and will be 300m tall when it’s completed. A proposed 350m tall project is being designed for Tokyo. Just because something isn’t what we are used to doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try new and innovative things. Trees literally grow wood solely for the purpose of growing UP. They aren’t limited in size because the wood isn’t great at getting big, but because pushing water to the top gets harder and harder. Skyscrapers don’t have that issue. Why would a material that literally evolved to grow tall be a bad for building tall buildings. Concrete is fragile, heavy, and slow to dry, but we still make it work. Saying we can’t make skyscrapers out of wood is both factually untrue and unimaginative. Saying: “we’ve never done it this way and I refuse to consider any alternatives” is how we end up with stagnant outdated dull as dirt infrastructure.

I guess the Mjøstårnet isn’t a skyscraper.

Nor is Ascent MKE.

I’d rather live in a world where we try new things and architecture evolves and FACTS ARE FACTS.

I apologize for pointing out wooden skyscrapers exist, are being built, AND ARE REALLY FUCKING COOL.

You know there are skyscrapers built out of wood, right? And they’re kind of awesome.

In the US 1099 employees can write gas (or miles) off on their taxes (but that’s because they are classified as an independent contractor). I’ve also worked contract jobs (again in the US) where travel was compensated at X amount per mile (no where near the actual cost of gas was but it helped cover travel). But I’ve never been compensated for travel working a standard 9-5 job unless I went to a work event and was offered per diem.

LET THEM FAIL.

I migrated because I was frustrated with having to constantly fix problems caused by forced updates. I didn’t expect the benefit of my computer being WAY faster.