Any bad decision that’s made by an exec is usually just met with nods and grins by the workers while they do what’s actually necessary and try only half heartedly to follow their edicts. Execs usually have no idea what a pilot program is and every decision they make is pure gold so why not roll it out to everybody at once.

Cost and price are two different things. Insulin is cheap to make but people die from not being able to afford the sticker price.

Are there “burner sims” you can get nowadays that don’t require online activation (i.e. they can easily trace the sim back to you)?

If you look at broad based EU markets vs the S&P over the last year they grew about twice the rate.

Trump and other dictators are vain (uh, reviving an outdated class of naval ship and naming it after yourself sound familiar?) so they’ll prefer bombers, tanks, and rockets over some little robots with little propellers. They disdain things that look weak regardless of their usefulness.

Not common I’m sure, but I once had an answer I posted completely rewritten for grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. I felt so valued. /s

I probably got a lemon but regardless my XPS (~3 years old) is the worst computer I’ve ever owned. Touchy WiFi, battery that goes from 30 to 3℅ in a matter of seconds, randomly doesn’t detect the keyboard, randomly freezes, randomly doesn’t acknowledge it’s plugged in. Some days I just put it in timeout and use my 10yo netbook instead.

For pure energy efficiency it’s hard to beat an SBC (raspi, rockpi). Mine does a good job with Jellyfin streaming so long as I avoid transcoding.

Not the worst idea (the phone) but that is an extra device to keep track of. I would also get in trouble for plugging a phone (or some kind of drive) into my work computer so that means another cable run from an outlet…

I’m not able to install most apps without prior approval but if there’s a website I can directly play from that could work. Would be preferable if I didn’t have to login to use it but it’s probably not a deal breaker. Big names like Spotify are a no-go mainly because they suck ass.

Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburger. It just pummels your tastebuds with fat and I like it.

They didn’t explicitly say but it sounds like the JPEG solution can’t put out a substantial FPS. If you start to do fancier stuff like sending partial screenshots or deltas only then you get the same issues as H264 (you miss a keyframe and things start to degrade). Also if you try and put out 30 JPEGs per second you could start to get TCP queuing (i.e. can’t see screenshot 31 until screenshot 30 is complete). UDP might have made this into a full replacement but as they said sometimes it’s blocked.

Also your reputation. I had a Crucial SSD and was days from getting an identical one as a backup but then they said they were stopping consumer RAM sales so they’re now on my blacklist.

If you live in a region that snows seasonally then I’d say knitting. It can be a very therapeutic activity and when my wife wears her own knits she’s never cold. Knitted gear can also make great gifts and if you’re good enough it can earn some money on Etsy.

This is definitely a thing.

Ditto. One of the biggest gripes I have with my servers is the fat UPS I have to keep next to them.

Or extortion. He makes a stink, they make some campaign donations, and he backs off or gives them a slap on the wrist.

Of course it is, because nobody is willing to try and quantify or qualify the harms that seeing pornography has on a young person. It’s just “adult content” so we’ll go so far as to put VR headsets on everyone and ask them to verify their age or else they get a PG, low-polygon representation of reality!

Don’t know if it’s planned obsolescence or just laziness but all of my Nintendo Switches have at least a little drift and I’ve bought at least two replacement sets of joy-cons AND replaced just the joystick on one unit (PITA and replacements didn’t work 100% so I stopped repairing).

I’ve been successful in replacing built-in batteries in 2 different phones. Granted my families phones are all > 4 years old so maybe it’s gotten much harder lately.