In both scenarios the profit margin is removed, or the customers are bearing the significant increase in cost. Hence the recession - the stock market plummets or inflation goes up. Or both.

When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.

Sure, let’s just gloss over the cost of heating - which relies heavily on fossil fuels or smog-producing fuels, or both.

Datacentre thermal management (especially for AI)isn’t even in the same ballpark as cooling for homes. One produces pretty charts for management, the other keeps people alive.

Look at the boxes outside the back of the restaurant.

Any decent restaurant will be cooking a fair bit of their food, even if they’re using Restaurant Supply’s fried chicken mix.

Applebee’s potato skins you probably can’t get directly because it’s probably only available to franchisees. But with some digging you might be able to buy a skid of the generic stuff from the manufacturer.

Once, I got a box of frozen microwaveable dessert. We ate so much… every day… it was a big box.

I clicked the button to make a link but it didn’t work. :)

I just looked back and my first vault item dates back to 2010. Time flies.

I think enshittification is slightly an overstatement. They’re under VC pressure now and moving aggressively towards a subscription model with capabilities increasingly behind the subscription. I bought a few licenses for Mac and PC a while ago; the software still works but no browser extensions - need a subscription for that. Also, take a look at their job postings. Same job pays double in USA vs Canada. Funny way to do things if they’re Canadian.

It was a password safe before password safes were cool. https://www.pwsafe.org/2002.shtml

Personally, 1Password, but their enshittifaction is serious.

Work, Password Safe. But we’re moving to CyberArk.

I tried for a while to use two 16:9 vertically. Like you say, vertical makes a lot of sense and it works great. But web devs seem universally to assume that if it’s a tall narrow screen, to show the mobile version.

They’re there, but harder to find. And some are closing. I’ve had two or three in the last couple years that closed, in the reasonably popular world of cars.

That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.

Doug has forgotten.

Danielle is on board with it all.

Their base follows

It has gotten so much better over the years. Which is more testament to how unutterably awful it was at release than how good it is now.

Several years ago I inadvertently (because I didn’t realize who they were) got in a twitter argument with someone who I seem to recall as the creator of electron about how it was fucking embarrassing how bad electron apps are. At the time I kinda felt bad because he seemed like a decent guy and I let loose but I wonder what the carbon footprint of his little side project is…

I think what started the rant was that back at that time, if you scrolled one page back in a chat, it would display a graphic representing a chat while it loaded the chat. And the fucking software was sitting there using a GB of ram and couldn’t keep 5 min of conversation cached. Just inexcusably bad.

I don’t know who at Microsoft had such a hard-on for electron back then, but it seems to have spread and it’s still nowhere close to the good old windows GUI for resource usage.

Thankfully it has gotten better. Slightly. Still pegs my CPU but I think that’s because I have a shit CPU with integrated gfx

It uses a fucking inordinate amount of resources to accomplish its task, mostly.

I’ve seen it grow low. Like thyme.

What sort of isp supplied residential equipment doesn’t block inbound connections? Pedantically, you’re correct.

You have a firewall. It’s in your router, and it is what makes it so that you have to VPN into the server. Otherwise the server would be accessible. NAT is, effectively, a firewall.

Should you add another layer, perhaps an IPS or deny-listing? Maybe it’s a good idea.

Not just salary - H1B are also good at following orders, because if they lose their job, they will get deported.

Midwestern edition, made into squares with marshmallows perhaps?