I was hoping for FreeBSD.

That’s a tough nut to crack. Even as a video game platform, they don’t write most of the software that they sell today. They would need to find some way to convince developers to write software for something that’s not the platform nearly all users are running.

I’m not sure that Microsoft ever did halt going down that path. My wife recently bought a PC that came locked down by default and required some fiddling to allow running unsigned apps. This was Windows 10, not sure about 11.

I think it could be more that broad compatibility with everything is their main selling point, and by doing so they were undermining their own ecosystem.

However, this is mere speculation on my part.

Valve is a Titan doing incredible work for the open source community and making money while doing so.

Successful open source software business model at work. Way to go.

But we continued to use the substances anyway because it was cost-effective.

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Chapter 6: The First Mutant

Loads of complex code exposed to an assumed trusted network is the model of printers. They’re going to be full of security issues.

This stuff should be sandboxed and then never, ever exposed to the Internet.

Entirely personal recommendation, take it or leave it: I’ve seen and attacked enough of this codebase to remove any CUPS service, binary and library from any of my systems and never again use a UNIX system to print. I’m also removing every zeroconf / avahi / bonjour listener. You might consider doing the same.

Great advice. It would appear these developers don’t take security seriously.

It also comes with cost of living growing to insane proportions. Fewer people can afford to live near their preferred school, some portion of which won’t ride the bus. More students living further away will tend to increase demand for transportation and the increasing length of the bus ride will worsen the ratio of car to bus riders. Apparently we can’t afford housing people near the resources they need to access these days.

With that said, I’ve seen the insane long line of cars waiting to enter a school and thought how glad I was not being in that line.

I appreciate the positive and constructive outlook and for that I value your contribution. Your wife seems like she’s being the change we want to see in less-than-stellar HR departments, but I think to consider the benefits of HR from the employee POV just isn’t safe unless you’re absolutely certain where the priorities lie for your local HR team.

The phrase “cops of the company” is an even more accurate term in the sense that while some cops may actually believe in serving their community, many perhaps most do not, and trusting one is hazardous to your health. A good HR department does care about employees and the company, but how does an employee know that they have one of the good ones? I feel like this is something you don’t really know until you lean upon it such as when disagreements occur, and then either the rickety post will hold or you fall flat on your face. Me? I’m not leaning on that rickey post any more than I would willingly speak to a “friendly” neighborhood police officer. Your job isn’t a place for trust. It’s business. That HR person could be your wife, or they could be the kind to shoot first and ask questions later.

I don’t have a problem with my local PD nor do I have any issues with my HR, but I definitely don’t want a visit from either.

Windows embedded seems like such a strange choice. I mean, there’s so many free operating systems to choose from. Do people use it just because it ships with the device? It seems like a strange choice that would drive up costs and increase complexity.

Do not share this info. Never. Always a bad idea.

And it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!

Handy

Do you consider the smartphone a mature product? I really struggle to think about where it could be improved excepting of course for those things that no manufacturer wants to do anymore like expandable storage. Every day it seems like the offerings are becoming more similar than different, and as an enthusiast I find that a little disappointing.

There can only be one true corporation and you will pay infinite money for every one of its products.

They can’t decide whether they’re evil or they just hire the most inept and cheapest people possible.

Life is movement. We die when we stop moving.

I feel this is true with humans taken together too. It’s not about being absolutely correct. It’s about believing we can learn.

I hold out hope that there will be enough people who desire progress and knowledge that we can always keep growing and just maybe outpace greed.

No no, you have a point and I agree. We admit too many viewpoints as potentially valid when these points do not agree with facts. For example, it’s ridiculous to consider the question of the existence of climate change as a topic of debate. Instead, it’s a scientific fact that human-caused climate change is having an impact on our world. To seriously consider points of view that ignore facts (outside of perhaps artistic merit) is not a productive use of our limited time.

I do think there is some flexibility in the interpretation of facts, but to discard objective truth entirely is to me a rejection of the scientific method, and that does not lead to a desirable future for humans. It is to discard the merits of human progress in general.

Now, lately a concerning portion of my fellow citizens have expressed that they do not fundamentally believe in improvement, but that’s another topic entirely.

It was spectrum Internet. Charter communications.

On the bright side two more years and it falls off their report anyway. It would be a mistake to pay it at this point.