Baron von Fajita

Very true. Pretty much everything is made up from something they saw on CSI or NCIS the night before. They are trying hard to make their “industry” cerebral when it just isn’t.

Same here. Both my brother and I are left-handed. I’m the analytical engineering type. He’s the musician type. I’m about as creative as an algorithm. He got the creative talent genes in the family.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t. I’m just saying that we tend to sensationalize the wording more and more each day. Eventually, there will no longer be words strong enough to get the appropriate attention and people will suffer because of it.

I’m not faulting Anker. I’m faulting Gizmodo.

Ahh, the sensationalist headlines. “STOP USING THESE NOW OR YOU WILL DIE!”

I’m not calling out you, OP. This is just the nature of journalism now. “OH OH, LOOK AT ME!”

You assume I give a shit about the state where I live.

I’m looking for both personal and business. My net is cast pretty wide.

“You had my curiosity but now you have my attention.” I’m a very light Infomaniak user now but I’d love to explore a NextCloud host that offered similar features.

Just think of all those lost profits and how high we could get one or two guys net wealth!

If anyone in those socialist hellholes needs an experience information security engineer, I’d love to protect things that actually matter for a change.

Western civilizations attach success to the wrong factors. I hate the idea of rapid business growth being necessary to be considered successful.

Even if the US weren’t a shit show right now, this is still a good move. These top players have gotten very comfortable with their high user share. The only way to get them back to following the consumer needs/wants is to hurt them monetarily. Microsoft has experienced this before with IE and their assumed domination of everything computing in the early 2000s. People started switching away from their closed ecosystem and they, painfully, had to redesign things to meet needs. Windows 8 is the same thing. Ballmer’s Microsoft lost alot of consumer sentiment by pushing things people didn’t want.

The difference now is that so many people are willing to take whatever poop is shoveled at them. It will take more of us who are intelligent and discerning to flip away and bring others with us. Nadella will be the next Ballmer if he’s not careful. Google will lose out to another search engine, or engines, if the aren’t careful.

Open source is the way, but not without alot of support for “the lesser” among us. Fediverse and big social media alternatives as well. The Internet of today is nowhere near the magnificent beast it was in the 90s and very early 2000s. No intelligent person wants AI slop 24/7.

If you haven’t already, divest yourself of MS software and services.