Yep, I was working at an academic Medical Center in New Hampshire when they reassigned the Disaster Recovery guy to 1st level technical support to get him to quit.

The place became run by insurance and lawyers.

I quit when they said we were going to skip the code to prevent medication errors because it would be cheaper to settle the lawsuits.

Yes, super hero fatigue is real.

The success of the recent Superman appears to prove you wrong. Tell a good story and people will go to see it. It's not super hero fatigue that's real...it's that the storywriting has suffered, and they're pulling from deeper B and C list superheroes that don't have the same kind of appeal.

Wow, you big mad at a popcorn movie. Did the allusion to Gaza get your panties in a twist? I hear that's generating all kinds of hate from all the right people.

And why do all your comments use caps lock - are you over 65, perchance?

I got a $500 discount on some storage batteries and one silly $20 electronic toy that's normally $40.

I got an earthquake alert from my (non-Android) cell phone last month a good 10 seconds before the shaking started. It was enough warning for me to get under my desk and then be oddly disappointed when the shaking was very mild, but it did demonstrate the benefit of the MyShake app.

Of course, you usually don't give them that info until after the price has been agreed upon.

> How does someone get access to his location data?

  You pay $50 to a data broker, AIUI.

Half of the convenience apps you download include tracking libraries. Free apps often make their money by selling your location data to surveillance companies.

Ads are included so you don't think to ask what their revenue stream is.

Stock ROM's don't prevent most of this.

The merits aren't the point - bankrupting the little guy and sending a message to the other little guys is the point.

"The process is the punishment."

It's interesting to watch old movies and the credits are maybe 30 people.

If you see a modern CG flick there will be thousands of people in the credits including the barista at the coffee shop down the street from where the IT backups subcontractor's office is.

Similar idea with IMDB and basically everybody lying on their resumes otherwise.

Interestingly software had credits pages in the 80's but California prevents noncompete agreements and poaching was rampant so the opposite occurred.

They're reeing about cuts to funding for medical programs in Africa that American taxpayers were funding.

When 25% of Americans can't even afford to get their own medical care.

At least Medicine stopped injecting kids with SV40 promoters from green monkey cells from 1970-2021. Massive cancer cause.

"Sony didn't make its compact camera bigger. Waaaahhh."

Imagine just buying the bigger camera.

What's worse is that Steam could obviously make certain titles crypto-only but MasterCard gets to tell them they can't sell those either.

It's a hostage situation by Fed member banks.

In his ZFS use case you want to flash your HBA to 'IT mode' which gets rid of all RAID logic on the card.

ZFS is much more reliable if it can see the disks directly. And more reliable than HBA-based RAID too.

Let them pass.

I drove 3 hrs once to see a film in IMAX only to find out it was liemax.

Imagine how happy I was.

The only IMAX I've paid for since then was "Sully" at Air & Space. Or "Avatar" in Omnimax. I was a huge fan in the 90's. They burned my good will.