I mean, I straight-up ditched Windows as my primary platform after years of thinking it was "OK enough" after it started looking like Recall was going to be a required feature. At least I use KDE on Linux...

I love people for whom the mere existence of something that, ultimately, doesn't affect them is enough for them to go off about "kids these days".

Microsoft: *Resists any sort of integration with Linux even if it has to violate a standard* Slashdot: This is Bullshit! MIcrosoft needs to allow integration and follow standards and allow interoperability with linux! *22 years pass* Microsoft: *Litearally allows you to install, by name, several popular linux distros and offers deep hooks into their operating system to make switching between linux tools and windows tools painless* Slashdot: Microsoft is trying to take over linux! This is bullshit!

I mean, I can see this being useful or neat for someone who wants to game but can't afford a PC for some reason, but anything that this would be used for is better used for nVidia Now, which lets you own the game, too.

Frankly, I'd prefer a more disconnected approach, like Authy/Google Authenticator TBOTP. But half the time, that turns into "buy this token/download our app" rather than "Here's a QR code with the seed" (looking at you, Square and Blizzard), so forcing that might just create more situations where I'm forced to install Yet Another Crap App rather than being able to use tools I have already.

If the answer is between "Leave SMS OTPs alone" and "Improve the experience somewhat", there's no reason not to take the latter path; I agree that phasing out SMS auth, given the insecurity of it, is the direction we need to go, but that's not going to happen instantly, and as we move to sunsetting the idea of SMS OTPs, we should do what we can to make the experience as good as is reasonable.

I dunno what cruel mastermind manage to take over the Printer industry, but some of the stuff I read about from there is nuts. Was HP the one with DRM on their cartrages or something? And some sort of messed-up anti-refill technology?

I'm not exactly averse to IoT products (I really do enjoy my smart lights), but it seems like Smart TVs always miss the mark on this kinda stuff (Too slow to update, to slow to USE, pointless buttons on the remote for long-dead services, wasn't Samsung the one caught slipping ads into shows or something using their Smart TVs or did I just hallucinate that?) Like, the only product I'm less willing to buy than a smart TV would be a smart lock.

Have Carpenters moved over to Hammer yet? Have Plumbers checked out the newest version of Wrench? Questions like this imply that you need to use one solution to every problem, which is how we end up with broken shit like Node to begin with.

Yeah, but the spectacle of what we call a High School/College reunion now is largely a product of the Boomers.

>Facebook is redundant
One thing we agree on. My account there is basically vestigial at this point, used only to communicate with people who don't know me on Twitter or Google Plus and I don't feel like texting.
That said, the first half of your post has nothing to do with the last half. I get that reuniting with someone after a long way away is a nice feeling, but, in terms specifically of high school Reunions, is largely a fake feeling. It's not "Oh, here's my long lost aunt/niece/brother/friend I haven't seen in years, lets catch up", it's "Oh, here's a bunch of people who happened to be born around the same time as me, most of whom I don't care about." Maybe I'm just cynical for my age (I'm only a few years younger than you, born in '85), but most of the people I care about from high school I kept in touch with. The rest were noise to my life.

So? It seems like every few days we get some article from somewhere that basically amounts to "things are different now". It's also bonus points when the thing that's changed was only something Baby Boomers really experienced, and they act like it was a universal, awesome thing that OH NO THE INTERNETS KILLING NOW.

Why don't we just replace all state sales taxes with one federal sales tax?