I wouldn't want him to get real sad and hurt himself. I'm pretty sure Apple only wants kids that are excluded by the color of their bubble to get that sad.

I wish you were right, but the government isn't going to go after anyone at Apple. $1.4 Billion in fines over 24 years is just the cost of doing business and letting the gov. get *some* PR points so they can pretend that big companies don't have free reign. The company is worth over 3 trillion dollars, even if they got those fines all this year that's only ~0.05% of their total net worth (yes I know it get more complicated when they actually try to liquidate).

I actually did that just this past week, and I'll admit I was quite surprised by how many titles in my steam library were available. It's been a huge advancement.

With that said, I couldn't even get notepad to run under wine. I kept getting dependency errors. My steam library was still a fraction of the size on my linux install as well as on the "Verified for Steam Deck" page.

Still, giving up windows is a much bigger sacrifice today than just the operating system, but it's much less than it was even 5 years ago, and that's awesome! I am really getting sick of the direction Windows is going.

I couldn't tell from the summary or the linked article. Do you have to pair them, or do they negotiate that through the wired plug? I can't imagine getting a wired device and then realizing I have to pair it.

There's plenty of games on Linux. Like Tux Racer and. . . . uh. . .

Maybe the Amazon specials. You can write 2TB but you're never gonna get it back :D

Ethernet drops may not add value to some people, but they are unlike to detract value from anyone. Same for garage or gutters. Pools come with significant maintenance, increased insurance and utility costs. They quite literally can bring down the value of a home.

It's a poorly conveyed study at best. From the article I would imagine the actual results are that the rate of people quitting drops off sharply after 90 days.

It is, but correlation is not causation. All other things being equal, the first 90 days is the hardest to learn a new job and become comfortable with it. That's the point of the article. But, when companies manipulate the first 90 days, they're manipulating the outcome. Sure, people are motivated to stay 90 days to get that sign on bonus, but if your pay literally drops after you learn the job, and Wendy's is offering another sign on bonus, it's not that big of a shift to go from McDonald's to Wendy's for another bonus.

Companies are going to keep having high turnover if they treat new employees better (including paying them better with bonuses) than their experienced people that can do the job in their sleep.

YES! Seriously, you dangle a bonus at the end of 90 days that effectively results in a 50% pay raise, sure I'll stick around. Once that's gone, and you don't give me that recurring 50% pay raise, what's the incentive for me to stick around? Off to the next company offering me a 90 day bonus. This is just dumb!

I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw this.

"which they define as a year or more"

Guess what, I did a study, found out that my employees that stayed on 60 days were more likely to stay on for 61 days than the ones that didn't stay on 60 days.

So now you bribe them to stay 90 days, but after that carrot is gone why should they stick around for 90 more days at effectively less pay, since that bonus is gone?

And how does that happen? It's completely decentralized. There's nobody in control, just "the network". Do we take down the internet? I repeat the question, as again it's decentralized by design and semi-decentralized in practice.

Do we ban the network traffic? Do we ban the buying and selling of crypto, like we banned the buying and selling of drugs?

It's a pandora's box. It's not going away.

Call on every home enthusiast to start printing. Sure, some of their equipment won't be up to standards and won't print usable equipment, but if it's something that can be printed and easily tested, it's better than nothing. This is war, and if I'm a patient, I'd rather take an untested but "probably will get the job done" piece of equipment than be left to die because of a fear of a lawsuit.

What will it take to ramp up traditional production? I know we want to say "we can't rely on random volunteers" - but we rely on them for every single natural disaster, and that's what this is! Flooding doesn't require the national guard to rescue everyone. Rednecks in jacked up mud trucks and bass boats have saved countless lives.

The CPAP idea is cool. Would it just be a software update? That's basically what they are anyway, right?

This isn't even on the same order of magnitude as the days saved. Do people only print things on Fridays? Or is this tied to the fewer meetings?

NY: Trying to save the planet (albeit maybe a little too agressively?)
TN: F*** THE PLANET! And how dare you even consider trying to do anything to protect it.

How about freedom to do what you want (the American way), but we tax single use plastic bags at a nickel a piece. Aldi charges 10 cents for an big heavy paper bag and like a quarter for those heavy reusable plastic bags and most consumers make the decision to re-use their own bags or stock boxes from the shelves. I wish every other grocery store would take a hint about the quarter deposit. Amazing what people will do to get their quarter back, but you still have the freedom to walk away from it if you want.

Yes! I'd prefer to be able to choose my peers though, so anonymous isn't really an issue. Part of what I loved about crashplan was that I could backup my parents computer, my laptop, and my office computer to my server. If something happened, I don't need to wait hours, days, weeks, etc for the backup to download. I could simply go to the server which i had physical access to, extract the backup files to an external hard drive and re-attach them to the destination machine.