I had Cox cable internet for over a decade, it was the fastest I could get at my home. ATT was still just offering DSL, so cable was my only option. I was paying $160/mo for 1Gb down/100Mb up. Until a year ago a local Co-Op came through our neighborhood and laid fiber, I'm now paying $60/mo for 1Gb symmetric service, and they are about to upgrade it to 2Gb symmetric at no additional cost. Fiber has and always will be the future. The old telecom companies just don't want to do the work. If this little local co-op can do it here, I'm sure Comcast could manage it, but it might cut into that shareholder "value".

Our problem is we have several systems that use SSL for internal network authentication, but there is no way to automate them. We have phone system hardware that requires an SSL cert to communicate with the handsets around the office, but we have to go into a web interface on it to copy and paste the cert each year. We have the same thing for an internal camera/security system, same thing for a badge system. All of these things are local, not on the internet, yet require SSL certs for internal authentication with clients, and no way to automate these as they are just stand alone devices. As it is it’s a pain in the ass to update them, but if we have to do this on a monthly basis it’s just absurd.

I'm really tired of all these programs feeling like they need to completely change the interface and redesign things every couple years. It's a web browser, I just want it to work and be a window to the website I'm accessing, I don't need all the bells and whistles, and surely don't need any AI crap tacked into it. I'd love to just go back to a simple Netscape Navigator style browser, add in some of the modern security and extension availability and we're good. I've always preferred Firefox going back decades through its various name changes, mostly because I loath Google, but also Chrome just looks horrid. I still use Firefox for all the great extensions, though I'm more and more using Brave lately.

I really don't get who this is for. I've been a gamer my entire life, since the mid 90s I've been an avid PC gamer. My current gaming system has a 4090 in it and I've loved it and never seen any issues with playing any game I desire. I play on a 1440p/175hz OLED, and everything I play is set to175fps. That is more than enough for any game I want to play. I think a lot of the push for 4k, 5k and higher was due to poor LCD technology. Back in the day LCDs really sucked, especially when you were sitting at 1080p or lower, you could see every pixel and the jaggies were annoying. However, after moving to OLED at 1440p for my gaming setup I really have never seen pixels or any granularity during gaming, so the desire to move to even higher resolutions is lost on me. I do have Mac devices with higher density, the iPad, iPhone, iMac, even MacBook Air and Pro. They are great for reading text, the crispness is nice, but for gaming there is no point in pushing all those pixels that aren't even noticed in a game.

This is the difference between a government that cares about consumer rights, and a government who gleefully applies the lube for corporations to fuck youn with.

That's one thing these tech companies don't seem to get. Every company I've worked for either has some form of cubes, or open desks for at least a good portion of the building. It's hard enough to have a phone call in those places without bothering everyone around you, but if they want the whole computer to be voice activated, that is just dumb. Everyone is going to be talking over each other, your neighbor's computer will pick up your voice just like we deal with today with the whole Alexa/Siri mess if those devices are around. Who wants any of this in an actual business setting?

I'd much rather they just let us filter out all crap from China, but they will never allow that because people would see that's where 90% of their crap is from. I aggressively always look for goods made in the US, and Amazon actively makes that harder by not listing country of origin, or letting you filter this way in searches.

The wealthy aren't carrying credit card balances, so the credit card companies aren't making anything off them except the low swipe charges the businesses pay. They NEED the poor having credit cards and revolving debt to make any money. I haven't had a balance on any of my cards in years, the credit card companies aren't too particularly fond of me as they only make those swipe fees off me.

I'd really just prefer a stripped down Sequoia at this point. I already turn off/disable Apple Intelligence and Siri, they are useless to me and serve no purpose. I have no desire to talk to my computer, and anything I'd ask it to do I could do quicker with my own mouse and keyboard. I'm just tired of all the gimmicks both in MacOS and Windows. On the windows side I run a stripped down Win10 IOT LTSC version with all the cruft removed, it's fairly usable at that point. I just want my OS to stop changing major functionality on a whim because some bean counter decided it was time to change the settings app, or right click options, or network settings etc.. after it's been the same and perfectly usable for decades.

I watch YouTube almost exclusively on my TV using an AppleTV. It's great with no real complaints, except for the incessant push it makes for Shorts. Why Google thinks I ever want to watch a tall narrow short video on my 55in wide screen TV is beyond me, but it's annoying as hell and there is no way to just turn them off and remove them from my feed. Shorts are designed for vertical viewing on a phone, not for a wide screen TV. Just give us an option to toggle them off so I never see it in my feed and I'd be quite happy.

I would say it's the family that buys it second or third hand down the line for 1/2 and 1/4 of the original price that gets infuriated they can't use it because the functions are locked behind a subscription. This just makes buying used and reusing old items impractical.

I can confirm this method works. Going into my O365 family plan it gave me no option to switch plans, however after clicking cancel it showed the ability to switch to the family classic plan, saving the $30/yr. It’s obvious why they hid this, nobody is going to pay $30 for a feature they will never use.

You mean some people leave this enabled? It’s literally the first thing I disable on all systems so I can actually install an OS properly.

So the point of this is to have you apply to fewer jobs by showing you don't match them well enough, though it is only applies to paid subscribers? All the free people will just apply to all the jobs like normal. This seems backwards, now those actually paying will be getting less job opportunities? Sounds about right. lol

It's not even about not wanting to buy new computers. I just built a top of the line gaming PC last year but put Win10 LTSC on it because I hate all the changes in 11. I have no intention of ever moving that system off Win10. I use Mac and Linux for my daily systems at home, Windows is relegated to just a gaming OS. The day SteamOS can reach parity for everything I play I'll be moving my system to that.