The problem I have is all the services want total control, I've flat out had songs removed from my playlist from an artist as they take them off the service, like google play, then have to go find the song on youtube.

I almost forgot the name of the song and would have never known except one of my devices hadn't updated yet and had it removed.
If there was more responsibility and accountability to provide proper access or notification if a song has been removed from the service it would be better.
In the end, I pay about 10$ a month to listen to music every now and then, but if it keeps up bands are going to find it harder to get discovered, and I'll switch to buying music I like, taking it on medium I control, and that'll be the end of it.

I'm okay with people being paid for their work, but I'm not okay with people dictating when they'll take it away from me, after taking my money.

But do you have the ability to remove the book from people's hands, update it's content without their permission and desire to do and then go after them if they find a way to read the original copy of the book?

If they purchase your book, and you charge a subscription to access a book club so they can attend with other book readers, is it right that you can take the book away if they no longer wish to attend the book club? Or go after them if they take their book to another book club that doesn't charge them for attending?

The biggest flaw is the fact that you have to purchase the game / book and then you're only paying for access to their servers. it shouldn't be illegal in these cases if using a legitimate purchased copy of the game to play on other servers. Or hosting the other servers / book clubs.

I've seen other companies try to use security scares to get you to log back in, like ubisoft.

If your account isn't locked out then it's likely just pr scam to get you to remember their services and login again. They wonder why people are alert and ad overloaded and don't respond to things, even ones that matter, because all the shady scamming crap from 'trusted companies' is fake.

Security alerts used to mean something, and people shouldn't ignore them, but they've started to since companies are abusing that content.

Make insecure chips but fast, use ahh didn't realize security issue marketing, slow down chips, resale chips with the same performance level, profit.

Much cheaper than actually coming up with faster chipsets to purchase.

The point sailing over your head is that the consequences that are there IF caught aren't more of a, oh well that sucks.

Hence people don't spend as much time thinking about the consequences. Obviously I agree that if people think they can't even begin to get away with whatever crime they want to commit they won't bother, but increasing the severity brings a larger reality check.

All people seem to do these days is advocate less conequences less responsibility and yet somehow our world isn't improving.

I dunno, if the consequences was the swat members or a member of the family you had someone killed in got to put a bullet between your head, you wouldn't swat, you wouldn't want a bullet in the head, you fear that much more than a prison sentence.

So many devices no matter where you buy them have 'security flaws' and be at risk to expose sensitive data or spy etc etc.

This sounds more like "Oh god, instead of us buying it from China for 10$ then selling it in north america for 110$, people are directly buying it for 10$" Ah noooo what do we do!

Just sounds like a campaign to try to convince people to pay higher prices.

So many more people be like yo bling search it. No one wants to say they binged it.

There are people out there who are like I have billions in bitcoins. What exchange can they walk to and be like, I'd like my billion dollars in USD now.

I dunno, I tell my kid all the time I'm going to do it. Her eyes always light up and she's like yay do it!

Today's 30s are working 50+ hour work weeks with mandatory overtime and are still living paycheck to paycheck.

The difference is what hard work got you in the 1960's isn't what it got you today. You could own a home etc. Most of the time now people are told they can give up 90% of their free time, including travel time etc, and maybe you'll be allowed to have a car.

With inflation etc, people are earning a lot less. And companies are like whaaaat, you don't want to work more? Come on, if you work even more hours, in 3 years we'll give you a dollar raise. No? My god what is wrong with this generation...they don"t know what hard work is.

Single layer sheet of atoms is about as close to two dimensional as we can perceive.

Clearly your company is small to medium. When your business gets large enough it can be uneconomical especially if non sense questions or basic "Read the manual" questions come in.

Like hi I just bought X how do I turn it on?

You get enough customers with enough content like that coming through and you have an issue. I like the approach you have but I do scrutinize the scalability of it. Small businesses often thrive because they have the flexibility to provide personalized support to their clients. A company like microsoft would be slammed with "I installed a program that says it's for windows 98 on windows 7, and it doesn't work, I need this really really really really really really bad, for business, how do I make it work?"

Making junk files isn't interesting.

What he did was amusing and adds interest.

People in the work force for 20 years tend to have figured out a significant portion the mistakes by incompetent managers / co-workers wasting money and catering to petty egos and every trick in the book to pay you less.