Spot on, IT decides how you can access your mail. Not because they are jerks; it's because of security. M365 is the only viable path for a startup. $20 a month per employee for full office suite with desktop apps, web access, and mobile apps too. No infrastructure needed. Imagine 5 employees in a small company: $150 (fees + ?) and you have a full suite minus a public facing website. There's no other offering close enough to compete.

That's a tough question! I think Herbie is a character.

To be fair, a 50% reduction in warranty repair/replacement is pretty impressive. I've not had the pleasure of intrusive reflow soldering, but it's awesome if reduces the faulty rate of products from an assembly line to a point that they save money and make better products.

I finally got a new card to replace my placeholding GTX 1050. I got a 3060 Ti for $600 from NewEgg (not a 3rd party seller).

I recently ditched my smartwatch and stopped tracking exercise. Now I just workout and forget about the metrics. I know I need to exercise daily and I've made a conscious choice to minimize electronic interference. I just got tired of tinkering with all of it. I was surprised that I enjoy exercising more and now look forward to my breaks from the connected world. I imagine sleep trackers would bring the same fixation that I had on fitness monitoring. I don't miss any of it and I'm sending less of my info into the hands of data grubbing entities.

Are they using a device ID or the advertising ID? The advertising id can be reset on most phones and tablets.

And no-one ever bought an RTF from the local hobby shop and flew it in a schoolyard or local park without concern for safety, radio interference, AMA licensing, or flying at a sanctioned field. Get a hint, you sound like a grumpy old guy. I've flown FF, UC, and RC since the early 1970s and now I am flying a drone. My first act (while charging my drone) was to register it with the feds and read the operating rules. It's no different than any other form of model aviation. There is no shortage of idiots and they are involved in many areas of RC modeling, not just drones.

Agreed, but battery condition should have been reported in Settings. No excuse other than it was easier to not disclose the truth. My 6S+ is 2 years old and fine, so I'm not going to let them crack it open.

Windows for business (Pro and Enterprise) is a piece of cr*p and is loaded with garbage. I'm at work and totally want to play Candy Crush. WTF is going through their heads? And they bend over backwards to collect user data. Particularly, they try to get users to create and use a Microsoft account on a new PC or instance of Windows. I have a MSDN subscription and can get/install any version of Windows or Windows Server that I want. I wiped and reloaded my workstation with Windows 10 Enterprise. If you haven't installed Windows 10 lately, you will be digging to find a way to avoid creating a Microsoft account. They act like an overly excited poodle wrapped around your ankle trying to gather as much data as possible including personal identifying data. They work hard to force or trick users into consenting to data collection. I'm sick and tired of fighting to maintain control of my work PC and dev system. I'm convinced they are still collecting data that I haven't knowingly given them permission to access, but I have work to do and I can't sit around devising ways to monitor what they collect. I shouldn't have to police a company that I have paid for a product. Windows 10 is tightly bound to paid MS services and data collection. I have over 30 MacBooks for iOS developers and we don't have this problem with them. They aren't preloaded with Xbox or Candy Crush and data gathering is simple to disable (answer no to a direct question 1 time). After a year with my company and living with a MacBook and 2 PCs on my desk, I bought my own MacBook. The PCs and Windows 10 are a constant pain in the a**. Yes, I'm aware of Linux but prefer MacOS for consistency with work and ability to run Visual Studio, Xcode, and Photoshop. Why is Windows 10 hitting government services more than Windows 7? Simple answer is time. People need and/or want new PCs and they all have Windows 10. It isn't possible for the average user to wipe 10 and load 7 on a new system and that may not even be possible at all on some systems. By the way, I'm on vacation this week and sending this rant from my MacBook using simple old Safari. Microsoft can piss off as far as I'm concerned.

He claims everything will be just as great as it is now. So what is the benefit of changing? If the current situation is the best way for ISPs to profit, why have they spent so much money lobbying for repeal? Sounds like another smokescreen to me.

So Apple checks my battery voltage, sees that it is below spec, and then they limit performance to ensure the phone keeps working. Sounds like a good plan to me. Perhaps they could/should add a battery health report in settings>battery so I know when to take it in for a new battery. Not a Apple freak, unlike many that act like phone OS is a religion. I have a 6S Plus 64GB and a Pixel XL 128GB. Love both and switch daily driver every few months.

MS Edge: If you have a menu item named "Open in Internet Explorer", it might be a clue that the browser isn't ready for prime-time.

I served in U.S. Navy fighter squadrons for 20 years. Each shift began with a maintenance meeting. These meetings were always standup, very focused, and usually less than 15 minutes in length. We covered a lot of ground in support of maintenance and flight operations for the oncoming shift. I am now a software developer; that type of meeting could be valuable on larger projects if carefully controlled. Similar to agile?

Why would anyone think a corporate Outlook account wasn't being monitored by admins?

Electronics Engineer != Software Engineer and only someone uneducated in the profession would make such a foolish statement. Takes an equally large fool to find any stock in that statement. Air conditioning repairman should be able to fix my plumbing; after all they are both home maintenance professions. Go away troll, find something legitimate to wank on, I am finished with you