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Comment Re: sigh Users (Score 2) 25

I get most of those warnings opening Excel files from a corporate virtual machine that delivers our reporting. I doubt I'm the only person that has to do this.

The warnings are so omnipresent I imagine it's super easy to social engineer around them. Probably just tell people there's celebrity boobies to be seen or something.

Comment Re: Well yeah.... (Score 5, Insightful) 116

Why should anyone have to go and create a security policy, especially on a "professional" OS to prevent ads? Especially when a future update will almost certainly re-enable them.

Users shouldn't have to baby sit their OS like this. And if you tell the OS not to do something, you shouldn't have to worry about future updates overriding what you've already told it.

MS treats their power users like idiots, and is driving them away with it.

Comment Re: Wow... (Score 4, Insightful) 69

That seems like a terrible take.

Maybe I'm cool with losing everything and getting a check, but someone else value great grandma's doll collection as priceless.

A flood has a different cost for different people and it doesn't seem to me it's completely offset by insurance.

That's assuming the insurance companies choose to and are allowed to price by each lot based on flood data.

The assumption that municiolalities are choosing economically optimal mitigation seems sus to me too.

Comment No shit (Score 4, Insightful) 166

New phones are several hundred dollars, and offer very little improvements over models a few years old. With inflation and every other cost of living rising, wages stagnating, unemployment rising, people are making choices. And more often than not, the choice is to pay food and rent instead of a shiny new phone that doesn't do anything new.

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