... caught up in a storm? lol. She was the storm. I can only assume you're basing this flawed opinion on the made-for-TV fictional summary of events which paint her as wide eyed woman who tried to brave her way forward in a man's world when in reality she was manipulating people from day one. She knew early on her promised couldn't deliver but she continued to dig her hole, continued to give people fake medical results, continued to put lives at risk, all for money and ego. I mean, seriously, this is a woman who went out of her way to get pregnant to avoid jail.

I feel like people aren't upset with the Chrome browser as a product, they're upset with how Google leverages that platform for monetary gain at the expense of users and how they keep influencing negative changes with how we interact with their products and with the internet as a whole. For example, why am I signed into a Chromium web browser with all my data migrated into a browser when all I wanted to do was check my email in Gmail? Why is my history of web searches tracked? Why are some of the suggested links dominating a search for a particular product malicious sites run by hackers trying to scam people who don't know any better?

No but also yes to your questions in that order. I'm a Canadian but we also suffered similarly to the US and people who live in a former manufacturing town know what it's like when their manufacturer leaves for lower cost countries. I lived in a GM town for what felt like an eternity, where you had guys who weren't too bright, who didn't have an education, and had no marketable skills yet somehow owned a large four bedroom home, an RV, a cottage, a boat, and went on plenty of vacations with their nuclear family of 3 kids, kids that were all put through university on their father's salary. The richest people around were high school educated GM workers and there were almost 10,000 people who were in that category in my city. Then GM shut down a plant and wiped out 90% of those jobs, it was devastating to our region's economy.

According to the WEF, the United States has lost more than 2.7 million of these jobs to China over the past 24 years. So when you ask if American citizens are truly so desperately in need of those manufacturing jobs I would say that every first world country would truly so desperately want those manufacturing jobs.

... a demonstration which has zero impact on the opinions of posters. This woman disrupted a company event to engage in personal activism. What more does anyone need to know? I don't care about her feelings or hearing about her perception of what her company's product may be used for. I bet Israel uses Windows' computers too!

This has been my experience as well. We've put up job postings for IT positions over the past couple years and almost every job applicant in Gen Z years are asking how many hours they're expected to come into the office. "all of them" would be my answer but the woman handling the human resources communications basically copies and pastes the amount of hours the job posting was listed at, if she even replies at all. Despite that we did end up with a shiny new Gen Z worker who didn't expect to work from home and he's been doing a great job so not all of them are aiming for the top level jobs right out the gate.

I've been using Google Maps for years to track my travel history, to confirm where I'd been and for how long on certain days. Unfortunately I had a panic attack about a week or two ago when I discovered that my entire history was wiped out entirely. I tried everything from rebooting, disconnecting the account / reconnecting, clearing cache, clearing app data, etc., etc..

What worked for me was adding a second Google account that had never used maps on the phone and immediately my entire history returned. So Google didn't exactly wipe it out, they just made it inaccessible to the primary account that was 'connected' to the data... and somehow accessible to a brand new account that never had seen the data. Weird. But it worked.

I'm sure there's a lesson here not to trust Google after all the products they've destroyed over the years (like Nest, Withings, etc.) but I really thought they'd never do the thing that they did here, I never thought they'd wipe out my travel history.

I don't know any such thing, I prefer to work at the office because I'm more productive. The only time I want to work from home is when it's advantageous to my personal life, like I have to catch up on laundry or someone is coming to fix an internet issue. My brain prefers to rest away from work at home and prefers to lock in at work at the office.

Why do you "waste" the time? I'd say for at least 20 years of my life I was commuting roughly 1.25 hours a day (45 minutes there, 45 minutes back) and I used the time to learn to speak other languages, listen to interesting podcasts I'd curated, or simply decompress before I made it home with some good tunes. There were mornings I'd look forward to getting into the car and driving to work with a good podcast as the house was a bit chaotic with the wee ones. For me the drive to and from work was like sitting down, relaxing, and watching TV.

The worst thing to happen since this covid work-from-home movement is that people have become inaccessible or difficult to interact with. Want to get login credentials for a platform? "Let's schedule a half hour zoom call some time next week!" Well, I simply need credentials... "I'm tied up until next week, let's schedule a zoom call." It's literally a 1 minute question, you could even text it. Silence.

Or you wait on hold for someone in some department and what was previously a 2 - 5 minute hold has turned into 60 minutes and oh look at that, the call dropped because of some cheap VoIP platform.

That and I've lost track of how many companies have offshored various departments because why not, if you're going to pay someone to work from home why not pay someone to work less from an actual office in another country?

Weird. Up here in the north we use it for NPR Radio, national news, international news, classical music, traffic conditions, school closures in inclement weather, bridge raisings (to seek alternative routes), and sports radio.

What's amazing about AM radio is that I can still pick up the same channel hours away, so when I'm deeper into Canada I'm still hearing my program on American Public Radio.

How do your schools stack them?

It's hard to take someone seriously who says, "doesn't sound like you've used [LibreOffice] yourself" when they also claim they're using Google Sheets.

Mothers who believe they need to have access to their children at all times, mothers who believe that their children are under constant threat of being shot, and mothers who believe their children are only using their phones to stay in contact with their parents and not using it for TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, etc..

Ignorant faculty and school administration as well. I was visiting a friend of mine at her school while she was teaching a computer class and noticed piles of kids were on their phones. I asked her why she permits the kids to use her phone and I was told it was the school ethos to encourage students to use whatever devices they have at their disposal to enhance their learning experience. I decided to walk up and down the rows and it was a mix of TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, and one kid watching Rick & Morty. There was zero utilization of their personal device for 'educational enhancements'.

This is why I'm having a hard time feeling any sympathy for anyone in California. The state literally voted for people like Gavin Newsom who caused insurance companies to drop home insurance coverage in people in fire prone areas, voted for officials in fire protection who were gay black women that can't carry men out and shouldn't have to because "he got himself in the wrong place", voted for officials that allowed dry brush to build up, voted for officials that didn't heed warnings concerning water capacity, etc., etc.. I mean the list of gross incompetency is long and some of the incompetent people are serving multiple terms.

I'd like to think California will learn from their mistakes but no doubt that ABC, NBC, CBS, et al will make excuses for government incompetency and Californians will continue to vote for people who exacerbate infernos instead of mitigating disasters.

Good grief, they're asking people to get to work, this has nothing to do with respect.