Sorry to reply to myself. Her name is spelled "Melania". I hit the submit button instead of edit.

This is the same Amazon that had $40,000,000 to license a documentary about Milania Trump.
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They don't want blame for higher costs due to tariffs? Screw 'em. The last few items I bought from Amazon were either not the specs that were listed or were very likely outright counterfeit. I was willing to gamble if the price was cheap and hope the value was there, but the prices have been creeping up long before these tariffs were in place.

Too late Broadcom!

I abandoned vmware workstation for libvirt/qemu at home.

Many other friends and colleagues who ran vmware abandoned it for Proxmox because of licensing cost.

Broadcom is still trying to strong-arm our biggest client into renewing with a 300% markup in license cost. The client is going to migrate to Azure and will do so as soon as the hardware support on our hosts expires next year.

Nobody needs this in theaters. The last 2 theater experiences we had we marred by the ripped seats we had picked online before getting to the theater, the garbage from the previous movie still in unused seats when the movie started, and the interruption of concessions workers coming in after the previews during the opening scenes of the movies to serve people too lazy to stand in line and get their overpriced snacks before the movie started.

We just don't watch new movies anymore. What's the point? They are available on streaming sometimes as soon as 3 months after theatrical release anyways.

So now the public schools have rights the parents don't have and can chemically alter their children without input. By force of law.

Aaaannd, you lost me. What law is in place that allows that? I'll wait. I have a relative with a gay grandson in high school and she keeps talking about how he's gay because the school "encourages" it. She has also said the school is going to let him have a sex change because the law says so. She can't list the law either.

Since you listed the Daily Wire link (a notoriously far-right rag). I also looked at the Court Opinion filing (google "case #23-1069 foote et al") and the following line caught my eye. It has nothing to do with chopping off genitals or forcing kids to wear rainbow colored clothes. It's about pronouns. If the kid wants to use a particular pronoun, the school isn't obligated to run to the parents and go "Quick! Quick! Your kid might be queer!".

Here is part of the summary directly from the case filing. I encourage anyone who wants to learn more to read the entire ruling.

"More specifically, it presents for our review challenging issues arising from the Ludlow School Committee's protocol ("the Protocol") requiring its staff to use a student's requested name and gender pronouns within the school without notifying the parents of those requests unless that student consents. Our appellants are the parents ("the Parents") of a Ludlow student who chose -- at school but not at home -- to go by a different name and to use different pronouns than those given to them at birth."

When I first read the headline, I wondered how believing in aliens would ruin the guys career. But then I got to "defrauded them through an alleged antigravity machine scheme". If your career's success hinges on people NOT finding out you scammed them, that might be the root cause of your issues.

I don't think your issue was self-custody. Your issue was a password service that bills itself as secure but was just a big, fat, target for someone with the time and resources to hack. Just curious, did you have MFA enabled for your LastPass account?

Gen-X'er here.
I grew up learning to always politely answer the phone with "This is Weeboo, how can I help you?".

Now, the vast majority of calls I get, despite being on the FTC Do Not Call list, are from robocallers. The calls are then transferred to a live person or "closer" who tells me they want to consolidate debt, give me a lower interest rate on my credit card, or help catch the hackers on my computer. All crap.

The elderly have it worse. If you try to explain to them they are talking to a malicious stranger, they counter with "But the caller ID says 'Card Services'" or "But I keep telling them not to call back and they keep talking." In the worst case, the elderly victim gives money or bank information to the predator and gets looped into other scams. In the case of one of my relatives, he likely gave away over $66k to "Microsoft" to help catch hackers and "Capital One" because the person on the phone who said they were with Capital One, claimed payment needed to be sent to cover the past due amount almost bi-weekly.

We no longer have telephones. We are now using multi-media communication devices that keep us connected in ways that didn't exist 50 years ago.
Wireless carriers need to start letting subscribers use Whitelists and screening free of charge. If a call or text not in the local address list comes in, it goes to Voice Mail or maybe a text escrow or maybe the caller needs to type a one-time passcode for the call to be completed. I have a Call Filter service, but I have to pay Verizon for it, there is a finite amount of numbers I can add, and the spam calls still come through.

My point is viewing that portable handheld computer we need for day-to-day interaction, business interactions, and financial authentication as a simple telephone is horribly narrow-sighted. The days of blindly trusting a stranger on the other end of a communication chain is just no longer feasible or safe.

TFA says "an object near the surface of the Moon will pick up an extra 56 microseconds every day".
So, since a year is 365.242374 days long, an object near the surface of the moon will pick up 20.453573 Milliseconds each year. That's about 5 Milliseconds longer than my ping times to Google DNS right now.
If we consider that modern Homo Sapiens have been around for about 100,000 years, the moon has picked up 34 seconds since modern man walked the Earth.
Since the end of the age of dinosaurs (65 million year ago), the moon has picked up 15.387525984 days.

In the grand scheme of celestial time, the time difference between celestial bodies sure adds up.

This one hurts the most for my family. I noticed issues in 2019 when I talked to my dad on the phone in the evening. Conversations weren't flowing logically, rambling was bad and I could see his house declining. We lived 7 hours away but tried to visit twice a year. He was starting to show no interest in his grand-daughter when we visited. When he was sent to memory care a couple years ago, the person I knew was just gone.

Memory Care is stupid expensive. He burned through $110K+ in a year just to have a place to live and get care. He might have been able to move into a better place earlier if he had accepted the help people offered. It also didn't help that he took out a $100K Home Equity loan and had been sending money to "Capital One" and the other people helping him catch the "hackers" on his PC. It took me 2 years to finally let go of any hope of him having a relationship with my family at this point.

Not entirely true. The Crowdstrike issue may have only affected Microsoft hosts, but the configuration issue in the Azure Central US region last night took out VMs even if they were Linux.

Over 20 years ago, Dr. Irene Pepperburg and other members of the MIT Media Lab created the "Interpet Explorer". It was designed to see if the Grey Parrots would interact with what was on the screen. I think the study concluded the birds preferred working with people in person. My old Grey liked watching kids programming because she liked the sounds the characters made. I have one now that doesn't care for watching the TV but when I am on Teams calls and he is in the room, he loves making a ruckus by whistling and smashing his toys around when he sees the screen has my attention.
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This. We have a laptop and an HP business desktop at home that have more than adequate resources, but the TPM chip is not compatible with Windows 11. All Linux distros have no issue with the hardware. Windows 10 still runs great, but I was all ready to upgrade to Windows 11 (and pay for the license) until the readiness checker told me I couldn't.

If Microsoft wants to treat their OSs like a chromebook, I'm not buying more than one for the household.

One word would be "SaaS".

I've been a VCP for over a decade and worked with ESX since you had to configure iSCSI from command line.
This last renewal period for my cert though, I finally made the decision to let it lapse. No employer I've worked for has used the partner benefits and the support has been lacking when there is really an issue (to be fair issues have been very few and far between).

I haven't done a new install of a VMware cluster in just over 4 years. Anyone that is still running it has been letting their clusters die a slow, ignoble death of apathy and migrating to Azure or AWS.

We're running it at my client now, but it's gone when our cluster hardware falls out of support.