solarvector

This was the context I never knew I needed, thank you.

If you have privileges from corporate IT and it doesn't get reverted, or overridden to push more AI.

Super simplistic view: Malware detection is kinda like having a motion sensor in your house. Doesn't do much to prevent but can help you catch something. If it notices right away it might prevent something being stolen.

Firewall is like having locks on your windows and doors. It helps keep out the curious and respectful, but not the dedicated.

Security updates aren't necessarily for either of those things. It might be that someone discovered a way to steal your keys, or cut open a window bypassing a lock, or sneak into your basement, or crawl through the pet door. Patches "fix" those vulnerabilities. The longer software (Windows in this case) goes unmaintained the more of those are discovered, revealed, and generally accessible for people to use and exploit your system.

Highly recommend trying a live Linux USB just to poke around and see if it's as much of a hassle as it seems at the time.

Funny meme but also inflation is bad

Good article, but the bit about airline customers being only slightly less likely to use the airline they hate is hardly something you can blame on customers.

If the alternatives either don't exist (e.g., United is the only feasible route between city A and City B), or they are both shitty (Delta is just as shitty as United, so the fact that United breaks guitars doesn't mean I'm more likely to pick Delta), then poor customer service is just the cost of existing.

Same situation as price gouging, or Apple vs Google, Ford vs Chevy, or Samsung vs LG. Yeah, you have options, but none of them respect you. So you can not travel, not communicate, and not be entertained, or you can "voluntarily" participate in what society has become.

I feel like I just need to watch someone use it... and then will still wonder what the point is and why an interior platform has so much more traffic.

When did selling a product instead of a subscription become a bad business model?

Edit: I have a lot of trouble believing that a product that could theoretically have value to every person on the planet for current and every future generations, that can't be passed along used or resold, couldn't develop a successful sustainable business model.

I'd say dog pee is the least concerning thing on the list.

Also, parasites 😬

Note it's the second part, but they're both interesting.

You better be built bigger than LeBron if you can shoot a pumpkin from downtown

It's more that clean is hard to find / expensive, and that you can fairly safely build up a tolerance and then burn/snort through a fuckton.

I'm pretty sure all you really need is a plant and some gasoline for distilling or whatever it's called.

Cocaine

Eh, that's really for everyone.