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As much as I’m on-board with EVs this isn’t as compelling as the Ford Maverick at the price point. As you add features they’re at price parity and you arguably get much more for yo…

I ditched them after the last incident. So glad I don’t have to go through that again.

Outlook has been an embarrassment for years. Poor defaults, bugs that have existed for years, and sub-par performance. Search for a meeting: it shows you the oldest first. Busy sea…

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It’s a huge relief. This was one of the largest frauds about to be forced upon so many unsuspecting investors. Epic in proportion.

There is so much wrong with Windows. So many neglected corners that have existed for decades and their response is to add AI. Fix settings. Fix UI customization. Fix notifications.…

I had two friends (both PHDs, both worked for the CDC) leave the US this week. In addition to the tumult at the agency, they were being monitored for what they did on their own tim…

You can disable windows folder type detection to speed the laggy file explorer navigation. It’s a registry hack and so limited for corporate machines.

My two chief complaints are instability and lack of consistency across the UI. There are 20-year-old dialogs lurking behind shiny new interfaces. Search doesn’t work reliably. Righ…

It’s shocking that this hasn’t happened sooner. At its height the cost was over $10k and at that point Tesla had all but doomed its cars by removing sensors they deemed unnecessary…

While understanding their motivation to combat fraud they have a 20-year purchase history and have already established identity through payment methods. This is just lazy and perha…

Funny because Salesforce grew out of Oracle and initially sought to become the anti-Oracle. What was their pitch? Rent your software?

One of the most productive project managers I ever worked with did this. He’s easily top decile. In addition to my own text file I use the Clear app for quick lists. Recommended.

I only have a couple of services that use this pattern and I’m cancelling them out of frustration. If i use a personal email then I can’t access it on corporate machines and vice v…

Our Enterprise Chrome doesn't allow me to access the page to disable this behavior. Signing out of Chrome (but leaving extensions and bookmarks) is the only way I've found to stop …

If I recall correctly project 2025 had an item about targeting pornography. I could be wrong but it wouldn’t surprise me if the payment processors wanted to avoid the ire of the cu…

Free speech is dead. In case we’re keeping track.

Teams has never been as good as Skype at calls, even in the very early days. I was shocked at how good Skype was when my son called a friend in a French village where he was an exc…

Having talked to a couple of people in the CDC I fear the worst. They’re not allowed to participate with the WHO outside of the agency (even on their own time). The employees are l…

I don’t know if it’s widely known but now that we have TikTok back it’s irrevocably altered. Content amd actions are being policed for anti-right wing sentiment and people are bein…

Voidtools’s Everything is indispensable. Alas with no more admin rights on a corporate machine I’ve had to let it go.

The dems failed at messaging, as they have forever. Both parties have abdicated their role enforcing antitrust regs (esp as it relates to the food industry). Additionally mis-handl…

If you ever deal with elderly parents you’ll learn the full extent of this. It’s shocking how many worthless subscriptions my in-laws had. Services I’m not sure even exist any long…

The fact that we even have to have this conversation tells you how far afield from our stated values we have drifted. Some municipalities are just corrupt. If your cops are going t…

In addition to the obvious, Windows feels like a neglected ecosystem. They pile on new, half-baked features without fixing what’s already present and broken for years. Try searchin…