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Why people prefer wireless earphones to wired I'll never know; they cost more, require charging, and are easy to lose.

I don't know why John Deere and other manufacturers aren't making parts for these old tractors, if they're not already, seems like a huge market opportunity.

I thought Google paid developers to slack off and date and get depressed and game. Maybe your next career move should be to make YouTube videos about the days in your life as a dev…

They'll find some way to make internet required to use these devices.

Just don't buy a smart tv, don't connect it to internet, cover its camera, and disable its microphone if possible. These things are cyberdystopic surveillance devices

Yes, profits are threatened when rights to repair are allowed, and without profits nobody has a job nor can feed their family. That's why we need small government to get out of the…

But what about a corporation's right to replace? People having their right to repair infringes on a corporation's right to make you replace your stuff. You're stepping all over the…

I dont know why the author can't download a cached map every month and use that for the hits.

1.0 Chrome B

How 'bout a full-size up and down key? I use those all the time and those scrunched keys are easy to make mistakes on.

Fuck you 2011, I'm a programmer.

It's not about complexity, it's about convenience. The simplest bid on eBay is... the highest price you'll pay for it. However, most people didn't think of it that way or want to d…

How many American military personnel would just be OK with being told by the President to take property rights and freedoms like that? Do you think they're mind-controlled idiots? …

How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?

The article says "Current SSL cert lifetime best practices put lifetimes at 90 days" but SSL is deprecated... so its lifetime best practice is 0 days.

No way dude

Website bloat is why my laptop now runs slow when the browser is open. It's why I had to upgrade last time. Modern websites will just continue to get more bloated for every magpie …

Hopefully someone will hack the machines so you can only vote No.

The US mainstream media is bought and paid for by corporations, who don't have the public good in mind, but maximizing profit at the expense of all else including reporting on corr…

How do we know what's in WireGuard?

"Occasionally, red flags marry each other" I'm glad I read this article.

Good

Yay now their software can see everything on your screen.

Answering yes to these questions indicates a happy employee... how did the book authors determine the opposite?

I don't believe it's too complex, I believe people are getting lazy. Complexity can be handled by automation, but too often people just want to rush things out for a buck instead o…