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> Unions are forced participation. They quite literally are not, at least not in the US; half the states have right-to-work laws that prohibit this explicitly, and there are likely…

I was there too. People always say this, but just because a thing changed once does not mean it will happen again. In this case, the population scale alone has changed by over an o…

> Or how JKR on Harry Potter went from being vilified by conservative voices to the modern "She who will not be named" of Lefty HBO. well, that's for one very specific and notable …

> Seems like a Microsoft issue to me. except that any app could do this, and it just happens to be Teams that did.

i'd like to be able to store a phone on the shelf with a properly conditioned battery, to be able to disable the radios during flight, or frankly anywhere else I don't want to be l…

> Why are people so down on DNS over HTTPS? It added yet another thing I have to implement, test and maintain through whatever changes they decide to make. Nothing like adding extr…

> Greed and morality can't mix. I personally support morals. Hold up, your position is that users that prefer something 'easy to use' as opposed to something 'powerful' are immoral…

> Regardless of our views on encryption, we need to have a conversation about that shift. Not trying to be snarky here: I don't understand what this conversation looks like. What d…

I'm also a huge FOSS nerd and it makes my personal AND professional life a lot easier, and I totally agree with you. If the problem is that the ruthless winner-take-all nature of p…

Walled gardens and exclusives are mutually exclusive. Perhaps you're thinking of CD Projekt Red, who have actually been fighting exclusives and walled gardens for quite some time.

> Anyone who can connect a device to their wireless network, run a program, and forward a port can get equivalent functionality I am very capable of all of those things and I don't…

Having done this myself, in my case, a quick email to the Humble support team got the order cancelled and I was able to re-order at the correct price. I agree that it would be nice…

I've had a few friends volunteer for this already; in my limited experience they are typically used only for a period of time (weeks not years) and are typically marketed as "use o…

While you're right in theory, in practice, the OP is right. Pai is chair because Trump was elected, the balance of the FCC board was skewed because of this as well, and so the only…

I am too. In particular, the idea of AI-driven ads to improve targeting to near-as-makes-no-difference perfect levels is rather unnerving. We're at a moment when the influence of c…

The session management piece is my big sticking point. I've come to rely on Session Manager, but the developer has already stated it will not be ported because necessary APIs are n…

Ok, fine. The oldest pair of headphones that I own that work is older than my usage of the Internet. The oldest pair of headphones I own that I still use regularly I bought for col…

> These are not useful applications, we just like them because of nostalgia. On the contrary; I have Paint.net and GIMP installed, I've experimented with both of them, and I still …

> And if they did and the industry said no, what should they have done? Distribute industry content with DRM, distribute their own content without, and see what the results are. So…

Koenigsegg has, according to their Wikipedia page, sold on the order of a couple hundred cars total. Tesla sold 76,000 cars in 2016.[1] By comparison, in 2016, Mercedes S-class sed…

> The 'say' you have in government is much smaller than the 'say' you have in using Uber. I can choose not to use Uber any time I please. True. I have effectively no choice in ISP,…

> So... a tech would just show up at your office, ready to fix the machine? Yes. They are expensive and deviously good at it. Or, at least they used to be many years ago. Many year…

I upgraded to the latest version of the LastPass plugin direct from the LastPass site and it seems to work fine. For whatever reason, the one they have listed on AMO is a whole maj…

I know others have recommended this already, but I would also say that your best bet is to buy some Ubiquiti hardware. An EdgeRouter X + UniFI Pro dual-band AP is on the order of $…

| "We don't support x feature, and therefore you can't distribute through our store." Of course, for iOS, this also means "you can't write apps for our platform."