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It depends on your definition of scam. Is McAfee a total fraud, not delivering on its core functionality of anti-virus scanning? No. But it's selling something most people don't ne…

If a software package can't be uninstalled through the normal process and needs a separate uninstaller program, it is similar to malware. Many anti-virus suites and anti-cheat soft…

"Telemetry." "Personalized experiences." Basically doublespeak.

Operating system makers would rather sell you a subscription to OneDrive, iCloud, or Google Drive.

The makers of Super Mario 64 said 3D graphics greatly increased game development costs.

Mass market GPS navigation devices haven't made learning how to navigate a city like a local obsolete. If you've ever seen a gig economy driver get lost despite having step by step…

I get your point. I assume the intent is to call out companies on marketing good things and trying to bury customer unfriendly things. As a customer you can assume that if a compan…

Chicago has relatively affordable housing purchase prices as property taxes are very high. The government has taxed away property appreciation. Unfortunately the deferred compensat…

Kapital describes the problem well. His proposed solutions were awful.

Imagine if current hospitals could object to opening new hospitals. Or grocery stores could object to competitors getting permits.

We don't even need skyscrapers to relieve the housing shortage. Legalizing duplexes, townhome, quadplexes, condos, or three story buildings that contain six units would add a lot o…

Realtors are indeed market experts (not product experts). Commission pay incentivizes them to close deals quickly, not to maximize sale price. Yes they can educate first time buyer…

They’re locked into a red queen race. Providers merge to gain scale and negotiation power. Insurers merge to gain scale and negotiation power. The ACA encouraged scaling up to driv…

The blog post is too simplistic an analysis. It ignores the second order effects of medical care financing reform. Imagine if car engine oil changes had to go through car insurance…

With UniFi access points I found 802.11r to be unnecessary. I lowered transmit power so each room only has one AP providing a -67 dBm signal or stronger. 802.11k is enabled by defa…

Soft handover is a hard problem. And yet we still get dropped calls.

If people keep driving over the corner of your lawn, is putting a rock on that corner to deter that behavior a booby trap?

Once you're not using default settings, here be dragons. In theory 802.11r is a standard. In practice enabling 802.11r puts you into the minority of users who do so. There's a lot …

Puritan influence.

"A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies!"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/steam-drops-macos-mo...

If a device can still hear a farther away AP at say -62 dBm it’s not going to start searching. Searching has a cost in lower speeds and higher latency due time spent tuning to othe…

Qualcomm did a test with extreme levels of traffic. As in 20 simultaneous video chat sessions. https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets... For contention betwee…

Journalists and writers are often given a deadline and a target length. "Give me 500 words of copy by the end of tomorrow." The editor and publisher of a magazine need to get all w…