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The Verge sold out to Big Tech a long time ago. Don't fall for their newspeak. Stop sideloading : install instead.

Doesn't everyone QA their QR codes? I thought it would be as obvious as making sure you got the right address and/or phone number on an ad before distributing it.

From back when IA-64 (A.K.A. Itanium) was supposed to take Intel to the promised land.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129008

I would expect it to be picked up by the Eclipse Foundation. They already have the Java Ent- I mean, Jakarta Enterprise Edition.

Java was never "move fast and break things".

I work at an ewaste recycling company. Most of what we get is corporate IT department decommissions. It seems like most companies run things for about 5 to 10 years, as most deskto…

Most people don't trust their government enough to run a service like this. For example, my government lets bridges collapse[0], and it can barely keep the roads paved. The fact th…

Nowadays, the website would be all in dark mode with some AI-generated image featuring blue and purple glowy parts. AI generated everything, really.

But product manager wants line go up!

Saigon fell, and the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.

> TL;DR >> Autonomous agent fleets don't eliminate organizational dysfunction—they formalize it. Not a good look to have AI slop in the first sentence of an article.

We have certifications to keep which are pretty important for the business model (data security, ethical disposal and recycling)[0]. The auditors keep tabs on our retail channels. …

(insert Ron Paul It's Happening meme here) I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. Because we don't have a Windows OEM license, we officially can't install …

PowerPC has become POWER, and you can get hardware outside of IBM. https://www.raptorcs.com/ https://openpowerfoundation.org/

> Here we reach a point that is simultaneously the platform’s greatest advantage and heaviest burden. Due to such deep integration with dedicated and expensive hardware, IBM i is a…

> If you think you’re going to work there and, say, “have free weekends,” you are fooling yourself. The “entire team shows up to the office 7 days a week,” Zietz wrote in a LinkedI…

> Most of our oxygen comes not from forest but from oceans (specifically from phytoplankton, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria). Between 50-80% of it in fact. That fact checks out…

> there's no logic to solving them so you'd have to resort to clicking everything and with 5 playable characters Are multiple/simultaneous playable characters a common feature of a…

> P.P.P.S There will be a GOG version. Very good news. GOG provides offline installers so you can always backup, install, and play your games forever.

Then buy a used or open box one. There's plenty of people who try switching to Android and buy Pixels, but go back to their iPhones in a week.

I thought monitors lost those over 15 years ago, but a few years ago I got a Samsung gaming monitor that happened to come with a brick. Ugh.

I work at an e-waste recycling company. We get Dell monitors all the time. Their basic office monitors seem fine (~24" 1080p), but all our clients are too cheap to go for the more …