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Does your govt not buy memory, chips, computers? They pay premium for that. In addition, so middle manager in govt will say - I will work only if I have Premium AI Claude subscript…

Pretty sure something in your hardware failing We regularly buy dell latitudes or ThinkPad TPX series NEW ones for a large University. 100% Linux only usage. Usual sleep/resume pro…

Seems true but even at 2x that price people want some reliability. As someone that has used .gov.in services - it is unreliable. Yes, many gov services can be done online -great ku…

Never happened in the last several years.

Just install Ubuntu and remove snap. We are doing this for our University pool etc and encountered no issues. Make a list of all ppa before proceeding. What is your use case?

You should try to communicate to managers (that are US citizens or greencard holders) that decide on H1B/outsourcing.

True. But the common man on the street wants things to be cheap. This is not sustainable unless on imports cheap h1b (or other overworked foreigners). Edit: This is not meant to su…

In other words... general people don't need it.

> 'm not claiming that this is a step in the direction of fixing academia; I'm claiming that, because academia is currently broken, we shouldn't assume that the Why? If you go that…

Rules of DJT, SV, FAANG.

> I tried turning off Smart Features and oh my, that's not usable. Why? What did it do? This is the problem. Overload. It is not a google problem. If you get 200 emails - even with…

- Google just needs to tell DJT - Vietnam get 50 % tariffs - Change the ban - Easy peasy for Tech bros.

I know some webhosting provider that used one VM for every user. Now they moved to using this. Firstly low resource usage. If one uses ZFS or btrfs then one can save storage as in …

All phones ask for PIN or pattern in addition to face/fingerprint. Use that. For the average user this is safe enough. (i.e) keep google/apple password safe. Then all is fine. > ex…

> Doordash I would assume apps that are non-geek oriented will do quicker adoption. In my experience, many people are looking at passkey like a - Password manager that is automatic…

TBH, this is better than custom UI that blocks password manager copy paste.

I just use the term throwaway instead of JohnDoe. A quick search: https://abcnews.go[.]com/US/hit-run-drivers-kill-people-jail... If I find the legal podcast link then I will link …

I definitely listened in a legal podcast that somehow juries award lower sentences to road accident deaths as compared to others. Seems strange.

Does this mean the legal team do not understand tech? How come a company like Google/YouTube have no checks-balances when sending things like this? Or do the top-level not have pow…

thank you.

Please don't give such justification. Power corrupts, misuse. - Would you also allow your team mates to know same data about you to them? - That would be a level playing field. - O…

If anyone from gitpod is reading please - stop sending me emails that your 'workspace' is going to be deleted spam emails constantly. - I have disabled all notifications but still …

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This gets worse when reading developer documentation - Github does not allow for 'web' VSCODE to have English (if I use non-English OS locale or browser). - Google - developer site…