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I hear you, and also value Excel and a few other products, but I hit my perosnal limit with Windows enshittificatoion early last year and changed my daily driver at home to Linux. …

Access to banking is indeed critical, but when? And for 2FA, which accounts, and when? As bank apps become more invasive and they also fail to offer substantive 2FA (e.g. the forci…

Good point. Though if they change the rules after breaking them, will history remember? Looking at uber, any number of social media companies, etc., having some good lobbyists work…

In the US Army an E-4 is a specialist or a corporal. Most E-4s are specialists. The E-4 is the pay grade, and the specialist or corporal designation is the rank. A corporal is a ty…

I understand where you're going with performance and feature updates, but what about security updates? Those are often flaws that were present at time of shipping. If I buy a physi…

Great points, and devil is in the details. Insurance in this case was Medicare Advantage. In hindsight, Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) would've been the better way to go f…

I'd also add creating a Trust is relatively easy and the elderly can continue living their life as they normally do. The Trust will then own the house, assets, etc., with distribut…

I use librewolf as my daily driver after the Firefox "privacy preserving ad measurement" SNAFU last year [1,2]. The fingerprint resistant and anti-canvas functions were different, …

I switched from a Garmin Instinct (several years ago) after having used Garmin GPS devices and watches while in the military to an Apple Watch Ultra now. The quantified scientist c…

I agree it isn't a bad thing per se, but it should drive higher productivity and not be a net decrease in revenue. If fewer people from New Jersey come to Manhattan, that's less re…

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