If Apple had made this change on their own, they would likely have been pilloried in the press

Changing from one proprietary connector to another pissed a lot of people off.
Changing to a standard USB-C connector would piss off almost no one.

I'm gonna start selling smart TVs and call my company Orwellian Enterprises.

Especially with remote work, not sure how to organize.

Remote work didn't stop you working, did it? Why would it stop unions from working? There's on the ground work for sure, but it's mostly desk stuff, especially in IT.

Unpopular opinion: an actual doorbell.

Show him camera footage of him masturbating.

Why waste the inodes?

Good managers go to meetings and shield the engineers from the stream of exec corporate bs

Was lucky enough to work with one... once.

Merseyside Police says a thorough and extensive investigation was conducted by the anti-corruption unit and no officers or staff were identified in relation to misuse of police systems.

Weirder and weirder...

To Varoufakis, every time you post on X, formerly Twitter, you’re essentially toiling Elon Musk’s estate like a medieval serf. Musk doesn't pay you. But your free labor pays him, in a sense, by increasing the value of his company. On X, the more active users there are, the more people can be shown advertising or sold subscriptions.

The irony being you can buy it on Amazon...

Reduce, Reuse... only then Recycle. How about penalizing companies for imposing software caps? As long as the hardware is capable, i should be able to continue to use it and upgrade the software. At the very least unlock the hardware once it's out of warranty.

They used to be good. Are they still worth it?

To be fair they're ARM-based devices (most of them anyway) and linux works fine onthat architecture. The Raspberry Pi and others, Microsoft has Windows on ARM; as do the new M-series from Apple.

It's all the obscure hardware, bootloading and vendor lock-in that kills it.