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It's all about trade offs. No one is required to use all the latest tooling and frameworks, and writing things the 'good old way' still works, it'll just come with trade offs. Pick your poison.

Big fan of the Level 1 Tech KVMs, both the hardware and support are quite good. You're way more likely to run into issues with docks/monitors/usb devices etc than something actually wrong with the KVM itself.

And now Microsoft is going to solve all those problems? This'll be interesting to see how it plays out, but all of these issues are not confidence inspiring.

I think some skepticism is a healthy thing to have, especially with multi billion dollar acquisitions. It's a little surprising to me that there's been so much kool aid drinking in the open source community over this and a lot of "disappointment" with those who are not also drinking the kool aid.

At the end of the day, Microsoft, a huge billion dollar corporation, bought GitHub because it thinks it'll help its bottom dollar. And sure, of course I can see the business sense in the deal for both parties, but it's yet to be seen if it'll actually improve things for end users.

An interesting question might be, what other ways could you allow people in the queue to jump up in position, without requiring them to share with others?

Maybe a quick survey with questions like, - what email client do you use now? - what is your favorite/least favorite feature of said client? - how often do you check your email? etc

I was going to say this.

It's totally optional to invite more people, so if it goes against your ethical views, just don't.

*current thinkpads can also still do this.

I switched from a MBP to a ThinkPad because of Apple's decisions with product design; performance sacrificed for purely aesthetic reasons.

I highly doubt this, devices with batteries are near ubiquitous in many places and have been for decades now. "Electronics" knowledge or not, people have used batteries and will have noticed that over time its life goes down.

Just a spooky coincidence it's on Halloween?

Really hope purism finds success with this. An open phone platform has been a long time coming, I hope they can learning from the missteps of ubuntu and firefox.

I like the idea of managing my phone like I manage my computer; install whatever OS and software I want on it. Of course, that comes with the additional effort of keeping it well updated and working, and if this is a primary communication device that effort becomes more urgent. But hey, I think that's just what it takes to not be dependent on a corporation that takes my data/info in exchange for device support.

When they mentioned the headphone jack being removed, I thought it was a joke. I have a 6S now and was considering getting the Pixel, in part because of the headphone jack and also for the more "open" ecosystem of Android (and things not proprietary-Apple). But now it's basically the same, so there's less motivation for me there. I just think Google could've swooped in and gotten the people who still appreciate headphone jacks.

Interesting round of new devices this year around, I wonder what the consensus is on who did it better, Google or Apple?

All of these revelations read like xkcd comics. I mean really? One guy in a corp of 9000+? Critical email threads? This situation is a joke.

This reminds me how important/relevant it's becoming for people to own their data, instead of giving it up to companies to profit from and eventually sell.

Big issues I see are the vast majority of people just don't want to think about it, and there aren't any good systems in place to empower (the majority of) people to retain their data.

From my experience having used Robinhood for almost two years now, it's fine up until something happens with your account and you need to talk to someone. Their customer support seems almost nonexistent, no phone number, only an email where their response time is anywhere from a day to a week+ and you have to bug them to follow up. On top of that, the support that I have gotten hasn't been very clear, like they don't know what's really going on with my account. When I have several thousand dollars somewhere with active investments, I don't want to have to wait around and deal with a different support person for each message.

Just recently I had to email them first to find out that they have an issue with my account and "any sell, dividend, etc. will have 28% removed and sent to the IRS." And I "will need to reach out to IRS regarding those funds." They did not tell me anything when they apparently started doing this. I was paying for Robinhood Gold too at the time.

I'm sure most people will have OK experiences with Robinhood, but I'm closing my account and moving to another broker with better support and communication.