Edit: I should explain first that I do not think you can change your employees or manager. A technical solution will never fix a management problem. Perhaps your manager is getting enough heat to be open to better management controls. You should be in “sanity protecting” mode.

Original: While the posts include a lot of fiction, but “overemployed” crowd have some good advice. Start applying elsewhere, downshift your effort at $job_one, and move to collecting a check.

Or ramp up and take your manager’s job or get fired trying. Gather data and allies in the C-suit, and stage a coup. Or unionize (or post pro-union flies in the bathroom).

I agree with you regarding availability, and I find your comment interesting. I often find phone models of interest that are only available in Europe or the East. Phone selection in the USA is often terrible.

All but one of the sources are from the same website. An internet search for the earth’s parasol finds lots of proposed projects.

Does this Youtuber discuss real things? Do they have a good reputation?

I want to push back on this part:

Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker.

In the USA, and other parts of the world, a small number of Billionaires are buying up everything. A small number of wealthy people could each own a part of the supply chain and for it on the vast majority.

For extra enforcement, add in a legal or cultural push for reporting or shunning violators through the media companies owned by that same group.

Just adding links for the lazy…

Clipper Chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/clipper.htm

The computers in the store, yes. I expect all computers in the store to be phones and the cell company will verify.

Open Source computers will be more important. Might need to brush up on wire wrapping… (Implication being that chip supplies might become dedicated to only those manufacturers that lock the product down.)

Sounds like Greenpeace needed to be organized as a million separate legal entities. Just like an insurance company, or a multinational.

Nah. Just declare the rollbacks never happened and penalize the violators.

Funny story, some of the rollbacks Trump has done in other areas are legally mandated. Trump used executive orders to limit their enforcement, but the laws are still on the books. The violators can fight this next sane president in court over it, but the next sane president can also do all of the “trump” things to them.

One can get paid and advance through a career producing slop.

Good engineering is hard, and lots of that no longer happens.

DoGE?

theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start

Pick the first project that you think of and chase it down. If it sucks, then reformat the drive and do something else. Video game systems and file servers are great. So is installing a different OS on each, just to experience the differences side by side.

Do NOT continue “analysis paralysis”.

Alternative Headline: Billionaire Signals States Should Speed Fiber Rollout

We almost need some sort of system to notice when people are missing. Not family members, as all can go missing at once. Widely distributed with enough resources to push for our rights.

I know a child nearly kicked out of day care for not napping. It happens.

I guess this puts the military in a position to murder the democrats?

Keep a 13-inch TV around?

Many libraries have large DVD collections.

It would be a funny comment if that were not a very real attack used against libraries.

From the Rules Section of the Academy Awards Wiki Page :

According to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, and play for seven consecutive days, to qualify, except for the Best International Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature, and awards in short film categories. The film must be shown at least three times on each day of its qualifying run, with at least one of the daily showings starting between 6 pm and 10 pm local time.

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The Best International Feature Film award does not require a U.S. release. It requires the film to be submitted as its country’s official selection.

Actual rules are linked by the Wikipedia page a PDF.

Remember folks, flood the zone.

AI Deepfakes of Trump, Elon, and Epstein.

Edit: Don’t post those here.