It’s relatively easy to own Apple hardware when one lives outside the EU, but basically impossible to use that hardware to run their own browser engine on iPhones or iPads.
I mean that they figured out how to support (most) browser extensions on iOS in their browser, unlike Firefox. They haven’t figured everything out, but I do daily drive Orion on iOS. I still prefer Firefox on desktop due to stability (and Orion’s extension advantage in mobile doesn’t extend to desktop).
Yeah, and that cliff is why they put this change into the 2017 tax reform. It'll goose federal tax revenue for 5 years in the back half of the CBO's 10-year projections to make the changes appear revenue neutral overall. In any case, the impact started in 2022 and it's now 2025. We're already over halfway to steady-state.
I don't understand why this article is written as though amortization of R&D spending's costs is the same as completely eliminating their tax benefit. It seems that this essentially causes a large spike in tax revenue in year 0, which will revert to the mean in years 5-15. Companies now amortizing R&D essentially just have to build up those years of R&D spending backlog. Once they have reached their amortization threshold, they're essentially receiving the same tax break they had before.
I’ve never had a problem working with CSVs in Excel, but I’ll take your word for it. For text operations, I frequently find myself using Notepad++ anyway.
Toys R Us also sold stuff like video games and collectible/trading cards…and bikes, etc., I think, at least when I was a kid. I’m sure their product mix would have continued to evolve, but if you do have children, you probably know that they still love physical toys like Hot Wheels, dolls/action figures, LEGO, etc. That will probably never change.
The thing is, that more professional market would never make the mistake of putting SMR drives in a RAID array anyway and they are also (I hope) good enough at doing their own research to filter out reviews from uneducated retail consumers. So, again, we’re left with trying to find a justification for this move other than Synology’s profits.
And when this issue happened with WD drives, I don’t remember a backlash against Synology at all. WD, on the other hand, deserved and received plenty of blame.
I’d argue that anyone who is buying a NAS for personal use probably does enough research to figure out that NAS-focused/appropriate drives are a thing-though. And if they contact Synology support, it should be very easy for them to identify bad drive types. On top of that, they can (and have) warn about problematic drives.
Yeah, I assume most home users these days are never pushing a NAS beyond 1Gbe, and 99% of people who have faster networks are still probably just doing 2.5Gbe (still just talking about home use). This wouldn’t make that PCIe bandwidth sweat.
Nobody blamed Synology when that WD SMR issue happened. Come on, let’s get real here. Locking the devices down so they only work with drives bearing Synology branding is about Synology’s profits.
As far as lists of drives to avoid, Synology could certainly do that, but we also already have Backblaze’s reports on their own failure rates. Synology also uses multiple vendors to produce “Synology” branded drives, so as the article states this may also lead to confusion about which Synology branded drives are “good” vs. “bad” in the future, even with seemingly identical specs.
I believe Calibre (very) recently added a feature to make conversion to kepub automatic when transferring to a Kobo, so things may have changed on the ease of use front.
Perhaps she thought that she would be able to wiggle out of it or reach a private settlement that saved JPM some embarrassment or something. Still, that was obviously a very stupid decision.
I now live in a suburb and it’s plenty social. We baked cookies and took them to every house up and down the block when we moved in and we greet new neighbors with treats when there’s turnover. We also exchange holiday cards and cookies every year. We either know or recognize most people within a few blocks and we have become friends with a few families that also have kids the age of ours whom we met at the neighborhood park. Suburbs can be great!
Just yesterday I started paying for a Tailscale subscription even though I don’t even fully utilize what they provide for free. I just find it valuable and am glad I have the option and ability to support them. I don’t think most people do things like that, but some do. We’ll definitely see how it works out for Wired (I’m already a subscriber there, too, due to great coverage/work).
I totally get that the network effect makes it difficult to leave abusive platforms, but if one cares enough, it is possible to make that sacrifice. I deleted my Facebook account, for example, and now I can’t keep up with numerous people and groups that use Facebook. It was worth the sacrifice for me.
I get that, but in that case it also makes sense to avoid YouTube altogether since you simply being there continues to deprive other services of the opportunity to compete. These days I think YouTube’s biggest competition is stuff like TikTok, which I find odious.
This blocking method also wouldn’t touch those. I’m comparing apples to apples. If you want to block ads inserted directly by video creators, you need something like SponsorBlock and to either DIY or rely on someone else to have done it before you.