The question is two-fold. How secure do you want the password to be determines what system to use.

For example:

Banking - I never store a password or username for these. It’s always one I can remember. The password is lengthy, multi-factor authentification is turned on etc… I don’t trust any system.

Finanial webpages other than banks, , taxes, healthcare, etc, stuff that would hurt me personally if stolen, I use a stand alone password manager.

Anything else goes into Firefox password manager. Stuff I don’t give a fuck about if somebody hacks my password.

Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!

Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.

The OS desktop environment has stagnated over the past 15 years.

Many businesses have transitioned from a 3-4 year rotation on desktops/laptops to every 5-6 years today. Hell my work laptop is 6 years old and I don’t forsee replacing it for another 3-4 years. For work functions there is no significant improvement to upgrading more frequently today.

So if they launched W12 next year, widespread adoption will likely not occur until 2032-2033 or at the Win11 EOL whichever comes first.

The developers today are working on a system that will not become mainstream for 8+ years. They want to launch in the next 2 years knowing it will not be adopted for years.

They ignoring the reality of today’s market and building to meet the latest fads. It’s Windows 8 all over again.

What usually happens is some nepo-baby manager gets into an argument with the critical experienced employee. The employee gets “downsized” and his job is outsourced to a 3rd party.

Then they make it through a year without a major issue and the nepo-baby is promoted. 3 months later the completely avoidable catastrophe occurs and the nepo-baby claims “that didn’t happen on under my direction”. More scapegoats are laid-off or fired.

Didn’t the orange moron fire the guy who gave home negative job numbers last time.

Let’s revise those numbers for reality.

-1,810,000 jobs

All existing U.S. patents, trademarks, and copyrights are are permanently invalid. Gotta put some teeth into it.

Two major things that are hurting Vegas today

International visitors are down due to the orange moron.

Attendance at conventions and corporate meetings are down due to the above stupid decisions. It was a cheap place to hold a large meeting: flights, transit, hotels, meeting hall rental and food were all 30%+ less than anywhere else.

There is two things going on there.

First if you look closely you can see holes in the spud. This is insect damage, likely caused by a wireworm (larval form of a clickbeetle species.)

Second is a physiological damage in storage/shipping causing the black color. This is not blight or another fungus, but the tubers reaction to suboptimal storage condition (not enough O2).

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/333609

Sadly the key to avoiding becoming a victim of these tactics is to spend a significant portion of your time shopping around for everything. No retailer can be trusted. I preferentially order stuff from manufacturers webpages or compare multiple distributors before I buy anything.

I also utilize VPN services and a secondary browser if I think they are playing games. You can avoid this shit but it’s not easy.

I also try to completely avoid known companies who’s business model relies on these tactics.

Windows 11 UI is a downgrade from XP.

Windows 11 is also deeply unstable. I haven’t had this many program crashes, errors, and other bullshit since Vista and ME. Windows 10 had it’s annoying quirks but it was at least relatively stable.

I have saved myself the headaches with UI changes since the Win8 clusterfuck when installed a 3rd party taskbar/menu.

The local shops in my area are making a huge comeback. Starbucks killed most of the local little independents around 15 years ago. They did it by providing consistent quality and reasonable pay to their employees.

Recently local chains/independents have made a resurgence. Their secret, heavily recruiting the experienced trained Starbucks employees full-time at better pay and benefits.

Starbucks traffic is plummetting while local companies are expanding rapidly.

This morning I went to the bank and gas station right next to a Starbucks that has been there for 20 years and a 4 month old local chain. Starbucks had one person in the drive-through and maybe half a dozen people in the store. The local chain had a 10 car line and a full parking lot.

In my area the local shops are completely destroying Starbucks. This morning I went to 8

Marriott isn’t owned by the Mormon church. The owners are Mormon who follow the church leaders.

See it’s different.

The kitchen, dining and living room being together is pretty normal in smaller places. I have lived in several that were open that way over the years. It’s not great but it’s doable. The lack of wall space so less cabinets/closets and overall storage is the usual problem.

However the bedroom… That’s a bit too far.

Assuming human intelligence naturally follows a normal distribution model plus add in confounding factors like: malnutrition, chemicals, abuse, etc. that are known to degrade human reasoning. Reasoning is further restricted by limiting access to education and extensive false propaganda. These factors flattens and shift the distribution curve to the left.

The millions of people who voted for him are morons what are easily manipulated by their ignorance and fear.

This has always been the Achilles heal of a democratic systems.

Once Pandora went in the shitter, I moved on to self-hosting. So I have never used Spotify. As long as you take a little time once in a while to discover some new bands and add them to you collection its great.

I have around 12,000 tracks, 70GB.

I have “purchased” thousands of books from Amazon, but never given them money for a book.

They run free specials all the time. FreeReadFeed scans for them. It’s a great way to discover authors to purchase their books at another site or use the library apps.

This one is extremely difficult to fix as well. Ad companies bribe politicians with reduced price advertising for political campaigns to prevent laws being passed to regulate them.

I started out with an Datsun pickup on the farm. Pulled a 40’ irrigation pipe trailer with aluminum hand lines on it. I also drove a little '86 Nissan during highschool/college. They were about perfect for most residential uses. I really liked how low the bed was. So much easier to get stuff in and out of.

Currently for work, I drive a 1/2 ton F150 and tow a 16’ 10K deck over trailer with it. It’s the maximum I can drive/tow without interstate DOT regulations kicking in. The 7,500lbs capacity is usually more than enough.

I got stuck with a 3/4 and 1 ton at a previous job and thosw damn things were horrible to drive, unstable on the road and beat the shit out of my back. Parking them sucked donkeys balls. It was just scary to drive in the snow/ice. Anyone who drives them for vanity sake is a fucking moron.