Not defending the unrepairability of Apple products, but if the laptop is this important to him that he can't be away from it for a day or two, then perhaps a backup laptop that can perform ~75% of his duties would be a better option. Or a cheap mac mini tucked away somewhere. I assume he has backups, unless everything truly does live on the laptop which is just playing with fire IMO.
Interesting to see how this impacts FreeTaxUSA (https://www.freetaxusa.com/)? I used them for the first time this year to file federal and state taxes and was highly impressed! I'd been an online TurboTax user for over 10 years and had used their COTS version for many years before that. It kept getting more and more expensive and each year the UI changed and introduced dark patterns to get me to buy more shit I didn't need. Fuck TurboTax, I'm on the FreeTaxUSA train now.
Samsung as a whole is a shit company to work with. The mobile startup I worked at a decade ago partnered with them and they were a nightmare. Literally working all hours of the day and night on projects that made little financial sense but looked good to someone's boss in SK. Their appliances are literal garbage as well. Brother's Samdung fridge no longer makes ice (and only did for like a month). My front loader washing machine broke within 5 years. The matching dryer was repaired twice in that timeframe. Fuck Samsung.
As someone who does a ton interviews and is usually the one who gives the technical thumbs up on hiring decisions in my group, I've summed it up as Joel Spolsky famously did a long time ago... "smart and gets things done"
I just need someone who can learn stuff and has shown technical competence at some point in their career (even new grads). It's definitely harder as a new grad because hey, you have no experience. But show me how you've done something technical in school or an internship. Or have gone above and beyond in a class project. For my more experienced roles, I need to see some passion for what you're doing in addition to knowing what you're talking about. I don't do whiteboards or coding interviews. I don't ask those stupid interview questions either. I don't need the best of the best of the best. But I have been pretty successful for what I've been looking for and the quality of the coworkers I've been a part of hiring has been great from my perspective.
Make it truly open source and maybe I'll look into it. I've lost all trust in Google products and services. One reason I'll never switch to Google Fiber over AT&T Fiber.
How long before that becomes a mandatory test to get health insurance? Or somehow the data is bought by insurers who then use it to jack up the rates for those who will eventually get cancer. God I hate the US healthcare system!
The K-index for this is an 8 which is one less than an extreme G5 geomagnetic storm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-index). I haven't been able to find it, so I'm curious what the Carrington event K-index was?
Just because you lack the skills to fix it, doesn't mean it's not repairable. People desolder components all the time to fix phones and ipads and laptops.
TFA states that they're moving towards touchscreens instead of physical switches. To me that doesn't sound like a good idea. But maybe I just hate that it's happened in so many vehicles these days.
I don't blame the big corps like IBM (disclaimer: I work there, I don't speak for them) and Microsoft and Google. I really blame investors who are looking to get their money back. When they force an IPO but there's no business model to sustain the company, this is what happens. CEOs resort to developer-hostile actions which kills off the community and generates ill-will towards the company. People here shit on "lifestyle companies" but IMO that's the best model for sustainablility and developer communities (if that's what you're into).
As I said elsewhere, it's not. It's an open source project, under the Linux Foundation umbrella, with all of the good licensing that goes along with that. It has some contributors who are also IBM employees, but to say they're "funded by IBM" is a bit of a stretch.
To me that really just screams lazy and incompetent management. Being overstaffed is just a coincidence. A good mgmt structure would have prioritized that roadmap and gotten the cats herded to work towards a singular goal/chat app. I say this as a "cat" myself who has to be reminded to not get distracted by the next shiny thing.
Actually things have changed for IBM. Speaking as an IBM employee, but not on behalf of IBM, my team (and I suspect all others) had to identify any work done by Russian IBM employees and then subsequently divested ourselves of those employees and offices during the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
The original article was about lower-income "countries". I pointing out it's also in the US. So yeah, pretty much everywhere. Unless you have data to prove otherwise, you're wrong.
I feel this is a refreshingly accurate take on NPR. I appreciate that a senior editor and reporter at NPR published this self-reflective portrait of his employer. It's good to consider all things/viewpoints as a journalist. Otherwise you end up in an echo-chamber (à la Reddit and to a certain degree, HN). I don't necessarily agree with a lot of conservative/Republican policies and viewpoints, but I think it's good to hear about them and to also challenge liberal/Democratic policies. No one party or side has it completely right and I want as fair and unbiased a news source as possible.
I found this as a refreshingly accurate take on NPR. The fact that a senior editor and reporter at NPR published this self-reflective portrait of his employer is also newsworthy. It's good to consider all things/viewpoints as a journalist.