The only "perks" I want are a humane amount of vacation time (3-4 weeks, as most of the world gets) and 40 hour weeks. Oh, and good pay. I can find my own social life outside of the company door.
I don't want to be enticed to live my entire life at work.
Four words for you: Stay At Home Parent (or one works part-time). Easily doable in a country with a lower cost of living, and we have the option due to three citizenships between us:)
When we have kids, the rule will be: (1) No use of Facebook till they're grown up (2) No pictures/tagging of them on Facebook until the same age
Why? Because children don't have enough knowledge to know whether they want to add their faces and identities to the largest corporate facial recognition database in the world.
Not afraid of "predators", other than the corporate variety.
Anti-consumer, anti-choice cr@p like this is why repurposing an old PC (or just using an Intel NUC) as an HTPC is better than any proprietary junk from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Amazon. They're all interested in controlling their users instead of providing good, flexible software -- ta hell with all four of 'em.
You can probably turn touch off.
Judging by experience with Windows RT (wRetched Turd) machines, bootloader will probably be locked to Microsoft's junkware.
It's things like Microsoft accounts tied to your PERSONAL computer's login, cloud storage on Microsoft's servers (vs storage YOU control), random UX changes, and telemetry being rammed down your raw esophagus. Or at least Microsoft trying to annoy you and nudge you into using that junk.
Maybe it will take off, but why make the entry-devices so cr@ppy? 4GB RAM/16 GB storage? Are they trying to ram clown storage down users' throats or are they just going for a bad user experience for entry users?
We've been down this road with Windows 8 RT (wRetched Turd).
Unlike the USA, Germany has a strong pro-privacy movement -- this will probably get shot down hard at either the Federal or EU level (since it's likely at odds with EU rules).
This is the making of a secret police agency that doesn't have any oversight from lawful civil authority (courts, Congress). This idea needs to be shut down. Hard.
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a healthy ecosystem..." Tell that to El Presidente 45. :)
The only "perks" I want are a humane amount of vacation time (3-4 weeks, as most of the world gets) and 40 hour weeks. Oh, and good pay. I can find my own social life outside of the company door.
I don't want to be enticed to live my entire life at work.
Like Bisbee, AZ or Foxconn City.
Free meals, medical care on site? What's not to like? Pretty soon, they'll put up the housing and you'll never have to leave the company plantation.
This is why I like living and working in cities -- gives you more random interactions with people, a choice of where to live, work, eat, etc.
Sure you can. If you're not friends on Fecebook, they can't tag 'em. They can post pics, but they won't be correlated with a parent or identity.
I know you are -- I never thought you were joking.
The slower the development of (possibly malicious) AI, the better.
Not a bad choice honestly -- raise them in a place with lower cost of living and fewer manufactured problems.
Question is, with the amount of money and/or credit that Trump has, can his family write their own checks?
Four words for you: Stay At Home Parent (or one works part-time). Easily doable in a country with a lower cost of living, and we have the option due to three citizenships between us :)
Many intelligent friends of ours have the same policy. No Fecesbook. No photos of kids on Fecesbook. No tagging on Fecesbook.
Except the health secretary is from the land that gave the world Churchill, who helped kick Hitler to the curb.
When we have kids, the rule will be:
(1) No use of Facebook till they're grown up
(2) No pictures/tagging of them on Facebook until the same age
Why? Because children don't have enough knowledge to know whether they want to add their faces and identities to the largest corporate facial recognition database in the world.
Not afraid of "predators", other than the corporate variety.
Can it be ported/repurposed to run Windows applications under desktop Linux on ARM? :)
Anti-consumer, anti-choice cr@p like this is why repurposing an old PC (or just using an Intel NUC) as an HTPC is better than any proprietary junk from Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Amazon. They're all interested in controlling their users instead of providing good, flexible software -- ta hell with all four of 'em.
I do photo editing for Web use -- GIMP works as well as paid subscriptionware from Adobe in the RGB space.
You can probably turn touch off. Judging by experience with Windows RT (wRetched Turd) machines, bootloader will probably be locked to Microsoft's junkware.
The problem isn't screen design.
It's things like Microsoft accounts tied to your PERSONAL computer's login, cloud storage on Microsoft's servers (vs storage YOU control), random UX changes, and telemetry being rammed down your raw esophagus. Or at least Microsoft trying to annoy you and nudge you into using that junk.
Exactly, this is equivalent to a much cheaper Chromebook.
Other than Outlook (which will work online these days) and gaming, my Ubuntu laptop works fine for productivity.
Maybe it will take off, but why make the entry-devices so cr@ppy? 4GB RAM/16 GB storage? Are they trying to ram clown storage down users' throats or are they just going for a bad user experience for entry users?
We've been down this road with Windows 8 RT (wRetched Turd).
Is this a bad joke? This is basically an underpowered netbook, regardless of battery life.
Also, it comes with Windows 10S, which is essentially crippled by design. Yeah, 10 Pro is free. For now.
Also, LTE replacing private WiFi for sensitive corporate applications? In whose dreams?
I can buy 2-3 refurb Thinkpad X-series for the same price.
Unlike the USA, Germany has a strong pro-privacy movement -- this will probably get shot down hard at either the Federal or EU level (since it's likely at odds with EU rules).
Proud Luddite.
Ludd! Ludd! Ludd-ludd-ludd :)
This is basically a private secret police agency with no lawful oversight from the courts and Congress. Awful idea.
This is the making of a secret police agency that doesn't have any oversight from lawful civil authority (courts, Congress). This idea needs to be shut down. Hard.