I've got big monitors, that I hook up to my work laptop and my own laptop. I make it work with a kvm hub. It's really sweet, for my use.

I keep a browser, an IDE, and a terminal pretty much side by side on the bottom one. I keep slack, email, and a clock on the top monitor. I also place pullout tabs from my IDEs on the top one.

Thing is, no matter the cost range, I generally have to replace the KVM hub about once a year. I've just come to accept that as a part replacement cost. <shrug> This thing has its own KVM hub internally. Maybe I'm just rough on my KVM, but if someone puts significant wear and tear on this monitor, I'd imagine that part would wear out, which seems like a potential money sink if you have to keep calling the warranty folks.

For me, it's too much of a risk, but YMMV.

If it’s at all representative, I had to replace 2 of the dell ultra sharp super ultra wides due to failing USB C hub / PD parts. I gave up at that point.

My 49 inch Dell ultrawide is failing too. One USB port is already dead, and the other ports have just now started to develop intermittent issues as well.

On the other hand, I've had one for 5 years and it's still going strong.

Will definitely buy again.

It's ridiculous that this has to be done.

I'm honestly speechless. But thanks for the magnet link.

I agree with never deploying a .git folder to prod.

Part of our deployment script for sites has something like:

  git clone -d 1 -b $BRANCH https://blahblah.tld/project
  rm -rf .git*

So no .git directory, .gitignore, and so on.

Another option for that might be `git archive | tar -C /path/to/dir -xf-`

I've not had that kind of experience in over 30 years. I'm a bit older now, and I would hope that my response would be something similar to:

Me: "Am I under arrest?"

No: "I would like my attorney present before starting this discussion. Please provide me some contact information so we can schedule this."

Yes: "I wish to have my attorney present. I will not be answering any questions or discussing this matter."

Now, I don't know if I'm actually that brave, but I've at least got a plan.

Them: ”Have it your way”, handcuffs, car ride to black site, jumpsuit, seat in a military-leased civilian airplane, flight to El Salvador.

At this point, being a martyr as an African American whose ancestors have been on this land longer than the US existed is probably my best contribution to countering this regime. I've always wondered if I would need to put my body on the like the way my grandfather did in New Orleans.

That cannot happen in the US, I'm told, as it has the greatest protections by its God-given Constitution. The most beautiful protections.

Sometimes the second amendment must be put to its real intended use.

Nothing controversial about it. Many states have castle doctrine. People have killed violent intruders including cops and successfully won the case in court.

I should be getting my physical copy on Tuesday. Physical so that Bezos can't have it edited or deleted from my Kindle.

Good job, Zuck! I didn't even know this book existed, and likely wouldn't have cared, until you decided to drop the hammer on her.

I wish I could highlight your comment more -- the paper copy is more valuable for this reason.

Anyone else having an issue with it not showing anything in Firefox mobile?

I didn't know that, but I'm glad I have my MacBook in clamshell mode with an external camera with a physical cover.

I mean, I appreciated the little green light, but the fact that it seemed necessary indicates to me that humanity still needs some evolving.

I have a regular prescription I have gotten refilled at Kaiser Permanente for years. I use their online site and get my meds mailed to me.

It may have been 2 years ago or so, but the process stopped working and wouldn't accept my confirmation after giving my credit card info. I've got a handful of privacy tools on my browser. I finally gave in and temporarily white listed the pharmacy and still cleared out any trackers. Sent the web admin a basic, "WTF, folks?" and got a BS non answer.

Fast forward to maybe November or December last year. Refill time, and the trackers were even worse. I kind of need my meds though. So I created a new account on my computer, and ordered my meds.

Then I filed a complaint of a possible HIPAA violation, starting at https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/index.html and was polite, factual, and provided some non hysterical examples of how a prescription could indicate a specific health issue with resulting advertising or PII release to parties not needing it.

I received an email at the end of February. I was probably not the only person that sent a complaint, but the end result is that KP is being investigated.

Yay.

I went through a similar gauntlet with kaiser as well.

This was years ago, but I complained that kaiser had trackers throughout its website for doubleclick and googletagmanager. (nowadays they don't use those domains and go directly to google.com, I assume because people don't block that)

I complained.

To be clear, the tracking links traverse the entire website - communication with your doctor, test results, prescriptions, even the complaint form I filed out.

I got the same sort of non-answers. I pushed and pushed and finally, I did get an answer - "the website is a convenience".

I blocked the trackers, and pretty soon to continue to use the website, I had to agree to the privacy policy.

I didn't agree. I stopped using the website.

But they wouldn't let me delete my account. (I think california law allows you to ask.) I called multiple times. I still have an account and get emails from them.

Thanks for holding them accountable. This stuff is such a needless barrier to care for so many people.

Good, thank you for fighting the good fight.

I do wonder whether it's possible to inject harmless stubs for these trackers so you don't have to deal with the bureaucracy of filing a complaint though. Then again, stubbing helps a few techy people, filing a formal complaint helps everyone.

Could you document your steps with more details so other people can reproduce and file complaints as well?

That was fun. Got it by 2:00, but also played a few hunches with a cowboy move here and there that may have saved time.

Still not going to convince me to respond to Slack that quickly, though.

No verifiable sources cited, just large amounts of scary percentages.

If everybody is pirating, then everything will go away. We've heard this since cassette tapes, video tapes, decss, torrents, and we'll continue hearing it with new tech.

I say to the streaming companies and the content creators, stop bluffing. Shut it down since pirates are apparently chatting you billions.

Cash in your options, go to your private island retreat and never darken our door again. I have physical books, and walks are usually nice.