There is the old adage “Nobody got fired for going with Microsoft”, and it is real.

If you, as an IT guy recommend Linux, and some exec has a problem with his laptop (which they would have had no matter what OS is running on it) it WILL be your fault because you changed something.

It’s not like the average person had any idea how E=MCC worked either. They just knew the formula.

The cost they charge for buying a new car and the cost they pay for the parts of that car are very different things.

They will charge $50k with or without AM radio and would rather do it without.

So the next solution is to let it connect to your network but then block it at the firewall. That way you have full control over what it sees.

It is a dumb arms race between consumers and the devices they purchased

My 2012 Toyota has an ‘app’ that I maybe tried once over ten years ago but haven’t used since. This is nothing new. It is called “Toyota Entune”

I mean, that has been Microsoft’s MO for their entire existence. With the exception of maybe some versions of Visual Studio, everything they have done was see what they can copy off their competitors.

I think I remember that episode of Mr Wizard

I’ve never been to the south, but driving from Vegas to SLC on I15 shows how beautiful the mountains are in Utah, and how ugly the cities are. Just miles and miles of suburbs covered in billboards. I’m from the Pacific Northwest and you really only see billboards from the freeway when you drive through Indian reservations, and it makes me really sensitive to them when I travel.

I mean, my point is that it isn’t how it has always been historically, but whatever you want to do is fine.

I watched a YouTube food historian Max Miller talk about shepherds pie and he mentioned that there is t really much of a correlation between what meat you use and whether it is “Shepard” or “Cottage” pie.

You can get the just peanuts stuff from any store. I think Adam’s is like that. It is the kind you have to stir the oil back in when you get it.

It is against traffic laws to be wearing anything on your ears in many places. I got pulled over in Colorado in around 2010 for having one ear of a wired headset on. Didn’t get a ticket, but still sucked.

It’s something about being able to hear sirens and stuff around you. It’s dumb because people will blast music as loud as they want but having one ear covered gets you in trouble.

Bluetooth phone calls?