Resign, then offer them consulting on it for $300/hour.

Yup, thanks. Was thinking along these same lines.

Goddammit. It's getting to the point I'm going to have to figure out how to write my own app for this.

Can OP (or anyone) provide a legitimate source for this?

From what I can find, Amazon and its partners do dynamic pricing (based on various algorithms) but I can find no evidence / source that it does personalized individualized pricing.

IOW, dynamic pricing is not done at the individual shopper level, but can be based on many variables like lightning deals, sudden spikes in demand, inventory issues (over supply / under supply) and various other factors which are not related to the individual shopper.

Anecdotal evidence is interesting, but not persuasive.

"What is that? An umbrella? Are you afraid of a little rain? Are you gay? What's the umbrella for, so you can stick it up your ass?"

I'm ripping off Bill Burr here. Macho men are drooling morons who die at age 54. Why ask them their opinion on anything?

I'm not against passkeys. They have some real advantages. And I understand more than you think.

My comment is primarily about the preferred ecosystems that tend to come along with these newer solutions (like Apple's iCloud or Google's Password Manager) and how the corporations take advantage of user laziness and bandwagon jumping.

They may not force you to be exclusive with them, but they definitely want you to be. And over time they will likely make it more and more inconvenient not to be locked in with them.

For contrast, I use BitWarden for password management and Bitwarden Authenticator for TOTP (and I keep safe copies of TOTP secret keys elsewhere). This is a generic open-standards-first approach to things, with relatively easy recovery should you lose something. You can export your passwords. You have copies of your secret keys. You are in no way locked in to BitWarden forever.

Passkeys can also work within that type of operational framework! Like TOTP which normally uses RFC6238, Passkeys tend to use CTAP or WebAuthn. All of the above are open standards. And this is a good thing!

But do you really think Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc, want to play nice long term? Hopefully they will. But I have also run into evil nonsense like LastPass, which even though they also used open standards, their software would not allow you to do simple things like recover your own secret keys, export your data, etc. (Not to mention the embarrassing security breach they had and the wretched response, the main reasons to dump them).

While I am not directly comparing an idiot company like GoTo Tech with Apple et al, they all have the same types of big brain MBA types working for them who love to constantly brainstorm new ideas on how to screw the users over by taking features away and calling it a "software upgrade".

So, passkeys as a security mechanism: sure, this gets my vote. But trusting the big corporations not to change the rules on us later....come on, get real. They love limiting or removing portability and recovery options whenever they can.

Bottom line: don't assume passkeys are inherently good or bad. It's simply a security standard that can work well if implemented correctly. Passkeys make logging in easier. But will they also make recovery / export / migration easier....? Because if it's not easy, people won't do it.

Whenever I read an article about security (and read the comments, even here on Lemmy) I'm constantly frustrated and depressed by a couple of things.

1. Corporations making things shittier with the intention of locking customers in to their stupid proprietary ecosystem. And of course, they are always seeking more data harvesting. Security itself is way down the list of their priories, if it's even there at all.

2. Users being lazy trend-followers who quickly sacrifice their security on the altar of convenience and whatever shiny new FOMO thing is offered up for "better security".

It's a very bad combination. Doing security right is a bit inconvenient (which users hate) and expensive (which corporations hate).

Like a lot of folks, I use and recommend Bitwarden for passwords management. Their Authenticator app is really good for mobile TOTP, too.

I assume it's c) other: You're trying to keep lemmies talking, which is appreciated. 🙂

The Dude abides.

In addition to "Survival Mode" I've also heard this called "Crisis Management". Not sure if that's what you were looking for.

Streamlight makes some simple on/off models. Like the Streamlight Microstream 66323. Very bright for its small size.

I won't claim it's the equivalent of the Bambu Labs FDM printer, because I've never done FDM printing.

On top of that, I'm only familiar with the one resin printer I've used.

Anyway, it's an Anycubic Photon Mono X 4k. I've had really good luck with it, and I've printed over 200 miniatures and other things. I've had some failed prints but they were almost always my fault for doing something dumb, and there haven't been that many overall. I'm guessing easily less than 5%.

I wouldn't recommend the exact same model as mine, because they have newer ones (like an 8k version of mine and some others).

But I would definitely recommend the Anycubic Photon line as worth looking into. Read some reviews & watch some videos.

Good luck!

Some call this Cunningham's Law. It is remarkable how people will ignore a question, but trip over themselves to correct someone. Pedants are going to be pedantic (but may have a useful answer occasionally).

The developers where I work sometimes use this trick on our users. When they can't get a response from the users on a request for design input or feedback on something (which happens a lot) the devs will sometimes release some piece of garbage looking thing, and then the users will very quickly put in support cases with the requested info telling them the missing stuff, etc.

Human nature is why we can't have nice things.

Thank you, this is the sort of thing I was trying to point out. And I love how he ignored all my other points just to focus on this one ISO or installer he's using over and over again to "prove" that he's right.

Funny part is, I never said it was the default in the original post anyway. The whole point is, if it's turned on, you may want to turn it off.

There is also a registry hack for this but I have not looked into it or tested it. (And I agree with your sentiments re: Microsoft.)

First of all I believe you are incorrect.

You're doing a single anecdotal "test" from (I assume) one copy of the installation media. News flash, not all installation images of Windows 11 are the same.

And I will answer your anecdotal evidence with some anecdotal evidence of my own: almost every friend and coworker I've asked about this says Autoplay is on. And when I check Google or ChatGPT, they confirm that a fresh install of Windows 11 will have it on by default. So....I guess everyone else is wrong about this but you're right about every installation of Windows 11.

Secondly, your question ignores the fact that people should probably check to see if it's on. It can get turned on accidentally or even by an update. Microsoft is constantly messing arbitrarily with user preferences and settings with their weekly updates. You do know that, right?

Finally, you posted some version of this same reply multiple times in this thread. Why? Are you just doing that to "get upvotes for fun"?

BTW, there's no karma on lemmy....upvotes don't matter.

It's fine to correct someone, but first do a better job of checking your methodology, and second, don't assume their motivations for trying to share helpful info.

Think of it as a seatbelt. You don't plan on crashing your car, but shit happens. It's even possible a brand new USB drive from a "reputable" company could have something on it.

Good catch, I forgot that one! And the other classic is having waste excreting plumbing and reproductive plumbing all bunched together.

So many poor "design choices" in human anatomy. (Note, I know there's no intelligent design).

The optic nerve. External testicles. Lack of decent fur. The way some nerves and blood vessels are routed make zero sense. An immune system that often wants to kill you. The list goes on. I'm sure a biologist or medical person could add plenty more. Many animals have some of these traits, too. If some trait or process is just barely good enough, nature will chug along with it for millions of years. Nature is all about some redneck engineering.