I install apps that I need -- news, banking, podcast, email, Uber etc, usually from well known companies. A small amount of apps are lesser known but they have good reviews.

I don't think there is any fundamental difference from the Apple app store. Maybe do a check of yourself first.

Android has allowed everything from the beginning, and overall it looks... fine? Of course there are all kinds of malicious actors who manage to publish malware on Play Store or trick people into sideloading, but if my mom, a basic Android user who knows very little about how computers and phones work, never got herself into trouble, that says something. You must be either dumb enough or really understand exactly what you are doing to go way out of the safe zone to download a shady app.

And anyone concerned about browser's safety -- if that were a real thing we'd have already been screwed on Windows and Mac. The reality is that most people use Chrome and it is generally safe enough for everyday use. Some people use Firefox, Brave and whatever but most of those are well maintained. If you install a browser that nobody knows, that's your problem.

This is just all fear mongering. So stupid.

Android has allowed everything from the beginning, and overall it looks... fine? Of course there are all kinds of malicious actors who manage to publish malware on Play Store or trick people into sideloading, but if my mom, a basic Android user who knows very little about how computers and phones work, never got herself into trouble, that says something. You must be either dumb enough or really understand exactly what you are doing to go way out of the safe zone to download a shady app.

And anyone concerned about browser's safety -- if that were a real thing we'd have already been screwed on Windows and Mac. The reality is that most people use Chrome and it is generally safe enough for everyday use. Some people use Firefox, Brave and whatever but most of those are well maintained. If you install a browser that nobody knows, that's your problem.

This is just all fear mongering. So stupid.

Also the rest of the industry is not 2. 3 years is very common these days for phones, 5 getting more common. And for computers... Many business computers are supported for a long time, and Windows is famous for its backwards compatibility and support (Windows 10 is supported till 2025, 10 years from its release).

Performance? If you are talking about the startup performance, no it doesn't bother me. Again, nothing is slowly enough to cause noticeable delays in basic typing/editing and the bottleneck is almost never on them. (I regularly work on codebase of hundreds to thousands of files or more.) So I don't spend time worrying about saving a few seconds in total per day when I can use my brain elsewhere.

Let me pick a simple one: do people regularly drive half an hour or more to send their kids to school?

Doing VM workflows is one reason I didn't bother with recent Macbooks, as nice as they are. It is simply much cheaper to get a machine with removable RAM and then upgrade them later. Without going there, I can also build a decent ThinkPad T14 with 32GB for around $1,100 even though RAM is soldered.

If I am waiting for code to compile and I'm tired, the most interesting thing happens on my phone not what I need to do next, regardless of what that is

All the material except video is hosted on their website. No registration or anything. You run the test suites locally to verify that you correctly completed the assignments. It makes you wonder what happened to Coursera, Udacity and many other MOOC projects that were very optimistic and enthusiastic but got worse and disappointing in recent years. This is how it should be done.

At my company with thousands of employees, informal polls (where every employee can participate anonymously) show that people who are in favor/against of RTO is 1:4. At least that's a number I can quote.

I have adblock (uBlock Origin) installed, and I don't remember the last time I saw ads on Google or almost any other website. It's a natural thing to relate to regardless of whether this person is using Kagi. In addition, it also blocks a ton of tracking scripts. I would have replied the same thing if there is not already a comment.

The base does have a quite wide range, I assume that's the range for a few different levels. Still, you are roughly looking at a TC starting from $230k all the way up to $400k and more.

"Niche space and serious talent" doesn't necessarily translate to higher levels or salary in a company. It all comes down to how much resource an organization has. (I wish my employer actually understood how "valuable" I am and that I achieved things very few in my company could do, but I am not betting on that or the company.)

All other comments here are useless and a waste of your time.