From what I can tell, they wanted them for their superior color accuracy, contrast and black levels, but I don't think modern monitors lack there anymore either, especially the high-end OLED monitors.

Can you even find a CRT monitor anymore outside of thrift shops and electronics recyclers?

Yeah, that's a good point. Also, the Verge is barely above clickbait, so I take that article with a big old grain of salt.

Aw man, as someone who works remote, broadband internet is the *only* thing keeping me from buy a dozen acres in rural central Texas and building my homestead there.

why?

Yeah, but it took them 3 days. checkmate.

Get the fuck out of here with your capitalist (i.e., rational) initiatives to help control climate change. A throwback medieval command economy can't ever happen if you keep taking away our political levers, Elon.

I am actually surprised it took the corps this long to realize the financial benefit of 'democratizing' their facility costs onto their employees. I mean, I like working from home, but the corps certainly aren't being altruistic here. It just took everybody working from home for the managers to realize they wouldn't lose out any efficiency by not having everybody in the same office, and for the bean counters to find out they could save some major money through not having facility costs - lights, snacks, coffee, water, etc etc.

eh, employment laws still apply even for remote work. It's complicated even cross-state.

lots of ~~terrorists~~ groups organizing for change use it because of the privacy thing.

Ebay scalpers should be fucked sideways WITH a geforce 3090

Yeah, good start and a surprising one, but it's not the overt stuff like this that is the main problem. It's all the subtle astroturfers and all the dollars the PRC pours into academia and corporations.