ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

Yeah, that’s why you’d want two phones

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Last I looked you could pretty easily get root on many phones, just if you did you couldn’t use stuff that checks the device security

If you want to carry two phones you could use one for banks and 2 factor authentication, and have root on the other

A hundred more on a thousand dollar device sounds exactly like the 10% duty we pay on things we import

I used to really like an apple turnover. Warm, with cream

Whole reimplementations have survived. IBM BIOS was the only original BIOS for PCs. Phoenix Technologies had a team read the source code for IBM BIOS (it was published in the user manual for troubleshooting) and wrote a specification for it which a different team wrote software from, making IBM compatible machines possible

I don’t know what law an emulator could be killed under, unless a license holder breached the user license as part of the development

Boot lickers?

It just was not much different to 98 and had less good UI

keyboard layout resets

Most people don’t care as they only have one layout. You and me are odd. I usually set my preferred layout as default

It’s going to annoy me. I keep the task bar on the bottom on my machine and on the side for remote/virtual machines

I wouldn’t, but only because I enjoy writing, even for email

I have felt vertigo in high places in regular 3D games like Minecraft. I have to sit for VR Ghost Busters

I can’t imagine how immersed I’ll be in more immersive VR

I have a friend who’s a new PM (in scaled agile). He isn’t up on expectation management.

We have a process where we request data from another agency which takes “from 7 seconds to 12 days”

And of course he tells people that. And of course they hear “7 seconds”

I have told him that if the SLA is 12 days, say “less than 12 days”

As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

I miss CRT monitors in text mode with the field in “idle CRT screen” black and the text in cyan

Dark mode tries, but always goes for maximum contrast

When taxes are reduced, the reduction rarely exceeds the recent decades’ bracket creep.

As

That looks like an oddly capitalised “as”

That really gives the reason it’s acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home

We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area

Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at

I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.

I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face