My company is similar (although there's still people trying to organise things) but while things changed over the pandemic, they were already planning on full hot desking and reduced floor space (lucky for them they'd just implemented the infrastructure for large scale WFH as the lockdown began). The sense of a "Team" has completely gone, the majority of people I work with are based in other parts of the country or even overseas, going to a social event at my local office would just be mingling with people I don't know, don't work with, and only have the name at the top of our paychecks in common. So I don't bother, and they wonder why.
Users are bound by the version of the terms they agree with when they start using the product. There may be a term that says ongoing usage when the terms change constitutes acceptance of a change.
Unity are trying to say they can make the change retroactively, but the 2022 (and prior) terms apparently included a clause saying that if future changes were detrimental to the user they could stay on old versions of the software and remain bound by the old terms. That's one angle Devs could use to tell them to get fucked
There may be others.
My reading was they expressed concern that the guardians who imposed face coverings on these girls would deny them education rather than give up the garment, then frustration that some people, like those guardians feel they have the right to impose such rules. Seems consistent to me.
It seems to be a behaviour particular to portable devices. I'd argue encryption by default is a good thing on a device that's more likely to be stolen (and the identity theft implications that brings) but clearly it needs to be better communicated to the end user.
I reinstalled windows 11 recently and had to manually re-encrypt the boot drive, which also prompted me to save a copy of the key. I had the option of backing up to my MS account, saving a txt file (which it refuses to let you place on any encrypted drive, even if it's a different one to the one you're encrypting at the time), or print it (which can be to a PDF you can save anywhere).
It's possible to access the backup options at any time after that as well.
I usually take the last option, save the pdf to the same drive then copy paste the key into my password manager then delete the file.
You don't have to give Microsoft the key (unless you want the "backup" option) but the OS has to have the key locally while it's running in order to be able to read the data on the drive (and also write new data).
In typical usage The TPM holds the key, but it's the OS that generated the key and encrypted the drive in the first place. I don't know the technical details but the TPM recognises the OS install that programmed it and will only automatically unlock and provide the key for that. If you change it by swapping the drive or booting to a different device it remains locked and any alternative OS requires the key to be entered manually.
Yes, you have to opt in.
I use a Microsoft account for my user profile, and recently reinstalled windows. I didn't choose the account backup and so despite signing back into the same account, the encrypted partitions on my non-boot drives could only be unlocked by pasting the key in directly, there wasn't an option to restore it.
Same! I installed W10 in 2016 too, when I built a new Intel 6th Gen system. Just kept on working until earlier this year when the motherboard died. Got a new 12th Gen chip and motherboard from a different vendor, stuck my seven year old boot drive in, entered the bitlocker key, and... it just worked. New drivers installed once I was back online and I just carried on as before. It genuinely surprised me how robust 10 is.
Eventually I ruined things this summer by accepting the 11 upgrade. I was tempted by windows subsystem for android.
11 worked ok and I found the UI changes tolerable, but after a month I started getting bluescreens I couldn't fix, so this week I finally gave in and wiped my antique install from the boot drive and installed a fresh copy.
It bluescreened pretty quickly, I figured the issue was almost certainly due to a particular piece of software I used. Removed that and it's been stable since.
I could probably just restore my last backup, remove the problem program and continue. But I guess I was due a clean install, and while it wasn't laggy or slow before, it does feel a little snappier.
If you cut your own hair, it won't grow back. That was a lie my mum told me (after I experimented with the scissors). I believed her for years because there was a gap in my hairline. Eventually I realised "how would the hair know who cut it?" The gap in my hairline was just my parting.
I believed LCD screens in digital watches were made of mercury (they were silver after all), which I knew was toxic. I thought that if you touched the display directly, you'd die. One day, I'd disassembled a cheap watch to see how it worked - I took everything apart back then, eventually I got good at putting them back together again. Drove my parents mad, but these days they always have something for me to fix whenever I go round.
Anyway, I had this watch in pieces, handling the innards like an IED, but disaster! I brushed the back of the screen with a fingertip.
I was dead. It was just a matter of time. I didn't cry or run for help, nothing could be done, I was resigned to my fate.
After about an hour of continued existence I began to doubt my assumptions. It dawned on me that something so frighteningly lethal wouldn't be simply handed to children with nothing but a cheap, press fit case!
That said this was in the 80s, and back the I also believed it was both safe and fun to help demolish an asbestos cement outbuilding by jumping on the sheets to smash them into little pieces. That one might still get me, we'll see.
I'm pretty good on commute time. It was a 5-10 minute drive or a 25-30 minute walk. I've stuck there for years because working for any of their competitors are in the area and I'd have to go straight to an hour each way minimum.
I wouldn't mind going back in part time, if the hybrid office environment itself wasn't so hostile to actually working, with sterile hot desks and everyone having loud overlapping conversations in their respective virtual meetings.
I'm fully WFH right now. Company policy leaves office attendance to each team, although almost no one is expected in full time as they've shed a significant number of desks. The pandemic is the reason it went that far but they were headed for hot desking and partial WFH in late 2019 anyway.
Personally, I'm not expected in at all except for monthly (local) team briefings, because the scheme I'm working on is based in an office at the other end of the country, and so I'd be remote working regardless of visiting "my" office.
WFH suits me, but to be honest I do sometimes wish I could go in. I miss having people to idly chat to, but I can't. The office I want to return to isn't there any more. I used to have my own desk, set up my own way, with neighbours from my (discipline) team, co workers and friends.
Now it's a sea of souless hot desks, each identical to the next, same shitty misaligned monitors plugged into the same cheap hub, no dividers at all (it wasn't quite cubes before, but there were half height dividers that absorbed some of the noise) resulting in an almighty din. Those friends who didn't retire, quit or transfer might be sat near me, but probably won't. I can't even get a coffee unless I plan ahead because they no longer stock non-dairy because apparently it's too much trouble now they don't know who's coming in when.
Eventually I'll have to give up my home office because it will be needed as a bedroom, and I'll have to go in, but until that day I'll stay where I am.
That's fair. Funnily enough, in the discussion that resulted from the meal I mentioned, my Chinese co-workers did say there are plenty of people who can't use chopsticks well either.
Cutlery.
Growing up everyone around me could use a knife and fork, whereas chopsticks were something most people couldn't use or only used badly. It never occurred to me that the opposite might be true until I shared a meal with some co-workers from mainland China and saw how clumsily they used our utensils.
It wasn't until that point that I appreciated the amount of dexterity and finesse that goes into using cutlery well, and that I took it for granted because it's something learned in childhood.
My company is similar (although there's still people trying to organise things) but while things changed over the pandemic, they were already planning on full hot desking and reduced floor space (lucky for them they'd just implemented the infrastructure for large scale WFH as the lockdown began). The sense of a "Team" has completely gone, the majority of people I work with are based in other parts of the country or even overseas, going to a social event at my local office would just be mingling with people I don't know, don't work with, and only have the name at the top of our paychecks in common. So I don't bother, and they wonder why.