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Don't expect to block stuff from Google while using Chrome. Google is [one of] the biggest advertising companies

Fast boot in BIOS is about skipping tests, it's usually safe to leave alone

Their medication book is 5cm thick. Some restrict whole blood but not plasma, others perfect everything for weeks to months. It would only get onto the questionnaire if out was used commonly enough

150k won't be so much in 50 years of 4% CPI

Canberra has had a bit of success in finding cockie resistant street lights

They especially like pulling at edges, if your infrastructure exposes a bit of a rubber seal the cockie will have that

Good morning, and thanks for this, we don't get a lot of Tassie news on the mainland, especially we miss any nuance

Come to Australia, barriers between urinals are rare

And that keyboard shortcut is exactly the same as the keystroke to insert a line in other applications

I have a rule set up to delay outgoing email 2 minutes almost entirely because of how often I hit ctrl+enter

(Add format to a line, it formats that line and the paragraph above it; "no outlook, I want a paragraph break between those, not two linefeeds" <ctrl+enter>)

On the good side, when you miss a meeting because you're working from home and you were making coffee at just the wrong time, everyone believes you when you say you didn't get the notification

But legit, even when notifications are working properly they don't work well. They try to appear on top but will be behind anything that was opened as the notification triggered

I especially like this in MS Teams

It looks like it's working fine, then you try to join a meeting and randomly get one of:

• It works
• "We're setting things up for you" for up to 10 minutes
• "Your organisation does not allow remote connections"
• Automatically logs in like you authorised it last time

It always works fine if you close your browser and re-open it between uses of teams.microsoft.com

It works on open source stuff I use, at least. Also there's no hope if you connect over multiple devices, as only one browser on one machine has the authentication cookie

The spreadsheet thing isn't outlook, that's going to be a thing your workplace has set up for security

I bet it doesn't stop a word document with a spreadsheet inside as an object

That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn't start with f

I think the bad superscript is not a thing on the desktop app. I wonder if that's AI learning autocomplete

search sucks

The workforce where I work is diverse, so often it's easier to find someone by their first name, but you're not doing that in outlook's address book when names are in "surname, given name" format

Likewise when the address list was changed to "first name surname" you could no longer find someone with just their surname

I think it's more about power. Musk wanted more, but got less.

Regarding "Elon is stupid" I don't agree. He has shown exceptionally good technical skills, he has no people skills, he's worse than useless at presenting himself to the public in general

I don't think he engineered much at either Tesla or SpaceX, but he had an excellent understanding of what they were doing - he could answer all the (non-ITAR, non trade secret) questions Tim Dodd asked in his tour of Starbase. When model 3 was new Randall Monroe did and assessment of the vehicle, Musk took the criticism and the next version fixed all the identified problems.

I would say Trump is the opposite. Actually low IQ, poorly educated, but good at talking to the population at large

I think I have personally fixed my last three phones, my current one is so far undamaged. I'm clumsy and break phone screens too often.

I have kept old fishing gear in service where my friends replace their gear every few years.

I did maintenance and mechanical repair on my cars before they went electric.

My computer keyboard is currently on "the healing bench" waiting for the correct size LEDs, as I destroyed the LED for a key role replacing its switch

I really hate throwing stuff out when a minor but vital part is broken.

Better repairability also makes repair cheaper if you pay someone to do it

I believe you're (of you're American) now allowed to rip DVD but not anything newer. DMCA protection was removed from CSS

And beyond the law it depends also on enforcement

The US doesn't give a right to break Bluray copy protection and make a personal backup or access it on a device that otherwise couldn't play it. But the only enforcement is on people sharing copies, no one is prosecuted for format shifting their collection to play over their LAN