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I guess that country really is better represented by Paul Hogan than Steve Irwin…

They don’t actually believe in those things. So the question is, what riders are coming with those bills?

Infuriating and horrifying in a way that triggers my claustrophobia. Even more infuriating are the people in America who are begging for censorship. You point out what a trash heap Europe’s censorship is and they shrug, as long as the censorship is by them against the “other side” whichever side that is they have no concept of what happens when that “other side” gets a hold of the reins. I would rather have to sift through 10 feet of nazi posts than have the government have a way to legitimately hold a verified list of everything everybody does.

I bid on electrical construction contracting and the random tariffs have raised the price of electrical components fairly badly, and made us have to raise prices. Really Covid delays are the worst thing in our field. The lead times backed up in 2020 and maybe are just getting back to normal now, except the threat of tariffs have added a new twist. The price of food has been going up since covid also. I don’t think it has anything to do with the current administration, because they were going up in the last one too. I think worse things in food prices are going to hit in a year or so if they don’t stop kicking out the field workers… The worst thing really that can be directly attributed to the current administration is that they are giving local farm workers a hard time and raising the tone of the rhetoric against Mexicans in general in red hat conservatives. That is reason enough to hate this admin…

I would try it, unless those are bread and butter pickles, then they can screw off.

Yeah, you’re right. I could have sworn there were more at times when they had diplomatic envoys, but maybe that was another room.

Well, I think that meeting room they are in there has a dozen seats at least. They just sit close to the end.

More random anti-ai fear mongering. I stopped looking at r/technology posts in reddit because that sub is getting flooded with anti-ai propoganda posts with rediculous headlines like this to the point that those posts and political posts about technology ceos is all there is in that community now. (This one is getting bad too, but there are at least 25% of the posts being actual technology news. r/technology on reddit is reaching single digit percentages for actual technology posts. )

Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.

Well… I own NWN2, but have never played it. I guess I’ll have to buy this version.

Well. I think we need to start giving WWII era Germans a pass. Even the people who see what’s happening are just sitting here shaking our heads and, at most, getting a little excited, hoping that it means a few more points for the blue team next gametime. Also I guess there are the ones doing the proactive thing and posting things to social media with headlines like “MAGA World Has Meltdown Down Over (x nonsense they aren’t melting down over.)!” Maybe that will do some good. Really, anything we actually try to do will just get us arrested and not help anything.

Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”

We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.

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This is how people consume media now. They enjoy it and want more but will only say negative things about it and thrash around in the throws of mock disgust so strong that they start to actually believe their own BS. Well, at least that is how Marvel and Star Wars fans consume media anyway.

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I think they are worried because this comic proved that AI is actually pretty good at making comics. The last frame being the best frame.

They will find some way to break 3rd party peripherals.

Thank you, I’ll give it a look.

Unfortunately change is difficult. If it was just me and my controls team we would probably do something like that, but my boss is a little older and I had hard enough time getting him to work on the cloud as it is, and he works in 2 cities, so he isn’t always in reach to help him. If it doesn’t behave exactly like windows folders, it might be a lost case.

The other people in the office I could train easier. It’s a small office with less than a dozen people on the system at any one time. I am “head of IT” but that isn’t my main job. Having something that installs and sets up quickly is a boon. Not that the sharepoint folders update all that quickly, it takes almost a full day for all the files to show up properly, especially if it is a new user. And if onedrive chokes on any one file it completely stops updating file changes until you fix that. Not a problem for anybody with some savvy, but half the people don’t even notice until their files have diverged and somebody calls them and asks why they don’t see some change or another.

All that being said, if I can save a few hundred dollars a month I could probably eventually talk them into moving over to something cheaper like I did with the Wondershare PDF editor. That was an easy move because it works exactly like Adobe but doesn’t crash on large files nearly as often. It is sort of a shame that Adobe is worse at handling their own file format than nearly any other PDF editor.

It seems like they are doing this to push back on mono-culture. Probably just to save money really. Using 365 saved our small office a lot of time, but it is pretty expensive since it is a constant subscription. I already switched away from Adobe at to Wondershare for PDF editing since we can get a single purchase from Wondershare and have to pay a subscription to Adobe. I would be tempted to do the same thing with 365 but we do a lot of traveling and the integrated sharepoint files is pretty useful.