kingrazor

I can't speak to anything newer than comet lake, but between my various HP elite books, elite desks, Dell optiplexes, latitudes, and Lenovo thinkpads, very few of them have shipped with bitlocker enabled by default.

Many business class PCs shipping with Pro versions of Windows do not have bitlocker enabled by default. We have a few hundred laptops and desktops in the validation lab I work in and very few of them shipped with bitlocker enabled.

I had bad insomnia in high school and often went to sleep quite late. This probably would have helped me a little.

Can you expand on that? Every time I've looked for a new job I've had to use the "carpet bomb" approach with my resume to get anywhere. Any time I've been out of work historically, it's taken a minimum of 3 months to find a job.

I use SMS because it's been the default messaging solution on every non-iphone I've ever owned. My first few phones were all "dumb" phones so SMS was the only option. On my android phones I've always just used the built-in messaging app which is typically SMS and switches to MMS when doing group texts or sending pictures. I've never had a need to install any 3rd party apps for messaging.

This begs the question, do you ever sprint while in a sprint?

I'm not a developer but when my last job paid half of what I make now and I have even less responsibility than I did at the previous job.

I also wonder about this. Every device I've ever bought that needs either a charger or an AC adapter has come with its own power/charging cable. I've never had the desire for them to all have the same connector. I just keep the charger with the device. When I buy a new device, I expect it to come with the cable necessary to power or charge it.

Constantly.

I can't count how often my left or down swipe has been interpreted as a left or right swipe on touchscreens

Don't they, technically? Since the income tax is withheld from your paycheck before you get it?

I currently have 5 computers:

-A Nehalem i5 desktop that I built in 2010 and used as my main PC until 2021. It's currently running Windows XP and being used to play my old RTS games

-An Ivy Bridge i7 desktop that I'm using as an ESXi server for a home lab

-A Comet Lake i5 desktop that is now my main rig, built in Jan of 2021

-A Lenovo Thinkpad T420 currently being used as a dedicated podcast recording machine

-A Dell Optiplex 7010 hooked up to my tv for watching movies, tv shows, streaming services, etc...

Isn't this basically the case at the end of the day? Just about everything seems to eventually get passed on to the consumer.

They're taking advantage of the still sizeable population of people who enjoy offline, single-player games. Because they still do that quite well.

I'm not sure attending traditional school with chronological peers does all that much to improve that situation. I know very few people who are still friends with anyone from high school, for example. I only have two friends from high school that I even talk to anymore, and only one that I'm close with. I don't feel like attending a traditional school did much of anything to help me develop social skills, as I still struggle with those quite a bit even now.

My problem is that when I select that, I see a completely different feed, regardless of post times. In the algorithmically sorted mode I see tweets that I'll never see in the chronological mode.

Is this really a problem though? Wouldn't arts programs simply move to being something offered to and studied by those wealthy enough to do so? I'm genuinely curious.

I never graduated college. The only good that came of me going to college was that I met someone who introduced me to a paid internship program that I'd have otherwise never known about, and would never have been able to qualify for had I not been in college. It only lasted 18 months, but it paid my bills during that time and taught me some useful skills that lead to me getting a full time job at another company. I've thought about going back and finishing, but it just doesn't seem worth the money I'd have to spend to do so, especially since I'm already working in the field I want to work in.

I've worked in a software validation lab for the past 5 years where we have 100s of laptops in use. My bench has 8-10 laptops sitting on it at any given time, all of them running 24/7, though none of them doing anything particularly demanding. So I have what I believe to be some unique experience in this.

All of these laptops are higher end business models from major OEMs (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc...) I was an avid fan of Thinkpad T series laptops for quite a while, but in the last couple of years I've had a lot of problems with them and am no longer confident in that series. I've never been a fan of HP, and have had mixed results with their products. Their higher end business stuff is decent, but I've had issues here and there. Oddly, despite the many horror stories I've heard, the Dell Latitudes I've worked with have been the most rock-solid. No swollen batteries, no broken displays, no random bricking (happened to two different T460Ss I had), no BSODs.

I've personally not had great experiences with Macs in general, but have a lot less experience with them than PCs. I have not found Macs to be notably better than mid to high end PCs in terms of hardware quality.

I drank soda throughout my childhood and really ramped up how much I drank when I got into college and finally had a bit of disposable income. At a certain point I was easily drinking a gallon per day. The thing that finally got me to stop was that I started getting throat ulcers every time I drank it. I'd been getting them for years up to that point, but much more sporadically. Once I stopped drinking soda, no more throat ulcers. When I need a carbonation fix I go for seltzer water now.

I think about this every once in a while. I've grown up playing those games and others like them. I remember how cool the world seemed in World of Warcraft when it first came out, but once I realized players had mapped out the entire game and knew where everything was it really took away from the mystery of it all. This is part of why procedurally generated content interests me. No one else has played through the exact same Minecraft seeds that I have (or at least I don't think so, I'm not 100% sure how it works).

The stages mentioned in this article are exactly what the company I last worked for went through. Inevitably they lost customers to other products with faster release cycles. The company is still limping along but at a fraction of their former revenue. It's sad, really.

Just doing some napkin calculations, the cheapest apartment I can find right now online in my city is $900 per month. This is including studios. The minimum wage in my state is $11.25 per hour. So working full time at minimum wage, that apartment would be over 46% of your gross income.

Depends on the SKU. Lots of NUCs have full vPro (at least the Intel branded ones).

Assuming they work full time and receive benefits. The pizza shops I've worked in did not offer benefits or full time hours.

How many pizza shops have you been to that pay more $13 per hour? All the ones I know of pay minimum wage to anyone but managers.

I'm a living example of this.