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I use my iPad as a second monitor using Duet Display. It works over wifi as well as tethered with USB. I am not sure how it matches up with Deskreen. It cost some money, maybe $20 for the iPad application.

That was exactly my experience traveling from USA to Europe. My iPhone didn't support global bands and wouldn't work with a local SIM. My iPad, however, came with the Apple SIM and let me purchase a local data plan in 2 different countries through a convenient menu that came up automatically. I'm sure there's a telecom company requirement for why this capability doesn't seem to work in a regular phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_SIM

I think that they are commenting specifically on the reasons for the staff shortage, in response to the popular claim that people are quitting their jobs over the vaccine mandates.

My 1-year old had a toy with a small plastic non-functioning telephone. After 1 demonstration where we pantomimed using a phone, he started picking up everything and holding it to his ear. Fruit, books, other toys, pretending it were a telephone and trying to speak into it. Every time he did this, we'd play along and say "Hello?" into our own nearby imaginary phone. He got a reaction from us that reinforced the game.

Eventually I gave him a real handset from an old rotary phone to play with. He might never have the experience of calling someone on it, but babies are at least able to figure out pretty quickly how to use these things in play.

I have noticed "don't talk to the police" being repeated often around here lately, with links to the youtube video. While it is probably good advice for your general day-to-day encounters with police, I don't think it is great advice for a executives of the corporation dealing with the SEC.

Or alt+tab into Teams on macOS?

In terms of things that are not specifically targeted:

I still see things attacks on open SMTP ports to relay spam email, installing crypto mining software on PCs and servers, scanning for insecure VoIP phone systems and racking up long-distance phone bills..

The ransomware attacks makes a lot of headlines I think because it's somewhat easy to sensationalize without a lot of explanation of boring IT stuff, but there are still plenty of other things happening regularly to compromise insecure systems.

There's something worse than "ridiculous" for insisting on a toy that has so many drawbacks for the people around you while you're using it for your own enjoyment. It's selfish.

In my rural area, one of the "last mile" problems is that there's now an extra leg. Since the small local post offices no longer hand-sort mail, but drive it to a larger hub post office that has the address OCR machines to auto-sort it, a cross-town letter that used to be delivered same day or next day now takes 3 days or more due to the extra round trip. Add that on top of all the extra work the USPS is doing with pandemic-related package shipment and I'm sure there is a lot of backlog at many points in the system.

Adoring the reproductive parts of our bodies seems like a normal biological response though being so fascinated by them that you would be a a contributor to WikiButt or whatever would also be strange to me.

To fetishize the foot is something different.

Had a similar experience when I showed up to an interview for a Windows sysadmin job that a recruiter had arranged. First thing they said was "so your resume says you have 5 years of AS/400 system administration experience?"

I think I was 22 years old at the time and had never seen AS/400 in my life, and told them so. They showed me a copy of my resume which had AS/400 and a few other skills falsely inserted by the recruiter. They appreciated my honesty and did call me back for another open position later, and told me they'd fired that recruiter.

I think a major omission from the authors' wishlist of BYOC-capable applications is chat. Maybe in their case they are lucky enough to have a choice in the matter, but I think overall the walled gardens and closed APIs for the major chat programs is a shame. Every day that I have to use Microsoft Teams in an attempt to communicate with coworkers is an exercise in patience. Basic chat functionality should be open and interoperable.

I'm still doing sysadmin work remotely while I slowly grow our own herd of dairy goats (12 now as of last week) for our soap business. Still a very low-tech setup but I may finally splurge on an electric milk pump this year after 5 years of hand milking.. I've had enough!

He visited every port on all 4 coasts of the island, roughly covering the perimeter. We understand this to mean in common speech that he walked "around" the island even though he didn't truly circumnavigate it. We know what the title means.

As others have said in this thread and in many other places, the minimum wage does not really correspond to the wage required to live a comfortable and dignified life. It is merely the least amount of money an employer can pay an employee without it being illegal, and has very little to do with the cost of living.

If I seem argumentative, it is because I am exasperated with the gymnastics that people will do in order to justify the conscription of more and more people into precarious existences under a gig economy, which largely benefits people at the top of the economic ladder at the expense of those at the bottom.

It's a "bad thing" because there are benefits to being employed with a company that treats you like an employee, which you are not going to get when you're fired and told to go work for Instacart as a contractor if you want to keep getting paid. This is a bad thing for the employee who no longer has their job.

This is a story about a grocery store chain replacing their own employees who perform a job at the company, with "independent contractors" from a 3rd-party service. I'm not sure what case you're trying to make, whose dignity are you saying is violated? Who said anything about taxis?

Why are you arguing to me against raising minimum wage, when all I said was that people deserve a living wage?

>>"We can't paper over our lack of viable careers by creating low-skilled jobs that pay the same as jobs requiring a college education."

Well, why can't we? If we are saying that these types of jobs need to exist, why can we not agree that the people who do the job deserve to be compensated with a living wage and deserve dignity and stability?

Much in the way that I would recommend to anyone struggling with "Moby-Dick" to try starting with Melville's much shorter novella "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to get a taste for the authors' style, wit, and use of language; I would suggest a volume of Greene's short stories. In a few or a few dozen pages it is easier to see how he draws a character, uses dialogue, employs irony and humor to make a point or cause the reader to reflect. Once you have a feel for what Greene finds funny (or distasteful) it is easier to see how his commentary takes shape over the course of a longer novel.

A few stories that come to mind that might make good examples are "When Greek Meets Greek" and "The Destructors."

Not sure if they are referring specifically to this, but as of February 2021, Atlassian will stop selling new on-premise Confluence licenses. I expect a lot of companies will have to transition their on-prem servers to the Atlassian Cloud hosting environment, opening up a lot of new customers to the Marketplace.

Probably the most helpful automation in my life is the automatic door on the chicken coop. Swings open in the morning and closes automatically at night.

There's another gap between small family farms and huge scale enterprises. There is a lot of demand for local but quality. Whether it's grass-fed beef, eggs from truly free-ranging chickens, or heritage breed pork that's well butchered (harder than you'd think to find quality animal processing) people are looking for things that the more traditional farms don't know about and the big farms can't afford to do. I think there is a market for focused quality. Of course in the meantime I'm still punching the clock at my IT job but hope the farm can eventually sustain itself.

Or search for a term like "System" and get results like this, all with the same icon:

1. Bing web search results for "system"

2. System Information, a program that shows a report about hardware and software in your computer

3. Settings, the modern control panel app, which has a panel called System

4. The old "System" control panel

5. "Change Your System Sleep Settings", or some other randomly-chosen specific setting from inside the modern System control panel.

I have long suspected that Excel's treatment of CSV files was intentionally antagonistic. For example, opening a CSV file will start an importer function where you must specify how fields are delimited within the file, and "comma" is not automatically selected, ever, despite "comma-separated" being literally named in the file extension.

Surely the folks programming it are not that short-sighted. It's just a punishment for not using their default format.

"Many people who live near Kentucky’s distilleries say the problem has worsened as bourbon’s popularity has soared. According to the Kentucky Distillers Association, 68 distilleries dot Kentucky, a 250 percent increase in one decade. "

So the problem has become much worse over a short period of time. The article also covers that many residents have low incomes and home values are low. It is difficult to relocate when you're poor.

I'm sure you could also bring yourself to empathize with the fact that this is where people grew up, have their families, and friends. Why should it be an individual burden to move your entire life because some local business finds it more profitable to pollute than clean up?

I think you're final paragraph is contradictory. I think the environmental impact of our limitless energy consumption so far is clear. Reducing consumption is the only way to reduce further impact.

Modern society uses a lot of unnecessary energy in part because someone gets to make a lot of money now and leave this life before the consequences of unfettered destruction come due.

No, not really in America. There are a few freeform music stations that still have actual DJs in the booth selecting records that they like, but mostly al the FM broadcast stations here are owned by 1 or 2 advertising companies who play preselected songs, have canned DJ banter, and a very low music-to-ad ratio.

This is true but you may also encounter some anachronisms. For example, married couples sleeping in separate beds was not something that historically happened- it was just how TV producers dealt with censorship dictated by The Hays Code, the rules that governed what could be shown in television and film. If you tried to use programming from the 40s and 50s you might wonder why none of these people seem to have indoor toilets!

Oh, how high-minded and ethical of them, to turn down "opportunities to .. collect or mine data" like the rest of Silicon Valley does. Give me a break.

It's one thing for consumer internet companies to show me an ad for mattresses because they know I searched for mattresses. It's wholly another to help government entities aggregate license plate data, run "predictive policing" programs, run the Pentagon's spy drone program, and help ICE track immigrants, as Palantir does. Frankly if given the choice I'll take the mattress ads.

The "network" functionality, whether you use the social/feed aspect of it, does warn you if you attempt to pay someone that you've never paid before and that you have no friends in common with. That's also a good way to make sure you're paying the right person.