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Yes, I have a TP-Link router and a separate access point (so two different SSIDs in my oddly-shaped home) - no doubt this doesn't help.

I went wild and bought four of these, to have a high-quality multi-room audio setup on the cheap.

The trouble is, it almost never worked - I'd have two rooms working, or it would fall over after one song, or after three songs, or not work at all.

I don't know whether the product was fatally flawed, or Google just didn't put the investment into making it work, but it would have been great if it wasn't so broken.

I like that Micro Snitch's ears light up when the mic's in use, or his eyes light up when the camera's on, without the notification. As someone who uses audio/video capture apps a lot, it's a useful way to know at a glance whether certain apps are running properly.

By choosing to make art, you become an artist, so in that sense only artists _do_ make art.

This isn't art, though. Art isn't functional, art creates thought and emotion. Art has thought and emotion behind it. Code can make art, but there has to be a genuine artistic intent behind the code.

At best, this is design, but in reality this is a code snippet that generates random boxes.

Nope, try emigrating to any country and see how un-dickishly they behave. Switzerland, for example.

Immigration is not easy anywhere, and I'm always surprised when people assume it will be - or spend decades not sorting out their status, then cry to the media when they're threatened with deportation.

I spotted Steam in ReactOS's application (package) manager, so maybe it already does.

Office 365 comes with a very good web verison of Outlook, which supports more modern features than most email clients do (such as Office 365 Groups).

I suspect it doesn't bother them hugely that desktop client support is falling behind on any platform.

edited to add: Oddly I can't find much marketing by Microsoft of the browser Outlook, otherwise I'd link it here, but I'd say it's about 85-90% feature complete compared with the desktop client.

HR support within organisations, too. I'm aware of some large organistaions currently investing in chatbots right now to help people find out how many vacation days they have left, find policies relating to their job etc.

Though this issue might equally be resolved by intranet search engines no longer being painfully bad (e.g. ones powered by Microsoft Graph).

Absolutely! I was reading these replies and thinking nothing made sense. Didn't realise there were companies trying to use consumer Skype for their corporate calls.

We have SfB handling everything at work - including PSTN - and it works fabulously all the time.

It's not open source or free, but check out Xojo - xojo.com - which is a kind of cross-platform spiritual successor to VB6.

Of course, Visual Basic lives on (as part of the free-as-in-beer Visual Studio).

For anyone who remembers the magic of compiling QuickBASIC programs but never experienced Visual Basic for DOS at the time, I highly recommend tracking down a copy and having a play!

It's really special - visually editing forms/controls in text mode is great fun.

There was a 'Compile' option in the File menu.

You might be thinking of QBASIC (which came bundled with DOS), which wasn't the same as QuickBASIC (a commercial program).

When a friend first gave me a floppy with QB45 on it and I discovered I could now compile my QBASIC programs it was indeed a magical day.

ScreenFlow does a fantastic job of recording the macOS desktop, including audio.

I've got ScreenFlow on Cmd-Shift-2 and now RetroClip on Cmd-Shift-5!

(or £4.99 in the UK, which is $7.10. But we're used to paying more! Also, bought :) )

> My friends are all nerds. They have every device. Some of them even own Surfaces. But nobody just casually… pulls out a Surface.

Except - they do. If you work in the corporate world, they're increasingly taking over from laptops.

I have a Macbook Pro at home and a Surface Pro at work, and I am quite happy to casually pull out either depending on where I am.

I think the point is any profession that can wield unusual control over other things (or people) can be described in this way.

That would include people like psychologists, hypnotists, marketers, politicians etc. Once you know all the tricks it stops being magical, but it takes a lot of time and effort to know all the tricks.

First they came for Greasemonkey, but I did not speak out, because I was a Scriptish user...

"As of 6/22/2017 there are travel warnings for the United Kingdom; exercise a high degree of caution."

I thought this was an error at first, but the .ca travel advice is indeed to be extra careful visiting the UK.

Spain, meanwhile: "Exercise normal security precautions".

Huh.

I guess it's only as good as the data sources :)

Problem: I do not like that the computer reboots automatically.

Solution: Reboot computer manually.

They're not open source

I think Android 7 does now ask on first use rather than at time of installation.

We have a couple of Polycom CX5000s too - the second one we had to source from eBay! We use Skype for Business for 100% of our voice and video communication, and have virtually no trouble with it.

Any problems in my experience stem from remote users' ISP bandwidth issues, or their inability to read instructions. No complaints about SfB.

I wonder if the author is using Skype for Business or the consumer Skype.

You can listen to some of the tracks made with these instruments here:

https://bleep.com/release/56481-aphex-twin-computer-controll...

Track 2 ('snar2') is basically a demo of the device.

I found it an interesting concept but pretty lacklustre as a piece of music, especially after the incredible Syro.

What's there is nice, but hardly any of the ideas develop beyond "hey, look what I did with these instruments". More like a demo than an EP.

Nice game!

This made me uncomfortable though (about CSS grid, not about the game):

grid-area: row start / column start / row end / column end;

So you have to put the rows (Y axis coordinates) first and columns (X axis coordinates) second, i.e. the opposite of how it's done in every other situation - i.e. draw_rect(start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y)

(1, 1, 3, 4) in every other language would draw a box 2 wide and 3 high, but in css grid it selects an area 3 wide and 2 high.

Also the fact it uses 'row' and 'column' to describe the gridlines rather than the actual rows and columns irked me.

I'm sure I'll get over it!

Feels more like we're going backwards here in the UK. I was on an unlimited LTE plan for £17 per month for a couple of years.

Last year, out of the blue, they told me they were capping it at 2GB.

After much argument they agreed to raise it to 4GB plus unlimited calls/sms for £14, which is enough for me but not really the same.

"Nintendo have $10.5 billion in the bank – enough for it to take a $257 million loss every year until 2052."

http://nintendotoday.com/nintendo-not-doomed/

Ah. I live in Scotland too and wondered if Monzo had some connection (Tesco Bank is based here but operates UK-wide)

I recently trashed my 2011 MBP (oops) and spent a month without it. I decided to try using my corporate-provided Surface Pro 4 instead to see how I could get on with a similar-spec Windows 10 PC for personal use.

By the end of the month I had gone slightly loopy (seriously - MacBook withdrawl is real), gave up and bought a 2015 rMBP. Personally I find macOS, and its deep integration with Apple's hardware, too intuitive and 'invisible' to the way I work to give up on it.

Without meaning to sound rude, why does it make a difference where you live? I feel like I'm missing something.