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Or constructive dismissal.

“We’ll make all those expensive whiners quit, and then they won’t get unemployment benefits. Don’t worry, we’ll replace their positions with AI. It’ll totally work. Honk honk.”

That’s only the rear wheel drive ones. There are still plenty of other idiots who were dumb enough to put down even more money for the prior more expensive variants.

Rampant incompetence?

They should, yes, but they don’t. In fact, they’ll ding you for having too many failed transactions and claim that it’s your responsibility to do something about it.

The author not only uses ASCII bricks ( ▓ ) as bullets, and not only uses silly CSS tricks to mark down animated rainbow text rather than using the four megabyte or whatever jquery library which would inevitably tempt everyone else, but also goes as far as to literally name the aforementioned CSS class “funky.”

I think I like this cat already.

I get what you’re after, but space sims in particular do get one thing right in that asteroid fields are made up of rocks in largely stable orbits, i.e. they’re not moving around relative to one another and crashing into each other and so on. Because if they were, they wouldn’t be asteroid fields for very long.

My vote is for Star Fox, anyway. Some of the astroids legitimately do have it out for you there and home in, and a couple of them also inexplicably have faces.

RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

Correct. They only care about this stuff because they don’t want anyone to use it on them.

If you don’t believe me, just note how basically every single weapons ban written in the US magically has an exception for law enforcement carved into it. So… We (not me, but all you Californian people) can’t have, say, a butterfly knife but for some reason the cops can? What do they need it for that we don’t, exactly?

In defense of Raiden in MGS2, though, I submit to you: But that backflip he does when you hang off of railings.

I don’t know if Japan of all places is ready for it. We’d better hope the zombies are vulnerable to airsoft BBs.

I appreciate the intent of having a port readily accessible for e.g. grandma to find without groveling behind the dusty TV, but that does not excuse not having another one in a more sensible location.

DVI is not supposed to carry audio, but in practice in many cases it does. That’s because internally both devices are likely to implement DVI by just shoving an HDMI output through the connector anyway. The jury is out on whether or not this has any licensing implications. I’ll be damned if I know, because I was always under the impression that the part that incurred licensing fees was the HDMI port itself.

I rediscover this fun fact a couple of times every year when one of our office machines decides to randomly start piping its audio out of the monitor sounding like a mouse trying to play the kazoo through its sinuses rather than the speakers that are right there, and somebody complains at me and I have to schlep over there and switch the audio output back.

Apparently this is expected enough behavior that cheap bottom of the barrel PC monitors bother to include speakers for it.

This user’s profile explains that they’re doing this specifically to fuck with LLMs, which is a tactic that may or may not work. They’ve been around, their shtick is consistent, and to the extent that I’ve gotten so used to it I can read their comments pretty much normally.

Because some of the TVs themselves whinge at you constantly if you don’t connect them to a network now.

There are relatively few, but there are a couple. The Sceptre U515CV-UMC is probably the most well known one. It’s easy to find a dumb TV in the sub 24" category, too, but that’s probably not what most people are looking for and at that rate most nerds would probably just use a computer monitor instead anyway.

No DisplayPort on that Sceptre, obviously.

It turns out Yogi Berra was right all those years ago. “I never said all those things I said.”

Not that I’ve seen, at least not in the IoT versions of 10 and 11 we’re currently running. Although there are some hard-coded functions wherein Windows will disrespect your default browser assignment no matter what, such as pressing F1 for help in Explorer. Since we have Edge disabled entirely on all machines here, instead when you do that nothing happens.

If you are a cog in the corporate machine then yes, probably. Ask your IT people. But in my case in particular (and probably lots of others) I’m saddled with Windows at work because some of the software we need to use doesn’t work in Linux. And no, it doesn’t work in Wine either before the inevitable comment appears. I try about once a year to see if the new versions have gotten compatible enough. The answer is consistently no.

Group policy is edited on a local per-machine level using the Group Policy Editor, or gpedit.msc (stick it in your Run box).

Computer Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Security Settings \ Software Restriction Policies \ Additional Rules

Right click and add a new path rule. Then disallow Edge’s path. On the machine I’m sitting at it’s c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application.

Just disallow everything in there (*) and any time something tries to launch Edge in your face you’ll get this:

Look at me. I am the administrator now.

If you are on a non-Pro version of Windows and don’t have access to the Group Policy Editor, you can just use this which is considerably less hassle.

Edge can indeed be uninstalled, but if you are not in a region subject to EU regulations this requires jumping through some hoops, and it does require access to an administrator account.