What would they lose? Going down for conspiracy to commit murder for a start. Murder 1 as well.

I’m 20-years older and that’s about how my wrinkles are ATM.

Beat me to it. I was imagining the horror involved in wiring or plumbing such a space. Don’t know much about HVAC, but there would be weird hot and cold spots in an oddly shaped structure.

Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.

My go-to PS app:

https://www.photopea.com/

All online, same controls, hell, same icons. I’m a little stunned that Adobe hasn’t sued them into oblivion.

You can pay to drop the ads, but I’m not really seeing much end user benefit otherwise. Not seeing ads ATM, maybe I blocked 'em.

Has to be something like that. Nadella is somehow cheating with the number, trying to keep the AI hype going.

You could say ALL of my latest scripts were written with AI. Because I often use it to get a hint or gather some boilerplate code (which I still go over and modify).

Outlook is pretty damned bullet proof, Teams, OTOH, is a fucking mess. I can see IT wanting to keep everything in the same ecosystem, that’s perfectly sane, but I’m certain Zoom can be setup to honor AD credentials. We set it to use Google SSO.

The risk/reward analysis goes against assassinating the man. Despite prevailing opinions on executives around here, they’re not fucking stupid, especially at the level of one who could order a hit. Even if several were involved for plausible deniability, they would all foresee the circular firing squad in the event murder came to light.

Yes, that is how Supreme Court decisions work. Did you imagine that once a thing was ruled unconstitutional, or vice versa, that it could never be reversed?

The trial is called impeachment proceedings. We already have this covered.

That fee is outside my experience. Was that a short-lived thing? Never heard of it, certainly never saw it or heard anyone complain. Weird.

ATMs are not cost free. They’re not merely a kiosk. You have to pay armed men to load/unload them. And not any dude with a pistol will do. I imagine the background check is damned exclusionary.

And then there’s the networking, video and storage, upkeep and updates, all that, it goes on. But of course that still tallies a lower cost than a human, or they wouldn’t do it!

The test drive is brilliant! But for most of the folks I’m talking about, not going to give them a choice that will only confuse them. Not to be the high-handed, know-it-all IT guy, but sometimes you present a solution as a fait accompli. “There ya go! Here’s how it works. Any questions? Enjoy!”

And BTW, YES to you! A fresh $20 battery, an SSD and Linux Light (or similar), new laptop as far as they can tell. We on the same page!

Haven’t done much web UI, but I’m guessing that are too many way to skin the “form” cat to account for.

In any case, first time I’ve read any reasoning on removing it. Chrome killed it long ago and I was using an extension to re-enable it. Probably could have done as I just did in Firefox, fiddle with the config.

NICE! Now I’ve lost my muscle memory for that key, but I’m back (heh) baby!

Great comments in here that understand the actual issues, instead of, ya’ know, the usual.

Something I haven’t seen in the thread: Can someone address the costs of keeping the infrastructure maintained? Free power sounds great, but it can never be free. Entire industries must be paid to manufacture pylons, wire, transformers, substations, all that. Then there are the well paid employees who are our boots on the ground. (Heroes to me!)

How is solar disrupting the infra costs?

Now that’s a good idea! I have a couple of ideas to automate that. Crank the hot water balls out during peak production hours, but cut it off at night. Something like that?

Sounds like a deal for power companies that change prices during on/off peak hours. But wait, am I backwards? Typically peak power costs more? Anyone?

Let me know when Joi from Blade Runner 2049 comes around.

Seriously. She’s an unsettling version of the AI girlfriend. She’s wonderful and perfect and only lacking physical contact. Until, well, they figured that bit out, sorta.

Her AI was a bit unsettling. Just close enough to being a real companion, but not quite. Never felt so crushed to see an AI bite the dust. Murdered, really. Hell, I guess the whole damned movie was unsettling.

It’s perfect on my 40" TV. Mobile is a PITA for browsing or watching video. Go do something else until you can chill with an actual screen.

You might be onto something.

“It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving!”

Second video made some sense. Still, it’s really a niche application thing.