Same as it ever was

Or maybe it’as not. Either way, being upset about it isn’t going to stop the bombs if they come.

If your apocalypse comes to pass, then what? You get to feel smug while you die of radiation poisoning?

Work on what you can impact, be aware of the rest, and most importantly don’t worry about what you can’t change.

Their outfits too. Bratrice is wearing a floral patterned more casual thing. Margaret is wearing something black and white that communicates “office job” a lot more directly. Could be taken that Margaret is just on break from work, or that she doesn’t have outfits that don’t double as work clothes.

At the very least, Beatrice has casual clothes.

It’s not self defeating, it’s an implicit understanding of unstated social context. In the comic, the direct leadup was talking about jobs when the question was asked. In the comic it was as direct context as possible without wording the question better.

99.99% of the time, people mean “What do you do for a living?”, and if they don’t and you wrongly assume they do, they can easily follow up with “Cool, and what do you do for fun/in your free time?”. Conversation stays flowing with no hitches.

If you want to change the general unstated social context (and I agree that we definitely should) don’t be abrasive/elitist/well ackshually with a person making small talk. Don’t introduce that hitch where you talk down to your conversation partner. That’s a great way to slam the brakes on any conversation.

If I was the asker in the comic, I’d be sorely tempted to start talking about the bodily functions that I do. If we’re gonna have a pedantry competition, I’m gonna win.

Anyway, you can introduce or specify the context of your answer with statements like “Well, to pay the bills I […], but I just do that so I can […]”. You can even reverse the order there so what fulfills you is the first answer. Keep things smooth.

That works for asking as well. I avoid the generic “What do you do?”. For me it’s always “So how do you spend your free time?” or “What do you enjoy doing?” for what brings them fulfillment. “What do you do for a living?” for what their job is. I specify.

Your job is still something you do, so just set the subcategory.

And like so many of these “and then everybody clapped” style of comics, that are pretty obviously a creator imagining a version of a real life event but where they were “cooler”…

If anyone was knocked silent by that response, it would only be from shock that you missed the context and then willfully doubled down on it.

That look wouldn’t be a moment of epiphany or something. It would be “Well great, I’m talking to someone lacking in social graces.”

Most people would respond by taking the conversation in the new direction of hobbies, or just correct the misunderstanding and ask what they did for a living to continue the original track.

Lol, this is why we don’t tend to give software engineers local admin, and why most places hire separate UX designers.

Don’t even need to go that far. Pro and using Group Policy covers most of it. A registry entry here, a powershell command for uninstalling some bloat there… LTSC just saves uninstalling some of the bloat still on Pro.

If your laptop doesn’t have enough ports built in.

I don’t know what this guy is smoking. Copilot had administrative controls before it rolled out, through Intune and Group Policy.

I won’t deny it’s godawful to have shit split across AD, Group Policy, Regedit, and Azure/Entra/Intune.

But they very much still have controls for all this shit, almost always available before the feature rolls out. I’ve literally never seen this shit make it through to our end user devices in an un-intended fashion.

Hell, just hold non-security updates for a period of time for review before pushing it to your entire environment if this (not actually happening) issue is a concern. That’s like basic table stakes for Windows environment administration: update cadence management and pilot machines.

Please don’t claim to speak from a place of authority on this and then spread falsehoods. There’s plenty of shit to hate without making things up.

Like the third party app approvals in Azure and Teams defaulting to allow any non-admin user to be able to approve any azure app access to all of their data with no oversight. You can (and should) lock that the fuck down. It’s a batshit default, not a lack of controls.

With PXE boot you don’t even need a USB. Boot into the imaging “OS” over the network.

My workplace has a couple of dedicated network switches on a dedicated “imaging” VLAN in the hardware room, that way normal users can’t accidentally reimage their own machine. I think the desktop guys can get 32 going at once, and the complete automated setup time for one is like 40 minutes.

I grew up with that too, but the only time I’ve had any sort of slowdown from grouped icons is when I’ve been juggling like 4 excel sheets. I don’t often find myself with that many instances of the same program open often enough for it to matter.

It was an adjustment at first back in… Windows 7 I think, but I really haven’t missed it since.

There are also various browser extensions to show you an image from the middle of the video instead of a thumbnail. I personally prefer that.

I’d like to interject for a moment…

Lol, lmao even. Welcome to the grind. There aren’t many/any easy ways, it wildly varies based off your situation and skillset, and anyone who found any sort of “trick” isn’t about to share it.

The “easiest” way online, assuming no particular skills, is probably mechanical turk work. Amazon has a system for it. mturk.com

You get paid barely anything, I mean like literal pennies, to go and do stuff like fill out surveys, categorize photos for AI training datasets, etc. Most people who make any halfway reasonable amount from it are using all sorts of scripts and stuff to maximize how much they can do in the least amount of time.

If you already have money, giving it to an investment banker to handle for you can be enough to live off of, but you need an absurd amount of money to start with in order to just live off dividends.

Fun fact: that lady has multiple nobel science prize winners in her family and lives on a national heritage site. Look her up on Wikipedia and it’s pretty obvious why she doesn’t want class war, lol.

Everyone can, technically. Votes are not private in any way and can’t be for federation to function properly.

Check out lemvotes.org to check votes by account, by post, or by comment.

Also, piefed stopped doing the vote obsfucation thing a while back anyway. So just make a nsfw alt account.

The scale is a significant part of the problem though, which can’t just be hand waved away.

Yeah, didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but that detail was quite absent from the blog post.

Also his claim that email chains end up creating an extra copy of an attachment every time? That’s not how most email clients handle attachments. They usually only carry forward in forwards.

And even if his idea is true for his setup somehow, data deduplication at the storage level isn’t particularly difficult to set up, and I would argue is table stakes for any business doing self hosting.

Similar when it comes to data retention policies, quotas, auto deletion of spam after a shorter time window. It’s not fun and for some setups may not be easy, but it’s part of the bare minimum for email. So yeah, you absolutely do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you.

Edit: and if you pay someone to do it for you, you have to abide by whatever dumb hoops they make you jump through, or find someone else to pay.

Thank you, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions, but his setup seemed like a convoluted way to have Google handle the storage at no cost to himself. Glad I’m not the only one with that takeaway.