But I still have off-site backup

I also have extensive emergency planning that’s documented and practiced. I know what’s valuable, and what isn’t. Valuable stuff is already protected or planned for, not stuff I need to grab.

If I needed to leave, right now, I’d be out the door in under 5 minutes and have 3 day’s supply of food and water (with a compact cook kit), a week of clothes including cold-weather gear, phone chargers, batteries, flashlights, blankets, spare sunglasses, medicines, first aid kit, a small tool kit, spare glasses, etc, etc. And this list of stuff is documented.

Grabbing my little 5lb NAS is a trivial add-on that was only added to the list once everything else was organized. And it has its own bag, only need the NAS and power supply. I’ve added a handle to it (mostly to make it easy to move around), and everything has large, clear labels (no guessing which power supply goes with what device).

“You’re too dumb to understand so we make decisions for you”

Fuck that condescending prick with a pineapple.

Nah, I don’t use apple devices for watching porn

Wtf are you asking?

Then why aren’t they putting it up front and shouting from the rooftops about the new “privacy protecting feature”?

You’re not going to find an AV that doesn’t flag modifications as virus/malware. That’s kind of the definition of malicious behaviour by a program.

Hell, Windows itself will overwrite changes you make to certain exscutables/dll’s, etc, with its own file protection system.

Test your cracks in a VM. Then use them as needed, or do the cracking in a VM.

I don’t see anywhere that was said.

And test in a VM if you really want to be sure.

Cracks modify executables…classic malware/virus behaviour. Almost the definition of malware.

Which is why windows uses a file protection system since at least XP

It doesn’t take long to associate an IMEI to a new user.

Then there’s apps, accounts, etc. Gobs of data out there to associate a person - including tower and wifi connection data, which would easily associate a person with a device with a location with a time stamp.

“It’s a federal crime” : the implication is clear.

What was said after that was sophistry to make him sound better.

The moment he said “it’s a federal crime”, the response should be “then I guess we’re done talking here”.

Lol, have my upvote.

Now baking… The Brits seem to get that.

It’s all a result of history.

Hell, Brits were still under austerity through the 60’s, and didn’t really recover financially from WWII until the 80’s.

There are some great shows on Amazon done by historian Ruth Goodman and friends. Victorian Farm, Tudor Farm, etc. “War Farm” really shows how difficult the Brits had it until post-WWII. I’d watch them in sequence, because it’s great insight to the different periods.

And the well-heeled like keeping the distinction between them (French-speaking) and commoners (English-speaking).

It’s interesting, because that’s part of why Shakespeare was such a big deal - not only writing and performing in English for the Common Man, but was skewering the well-heeled while also expanding English.

Neat stuff.

They do not require the same amount of oil, by any measure (Metric or ACU).

Nor do they require the same heat. That’s determined by the food and end goal.

Sautéing green beans at the same temp as a fried egg will make for unevenly cooked beans.

Trying to fry an egg at green been temps will make for a nasty, oil-soaked blob where the whites are rubber and the yolk is hard, and you’ll never brown the whites.

Frying requires a moderately high heat. Sautéing can, but usually lower temps work better. With my pans, frying is about 70% heat, sautéing about 45%.

It also depends on the food.

Sautéing doesn’t use anywhere near as much fat as frying does.

To fry something (pan frying) you need at least enough fat to ensure strong contact between the entire surface of the food and the pan. Something like 1/8" (about 5mm).

Now things like pan fried chicken will take more, about half the height of the chicken pieces in the pan.

Deep frying, well, the food should submerge/float.

Nope, nothing ambiguous to me.

To fry means to cook in a fat. That is all.

That’s like saying “blue” is ambiguous simply because there’s also 13 different Pantone blues.

I’ve had 400% more failures of USB C than of micro. Keep in mind I’ve only had C for a couple years, and micro for 14 across numerous devices.

As my father would say “locks keep honest people honest”

Lots more is holding it back, but I’d agree apps is a huge issue.

It’s still has significant issues with being end-user friendly. Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click, not supporting right click, ambiguities galore when looking at a package repository, odd defaults in packages that one really wouldn’t expect to have to check (e.g. Selecting RDP connection in a Remote app, but it defaults the security to something other than RDP?)

As for apps, there’s problems like Libre Office devs refusing to support tables in the spreadsheet app, saying data management should be done with a database tool. While they’re not wrong, it takes a LOT more effort to setup a DB than to simply click “make table” in excel, which millions of people are familiar with. I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn’t need a database. No one has time for that.

Or you plug in the most prolific wireless mouse on the planet, that’s been around since 2000 (Logitech), and it doesn’t work. Now pick any random piece of hardware and this is the stuff you run into. You go down the rabbit hole of searching for a solution

Or CAD (which falls in your app argument).

Linux is great for many things (things I run, UnRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox, etc), it’s just not a great general purpose desktop for the average user, yet.

Who’s Kurt Advice? 😆

Your scrum leader is dropping the ball. Uggh, how frustrating