Might perform better in certain situations where the original got laggy.

Worse than that. You bought software licenses specific to that Wii, not to an online account. If it died, you lost all your purchases.

For me it’s been “I see you bought this specific laser engraver. Would you be interested in buying that exact model?”

No. I already bought it, and it’s not a consumable. If I decided I needed a new laser a week into ownership, it wouldn’t be because I was thrilled with that exact model.

I work for a municipal government where we all receive a phone stipend because of 2FA.

If we use our personal phones for city business, they become searchable in Open Records Requests.

I still use bat h files and the system scheduler to automate a shocking amount of my job.

Considering that Edge makes itself the default browser and even PDF reader on its own every few weeks, I don’t trust Microsoft to keep Edge from taking over as default without user input.

Mine is similar, but I have an ultra wide on top, a standard on the bottom-left, and my laptop on the bottom-right at my home work station.

I currently run 3 and am actively trying to figure out how to get more in my space.

I want my workstation to look like Neil Peart set it up.

Open Source software isn’t charity. It’s a group effort that anyone can use.

I use GQIS and OSM professionally. My company also contributes to both projects. You WANT companies to adopt free software because they’ll put resources into improving it, which improves it for everyone.

Are they doing it to make money? Yep.

But it’s good for the product and every user of the product. It allows hobbysts and individual users to benefit from corporate resources without ever giving the corporations money or data.

He’s saying that they would be a good value if it weren’t for the price.

Which applies to most things. If a HP printer used $2 ink refills it would also be a good value.

They lost 93 million on 2023, and paid the CEO more than double that.

Nope - can’t think of a single thing they could do to make reddit profitable.

At-Will doesn’t apply here. He acted against company policy and escalated a simple shrink issue into a violent incident.

It wasn’t even the deterrence. That may have been a slap on the wrist, but grabbing onto the product and grappling with the thief was absolutely a termination event.

OP was fired with cause.

It’s not about guns, it’s about liability. If more people had been seriously hurt because he grabbed the item instead of simply letting the guy go, the could have sued the retailer because he escalated it.

Notice in OP’s story he was punched after he and security grappled with the guy.

If you’re getting flooded with emails from legitimate sites asking for email address confirmation or password resets, you may be getting hit with a “registration bomb.”

If you have something compromised, they’ll do this to try and hide the email you should actually be worried about in a flood of email that isn’t stopped by the spam filters because they’re from legitimate sources.

I recently woke up to thousands of emails about newsletter registrations, password reset requests, free trial notices, etc. Amongst the deluge of unwanted email was a notification about a new user being added to my PayPal account. If I hadn’t read through the emails I would have lost a lot of money.

I’ve shared enough specifics about my various careers on here that saying exactly who I worked for at different periods of my life can really narrow down my identity.

The insurance didn’t pay anything at all.

They negotiated the rate down massively, and then required me to pay 40% of the sticker price, so they get away paying nothing despite getting 500 a month in premiums between me and my employer.

I had shitty insurance when I worked for a major retailer, and I had to go to the ER.

My copay was $300 plus 40% of the bill.

Turned out uninsured people making under $100,000 a year got a 90% discount at that hospital, so it was actually more than 4x the cost because I was insured.

I want to know why do many cars don’t have a play/pause button on the wheel, but do have a source button.

I change my source from my phone exactly never. I want to pause the audio all the time.

Black Mesa also had to change its name one time iirc. It was originally being developed as Black Mesa: Source, and Valve told them to drop the “Source” part.

Watching Black Mesa development was really neat, because it kept getting delayed, then they stopped updating fans while insisting it was still in development, and we’d all pretty much decided it was never getting finished.

Then it came finally came out and was so good Valve let them license and sell it.