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I don't know if you're asking seriously, but if you are the answer is: Enterprise manageability and accountability. There's a reason why every hospital, Fortune 500 corporate campus, military base, supermarket, distribution centre, etc, etc all run Windows workstations. Why would a ruthlessley profit-driven corporation buy expensive Windows licenses when Ubuntu is free? Because when you're dealing with ten thousand workstation in 150 countries, each with own requirements for data protection, working time, employee rights, etc that not only need enforcing, but need to be audited, you can do all that with a single Windows server and a half-motivated sysadmin. And for everyone smaller than that, you still get access to those same tools for your school, office, factory, whatever on your fleet of twenty mismatched laptops from eight different vendors.

Nothing else comes close, and until it does nothing will change. They would all drop Windows in an instant if there was a sensible alternative.

I was gonna say, that kid was better on the banjo than I am on the vielle à roue.

"Eh, it's really more of a periwinkle."

It's only a brick if it's separated from both the outlet and the device it's powering by cables. Fight me.

Cows.

A friend of mine was taking over his family farm with access to open moorland for grazing and as an experiment we wanted to see if we could implement tracking without giving a monthly small fortune to a company for a proprietary product or noisy polluting methods like a helicopter. BLE beacons are cheap and long-lasting so each cow got one, and we bodged together about twenty solar powered Meshtastic nodes with GPS that were small enough to be worn on their collars (since the cows tend to heard together only one in the group needs a node), plus another dozen we could install at choke points on the land (old gates, land bridges, etc) the cows were likely to traverse. The nodes were like this, but smaller and shitter. The nodes were programmed to report every time they saw a BLE beacon nearby, with the mobile ones also reporting their own GPS location, all being fed into Home Assistant for mapping. I just checked and apparently, aside from a couple of storm-damaged fixed nodes and replacement batteries it's still going strong after two years.

Is this loss?

Smart Character 1: "This waterfall provides fresh water for drinking and farming, a plentiful source of energy, ideal fishing grounds, and camouflages us from the predators senses such that we can talk and act freely." Smart Character 2: "We must not live here." Smart Character 1: "Of course not."

This is taking too long.

Ahem.

Badger.

Not sure what you mean. I use Meshtastic a lot, both as a hobby but also for remote sensor reading and herd tracking. Works a treat.

Amazing that they weren't using Signal for comms outside their group, but for internal comms it's even more amazing they weren't using something like Meshtastic.

This is yet another reason why you don't use whatsapp

ftfy

Depends on the handset, but you can silence Work Profile or even temporarily disable it altogether. Also, WP prevents BYOD apps from having any access to personal apps and data. Also, for the business, it allows them to enforce isloation policies (so you can't copy from work Outlook into personal GMail, for example) and means that if the phone needs to be wiped it only affect the WP partition.

Anyone else see the extremely revealing tube top at the front? No? Just me, then. Alrighty.

I've run IT for a number of SMEs and I always insist that BYOD devices have to have a separate work profile that can be switched off at will or on a schedule. It's better for the company and the user. I can't understand why anyone would do it differently.

If the transformer is in the same housing at the plug with a separate cable (as shown): wall wart.

If the DC cable is attached, it's a charger.

If it's housed in its own case, it's a power brick.

If there's no transformer it's a power lead, unless it's rated for over 10A, then it's a power cable.

Dongles are peripherals that are housed in the same casing as the host connector. Anyone who thinks they can power a device with a dongle is a dangerous sociopath.

If they tell you they watched the Fallout TV series, what you really need to know is how often they paused it.

Couples who play MMOs together have that kinkiest sex lives. There, I said it.

If you can't make a broken family at home, store-bought is fine.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Session yet. Open source, not based on phone numbers, decentralised (uses Tor), based in Switzerland, otherwise it's a lot like Signal. Exactly what you're after, really

I think Gopher would be an even more unworkable shit show than HTTP/HTML is it had to deal with the last thirty year of changes.

Now, Teletext on the other hand...