As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

But that makes sense for mushrooms. The bulk of the fungus lives in that spot underground, you’re just hoping it survives and fruits again

They might be able to see if the data indicates the network has been though NAT (network address translation) twice, but that would look just like someone who has plugged their own wifi box into the modem

There’s always NAT. You get one IP address, your router/wifi shares the network using NAT

But ISPs aren’t looking for NAT, since everyone with wifi is using it

Were Firefox to go bad, we would use a non-bad fork off Firefox. It’s open source.

Inflation would be heavy in that system

Do you think in whole stone, or fractions? It seems a rather large unit

Ovens: the YouTuber Atomic Shrimp just had his kitchen rebuilt and he noted that his new oven had the temperature control set 90° when pointed right, 180° when pointed down, 270° when pointed left - you rotated the knob the number of angular degrees you wanted in Celcius degrees. He noted that the fahrenheit version wouldn’t be able to do that

Australia is very metric. Though our 25mm water fittings will fit with pre-metric inch fittings (and likewise for all of plumbing)

We have pints in beer glasses, regionally have to specify British pints due to some places having a metric pint a fair bit smaller

I’m sure the UK kept their road speeds and distances in miles because they couldn’t see how you could calculate your mileage otherwise

Do you mean that you don’t like the way they prefer to defend individuals against corporations rather than the other way around, or the way they don’t help people defend themselves against lawful and reasonable government action?

Their method is “imagine a clock face showing that hour” how are you going to do that if you don’t know how analogue clocks work?

Loads of places round working time to whole quarter hours

We learned analogue clocks in children’s TV also

If they’re good they’ll be overpriced

Australian and it’s accurate here. I suspect the trend is common wherever there’s a market for hipster burger places

I moved from one project in my scaled agile using organisation to another and a week later got a phonecall “why are you billing half an hour a day to admin”

“Um” says I “working out where to put how much time against each of the five rows we’re tracking our work under takes at least that long”

Then management shot themselves in the foot

Step 1. Instruct people that all their time must be allocated to a project task, no more admin time, no more corporate role time.

Step 2. Assign a “tiny” piece of work to a team of 10, so the tiny work costs (10 x number of days to deliver) pdays, but was costed at a reasonable level of 20 pdays.

Step 3. Don’t assign any other work to the team

Step 4. Dissolve the team and scatter the staff 2 weeks later

So by the time the team was dissolved, the work was done but for QA, which was delayed and idle because of a bug found in unit test. At that point it had cost 10 people * 10 full days — a hundred pdays.

Management has been calling former team members asking for them to assign their time to a previous project to get the cost of the work down to its planned amount

I don’t think it’s fraud since it’s billing this part of the organisation for work done for that part of the same, but it really makes a mockery of the idea of tracking time per project being meaningful. Anyway, I’m glad they asked me to lie on MS project in writing

I lost the only job I have ever left involuntarily on a helpdesk for a small system partly because of the tracking tools they used

I was top in the team by tickets closed. The person they kept was top by time per call (spent the longest time on each call/worst at efficiently fixing callers’ issues)

Tech tools are not a solution for incompetent management

Back when Reddit was both good and the only option, we could laugh about being banned from the Trump sub.

Lots of mods on my favourite bits of Reddit left for lemmy, they were replaced by admins and the admins’ friends

It’s easy now to get a site wide ban if you participate in big subs (and a myriad small subs with the same mods) and don’t share the mods’ politics

It looks like people participating who are paid to promote a company

But you’ll see people accused of being a shill long before Lemmy draws the notice of advertisers

You’d have to stop reading popular posts