I think the user is referring to the fact that MS Intune is famously very cautious about verifying the device it is running on.

Many people need to use Intune on their device, to get access to work apps (eg, Teams and Outlook). If you have a rooted device, or run a non-stock OS, then Intune will fail the validation and prevent you from signing into your work accounts.

This is the reason I don’t currently use a rooted or alternative android on my primary smartphone.

I know that’s a little bit gross, but it would be way worse if your bones were dry.

Exploiting the generosity of the tooth fairy beyond normal limits.

Nice. Meanwhile at the place I work, they have mandated 15+ character passphrases that must have a capital letter and a symbol, that must be changed every 6 weeks, but banned the use of password managers. They also block yubikey and similar hardware tokens from corporate devices at the USB driver level, because “to stop the hackers!”. The only 2nd factor auth they allow is Microsoft Authenticator, and Windows Hello. At least it’s something I suppose.

My current workplace only allows whitelisted applications to run, and you must install them via the company portal. At my old workplace I used Linux with Kde Plasma, and Meld. New workplace has windows 11 only, and I was trying to find a replacement for Meld. When I started here, I noticed Beyond Compare is on the list. I’d heard of it before, but never used it. I installed it and it’s great! So happy that’s the one diffing tool they allow.

I’m from Australia. When I was a kid my mum used to call those inflatable baseball bats and inflatable hammers “tommy knockers”, and weirdly my dad called big boobs “tommy knockers”. I’m sure that and bomby knocker and dongy knocker are all derived from the same root colloquialism.

Yeah. You have a good point. My experience was only of Palermo. I understand other parts of Sicily are quite different. We did a short half day trip to the Trapani salt pans, it was nice to get out of the city but still very touristy. My favourite part honestly was driving through the small stretches of rural areas between towns.

I’ve only ever been out of the country one time.

My boss and I wrote a paper that got us invited to an international conference, that took place in Palermo, Sicily.

It wasn’t high on my list of places I want to visit, but free overseas work trip to Sicily!

It was pretty disappointing in many ways. The whole time I was there I constantly felt like I was about to be robbed or scammed.

The taxi drivers are nuts, we were sure we were going to die multiple times just on the ride from the airport to the hotel.

The accommodation in the city was pretty cheap but most places had awful reviews, so we splurged and chose a 5 star hotel near the conference venue. It ended up being the equivalent of a 2 star back home. Mold in the bathroom, paint peeling off walls in the bedroom, exposed wires poking out of every electrical outlet. The hot water didn’t work in the shower for 2 of the 4 nights we were there. At the buffet breakfast they served cold toast, warm yoghurt, and spoiled milk. You couldn’t make it up. And that was the best accommodation in the city.

When we walked from the hotel to the conference centre, we were walking past piles of garbage that people just dump on the streets. Apparently that’s a normal thing. There’s nowhere else for garbage to go. Sometimes it gets picked up by the city collectors, usually it doesn’t.

There were no pedestrian crossings, and cars don’t stop at red lights. So the traffic is constantly flowing at full speed on all the roads. Often the only way to get to where you need to go is to walk out in front of traffic, don’t make eye contact with any driver, look straight ahead, clench hard, walk sure, and change your underpants when you get to the other side.

It wasn’t all bad. The food at the restaurants was amazing. I had some very good authentic Sicilian pizza. They serve cheap pints of Heineken at every restaurant and bar. If you like oily fish such as sardines, pilchards and anchovies, you’re in heaven because it’s their staple, they serve them on everything. The locals love cannolis and eat them like crack. They were served for desert at the conference, at the gala dinner, and at every restaurant we went to. I wasn’t a fan of them.

I liked the novelty of being in a different country for the first time, but I wouldn’t go back to Sicily again.

I had the opposite. I played it about 6 months after release, I’d heard all the “the cake is a lie” memes, but somehow I hadn’t heard that song and it caught me totally by surprise at the end of the game. It was such a good experience.

The portal 2 song is good too, but nothing like the feeling of beating the first game and hearing Still Alive.

The concept of “inclusive or” in language is a bit different than that used in boolean logic.

The simple case is: “would you like chips or salad?” “Yes.” Vs “Would you like chips or salad?” “chips”.

In this case, it’s unclear whether the question is: “should a video card or monitor come with a cable?” “Yes” Vs “Should a video card or monitor come with a cable?” “Monitor”.

The two examples I wrote were attempts to reframe the question in two different ways to avoid that ambiguity.

As you pointed out however, OP wrote the question backwards, in a way that could be interpreted in a third manner, where buying a cable includes a video card or a monitor.

Printers are one of those things that has never come with a cable. I remember even back in the 90s, you’d buy a new printer, and they’d ask “do you need a printer cable too?”. Back then they were parallel port cables, but the trend continued when printers adopted USB.

I always thought it was a blatant upsell conduit. Of course I need the cable. Can’t use the printer without it!

These days however, I’ve got so many printer cables including parallel port, USB-B, and ethernet, but I mostly print via wifi. Now I’m glad they don’t come with cables, and same with graphics cards, and even mobile phones.

Are you asking inclusive OR, or exclusive OR?

EG, should your question be interpreted as “Which of these should the cable come with?” Or “Should these even come with a cable?”.

Mine doesn’t even feel good. It’s just an uncomfortable sensation. Zero cumming was achieved.

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“The female orgasm isn’t real” - Antiorgasmism.

Different thing. Google it.

Yep. This is why I don’t touch alcohol anymore. I don’t have an addiction or dependency, but when I drink a beer it makes me want another, and that one makes we want another. Then I’m hungover and filled with regret the next day. No point to it, so I just don’t do that anymore.

My favourite use of this meme was in a recent episode of Tor’s cabinet of Curiosities. The episode was talking about Wikipedia’s lewdest editor. There was a famous Wikipedia editor who was a little too obsessed with creating hundreds of new very detailed wiki pages about super specific boob-related topics. About half way through the episode about the career of this editor, Tor started a sentence with “As he breasted boobily across Wikipedia…”. At that instant I felt the meme had achieved full power. I had to pause the video and bask in the beauty of it.

Sometimes, about once a month, a great day occurs where all 30 seconds arrive consecutively. Those days I get a whole week’s work done in less than a minute.