I always wondered how any head of state could feel like they were not being spied on if they were using windows.

Can governments really ensure that windows has been secured that well or is there always a possibility that Microsoft is spying for the United States?

Sure, I just don’t think it’s really that much different than what we have now. I guess I’m just indifferent to it and don’t think it’s that big of a change.

Are you being sarcastic? It is not like that at all. Also the trains stop running kinda early, so you can’t stick around after work.

In the US my mom used to do something like that, but the time it took to transfer to the train into the city and pay for the ticket and parking at the train station, it ended up taking about the same amount of time and cost about the same.

After a year, she just drove into the city as it was about the same cost and more convenient.

I saw some things in the videos, but I guess I don’t really care about design too much. So maybe that’s why I don’t care. I’ll have to ask my wife what she thinks.

I figured as much, just hoping it was one of those things that worked but they didn’t talk about it.

I just checked the Apple website and it doesn’t really look any different to me.

I can see there are changes, but I don’t even know if the average user will really notice it.

I’m guessing there is nothing, but there were rumors the phone would have stage manger when docked.

Have you tried to connect your phone to a display to see if it offers that functionality?

Well not reliably.

I can’t find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.

I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.

Kinda lame, but at the same time I get it.

So, I guess I’m sticking with OneDrive and Microsoft email.

I wish I could pay those prices for a co-working space! Wow, it is so cheap.

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

Yeah, sadly it does not work. Even their support team suggested I try to use the Android version of it in Linux though an emulator, but that also did not work.

Sadly it’s video conferencing that is preventing me from doing that. The video conferencing app is the one that only works on windows and mac.

I could run it in a windows virtual machine, but I literally use that app 40+ hours a week.

I’d basically turn on the computer to launch a virtual machine. I’d be better off just keeping my Linux laptop for personal use and Mac for work.

I’m freelance, so technically my company will pay for it 😅

I think we might not be seeing all the advancements as they are made.

Google just showed off AI video with sound. You can use it if you subscribe to thier $250/month plan. That is quite expensive.

But if you have strong enough hardware, you can generate your own without sound.

I think that is a pretty huge advancement in the past year or so.

I think that focus is being put on optimizing these current things and making small improvements to quality.

Just give it a few years and you will not even need your webcam to be on. You could just use an AI avatar that look and sounds just like you running locally on your own computer. You could just type what you want to say or pass through audio. I think the tech to do this kind of stuff is basically there, it just needs to be refined and optimized. Computers in the coming years will offer more and more power to let you run this stuff.

If you don’t want to smell like “Sharkhammer”, then good luck getting a girl to even glance at you.

I live in a country with a strict outdoor smoking ban and I love it.

There are dedicated smoking areas for people to smoke outdoors, but they are really small and cramped with smokers.

It’s actually really nice, you never see or smell people smoking unless you wonder too close to the designated smoking areas which are often really out of the way.

The streets are not really clean here, but at least it’s not cigarette butts. Even things like vapes need to be smoked in a designated area, but sometimes people do it on the street anyway.