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

I play freeciv (an open source civ 3.5 clone) much more often than civ 5 which I bought. I’ll agree with you. Newer civ isn’t all that attractive.

We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home

We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area

Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at

I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.

I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face

Coffee tastes so good, I can’t think how a coffee substitute mixed in could make it better

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

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

Lucky kids

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?

I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch

And that stuff is memorable

I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games

Octopus on a Nintendo game and watch (though it’s hard to put things in order, I had a knockoff portable game in 1987 “submarine battle”, and I feel the Nintendo has to be earlier, or what else could the knockoff be knocking off? Yeah game and watch was 1980 onwards)

I agree with almost all of that, except I do fine filling the basket and wiping excess off with the back of a knife

But I do always use the same coffee on the same grind setting (I dialled it in years and years ago)

My point is volumetric measurement is fine if you’re accurate and consistent

+1 on cleaning with soap. I put the basket through the dishwasher, and weekly hand wash the aluminium parts

I’m amazed at how much better the official launcher is on Linux than on windows.

Windows:

• complains if your logged in account doesn’t match your game account
• Requires you to log out of one account to log into another in a not very clear or user friendly way

Linux

• No logged in account to complain about
• Lists all your accounts and lets you swap by clicking on the one you want in the accounts list

So take MS to small claims court. Get an order for them to restore your account and user name per the licence you presumably still have a copy of

I have gotten more free accounts on Minecraft than any other game. I bought it twice on Java (not counting copies I bought for family) and once on bedrock, so when they moved accounts to Microsoft and gave every Java account a bedrock account and every bedrock account a Java account, so I now have three on each version. A second (or third) account is useful for rescuing your main account in some circumstances

They need more than email verification. Some privacy minded people signed up with throwaway email, but probably have other proof of ownership

But then remove the management oversight

If your modification makes it unroadworthy, you might not be allowed to drive it on public roads

If your modification changes its structure you may need certification that it is still roadworthy

I’m not seeing a case where you’re restricted by law from modifying the car

Software has special legal protections. You can stop it working with impunity, you can break it with impunity, you cannot legally defeat security on the software. Corey Doctorow calls the software protections “felony contempt of business model”

Tesla allow you to opt out of all connectivity

It means you would have no maps, no driver assist, no Internet radio

Anyway if you buy a car it is yours. The worst you can do is break the contact for whatever services are provided by the connectivity. You are allowed to modify a car however you like

Tesla don’t support CD. You’d need to rip those to mp3 and keep them on your phone to play over Bluetooth

You can get the artifact with no problems at all by telling shadow to wait in camp