Re: Around 95-99% of professional users
@Snake: Likely a case of picking your battles. The professional market could stay in a holding pattern whereas fighting competition in the phone/tablet market couldn't.
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At the point at which Apple force a spyware update to my phone against my will the phone will either be jail-broken or physically broken. They do not have the right and I will not tolerate this power grab bullshit. It doesn’t work and it won’t work. I go out without my phone, my phone runs out of battery etc etc, what then? Idiots.
To be honest, I don't se what the problem is. If we have truly descended that far when it comes to intelligence that you have to explain to someone "no, don't ingest or inject disinfectant" then it is clear the gene pool itself needs disinfecting. If someone is stupid enough to inject or ingest cleaning agents in the hope of killing the virus rather than themselves then, frankly, Darwin has his man/woman. As a species we are snowflaking ourselves into oblivion.
The one area where you do get issues is with modern laptops and their soldered on PCIe SSD drives. Often they require bespoke drivers that are not available for OSes other than W10. You can get Linux compatible Dell laptops if you can find them in your jurisdiction - I wasn't able to in mine and the latest Linux versions I have on my Multisystem USB simply don't see the storage.
However, under today's tax rates a contractor running this model still pays less tax overall than if they were taking all their money as a salary.
But they also receive no benefits paid for by the contracting entity and therefore their limited company needs to foot the bill for this. You cannot just compare the tax paid whilst not accounting for the benefits one receives over the other. 4 weeks paid leave would certainly account for a chunk of that "less tax".
More likely at least for the non technical users is they would probably switch away from firefox because it's not working
Maybe, but given they don't know it's a DNS issue many might just end up paying $$$ for support they don't (or rather shouldn't) need. They could at least make it default to a "use X if present else behave as previously"
I was one of those contractors earning 3x what the permies got. Why? I was once one of those permies and got fed up with the situation so joined them. Moral of the story is that if you don't have the stones to make the leap then keep quiet and take your lower risk income.
My concern is that people so intelligent were using text message and not at least using Signal to communicate. If you want the information to be secret (you are discussing the start up of a new tech company after all) would you not resist the urge to send messages in the open?
Agreed. My iMac 2010 is on High Sierra, a not great but still supported OS. The first time this is out of support and a critical and never to be patched vulnerability arrives I'll have to consider what to do with it.
As a 2.93GHz i7 with 32GB RAM and an aftermarket 1TB SATA SSD this thing has plenty of life in it. My first choice would be to install Linux on it but Poettering seems intent on p*ssing in that particular pool for everyone. MX Linux may be viable though.
Any ideas as to whether such a modification would persist past a restore/OS reflash?
I would have thought any such person likely to be targeted would take a reset device through customs, reflash at the destination, then login to download data and settings from the cloud if they value security.
Makes a pi-hole server look a better investment day by day. Phones (and devices) are the big problem point though and the advertising scum know it. As you're generally kept out of the system gubbings there's not too much you can do. You can likely rely on Apple to fight against it, but only because they want you viewing their ads not Google's.
Err, no. Customers who lost data most likely have backups just not real-time ones. If you backed up at midnight and had a failure at mid-day, for example, there will be a portion of your data that is not backed up hence you suffer data loss. It wasn't because you don't have backups though, just the timeliness of them.
Likewise Remainers will need to be a lot clearer about what remain means. The EU has been quite clear in recent years that it was unwilling to accept the current UK status of "slightly outside pissing in" and that the overall direction of the EU would be closer integration. Therefore remain is not "as it is now" but is also something that needs to be outlined for those voting.
I would suggest to you that if they were following the rule I quoted and lost one copy, those people would not be going around like a bunch of whinging babies crying from the rooftops on twatter.
There's a certain inconvenience to uploading multiple TBs of data to a new provider. It is likely this 'new requirement' to start over again that pisses people off. That and the moving of the goal posts.
the Adobe subscription does actually deliver amazing value for money if you use even a quarter of it
Only if you fail to value the fact you are locked into a system with ever increasing fees, forced upgrades, and proprietary storage of your data (especially the layered modifications to photos etc).
As soon as they stopped releasing perpetual licensed versions of Lightroom despite stating only months before that they would continue to do so you could clearly see the greed in their little piggy eyes for the perennial software rental model. I will never rent software, especially software that doesn't use a truly open format thereby allowing me to still access my work down the track.
Owing to the lack of availability of HGST drives these days I ended up going with the Seagate Ironwolf. I had moved to a WD Gold but found it ran way too hot - 5-6 degrees above the surrounding HGSTs. Red Pro were quite expensive and I didn't want 5400RPM (mixed spindle speeds) or Intellipower (had circuitry fail in the past) drives.
Ironwolf going ok and figured after at least 7 years of steering clear it was worth another shot. Time will tell. Toshiba looking like an option but availability is not as great. Seagate are really pushing the new branded drives.