People seem to forget that Britain was the U.S. before the U.S. was the US. I think they had people fooled for awhile because they were part of the EU.
No, you really are. If you’re in control of an encryption key, then it’s perfectly fine to “give Microsoft your data” that’s encrypted by that key. An encryption key isn’t “just data”, it’s data that’s used to encrypt other data.
The problem here is not that Microsoft has access to your data, it’s that Microsoft has access to your encryption key.
You said you struggled to have a sense of fellowship with your colleagues without a physical presence. This is not a problem other people have. It is not a remote work problem, it’s just a you problem.
The common standard for the height of the center of a fire hydrants outlet is about 18 inches from the ground. The radius from that center point to the bottom of the outlet is 2.5 inches which is where body of the coupler will be, plus some room for the 3-4” handles attached to either side of the coupler body to be able to turn to thread the coupler onto the outlet. So that’s about 11” of clearance wiggle room you have for snow you’d need plus a few extra inches of some extra room added for your hands/arms or the fact that over time hydrants can kinda “sink” into the ground diminishing the clearance further.
If your local fire department uses a 4 way hydrant valve to connect to the hydrant for uninterruptible in-line boosting like this one
Then that’s a bunch of extra clearance you’ll need.
And then there’s just the fact that the less snow there is, the easier it is for them to just clear away themselves.
8” isn’t an exact number as much as it is a ballpark for when snowfall around a hydrant goes from being a minor pain in the ass to becoming a potential safety issue.
Because if your house catches fire with you in it, you want the firemen to be inside your house putting the fire out with an established water supply, not outside pissing away time digging the hydrant out of the snow/ice.
I like Mastodon but it can’t compete with X. The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. Its greatest benefits are also its biggest barriers to mainstream appeal.
Bluesky says it’s decentralized, but at the end of the day it’s an American company.
They just aren’t the right tools for this particular job. What this “W social” wants to be is “European Twitter”.
My team is spread across three countries and we regularly worry about going to war with each other, and we don’t have that problem at all. Maybe it’s just your personality?
If you’re in a location that will get a significant amount of snow, 8” or more, find the fire hydrant closest to your house and clear an area around it to at least a couple feet.
I’m not misremembering anything. I have the x900h in my living room right now. It cannot do native 4k/120hz, to this day. It can do Native 4k OR it can do 120hz but not both. If you enable 120hz, the horizontal resolution is cut in half to only 1080 pixels. This couldn’t be fixed with a driver update because it’s a consequence of Sony cheaping out on the processor. It is physically not capable of it.
VRR was added in a firmware update, but again due to Sony’s poor choice in hardware components if you enable VRR it disables local dimming entirely. Being an LED panel, without local dimming the picture is significantly degraded. It’s a truly terrible TV for anything but casual Netflix watching, given its price point. If it was half the price they sold it for that’d be a different story.
At the time, you could have bought a Samsung Q70T instead for the same price which actually had native 4k/120hz.
No I know what you mean. I’m not talking about the “Trumotion” 120hz motion smoothing technology.
The first generation of Sony Bravia TVs that advertised native 4k/120hz, specifically to coincide with the release of the PS5, couldn’t actually do native 4k/120hz. It wasn’t until their following generations that were finally able to, in a post-launch firmware update.
People seem to forget that Britain was the U.S. before the U.S. was the US. I think they had people fooled for awhile because they were part of the EU.