I haven't encountered that issue on Solus Budgie. My first thought was an issue with your mouse, but since you've ruled that out, and it apparently works for you in Brave, I'm stumped.
"All hospitality establishments in Europe are now required to declare ingredients contained in their foods that may induce allergies or food intolerances."
But then it's also not unlikely that other people got the same YouTube recommendations, after which they did some online research and posted interesting links to HN. Or maybe the causation was the other way around. Who knows?
I should also mention that it isn't in-house IT, but a separate company, and the whole thing was set up in a rushed effort late on a Friday afternoon the week before the whole working from home business would start (our management slept on it until the last minute), with a lot of other companies requesting the same support from the IT company at the same time.
Not that it completely excuses everything, and as you can tell from the Windows 7 PCs it was never the most secure setup, but simply to explain some of the reasons behind the mess.
It wouldn't surprise me if the pandemic had an influence on some of these hacks. E.g. at our company there are some PCs still running Windows 7. For that reason they had no direct internet access, only to the internal network. But since about half the workforce, or at times more, had to work from home, and the licenses of our ERP software are bound to hardware, IT had to connect those PCs to the internet again, so the office workers could access them from home.
Of course the whole situation was less than ideal to begin with, but now it's even worse.
I had to use this trick to kick GTA Online back into action when it got stuck forever on entering buildings (mid-2020). Didn't know it could be used to cut the load times in general.
That's horrible, if true. Do you have a source for that? A quick Google search didn't get me anywhere.
At least here in Austria the glass bottles are actually cleaned and re-used.
How are rape and the death sentence related? You could just as well say that it's weird how people can support taking someones's freedom and locking them away, but are not okay with raping them.
Don't worry! I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of exclamation marks I see on a typical work day. It's perfectly alright, at least here in Austria.
Interesting. I also used fish for a while after looking at bash alternatives, but ended up with zsh, because fish had some (admittedly minor) inconveniences/bugs, and zsh felt more mature. But very soon I had to install the two extensions you mentioned because my shell felt really incomplete without them after fish.
Some ads take the form of tiles in your start menu. These are there right after installation if I'm not mistaken, but you can easily remove them. Then there are prompts to "finish setting up Windows" which take you to a screen that offers, among other things, a Microsoft Office trial. Apparently there are also adds in Windows Explorer, but I'm not 100% sure I've ever seen them.
Like many others (from reading the sister comments) I voted "NO" because I already had Covid-19, not because I don't trust the vaccination or vaccinations in general.
First business day after the election was called, but not after the election itself (i.e. people couldn't vote after 11/02). Or are you saying that they were planning on not releasing this at all in case of a Trump win and not just trying to influence the election?
It is really distressing to see how many of the videos in my, admittedly quite large, favourites list are gone by now. Even ones that I only added in the past few weeks. Either simply "Deleted", "Private" or "Removed/Blocked by the copyright holder". In most cases I have trouble even finding out what the title of the video even was.