emeril

at this point, I'd prefer to be on an older boeing than a newer one...:(

well, so long as a student's name isn't "Robert'); drop table students;"...

these are a big deal in Japan - I found out about it through work and now I have my kids use them for homework instead of pencils or typical crappy american style erasable pens

but of course it confuses the teachers at the school and they insist my kids use pencils at school...

I'm not really a dev so I've made an art of going through all the minutiae of changing the terrible default GUI back to windows xp or so which makes it a decent consistent experience (mostly open shell + 7+ Taskbar Tweaker + manually recreate quicklaunch + remove all pinned apps)

Then I spend some time disabling ALL of the updates as they generally do more harm than good

Then I make sure to install directory opus...

Then windows isn't too bad especially when I have no choice but to use it for my work (whereas all of my colleagues have constant problems with borked updates and inconsistent interfaces)

to be fair, I bought a laptop with windows 8 ten years ago and I immediately formatted it and manually installed windows 7 on it though it was a tad tough to find drivers as it was a cheapo consumer laptop)

it isn't downtime he's as concerned about as it's about speed

he could build in behavior to retry/wait for several seconds before erroring out but his selling point is speed seemingly (with little risk of sale negatives/positives/theft)

carplay just seems like crap on all cars I've used (including the new subaru I own)

I don't even try it anymore and just bring a vanilla charger and pipe audio to the car via bluetooth (which generally works without issue on every car I've tried) and the phone for actual navigation

maybe your carplay experience is better than mine?

all the big touch screens don't really support multitouch and the volume of navigation versus music is different/deafening/unconfigurable and the waze carplay app is garbage

i.e., I always just use my phone on a holder + connect via the car's bluetooth since I'd rather have one good device/screen with proper audio since bluetooth works much better sadly...

yes 100% sarcasm

some friends of mine tried to convince me to compete in this though one should only go after these things for fun instead of any real expectation of money

i.e., I actually went through some historical modeloff questions years ago and could get them relatively easily but spending the same effort training but at my job/career is a way to make more money, on an expected value basis, than competing in any excel competition...

lotus123 is actually pretty good

better in most ways than modern excel

modern excel is pretty terrible compared with excel after 2003

LOL @ "downloading a full movie in mere seconds"

quite the legitimate use case for such bandwidth! :)

I came up with a pretty bulletproof solution years ago though it is a bit of a nuclear option...

(1) change your phone number to somewhere you don't know anyone that ideally has a single area code (e.g., north dakota with "701") (2) use some sort of app (e.g., numbershield on iOS) on your phone to block all calls from 701-XXX-XXXX (3) use this new number going forward (or transfer the existing number to google voice which seems to have an effective blocker and have it forwarded to new 701 number

now I can confidently pick up all unknown calls especially if they are local to me knowing they are legitimate - I now only get a few spam calls per year since doing this

it's pretty helpful in excel!

I doubt MS would care and eM likely pays some sort of licensing to MS I'd guess?

do iOS and other 3rd party exchange clients have to pay anything to MS?

yeah, cryptomator is the way to go for dropbox for windows in my experience at least for a FOSS solution (all the others I've tried were comparatively flakey though less memory intensive...)

I have the same experience - after an initial slightly tough config to get it connected to wifi (understandable given the budget price and older model), it has worked flawlessly - I will always recommend brother printers now

Further, I got mine as a refurb since I wanted it in the throes of the pandemic so I wasn't going to spend big bucks on a printer and needed something for the amazon returns labels primarily...

how is this much (if at all) better than hifi earplugs?

e.g., https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-High-Fidelity-Earplugs-Stand...

I have an old $100/4 line plan (with something like 100gb of mobile data) from total wireless (now total by verizon) which I don't anticipate giving up for a while

When I was using an LTE only device (granted a pretty old one with likely fewer frequencies than a newer LTE device), I would get no service in time square whereas I updated to a phone with 5G and more LTE frequencies (I suspect) and now I get service just fine

I definitely get slow service at high congestion moments but I'm not a heavy user so I generally don't really care (I use my phone mostly to read books/articles that are preloaded as opposed to watching videos like millennials...)

hey, I deliberately use that all the time lol

pro-tip - just try to use an old version of outlook that's still functional like outlook 2010 and just set autoarchive to run pretty often so the ost doesn't get too big and make the thing crawl...

much better than nuOutlook

though often hard in most corporate environments...

that said, if I were in a more buttoned up IT environment, I'd just use the web client as it's sadly faster than the desktop client these days

I'd use the web client now except the version my company has is pretty bad and old still...

haha, I remember doing the same thing with various garbage laptops I got years ago at work, it was worth it to just spend like $50 of my own money to not have headaches and finish my work much faster...

abbyy finereader 8.0(!!!)

good luck finding it

I'm the rare old timer accountant with some programming background

I definitely agree with you though my approach to analyzing activity/preparing detailed reports/etc. is to, at a first step, convert all credits to negative numbers and retain all debits as positive

Further, most charts of accounts are designed in some sane way that you can easily tell what type of account it is (asset/liability/capital/P&L)

The challenge isn't usually managing/interpreting these things but making sure you are interpreting contracts and guidance properly/consistently so you don't upset ownership or your auditors with unanticipated changes/revisions...

I got an apple 2gs with leisure suit larry that neither me nor my much older brother could reliably figure out the answers to the "age verification questions" at start-up

I'm more concerned re: chemical sunscreens entering the bloodstream

I get the impression this hasn't been studied enough and likely won't be anytime soon

maybe so but they took like a month to call me back about an implementation and I ended up using Certify at my company

works okay but the credit card integration is a complete sh*t show

if you're really concerned about this stuff you can use citibank virtual credit cards (a free feature) to just disable the card if you can't easily/properly cancel the service

Sounds like target.com

I ordered a play kitchen based on reviews and then I found it to be poor quality, I wrote a review which was never published without any reason given

As such, I don't really trust positive reviews anymore, especially, there

I only mostly trust yelp reviews

just got a 2023 forester; ux is pretty bad too - esp carplay when I connect my iphone and I want navigation and music, the music is at a reasonable volume but the navigation is deafening and the touchscreen isn't multitouch and is overall pretty bad

I ultimately just gave up and put in a car charger as I can't charge without activating carplay and just use bluetooth which works much better and use the much smaller phone screen for navigation

I don't get why the touchscreens on new cars are worse than those of iphones from >10 years ago

maybe so but a lot of contributors here are pretty loaded and could def drop $250k on something on a whim