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Ease of management and surveillance (most such tools marketed at schools are Windows only), first class integration into active directory for user and computer account management, hardware agnostic (rules out macos), and it's already integrated into the IT team's systems and processes so switching would be a major effort.

That makes email threads much more difficult to parse, it's useful to be able to tell when an email ends and who sent it.

If you go to Bree these days you'll find highly coordinated bands performing actual music. It's really impressive.

Cryptobots don't understand sarcasm

I've never had a problem with battlenet in steam, just add the installer as a non steam game, run under proton, change the target and environment to the new installed location (don't forget the " marks around the target), and play.

Public key cryptography tied to physical hardware, so if you lose your phone / usb key, you need to use your backup recovery code; a fairly short one time password that negates the security benefits of Fido in one easy step.

It can also use biometrics, but that requires every device you log in on to have biometric readers.

This has been my favourite tech story for the past few years, I hope the train company gets put in its place properly this time.

Edit: This article is from July last year.

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I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world so they could vote for more racism and despair.

Unless you have evidence that supermarkets are artificially inflating prices this isn't going to fix anything. Goods cost money to make. Shoplifting doesn't pay for the production of goods. This isn't a sustainable way of supplying people with food. It raises prices for customers. It exposes shop workers to violence and abuse. It funds criminal gangs.

And then to top it all off people like you come swanning in thinking you're supporting Robin Hood and his merry men and that just a few more shoplifters will cause Tesco to collapse and that whatever replaces it (because you haven't actually thought about what replaces it) will be some Star Trek utopian paradise compared to the devilry of having to pay cost + a margin. (Hint: Robin Hood gave to the poor, not sold to the poor).

What you may notice about Co-op and Waitrose (one being a consumer co-operative and the other owned by a trust on behalf of its employees) is that they are on the more expensive side of supermarkets. They aren't transferring your money to the ultra rich. They aren't funding the campaigns of right wing would-be dictators. They are paying a fair price for the goods that they sell, and they are paying a fair wage to the employees who work there. The other supermarkets are often cheaper on many items. Mass shoplifting isn't going to help this.

The real problem is that the cost of many goods is too high. The real causes of this are climate change, international conflict, brexit and other tariffs, labour related costs, and to some extent, profiteering of the part of the producers. Notice how shoplifting doesn't address any of these issues.

Edit: Me again, Fine Print has just published this video on youtube exposing the food producers artificially increasing prices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63qalvQADc notice how shoplifting from Tesco won't fix this.

Microsoft are also toying with renting people cloud desktops they will never own. They've already got cloud gaming, and they're as much in on AI as anyone.

By all means shop at Coop and Waitrose then, but you're missing the point: this is making things more expensive for everyone else. Shops have to raise prices to offset losses and investment in security.

If everyone bought stolen goods the legitimate shops would go out of business and the shoplifters would have nowhere to steal from. Your cheap goods are being subsidised by honest customers.

Producer - has already been paid by legitimate shop for goods, isn't affected by theft.
Legitimate shop - pays for goods then doesn't get paid. Is affected.