I remember NiCad batteries still being used in power wheels toys as a kid. For all I know they may still be, but the battery advancements have been particularly amazing.
I used to be a POS tech. It's such a gross, mismanaged walled garden.
Currently I spend a lot of time advising against pop ups like that :^)
The propaganda works though. People outside of the US struggle to see, and believe that the US has its own damning problems. 2 years ago I got close to a Romanian bartender while traveling. She told me about how she held scorn for her sister, who moved to the US despite having been warned against it.
What happened to her sister is what so many of us are victims of. Debt trapping, stalled wages, poor access to medical care and financial incentive to not seek care. Not to mention the poor quality food that wears you down.
As a result, she has had to send money to both her sister and Mom, and had to cancel several contract terms and vacation seasons off to care for her Mother. Her sister couldn't help due to being in debt, and at risk of losing her job if she were to travel, regardless of the emergency.
It's a cruel system that bundles up as an image of living free. The marginally higher standard of living has a lot of cracks, but they're hard to see until you're living with them.
It works for some, I'd caution even trying it though. If the bag scales are enabled, the weight discrepancy will flag it. Depending on how sensitive it is and jaded the workers are they may just press the bypass without a care.
Alternatively, imaging scanners (non laser based) tend to have the option of "produce assurance" where the image of what was scanned/keyed is compared against the average entry. Too big of a discrepancy will flag and force manual verification.
A small city close to me has one, it looks like it's relatively successful too. They have an active Instagram and are open after school pretty much every day.
Shitty in the interim for sure, but it's nice knowing how disruptive it's getting. I outright tell work places I will not go. I also have brought up the embarrassing but truthful act of needing to look up bathroom laws for places I travel to. A lot of coworkers after meeting me realize just how absurd it's gotten; and how transphobia affects them even.
I hate having to be the trans representative for so many people, but the fact it's had a noticeable affect on people's viewpoints is nice at least.
I have some friends in Florida; one moved there recently in part against his better judgement. He told me I'm welcome to stay with him if I ever were in the area. I had to tell him it's not only dangerous but outright illegal for me to. I'm not risking a fraud charge for having changed my gender marker.
So yeah. Their loss, and they're starting to feel it.
Not the windows troubleshooter, as the mic was otherwise fine. There was nothing I could find in any Teams settings, and the admin panel showed all of the telemetry as being fine.
I have had to help so many end users with that it pains me.
"How can I stop this from happening again?"
Well, we can disable.other audio devices, but seeing as it's Windows 11 they may just re-enable good luck!
I ran into a user who's noise cancellation stopped working upon the rollout of "New" Teams. Tried diagnosing the microphone array, settings updates, firmware. No luck.
Know what worked? Both versions of browser based Teams!!! Ihatethemihatethemihatethem
My boss has gotten to the point of "As Ashe would say, fucking Microsoft"
Let's not forget the endless name changes, 404'd documentation that points to non existent tools all of the time, the GUI that barely works. Always an adventure
They must have some intense data retention policies. You can configure compliance levels to allow anyone into their Outlook acct using the app without any special permissions pretty easily.
Good on them to cut down access like that
I've also seen it used as niche industry abbreviations, which made me very uncomfortable at first, regardless of it being disused
Something I find really interesting about this, is how unlikely it'd be that the training data skews that heavily toward men. I wonder why that is, not like whoever made the model could tell us since they barely understand it.
Genuinely. Proton expanding is a good thing in my eyes at least in this stage. They offer their services at a pretty hefty, but reasonable price compared to others, and don't have a free offering for certain things they run. Their incentive to operate is continuing what they were built on and getting better.
Australia has a really good track record in that regard. So it's nice to see this as well
Is it how they talk on those apps? Sure.
Is it how a lot of men just talk outright? Yeah, and it's insane. The messages my partner (cis) and I (trans) have gotten on Instagram even are so out of pocket.
I'll gladly accept the lack of understanding of boundaries, because it makes the red flags obvious from the start.
I'll add that it's very, very nice to see a rational, "respectful" reaction to being told they are trans though. Too many men who jump to invalidating gender and outright transphobia out there. Especially the ones who are only afraid of being seen as gay.
It's also already happening. Waymo admitted to needing wayyyy more manual interventions than they let on
They're pretty few and far between in the Northeast. Not to say they don't exist, but they're far from common.