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This person is an idiot and can only think of one possibility. They are ignoring the fact that fucking around on the job can have implications like increasing skills. I made the mistake of replying to this person with an anecdote of mine which I am sure will be deconstructed by them like they were there. Point is, boss allowed us to goof off with pet programming projects and that resulted in me experimenting with code I wouldn't have had the chance to otherwise and making a breakthrough, which I then realized how to implement for the benefit of said company. So I wasn't fucking around to make money, but the fucking around gave me the knowledge and skills to them apply that indirectly. But hey this person is determined to infect the thread with their single minded theory that doesn't make a shit to the actual conversation.

It's not as strict as you are trying to make it out to be. My favorite job ever was a small company. The owner was fine with us programmers just working on pet projects on company time. I was goofing around at some point and ended up writing us some code that ended up being kind of a workshop for some code that us programmers would have to sit and work on. It allowed non-programmers to set up the same conditions and handled the 'code' part internally. It was all because I was just goofing around with program ideas and eventually got to that point where I had my eureka moment. I didn't set out to waste company time and money, but the end result paid off in droves, which is exactly how it sounds like the deck came to be. Another programmers goofy side project turned into an accounting package that we ended up tying into our actual product. If our boss/owner had been looking at it the way you are describing, none of that would have come to fruition, but look at all the money he would have saved not letting us programmers do what we did. /s

Maybe they can come up with some technology that would someday take the position of CEO. Think of the savings...

Spinal Meningitis by Ween.

On a lighter note, I loves me some Señor Coconut.

That said, this has always been the case, they’ve just covered their legal bases by updating their TOS.

Can you be a little more specific with your definition of this and always? I am old enough to remember that when you purchased a physical copy of a game, you got the game in it's entirety in perpetuity. Eg: I still have my Donkey Kong cartridge for my Atari 800. To be a little more current, I have a copy of Kerbal Space Program from the company that I can download the entire copy of the game and install it on my pc. So what do you mean by your comment, as I remember a time when it wasn't the case that you were only purchasing a license? Or do you mean that it's always been the case with these services?

I was just had by rockstar when they cut off certain people who paid to play GTA Online and are now blocked. I will be voting with my wallet and never purchasing another rockstar game in the future, and in case they ever happened to see this, I was considering picking up the rdr games not only on pc, but my xbox and maybe even the switch. It has soured me to the point where this steam issue more of a concern and something I will be keeping an eye on.

Also, one last comment about your last line. We don't need congress to get involved if we as a collective of gamers just gathered together and stopped "licensing" their games. Just like if everyone, instead of complaining about the price of beer and hotdogs at stadiums, would just stop buying them for a while, the people raping our wallets would be forced to bring prices down. But alas, I think the chances of that happening are next to zero.

Windows 11 = O.S. Ima Ad-Laden. Coincidence? I think not..

As to the suspects, at this time we are keeping our opinions unbiased.

It sure doesn't say when that was updated, but for a long period of time the use of drone when discussing unmanned aircraft was reserved for military craft that were usually armed and used to kill people. In the attempt to demonize hobby rc use, the press started calling simple quadcopters (and other propeller configurations if we are being pedantic) drones and not what they were normally called by the people using and making them in the hobby. My point still stands, the press likes to change the wording of things, and will perpetuate their narrative in order to garner views. Manufacturing fear is part of their tactic, and is why I replied what I replied to the question of why the press continues to push the false narrative of these cars being "self driving".

The guy that arrested him initially was on the news last night stating that they didn't know about all of her previous medical history. Excuse me, but isn't that your fucking JOB, to investigate that?

so why do articles keep pushing the false narrative, even after it’s deemed illegal?

The same reason that simple quadcopters have been deemed by the press to be called "drones". You can't manufacture panic and outrage with a innocuous name.

Sure, I guess it all depends what you have laying around. Like if you had a spare monkey that knew how to type. That's why I said it was just "an" idea. The only thing I would add though is if she needed to type this all in from a machine she doesn't have admin rights to, then the extra hardware might be the only way. Again, it was just an option...

So a raspberry pi, or an arduino board will identify itself as a keyboard if you code it right. She could have all the text loaded and ready to go for the textbox and when it gets to that part, push a button that is hardwired and it can 'type' all of the text for her so that the system wouldn't crap it up as it wouldn't be 'pasted' in. Just an idea for a solution for her.

I see your edit, and would like to comment that you also haven't mentioned which rpi you were going to try this on. I recently wanted to set up a quick little pc using a rpi, just so I could browse the web and maybe watch some videos. Tried a rpi2 I had laying around. No way. Moved to a rpi3, and while it would load most pages, youtube was a bust as it completely maxed out the ram and swap. I then went to a rpi4 with 8gb and it has been doable, kind of. Sometimes it's pretty choppy with the video, but basic web browsing is ok. I did try my plex the other day through the browser and it was barely acceptable. Lots of stuttering and sometimes just hangs, but that's not the ideal way to view plex on anything. Haven't tried my rpi5 yet, but my point to all this is that I think you are on the right track setting it up on a spare pc he has. If you had given him a rpi as a 'desktop' replacement it might have just soured him on the whole idea.

Yeah, and I know this will sound odd, but I can't really bring myself to 'upvote' this story. It just seems wrong.

Think those are also called Realms...

You are welcome. And kudos for a well laid out, albeit very complicated question. If we were at work this is where I would have made you share your screen, lol.

Doesn't matter, but they contradict themselves.

Headline: why isn't everyone using it?
Body: This article breaks down what Linux is, why it's great and how it secretly powers most of your favorite devices, from smartphones to servers.

So it looks like most everyone is using it, they just might not realize it. Which to me is a sign of a great product, when it's use is completely transparent.

That's what I get for falling asleep. Looks like you guys nailed it. I just saw the first reply this morning, and was going to say exactly what you did. There was a default group entry and no actual group entry on the media/data folder. Appoxo, with no actual group entry for extUserG it wouldn't have permission in that folder, but any folder created in that folder would inherit the 'default group' permission and would have group permission for extUserG. :)

What is the acl permissions on the media/data folder? That is what the dir-mediaU would inherit.

I think we need the output of: root@NAS01:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-e3e0eac5-806a-44e9-a0e9-07fb99a18281/media# getfacl data

If they don't name it the Adobe they don't have a hair on their ass.