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  • Here's a good example of why you should read all the instructions before you begin. Also, if anyone reading this is planning in spending any time at the DeMonfort Vale Fisheries this weekend I'll warn you now: the fish are all fucked up.

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  • YES THAT IS CORRECT AND NOBODY NEEDS TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE.

  • Waaaaaaaaay too expensive, but I'd love it if big eink displays became a thing, even with shit refresh rates, mostly because I want some for displaying Home Assistant dashboards.

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  • This still works. Most debit and credit cards can still be used to authorise offline payments up to a set limit, though it's kinda of moot if the PDQ's battery is dead.

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  • This depends on where and why. I know that in some parts of the Carribbean, for example, most towers will only last a day or two, but there are some that can last weeks with satellite backhauls providing minimal service to large areas.

  • Yeah, I have this conversation and lot on the sad truth is that until there's a Linux distro that's as manageable as Windows is with Group Policy, no big organisation is adopting it. Unfortunately, nothing in the Linux space comes close.

  • There's a particular BBC comedy that you can mine for insults once you've established no-one else present has seen it.

    • He's so dense light bends around him.
    • As useless as a marzipan dildo
    • As useless as lube at a funeral
    • I've never seen anyone look so fucking ugly with just one head
    • Do you know 90% of household dust is made of dead human skin? That's what you are to me.
    • Watching him work is like watching clown running across a minefield.
    • He's here, depriving a village somewhere of their twat.
    • I'm like flypaper for dickheads today.
    • Sorry I'm late. Traffic was an absolute bitch. No offence.
  • My personal variation, "couldn't organise a pissup in a pissupery".

  • Dihydrogen Monoxide can make your lungs shut down, killing you, and if gets into your blood it can cause your brain to swell, also killing you. Cancer, Coronavirus and Polio all thrive in environments rich in hydrogen monoxide. If a building's foundations are exposed to dihydrogen monoxide it can lead to structural collapse, and it causes painful blistering and instant cell death if flesh is exposed to it in its gaseous form. Despite this, the food industry - clamouring for profits above all other considerations - uses dihydrogen monoxide throughout the food production process, meaning this dangerous chemical is present in almost all processed foods.

  • MS Authenticator also uses the phone's built-in security and can also be used for plain TOTP without sign-in if you want. If you aren't signed in on a separate instance it won't offer Authenticator as an option. I think a reasonable person would have realised that based on my answer or, if you were really interested in finding out, from the documentation but I guess you bought those saucepans so you might as well use them. I suppose you're right in a sense; if Microsoft really wanted to make the UX idiot-proof they'd have a link that says something like "I can't use my Microsoft Authenticator app right now."

    Out of interest, what happens if you lock yourself out of the completely free, open source and self-hosted app that has your TOTP codes? What recource would you have that isn't also true for MS Authenticator, or Google Authenticator, or any of the other ones?

  • Even better/worse, Microsoft will never send 2FA requests to the app that is requesting them. This user has a second copy of Authenticator installed somewhere else which they forgot about.

  • https://mysignins.microsoft.com/security-info

    Obviously it's very fashionable to bang two saucepans together while chanting "microsoft baaaaad", but for anyone interested in actually learning about how this stuff works: Authenticator will never use 'itself' to authenticate, but you can use a second, seperate instance of Authenticator on another device to authenticate which is what is happening here. If you use Entra (or whatever it's called this week), go to that URL to see which MFA methods Microsoft thinks you have and if, say, there's a copy of Authenticator on a phone you no longer own, or an outdated phone number, or whatever, you can delete it.

  • Fuuuuuuck, it's moments like this I wish every one of our immediate neighbours was part of some kind of free trading block that also stood up for human rights and pushed back against corporate overreach and that we could cozy up to or even just, y'know, join, rather than having to be 100% fully subject to the fickle whims of a demented old man leading dissolving fascist oligarchy a third of the way around the planet.

  • Amazing to think there was actually a time when a high-speed service was planned all the way to Manchester and Yorkshire. Imagine if the Victorians were as short-sighted and snide then as the Tories are now.

  • SHOCK reaction as bait comment fallout nixes OP campaign success chances, experts warn.

  • Smarty user here. Seems like there's a lot of us. UK, £14/mo for unlimited everything with no throttling (I've tried). Includes EU/EEA roaming capped at 12GB.

  • Entire confection 👅

  • You beat me to it. There's something particularly effective about someone who basically never swears dropping a single "fuck" into a sentence and I get the same feeling here.

  • Good for you on overcoming Rand's bullshit worldview. And, yeah, Threads is still terrifying all these years later. That, and When The Wind Blows.