I'm running a Brother HL-L2375DW.

Mono laser, networking, double sided printing, wireless, USB. Up to 34 pages a minute. Windows 7 up. Very happy am I. The old HP Lasers are now heading for the bin.

With the right Brother you can even print from Windows 98SE. But you need to carefully do research before thinking any Brother can do this. I was lucky in my purchase.

Does this mean McDonald's workers can expect a wage rise?

I carry around an iPhone. That's enough AI for me.

Do I want to wear and have to plug in all of the extra AI gizmos that he suggests? No. And do I wish to share all of my personal thoughts and words and actions with an AI that is going to send those back to the mothership/database somewhere. Like hell, no. And can I trust that AI? Who is vetting it's algorithm? I mean it wouldn't be steering me wrong; influencing my purchasing decisions, my partner preferences, my viewing habits, my voting choices. It wouldn't do that, would it?

Publisher replacements. Look at:
Scribus https://www.scribus.net/ Free. Can import Publisher files.
Affinity Publisher https://affinity.serif.com/en-... Proprietary. Can not import Publisher files. You'd have to either save the MS Publisher files as PDF and import them that way or use LIbre Office to import them and then save as docx files and those you can import.

I remember evaluating WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows against Word 6 for Windows. Word was a smoother finished product. WordPerfect in comparison was a clunker of an application. Cadillac versus Chevrolet if you like. It was a no brainer as to which one would win in the market place.

running OS/2

I guess you're lucky in that you've lived long enough to see them come to fruition.

Australia has NOT stamped out it's latest outbreaks. The ones in Victoria and New South Wales are still ongoing from a July outbreak. New South Wales approx 200 cases per day. Victoria approx 1000 cases per day.

>> with borders closed even to Australian citizens?

Nope.

At present it is going down to 2,500 Australians allowed per week allowed back. Was 5,000.

>> They got hit and took exactly the repressive measures

The correct repressive measures. You either have infectious people running around or you control them. Which is better for the people and the economy? Hint: Look at the United Kingdom.

Does this vaccine, or any of the other vaccines undergoing testing, protect against covid-19 as a whole, or a specific strain of the virus?
Is this a once-and-done vaccine, similar to smallpox, or will we have to get booster shots every so often?
How long does protection last?
Does being vaccinated prevent you from transmitting the virus to others, or does it only protect you from contracting the virus?

For all of your questions, we don't fully know the answers at this stage.

Quite probably we will have to get booster shots. Some of the early vaccines will require two shots for full effect. And protection might be only for six months. Those who have had the virus once can get it again, that's been documented in a number of cases. And they were slightly different strains. Three months seems to have been the immunity given from having had the virus.

>> New Zealand has only 2 (new) cases, both isolated in quarantine. That's it, no other known active cases, and they won't be opening up to travellers without strict quarantine

Er, no.

There's 24 cases in quarantine as of now. These are NZ citizens returning home and testing has found they have COVID.

Australia's present problems appear to come from breaches in quarantine in the state of Victoria. Victoria is in trouble and will be in lockdown for a while. Nearby state NSW is busy stamping out hotspots to stop becoming a second Victoria. The rest of Australia is fine, at present ...

You forgot the ads.

Can we call 'It' Shirley instead?

The bans are gone. I'm from New Zealand and can now access both chans successfully.