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Comment Re:OMG! They had to wait for a token to arrive??? (Score 1) 120

Melodramatically complaining about a 0.1ms

You have to know it takes much longer than 0.1ms to receive the SMS text messages containing a token.

Anyway it doesn't matter if it's 0.1ms or 8 hours. Wages are required to include all time spent on work-related activities required by the employer,
and rounding of times can only be performed when the system is both reasonable and does not consistently disfavor the employee.

Consistently shaving off a second of an employee's compensated time per day from when they are working is still an unlawful thing worthy of liquidated damages, and it will add up to numbers given enough days.

Comment Re:What? how long can that possibly take? (Score 5, Interesting) 120

if you knew the terms for which you're being paid why did you stick to the job longer than say 4 to 8
Because you need money for you or your family to survive, possibly. And it may take you MUCH longer than 8 weeks to successfully obtain a replacement role that is any better.

It doesn't matter.. It is illegal for the employer. Not the part about waiting for Windows to boot, but failure to start the work clock including the time when the employee's duties start -- which includes all time taken for all necessary preparations required by the employer (including time for security checks, boot, etc), even though it is before they can start taking calls or working on their assigned tasks.

Comment Re:Royal Society ilk s the Real Threat (Score 1) 41

There's been literally dozens if not hundreds of official reports of [people complaining about being raped by aliens], including my own, and thus far humanity as a whole has done fuck-all about it other than call us all crazy. Your assertion seems quite flawed, though I commend your faith in your fellow species.

Comment Re:What do they care? (Score 1) 44

My guess is they're using heuristics on the actual browsing behavior to generate advertising metrics for sell to advertisers/vendors/affiliates or something like that, and the bots throw off the accuracy of the metrics and that discovery by a 3rd party they've got a contract with has just lost them a bunch of money behind the scenes.

Comment Re:Everything runs (Score 1) 68

Look those games up on protondb.com, they're all listed as working you might just need to switch to an older proton version or add a couple command-line arguments. Some of these are actually listed as working perfectly in proton 9 but if you have a fresh install you'll have to select proton 9 manually now since it's not the latest version.

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