I've not ridden a bike for ages, but when I did I'd often use the clutch to slow down with, I kind of engine braking.
On an Ebike I guess this would be re-gen.
I found on the old bikes I had that didn't have ABS, this was very useful way to slow down safely especially when there was ice on the road.

Also great for keeping revs high on the lead up to changing traffic lights.
Is ABS a thing on modern bikes?

When I learned to drive a car I was very much discouraged from using the clutch to slow down.
The theory being that cars have dry clutches which wear out very much quicker than a bike's wet clutch which contains multiple plates that live in the same oil as the gearbox (that's transmission for you people in the USA) this provides both lubrication and cooling when slipping the clutch.

I noticed this last year when trying to activate an old copy of MS office 2013.
I guess you could argue that I shouldn't be using an old unsupported copy, but this is for use in a non internet connected system.
I ended up downloading a crack and that worked.

There are now so many ways to watch youtube ad free on mobile devices or TV devices that I'll terminate my subscription if they want to play that game.
I have a family plan and my family members use it on their phones over 4G / 5G so they will have different IP addresses.

Why are some smartwatch makers still making devices with poor battery life?
My Garmin watch lasts 2 weeks on a single charge and that's with Blood oxygen monitoring enabled at night.
I get 3 weeks out of it if I'm just running pulse monitoring.

I have for the last 5 years been using rEFInd as my primany boot loader.
You can still have grub installed and rEFInd will let you chain load grub if you need it. It also gives you a quick easy way to get into your bios / EFI firmware interface.
In Debian / Ubuntu you just apt install refind.
Because it scans for sources on every boot it will let you choose to boot from external sources too.

It's open source multi platform, It takes notes by day and date, has a really nice search function.
Shows keywords as you type. I started using it at work to log what I do in a day.
It even does its own backup.

In the latest version of firefox, (which if you are running debian SID doesn't even work as of today - bug reported)
The first time it runs it asks a bunch of annoying questions not unlike edge does on the first run.
It used to be that you install it and it just works and thats what I liked about it.
I also liked that you could skin it and move the tabs about but they killed that.

I searched for a browser that you can put the tab bar at the bottom of the window and found Vivaldi. Its not perfect the translation system can cause it to lock up for minutes at a time.

I think firefox needs to stop trying to be like other browsers and be its self.
Give uses more choice in cluding opting out of annoying startup question with one click. Asking 10 questions and having to skip each one.
And bring back the ability to easily create your own look and move elements about in the UI with ease.

Need to watch out for rats stealing christmas lights.

DOCSIS currently uses switched networking for downloads but uses a collision based networking for uploads. Meaning that your upload packet could collide with someone else's who shares the same upstream frequency as you. This results in a typical 13-20ms round trip on ping times to 1.1.1.1 with a 1-10ms jitter as compared to 2-6ms ping and virtually no jitter for those on FTTP type connection.
(Results based in the south west UK.)
You can sometimes improve this by rebooting your equipment in the hope that it will pick a less congested set of frequency's.

I wonder if this new system would improve on this?

If you happen to live in the UK and have a Sky Cinema subscription.
It now includes the highest tier of Netflix and has Paramount+
You also get Discovery+ (though the signup process is so complex that I didn't bother). Both Netflix and Paramount+ are full subscriptions that you can use on devices other than your Sky Q equipment.
I have no idea what kind of deal Sky negotiated to do this. But I'm not complaining :) I wonder if they'll strike a deal with Amazon.

I suspect this my be the way forward for cable company's in the future.

Doug was a computer geek so I think that 42 was and Ascii #42 (*) are no coincidence.

Pretty much all phishing scams like this would have from addresses and server IP addresses from outside the company clearly visible if the employees were to look in the email headers.

If the IT security team used an internal account to send this and to collect the replies it implies that should this be real and not a test that the IT security people are themselves negligent to allow an account to be compromised externally.

If the IT security team used an external server to send this email and it got in (using an internal from address) it also implies negligence and the proper email system set up with SPF and DKIM checking should have sent this email to the spam bin or /dev/null at SMTP time.

Looking at the headers is one of the best ways to confirm or deny phishing scams (it's something that Microsoft seem to have gone out of their way to make hard for users) with defaults like hiding email addresses and just showing users names in outlook. Making it hard to view message source in the pissy little non-re-sizeable window that requires users to double click in the suspect email then select properties from the file menu. Then aside from email there's hide extensions of known file types (Microsoft what were you thinking with that one????).

I guess if you weren't sure then as it's an internal email you'd ask a line manager about it.
I think this is rather dodgy ground and it likely to have staff questioning every internal email they get for a long time.
 

It could be a "We come in peace, shoot to kill" statement :P

Exim is the default on Debian based distros.