I use my battery powered Milwaukee blower for convenience only, very nice blower too for patios. The Stihl backpack is for when I need to do real work.

It'll serve them well in the future. I now keep 3 backups in separate locations and await the next hole in my scheme.

Who cares?

Windows is more awful than our wildest fantasies could have ever imagined. I'm nearly done with my migration off Windows for many, many reasons to finally move on over to Ununtu. My Windows 10 machine leads as lonely existence these days, Every month Linux takes over a new feature that I formerly needed Windows. I cut my teeth on HP-AIX many years ago. 5 years Linux will be a serious threat to Windows dominance. Reasons: I'm sick of being treated like a newbie with 40 years experience. I'm tired of the dodgy constant patching and useless, ill considered, buggy feature updates. Microsoft is not the dictator of my PC. I am. My main, soon to be, ex Win10 PC has more horsepower than my current Linux so imagine Unbuntu on it.

I've just closed out a 25 year career in IT though still a hobby for me. I now work solely outside in nature. It seems to have been a perfect time to bail for myself. The flip phone is my act of defiance. All of this interconnection and the privileges needed for MSPs to remote manage systems at a low level beg for this to have had happened. Never underestimate your attackers. This is more serious than we've been allowed to know. Best of luck to all on the front lines. This is insidious.

Being many of these types of managers are skinflints who force employees to use personal equipment, what right have they to do that? They are treading a thin line here.

First, I'll assume "Hiring Manager" means HR and leaving it at that. This is an apples to oranges comparison. Either one can program using an object oriented language or not. I find a mere 52% "eager to take on new responsibilities" to be insufficient for the real world and would force me to fire someone like that. Boot camp is real experience? No, that comes after 3 to 5 years of plying one's trade on the job. Techies actively learn new skills by their very nature all the way from Gen Z to Boomer. This is nothing more than HR creeps trying to justify their cognitive bias. @GenZ: Learn to quickly identify and manage the various sociopaths and psychopaths that you will meet in the business world. A quick litmus test is to say "no" over something minor and observe the target's reactions.

Simply assume any Office 365 hosted domain has been phished.

Painters tape over the lens is real security. As for a microphone, a small portable radio whose speaker is placed close to the device's microphone will pretty much take out the microphone's ability to monitor audio. The radio's volume can be surprisingly low too. Having the speaker as close as possible to the mic is the key. These microphones are incredibly sensitive. My private testing of them shocked me.

Black market foliage could contain molds, pesticides, heavy metals, and whatever else as criminals don't care. Most criminals are quite stupid in a very clever way. The Certificates of Analysis and chains of custody make obtaining it from legal dispensaries well worth paying retail. Unfortunately, I live in snake-handler evangelical land so I'd have to move, but my life is not centered around this. My friend in Vegas tells me tales of his dispensary. He consumes less now as he can always obtain it at higher quality. Legalization is moving faster than I would have ever guessed back in Nancy Reagan's days which is a good thing. The 2018 Farm Bill Federal hemp legalization is a massive step forward in its own way.

Yes, I'd like a lookup too. I deleted my Facebook after a sustained and comprehensive two year data poisoning campaign. My ads were in Finnish for some reason so I guess I broke the AI. I always treated it like the poisonous snake it is.

It's sleazy, no doubt, but clients and corporate types play dirty too. I once did a coding project for a client who refused to pay. The program worked as he wanted and as specified. Come 35 days past due, I flipped a value in my phone home web site's database. The program then dutifully stopped functioning. I told him to pay up, and he became very angry. He wanted my work for free. I never told him how I did it. Had he paid, I would have recompiled with the phone home functions removed. I ended up donating some of the code to an open source project to a guy who fixed a bug in a .dll he wrote that I had to use. Scum are on both sides of the fence,

My sister

Thanks to Crook, I will take the time to replace my iPhone6's battery just to spite him.

Do they get underage hookers are part of the deal?