I think you're just supposed to not eat them. If you experience unquenchable carnal desires just being near a solar panel, that's not a Krishna problem; that's a you problem.

That depends on how much I'm paid.

For enough money, I can tolerate almost anything.

The truth is an absolute defense against libel in America.

It is a weaker defense in the UK.

Another difference is that in America, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show the statement is false. In the UK, the BOP is on the defendant to show the statement is true.

The arbitrator imposed the non-disparagement clause.

Sarah agreed to the arbitration process (she couldn't afford to do otherwise), but didn't specifically agree to the ND clause.

If the job market has dried up for "tech workers" in Seattle, why stay? There are opportunities out there....just not in Seattle.

I agree even very well intentioned, honest people have just about everything telling them not to look to hard.

Consider you work for MSCRT and get the report from bug bounty. You confirm the issue, and you do the right thing and turn on the klaxons at MS.

After a little background check to confirm the reporter isnt likely a compromised person you look for 'obvious' signs this was exploited. Finding none, you report your initial results up the chain. Now your job is evaluated on closed incidents / reports at least in part. Your manager tells you wrap this one up close it out, because he knows everyone above all the way up to the C-suite, does not want this to be huge black eye.

Would you go on a phishing expedition in search of more tiny, easily disputed IOCs trying to sift back thru logs for a span of a year or more, knowing the really dangerous guys often have very long dwell times, or would you move on? If you found real proof of an issue you might be hero -or- motivated interests might try to discredit and vilify you, if you don't find anything you might be accused of violating instructions or even get into trouble for looking at logs and systems without an official cause..

there just isn't anyone even down to the front line engineers that really would *want* to find a problem if there was one. Just about everyone at levels at least in the near term has a better day if they 'see no evil'

Great! I love academics who recommend realistic policies that can be quickly and easily implemented.

How will it be enforced?

Who will do the enforcing?

That's it! You were warned. You're being preempted indefinitely.

Not really.

If you have a lot of credit, but low utilization the risk to new lenders is higher.

Consider this:

You have five credit cards with limits of 20k, and only about 2k in current balance. That means you can potentially run out tonight and rack up 98k in new debt. You don't have a 'history' of being able to service that much additional debt successfully.

Now lets compare you to another person with 5 cards also with 20k limits, but a normal balance of something like 75k outstanding.. They have been paying on it for years, and never missed a payment or otherwise been in default.

Now both of you are applying for a an auto loan, the monthly minimum payment will be $200. All other things being equal which one of you do I actually know more about you likely being able to pay me?

Its the guy with more credit utilization. He is already showing he make payments on most of his current credit, his current liability situation can't deteriorate significantly - his other lendors will decline payment authorizations. If he seems 'stable and sane' right now he thinks he can handle the additional $200 he can. I don't know you won't get in a fight with the wife tomorow that ends in her running out and replacing all the furniture in your house to vex you, and leave you bills you can't pay, or that you won't develop a serious problem with Draft-kings, etc.

My wife recently bought a new laptop and, to both of our surprise, it was configured out of the box to save data to OneDrive instead of C:. She's not particularly tech savvy and one day Chrome complained that storage was full. She did a web search of the error and it recommended deleting data from OneDrive, which she did, assuming that her family pictures were only backed up there - not primarily stored there - and ended up losing important data as a result of this.

Thankfully it must have been that particular OEM that chose to do this. I had installed "vanilla" Windows 11 on a custom PC build and that didn't happen - and we just bought a new laptop for our new business, different brand, and that was the first setting I checked (not an issue).

Still... companies pushing this type of crap on users is just batshit. Offer as an option, sure. But fundamentally re-configuring core functionality that people who have been using the OS for decades take for granted is just madness.

It's mostly WINE though isn't it? Well, Proton but still. That has the 64bit-32bit thunking layer required. Native Linux builds would need to be 64 bit true, but that's where I was going with the "10-20%" bit.

I run 32bit Windows games on ARM via Rosetta/MacPortingToolkit. So long as the game itself is tricked into believing it's in a 32bit universe, it's happy.

This could have been a webpage.

gah - Kinoite. Spelling.

That's chicken and egg though. I use Bazzite, Fedora Kinorate with some gaming tweaks. Fedora wanted to drop 32 bit and there was a lot of noise as things like Bazzite or any gaming usage at all from that distro would break.

But, if Steam went 64 bit then that's 80%-90% of the issue solved straight away, and the last 10-20% would quickly sort themselves out in response. Summary is the distros have already indicated they don't want to do the work, and it's userland that's holding them back right now. Would be mutual benefit to lose them, but userland has to move first.