If the MFA app is a TOTP app like Google Authenticator or whatever, you can export the secrets and use another device. I wrote an app for Linux that I use when I couldn't be bothered to get my phone while I'm on my PC. It's not that hard.

Do not buy products and services from evil American tech companies

I'm doing my best. Not in Europe (Canada, actually) but I cancelled Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix 18 months ago. Self-host email and calendar, so don't pay Google anything. I still watch videos on YouTube, but I never see any ads (I have very effective ad-blocking.)

Or loosen regulations and maybe Europe can develop a functional tech economy of its own.

Oh, Europe is being spurred to do that.

Meh, they'll probably build future ads directly into the monitor firmware, so even people using them on Linux will get them as the monitor powers up. Won't that be lovely?

Yes, a loss of 300,000 jobs is certainly good for USA workers, Einstein.

There are grassroots boycotts for sure. Canadian tourism to the USA is way down, costing an estimated 300,000 American jobs.. Canada has more-or-less stopped buying US alcohol.

And when I and most people I know buy groceries, we avoid anything coming from the USA, even if the alternatives are a little more expensive. Canadians aren't only doing this because of tariffs; we're also fucking furious at Trump's threats to our sovereignty and insults to our country.

And the thing is, once we get used to staying in Canada or going to Mexico or Europe for holidays, and once we get used to not buying American products... it'll be a hard sell to get us to return. And I suspect this will happen worldwide.

I /suspect/ it's so when you have to upload a file to a website as a PDF but you have several and it doesn't handle that well you can multi-select a group of files and it will upload a single PDF.

No idea if that's what they mean but it might actually be useful.

Wait 'till they hear about what's being stored at 2300 Empire Ave.

Though it's pretty clear that Hollywood is in self-destruct mode at this point so it's hard to blame the property owners when the economy is headed towards only making weapons and lattes.

Too bad The Message has shifted the business climate towards death merchants.

By time October comes around there may be new demand for the microwave pyrolysis methods of reducing plastics to petroleum feedstocks.

If the editors here are to be believed California has so much solar power and plastic waste that they don't know what to do with and gasoline is already approaching $8 there due to the foolish wars and foolish taxation.

IIRC the heavy plastic chains could help with the disastrous heavy crude shortage, especially. Chemical engineers, please correct.

Yup, there's also the time factor.

There's an important study of boys at age six being diagnosed with ADHD.

At 6 yrs 1 month the odds are 50% higher than at 6 yrs 11 months.

Because they're both "age 6" but in boys that year is huge in development and all metrics are against the age-appropriate standard.

If you're on WoW or Roblox all your waking hours you will have retarded development vs. somebody who is in the world.

So you'll be more ADHD for a 15 yr old if you mostly miss age 14.

"Trust the experts" and sheet.

Nobody is that "stupid" in those departments.

The question should be what was the quid pro quo?

We can imagine what the PLA got out of it but what favor did Microsoft get?

And how high up the chain did it go? Who specifically approved the arrangement?

At least Microsoft probably has Windows 11 "backups" of the hard drives of anyone who might think of bringing charges.

Not sure if that strategy can be called stupid. Lots of other words apply.

"One Nation Under Blackmail" is a popular phrase.

I drive a stick-shift in a city and it's not so bad. You get used to it.

While I do like manual transmission cars, the one I own now is probably the last one I'll own because I expect my next car will be an EV. Or even if it's internal combustion, it's likely going to be hard/impossible to find one with a manual transmission.

Yeah, so if this is the cover story what other heat signatures might they be looking for?

It's not immediately obvious to me but something we should understand.

Detecting Zizians would help prevent these forest fires but it would be quite hard for a satellite to do that.

17 more years? I can't wait to see people in their 70's through 90's adventuring through the universe. Are stargates handicap-accessible?

Seriously though dude this is actually interesting science news vastly more important than some cheesy show.

The time change is the biggest problem. But being offset from the Sun by an hour is still a problem.

For properly-drawn time zones, you'd only be offset from the Sun by +/- 30 minutes either way, not by a whole hour or 90 minutes.

All the evidence suggests that it's better for our health to stay on Standard Time rather than Daylight Saving time, and sleep experts agree.

But I guess scientific evidence hasn't meant anything to politicians for quite some time now.