Microsoft sucks so much at naming things. My workplace also requires Office support and it's confusing to no end. The things people want to do are office things, not microsoft things.

However, this happened years ago in in-app texts, splash screens, doc and help pages like this,
https://learn.microsoft.com/en...
and anywhere I look

This

Yeah I hate this change. Mom has Signal, Dad refuses, it was so nice not to care and have them both in one app. Stupid.

I know what Arvix is and isn't. What does this have to do with what I wrote?

I was simply correcting the false statement in the post that I replied to. As for their instruments and observations, I would recommend reading their paper. I have no opinion on that because I haven't read it

Except that the authors here are astronomers,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.112...

You still have the option to buy a lifetime "subscription" which costs about the same as the extra feature always cost, anyway.

If you don't buy the subscription, you didn't really buy the heated seats, either - you got them thrown in because it's simpler and cheaper for BMW to put them into all cars instead of making manufacturing more complicated. Those who buy it are the ones paying for it.

And for some, 18 per month may be cheaper than buying the traditional extra, if they only use it in January or whatever.

Actually the Greens right now are doing absolutely everything regardless of whether it's against their credos, including bringing coal plants back online. It's chiefly the companies who own and operate the nuclear plants who are against it, and sometimes with not-too-bad reasons, such as depleted fuel because they have been preparing for shutdown. New fuel rods would have to come from - you guessed it - Russia.

The German Greens were the only party who called out Putin's behavior and Germany's dependency on Russia years ago.

Are you paid hourly? Does the company pay you extra for coming in to do this, even if you are not scheduled? I am guessing the answers here are "no" and you are a salaried IT/knowledge worker professional.

Because they are paid by the hour. They clock in and out and are not generally doing "knowledge work." They don't hang out after hours to talk about better ways to sort pallets, if they are there after hours they are there to socialize or do other non-work-related things. (This isn't a dig - this is the work I did for several years before going to college and it's the honest truth.) They have very very little in common with salaried or management employees in terms of pay, job expectations or career path. So yeah, it's natural that the rules are totally different.

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You're using an odd definition of "suddenly" that means "announced four years ago and delayed at least twice."

Unlike wireline infrastructure where you can always run another cable, wireless spectrum is limited. With that same 20 MHz of spectrum you can for example serve a few tens of thousands of 10-year-old 3G devices with narrowband service or you can repurpose it to serve millions of 4G or 5G devices with broadband service. Which is a better use for people and the economy overall?

I say this having been in the industry on the cell carrier side - so of course I'm biased - but even a decade ago we told IoT device makers "We're your best alternative to making your device work without having your customers run a dedicated landline. But we always have to move on from generation to generation every decade or so... so be prepared to upgrade your stuff." Some of them listened (and did things like upgrade their gear to use a home's WiFi) and others didn't. I can say having been in plenty of those discussions that long ago that IoT vendors who are crying about obsolescence now knew the risks that long ago and just wanted to sell cheap hardware and not worry about the costs of upgrading later.

Obviously they don't pay JUST cleaning, but whatever parts and labor is not paid by the public one, like implants. I need, BTW, 3 cleanings p.a., so the 360 I pay reduce to ~200 just by that, so for effectively 18 p.m. I get the while additional coverage coverage

Here in communist Germany the public insurance pays a visit twice a year. Cleaning at my dentist costs 70 EUR, of which 50 EUR per year are reimbursed by the public insurance. Of course they don't pay everything, so I have additional private insurance for 30 EUR per month, who pick up the slack. They also pay for 2 more cleanings per year.