This is my biggest fear tbh. I have friends I’d love to see in plenty of places, but leaving isn’t the worry. Coming back is, especially being trans with a passport of my correct gender marker

Only to then be disappeared into Federal custody, have my updated birth certificate deemed illegitimate and shipped off to God knows where

New England always on top, in our own way; confusing to those who aren’t from around here.

Someone I know just keeps telling me he disagrees with every policy that’s bad, while also saying he agrees with Trump for 50 things per the 5 he disagrees with.

Anyway that relationship is very sour as you can imagine

This read as downplaying Canada’s significance for a moment, and then immediately circled back to the US being the isolationist Pariah state it is becoming

They’re horrific and apparently invisible to people. Any time I point them out I’ve been called crazy and told I was overreacting. Until driving around Illinois with a coworker when he started to understand the scale of it all. The more I see the more dizzying it becomes. There needs to be regulation for them

No this is honest. I travel a lot for work and I feel like I see more Trump signs in CT than I did in KY. Not to say that there aren’t more Trump supporters in KY, but they are a LOUD minority

These people are genuinely insane. The locals in CT act genuinely surprised when they get any pushback against their Christo fascist asses. There’s one guy who has been sitting out on Rt-6 that I make sure to flip off every time I see him and every time he makes a big stink. I know I’m far from the only one doing it though

My company hired an AI person and I was sure to tell him I stripped the registry values from my computer. I’m an admin sooo

And yet we don’t want our posts to be fed into AI slop, nor do we want independent hosts to pay for the massive amount of traffic generated by a massive corporate entity to trying to consume data en masse.

I’ll take the bear in case you were wondering too.

Care to explain what an awful choice that is?

Source?

Facts don’t care about your feelings etc etc

I remember NiCad batteries still being used in power wheels toys as a kid. For all I know they may still be, but the battery advancements have been particularly amazing.

I used to be a POS tech. It’s such a gross, mismanaged walled garden.

Currently I spend a lot of time advising against pop ups like that :^)

A small city close to me has one, it looks like it’s relatively successful too. They have an active Instagram and are open after school pretty much every day.

Shitty in the interim for sure, but it’s nice knowing how disruptive it’s getting. I outright tell work places I will not go. I also have brought up the embarrassing but truthful act of needing to look up bathroom laws for places I travel to. A lot of coworkers after meeting me realize just how absurd it’s gotten; and how transphobia affects them even.

I hate having to be the trans representative for so many people, but the fact it’s had a noticeable affect on people’s viewpoints is nice at least.

I have some friends in Florida; one moved there recently in part against his better judgement. He told me I’m welcome to stay with him if I ever were in the area. I had to tell him it’s not only dangerous but outright illegal for me to. I’m not risking a fraud charge for having changed my gender marker.

So yeah. Their loss, and they’re starting to feel it.

Not the windows troubleshooter, as the mic was otherwise fine. There was nothing I could find in any Teams settings, and the admin panel showed all of the telemetry as being fine.

This is a good one to keep in mind, tyvm!

I have had to help so many end users with that it pains me.

“How can I stop this from happening again?”

Well, we can disable.other audio devices, but seeing as it’s Windows 11 they may just re-enable good luck!

I ran into a user who’s noise cancellation stopped working upon the rollout of “New” Teams. Tried diagnosing the microphone array, settings updates, firmware. No luck.

Know what worked? Both versions of browser based Teams!!! Ihatethemihatethemihatethem

My boss has gotten to the point of “As Ashe would say, fucking Microsoft”

Let’s not forget the endless name changes, 404’d documentation that points to non existent tools all of the time, the GUI that barely works. Always an adventure

They must have some intense data retention policies. You can configure compliance levels to allow anyone into their Outlook acct using the app without any special permissions pretty easily.

Good on them to cut down access like that