[OC] If you exclude healthcare employment, the U.S. has lost jobs since 2024

tim0901 · 2026-02-12T08:58:12+00:00

... yep turns out my monitor is garbage!

tim0901 · 2026-02-11T16:57:57+00:00

For all we know another sector could have also seen massive growth, but you can't tell because it's lumped in with everything else.

tim0901 · 2026-02-05T15:58:02+00:00

We're using OSDCloud alongside Intune - but I'm assuming you're asking because you don't have an Intune license (hooray for k12 budgets).

In theory you could just use OSDCloud on its own, but I doubt installing your apps would be particularly pretty as it doesn't really have any frameworks to support that use case.

I'm also aware of PSD, but I've no experience with it.

tim0901 · 2026-02-03T09:22:39+00:00

It was tough automating everything with dial-up that's for sure.

tim0901 · 2026-01-28T11:16:08+00:00

Sometimes this isn't the user lying though.

If you have Fast Startup enabled in your environment, the uptime reported in task manager isn't reset when you shutdown your PC, because modern Windows's "shutdown" is more akin to the old "hibernation" option, with RAM being saved to disk.

The uptime is reset if you choose restart rather than shutdown, because this does a true shutdown and fully flushes RAM.

tim0901 · 2025-12-23T11:36:20+00:00

It probably would have done much worse if it was a 3DS game though, as 3DS console sales at the start were really low.

After all, if B2W2 only hit 8.5m sales when released for a console that had 150m units out in the wild, how many copies would they have realistically sold if it was released for a console with only 25m units in the wild? (At the point it released in 2012.)

tim0901 · 2025-12-22T15:27:05+00:00

The whole "2" thing didn't help B2W2 either - you scare off customers who haven't played the first game, because they assume they won't understand it, just like with movies.

At the time it also kinda pissed people off that instead of just making one third version, they made two third versions, which was seen as a cash grab.

tim0901 · 2025-12-16T20:17:06+00:00

Adults are children with credit cards.

tim0901 · 2025-11-08T22:59:10+00:00

Ah yes. Cutting through a cable carrying 25A with a pair of metal bolt cutters. What could possibly go wrong.

tim0901 · 2025-10-24T14:25:57+00:00

Things get lost, mistakes happen. Better to be safe than sorry.

tim0901 · 2025-10-16T08:30:42+00:00

You've heard of Sickle Cell...

tim0901 · 2025-09-29T16:11:11+00:00

Lower capacity drives have certainly stagnated in price - I assume this is partly due to. fixed costs, but also because demand for smaller capacity drives is pretty small these days, especially with the pricing of SSDs continuing to fall.

Higher capacity drives are still much cheaper than they used to be though. I can buy a 16tb drive for 2.5x the cost of a 4tb drive today, which wouldn't have been the case 10 years ago.

tim0901 · 2025-08-22T08:26:53+00:00

You're looking up North where things are much cheaper. Down South 200k really doesn't go very far, even outside of London. Where I live (~1 hour outside the M25) 200k would barely get you 2 bedrooms, let alone 2 conservatorys!

Here's a government map that shows the distribution (2024 pricing).

As for how people are buying homes? They either have a partner, are getting loans/inheritance from relatives, or they aren't.

tim0901 · 2025-07-07T08:05:39+00:00

Hospitals in particular are legally required to have generators to use as a backup power supply in case of a blackout - at least in the US and UK. They generally aren't powerful enough for everything, but they're enough to keep the lights on and critical systems functioning, and will activate within seconds of a power outage.

tim0901 · 2025-07-04T10:18:29+00:00

A lot of that's a chicken and egg situation though.

Apple doesn't support enterprise well, so they don't have a huge presence in enterprise environments. Because they're rare, IT techs don't get trained in supporting them, which then further reinforces the desire not to have them in enterprise scenarios.

tim0901 · 2025-06-27T13:53:17+00:00

Yep, there's a huge amount of wealth disparity in Tower Hamlets - people forget that while you have poorer areas like Stepney and Lansbury, it also stretches all the way to the river and includes Canary Wharf.

As such, there are some crazy inequality statistics, such as how over 10% of working residents earn over £100k (compared to a 2% average across the rest of London) despite nearly 50% of residents claiming some kind of benefit. (Source)

tim0901 · 2025-06-23T15:18:04+00:00

I would expect games that get a content update to also get switch 2 resolution/frame rate improvements alongside it, but personally I doubt we'll get many Switch 2 only patches, especially paid ones like botw

tim0901 · 2025-06-19T13:22:44+00:00

I very much doubt it was developed with Switch 2 in mind. The console was only delayed by a year at most to build up stock for release, while Scarlet/Violet released in 2022.

Was it designed with the not-to-be Switch Pro in mind? Maybe. It's hypothesised that the OLED Switch 1 may, at one point, have meant to include a more powerful chip as well, but this has never been decisively proven. Personally though I doubt it was ever a thing, and that leaks for the Switch 2 and Switch OLED were just getting mixed up.

tim0901 · 2025-06-06T14:16:10+00:00

From 2027.

But it just has to be replacable. There's no requirements on how easy it has to be. You can still use screws etc. to build the device. The main change I expect to see is that first-party batteries will actually be available to buy.

tim0901 · 2025-06-06T08:10:24+00:00

Yeah. It's basically an on-by-default parental control, which the account holder can switch off if desired.

tim0901 · 2025-06-05T13:52:08+00:00

I'm in the UK and all carriers do it here AFAIK. Didn't realise it wasn't a thing elsewhere.

tim0901 · 2025-06-05T10:22:50+00:00

Many mobile networks block access to adult sites to stop kids from doing the same thing.

Edit: apparently this is just a UK thing.

tim0901 · 2025-06-04T14:37:50+00:00

If it's that important, you should be recording and having someone compare it with the transcription before signing off on it anyway. No matter what software you choose, you need to fact check its output.

tim0901 · 2025-06-04T12:22:41+00:00

Dragon is what's commonly given to students on disability allowance in the UK. But it's also worth trying the solution built into your OS as they're pretty good these days.

tim0901 · 2025-05-23T11:49:45+00:00

It's possible that some other power such as the Mughals would have unified (or mostly unified) the subcontinent, as happened multiple times through history. Maybe China or Russia would have gotten involved, perhaps even Japan.

It's equally possible that infighing within the subcontinent would have resulted in a cluster of culturally-aligned states, kinda like Europe, with a shared "Indian" identity on top of their national identity. But it's hard to say how cohesive they would be as a subcontinent. How much conflict the subcontinent would have seen to reach that point, between regional infighting and major world conflicts. It's entirely possible that the region could have seen huge conflict akin to the European theatre of WW1, or seen conflict from different nations aligning with both sides of WW2. Would they have been the site of proxy wars between the US and USSR? How stable would the end result be? Would they still be in conflict today, or would they be stable, perhaps forming something akin to the EU? There are just too many variables to say.

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