Oh, the stories I could tell you... I should write a book some day.
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Because the constitution says we can't call the president king, but if we name everyone in other positions "border king" "energy king" etc. in Russian, we can normalize the king concept. Maybe a shitty nod to Russia as well?
Confounding that they are so willing to use a Russian term.
Our government really wants us to be feudal, apparently.
My general contribution to the conversation is GitHub should have a donation system. Once a week, some kind of donation raffle happens, and the winner gets GitHub taken down for "reasons" for 4 hours, then 5, 6, 8. Microsoft profits more, and it slowly becomes a technology-and-money-induced vacation day.
Honestly, no, you don't need a team. It is good practice, but not necessary. I've worked at several companies where the production build was made from a tower under a desk or a server blade, or an iMac on a shelf, sometimes one guy knew how it worked, sometimes nobody did, sometimes the whole team did. In most cases, managed by the product's dev team. IT just firewall-wrapped the crap out of them.
Not to discredit the main meta thread of "we don't have to manage anything with cloud" vs "having management team" debate. Odd thing is, cloud prices are climbing so rapidly that the industry could shift back in a near future.
Bottom line for most business though: As long as the cost makes sense, why bother self-hosting anything. That's really what it comes down to. A bonus too, as most companies like being able to blame other companies for their problems. Microsoft knows that, and profited greatly with Windows Server/Office/etc. for that very reason.
When your quarterly profits are dashed because an employee backed into your server room and turned on the halon fire suppression system and you gotta rebuild from scratch from month-old off-site tape backups, how do you write a puff piece to explain that away without self-blame or firing the very people that know how it all works?
When your quarterly profits are dashed because Microsoft's source control system screwed up, you make a polite public "our upstream software partners had a technical error, we've addressed and renegotiated," message, shareholders are happy, and customers are still stuck with a broken product, but the shareholders are happy.
Go to bed at 2, wake up at 10, same sleep and wake duration as go to bed at 8, wake up at 4. "Day" as in daylight will be different, sure, but that's about it. It is all relative.
Can you assign a car or speaker audio profile to that Bluetooth device in Bluetooth or sound settings? Some phones have this option.
Their manufacturers think they do own us.
The FBI are generally inept idiots, and that was before America went Fascist. Their presence isn't going to be a help, especially now. Read through history. They've screwed up so many investigations.
In the US, bathrooms didn't used to even have gender.
The best answer is to leave Gmail.
It has turned into this weird thing. The short of it is: antennas and battery, and a touch of telemetry.
There are so many bands across so many frequencies, as well as needing multiple antennas for MIMO that they all take space.
Large batteries are required to run the modems and ostensibly laptop processors, and also...
...All the telemetry gathering they do requires power, also adding to the desire of a big battery. (The last one is fascinating, a phone on GrapheneOS will last 2-7 days on a charge depending on use. The same on stock Android will barely last a day.)
Hearing the LEO parrots quack on about, "oh, the protesters are interfering with lawful action," is so tiring.
Show one valid warrant signed by a judge, I dare them. Trolling Home Depot parking lots and restaurants is called stalking. Abduction and kidnapping is called abduction and kidnapping. All are unlawful crimes in a country that allegedly is "lawful."