… extra points for doing it during the Kai Winn episodes.

I’m afraid I’m going to need a shrubbery. A big one.

Oh yeah ? Well your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Yep. They may claim to be offended and disapprove, but at the end of the day, they’ll still vote for him

Very true. Grammar is a lovely old woman.

It’s big of you to say that

Really?

Very astute.

I think it’s more than they just don’t care. Microsoft cornered the business world decades ago because they’ve got wot C-levels crave…or something. End users have no say in it.

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Chinese society is oiled by the concept of guanxi (关系) which is the word for uh… it’s the like standing you gain through your connections in society. This is why kids of party members routinely drive around beijing in black Audis breaking traffic regulations with impunity because the police can’t touch them.

Similarly, if you pass a little something or do the right favours to the right officials, and those officials pass it up the chain, then any sort of building consent or other lawbreaking exercise becomes possible.

At least that’s what things were like when I was last there in 2008. I have no reason to believe it has changed significantly since then.

And while we’re at it, where is the corn ?

I’m remain very confused about the point you’re trying to make ?

Are you trying to say that if I don’t personally own the laptop that I use for work, then I have no right to complain about its shortcomings ?

I’m not following you… Like most corporates, they’ve locked it down, in this case with BeyondTrust, so that it’s not even possible to run unapproved executables without a dialog box popping up and demanding and explanation which then creates a ticket with security, who casually deny it a few days later.

It’s obviously their laptop… what’s your point ?

Only if they fail to bribe the right government officials

I don’t think they removed it, as such, it’s more that they rewrote the clock from scratch and didn’t know the old clock did that, and didn’t care to find out.

Similar to how task manager used to suppress the refresh if shift was being held down and that no longer works in Windows 11 because they rewrote it and never looked at Dave’s original code.

We can only hope.

Where I live, we drive on the left. This has the advantage that we barely see any american auto monstrosities here.

We have Teslas, but that’s about it.

It’s got wot CEOs crave. It’s got AI