Without a doubt. He’s the lockpicking lawyer, after all.

But a lot of smart locks are basically locks that have all the attack vectors of normal locks, plus a bunch of extra attack vectors due to being ‘smart’.

Yeah, he’d probably say “at least they aren’t smart locks”

12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.

Anyone saying that and meaning the middle of the night is just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing people do it would drive me quite mad.

30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM

“What’s this in your holster?”

“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”

Boobs like PS1 Lara Croft

There’s nowhere convenient. As you correctly identified, AI has pushed the price of drives through the roof.

Your only real chance is to find a one-off on auction sites from someone who hasn’t noticed what’s going on or what the current market is asking for drives.

You might still be able to find bargains in charity stuff or on Marketplace sites etc but these are unlikely to be sufficient capacity for NAS builds unless you get super lucky.

There isn’t a single right answer to that and I’m not going to suggest there is.

How any organisation operates, be that public or private, is down to the culture of the organisation, and culture comes from people, process, motivation, legislation, and a whole bunch of factors.

If an organisation has a clear mission, is held organisationally accountable in appropriate ways to that mission and makes people feel professionally enriched and valuable, it will attract competent people. And importantly, an organisation full of competent and principled individuals will attract other competent individuals.

On the flip side, if an organisation is subject to decades of mismanagement, has very poor oversight, doesn’t reward people for being good at their jobs and in fact rewards the wrong behaviours then exactly the opposite will happen. People who are competent at what they do will either leave or be crushed down, while those who know how to play the bootlicking game will be raised up, and this type of organisation again becomes self-perpetuating.

None of this happens overnight, in either direction. Failure can take years or decades, and so can the reverse.

In a sane world, by ability and competence

I love the passive-aggressive move of Ēostre intentionally getting Becky’s name wrong in return

Bro, don’t hit goats either

I’m not even going to beat around the bush, it’s straight up the opposite of an appropriate choice.

Made me absolutely confused reading the comic, to the extent I couldn’t understand what it was telling me until I forced my brain to override the meaning of that icon.

You can only intuitively use a battery bar to represent a good thing where the full state is desirable (mood, energy etc) not a bad thing where the full state isn’t.

Choice is amazing, liberating and empowering - but only when you are sufficiently informed to know which choices are appropriate.

For beginners in any field, too much choice can be paralysing.

Windows 95: Fixes itself when you aren’t watching Windows 11: Fucks itself up when you aren’t watching

*can’t ;P

Edit: And now you edited it

Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender and sexual orientation.

Be like a shark!

I can never understand why the tier list meme template starts at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.

I wondered if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be “cold” blue.

Is it just completely arbitrary? Does my life have no meaning?

Absolutely does look like young them

Did you see the recipe? It’s mixed in together with the egg before you cook it.

Looks like Madoka Magica

Your mileage may vary i suppose. Soy doesn’t seem to be a problem for Japanese cuisine, which I usually consider as tasting very light in comparison to a lot of food.

Tamagoyaki egg rolls for example use soy sauce and are delicious and not overpowering at all.

https://www.justonecookbook.com/tamagoyaki-japanese-rolled-omelette/