Well, it was twenty years ago, so my memory might not be fresh, but we would go out to lunch, then head back to the office, so there was some elapsed time in between.

I don’t know, but I’d like to think I would shut everything off and run away until it demonstrably hadn’t exploded rather than take a picture!

I visited Costa Rica on a business trip around twenty years ago. The thing that blew my mind was every person in the building, after we got back from lunch, trooping to the bathroom and brushing their teeth. That’s public health done right.

They look like a gas furnace and a hot water tank. My first thought was "Why are they connected? ", because I thought the tank had its own heating element. My second thought was “Aren’t those water lines? How does a water line become incandescent?”

This is correct. Hay can be used as fodder for animals, whereas straw cannot. It can be used for many other purposes, however, like animal bedding, building material, decorating your suburban yard in fall…

It is basically a gyro.

No, it wants to be roasted and covered in cheese sauce.

Makes perfect sense to me. It’s generally acknowledged that

Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin’ world go round

Wrong, the date is 2024-06-12.

Authentication methods in Entra ID (which is presumably what we are talking about as the identity provider) include Microsoft Authenticator and software otp.

Authenticator is push authentication, as described elsewhere here. If for some reason you’re not getting push notifications, you can use an OTP code instead, but this still requires that you have push authentication configured in Microsoft Authenticator.

You can only use Software OTP in other applications if your administrator has explicitly allowed use of Software OTP as an authentication method, and also excluded you from being required to use Authenticatior - otherwise Authenticatior would always ‘win’ as choice of mechanisms because it is more secure.

Several states in the USA require that employees who are made to use their personal phone for business purposes be compensated. The enforcement method and process for requesting same is naturally very obscure.

With a large form factor phone in my pocket, I have access to millions of books right away. When I’m not reading an ebook I’m probably listening to the audio version instead, because I need my hands and/or eyes for something else.

I had to look up Blinding Lights, and I don’t recognize it. I know the others from that list (whether they fit the criteria or not).

IIRC people with older devices have found that replacing their battery does not significantly help, becathe replacement battery was manufactured at roughly the same time as the device it goes into, and has degraded over time even without use. This is anecdotal of course, but seems reasonable to me.

Some short browsing appears to indicate that batteries can last for years of stored properly, but how does one verify if the replacement battery in their phone was really stored appropriately?

I’ve never seen the meme before, my bad. I thought it was supposed to be cookie monster munching, not Elmo snorting!

Why is Elmo standing in for Cookie Monster?

Amazi-girl!

Have you ever seen a Massachusetts state trooper in dress uniform?