Almost. a 10db change is a 10x difference in power and roughly 2x difference in perceived loudness

I'd have no problem accepting a free car

Same.

It was kind of fun, because I joined the company as a part of acquihire and they came to my entire team to install MDM on our laptops. It turned out we were mostly running Linux, while their MDM was Windows and MacOS only. They left..

They came back 2 weeks later to tell us it would be best if we installed Windows. We told them "no, thank you" to which they responded with surprised pikachu, because they were used to their suggestions being treated as commands. So they left again.

A month later they came back to tell us we really should install Windows to which we responded that we'd have to rebuild out entire tooling and we're on tight deadlines as-is. It's important to note that their Windows setup didn't allow VMs..

Some time later we got an email to let us know MDM vendor will soon have Linux beta. Does it support Arch and Nixos? They'll get back to us on that. And we started researching how hard would it be to run BSD on a laptop ;-)

Ah, the confidence boost you get when you know your job is absolutely secure and the only reason you don't quit is because of a retention bonus :D

Over 98% did. My job was security adjacent so I've had some insight into those metrics

If you charge overnight set an alarm - most phones will automatically slow down charging to the safest rate that will get it to 100% before alarm

Don't worry, both are one supreme court ruling (currently pending) from being stripped off the power to regulate anything

Insurance rates vary greatly with zip code in Canada. I moved just before I was going to buy a car and when I got quoted over $700 CAD per month to insure a Fiat 500 (new driver over 30) I quickly calculated that taking Uber to and from work daily is going to be much cheaper than insurance alone..

We talk briefly 2-3 times a year, see each other even less frequently, despite it being less than a two hour drive. Neither side is looking to change that despite us growing up together in a happy family and there being no reason for us to avoid each other. It could be that we all don't value social interactions very highly in general.

My theory: it's correlation not causation. People have higher vitamin d levels if they spend more time outdoors, which often means a healthier lifestyle.

Encasing him in concrete would work ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm torn if I should be nodding and patting myself on the back for not doing any of this insanity or cackling and taking notes..

TP-Link omada series - clones of ubiquity at half the price, can run openwrt if that's your thing. I've got 6 of those including outdoor ones covering the yard