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I'm sure some folks would want to block me.   And, I most certainly would love to block a few folks.
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My employer switched from a local domain server to one based in Azure. This essentially made my machine new to me. I hand to find/re-install all my programs. Worse than all of that is the insane number of 2FA requests required to use my machine. And it seems like where we used to have username/password, companies are creating their own stuff. Slack assumes your email is secure and only requires a username now, then emails you a temp password. BitBucket was authenticated so long on my machine, I didn't realized I had 2FA, but not text based. I had to dig through my phone to find an app I've used about twice to find the code before I could view source code. Windows thinks the Hello 6 digit pin is more secure than my password.
I think I'm done ranting now. But seriously, just bring back good old fashioned passwords.
Hogan
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passive aggressive : enter a wrong password a couple of times until your machine locks up and wait a few hours until IT deigns resetting it. 
Hopefully, it's a one shot annoyance, once everything is setup, it should not be a big issue.
We had a few people with no cell phones for 2FA.. that pissed IT. 
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To make it worse, now you're expected to use your personal phone for work, for that reason. Used to be keeping things separate was the way to go.
Jeremy Falcon
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Abraham Lempel - Wikipedia
Inventor (with Jacob Ziv) of the LZ77 and LZ78 compression algorithms.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Green * is a scam. It's just a way to move funds and sell trends, just like vegan products and homeopathy / crystallotherapy / younameit.
Don't get me wrong, moving away from fossil fuels and getting sustainable energy is necessary in this power hungry society (though I still have to understand why a US house needs more thn 3 times the power available to an Italian house, considering we do use the same appliances). But the trend of geen everything sold on partial data and preconception, that is a scam full stop.
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Yeah - my electricity supplier swears blind that all my power comes from renewable, green sources.
Doesn't stop the price doubling every time the gas market burps though ... 
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If we were in the USA, I'd almost be inclined to think their idea of "green energy" was "burning money". 
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- Homer
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It would probably be cheaper to heat the house that way. 
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In Italian money laundering is called money recycling. I'd say they are very much green in that regard 
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den2k88 wrote: (though I still have to understand why a US house needs more thn 3 times the power available to an Italian house, considering we do use the same appliances).
The other night we had -21C, try to top this in Italy (apart from the Alps). Summers down south are hot. Also, our houses are bigger, and the average household is more populated - 3 kids are quite common. Let's not forget a lot of refrigerators - we are big. Need food
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Single Step Debugger wrote: -21C, try to top this in Italy (apart from the Alps).
Guess where I live? I had easily -28, we use either gas or in rural areas pellet or wood. Never had any issue.
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Yeah, but this is not typical for Italy, is it? The other thing I forgot to mention - most Americans live in houses, while Italians in apartment buildings. And the buildings are more energy efficient with smaller rooms, lower ceiling and the new ones are well insulated.
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As I said below, 3 kW is also for hoises of 3600 square feet. A residential house has 3 kW, 6 if you ask for the EV charging station but 3 of those can ONLY be used by the charging station.
And going to -20 is common for at least a third of the nation.
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Additionally Italy has another thing that a big % of the US doesn't: Humidity
That makes the cold feeling a few degrees lower than the temperature marks. You can ask UKians for that.
Continental cold is easier to fight against.
In Germany I wear the same clothes for -15 or -20 than in my home town in Spain I would wear by 0 or +1, and I feel it colder in Spain than in Germany
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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den2k88 wrote: though I still have to understand why a US house needs more thn 3 times the power available to an Italian house
Lot of American live in super unnecessary huge houses because bigger is better; they've been told they NEED the 5000 square feet house with sooooo many bedrooms and bathrooms and multi car garage to be recognized as a successful person consummer capitalist.
European usually use smaller appliances; they've had to adapt to higher energy cost and traditionally smaller residential space. have you seen the latest washers and dryers ? even if they are energy efficient, they are probably twice as big as the previous generation appliances
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My parents' 3 floors house, 400 square meters, still has a 3kW power supply and it's still enough, since heating is not done through electricity and AC is used only when necessary and only in the bedrooms.
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den2k88 wrote: though I still have to understand why a US house needs more thn 3 times the power available to an Italian house, considering we do use the same appliances
Because we can. We like our space. It's all part of Manifest Destiny. Big houses, big cars, big screens.
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Amen buddy. Having less emissions in the air is always a great thing, but these deals are all based on lies and scams to put money in certain people's pockets. Rather unfortunate.
Jeremy Falcon
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I installed Windows 11 about 15 days back, and I notice that the battery usage in Win 11 is more draining than that in Win 10. I have set "Battery Saver" on; even then the battery drains out faster than it did in Win 10. For the same kind of work.
Have any of you noticed this, and is there any remedy, suggestion? (Other than reverting to Win 10  )
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It's a more bloated OS with 70% more spyware as OEM, what did you expect?
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Seems about the same on my Surface.
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Surface?! Are you happy with it? I hate mine! I really do.
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Yes, it's fine - my second Surface after my Pro 3.
Not as fast as my desktop, but I never expected it would be.
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