This one hits a little too close to home…

Also, the word you’re looking for might be “abusive” rather than “strict”.

This has been posted half a dozen times in the last two months alone. Please. We get it.

Another common one is “y’all” but I’m not American enough to pull that off.

Someone at work said we should use “folks”… But I’m not a Loony Tunes ending screen.

I think it’s if you want to have user management. There’s some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don’t use it.

To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you’re using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.

However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won’t have to pay for it.

Give it a go and see how you get on!

Been using them for years.

It’s completely free, open source and has:

• Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
• Easily file transfers
• Cross-copy paste
• Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
• Can control PCs from mobile app (though not vice versa apparently they support this now!)
• Experimental web browser client.

EDIT: I forgot, but it’s also much better at compressing video effectively than realVNC, which is what I used to use. Performance and latency remains fairly good even at low bitrate.

For a little while, I even used to play point and click games remotely with my brother over it. Probably too much latency for an action game though.

If your kid has half a brain he’ll do what we did as kids when porn sites were blocked on the home WiFi: He’ll just get a VPN.

And when VPN websites were blocked on the home WiFi, we’d just download their apps on mobile data.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Better to educate your kids on their natural urges and letting them use the more moderated sites than have them go down the more dodgy rabbitholes. No kink shaming but some of the things people do are nasty.

The opposite of Nouveau Riche: Nouveau Pauvre. They lack the culture of people who were born into poverty.

I was with them helping them out. For reasons I won’t discuss here I won’t be able to visit them anymore, so that avenue is gone 😞.

The exit plan from WhatsApp is quite simple. Start by installing Signal and setting it up – it takes only a couple of minutes. Then, resume any WhatsApp conversations on Signal if that person is already a Signal user. If they are not, then switch to regular text messaging and gently suggest to that person to switch over to Signal.

Sadly for me, this doesn’t really work for some relatives as

• They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant
• Some are so tech un-savvy that even installing a new app by themselves is too much.

All I can do for those relatives is to leave WhatsApp installed but take away basically every permission I can, including running in the background.

Nah it’s french lighting 🇫🇷

Gale is that you?!

And give them affordable housing and you’ll solve the homelessness problem.

Should have written some integration / end-to-end tests 😞

I think I’ll choose “I have no plans to purchase from you specifically”

I’m glad they are really putting the screws to unfortunate, harmless people instead of dealing with rampant corruption and hate crimes.

Gets “AI”

looks inside

Badly paid employees

That’s incredibly stupid. Genuinely one of the worst comparisons by a large company in the last few years, and we just had the Nvidia fake frames scandal.

Is this claim local, or do they do this across markets?

Would be helpful to have a link.

The livestream in question:

https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

Yep, been using it for years now.

Moved over from RealVNC due to licensing limitations and problems with speed and I’ve never looked back.