Pipe dream, but I really wish we would make it illegal to use the terms "Buy" or "Own" for digital goods that can at some point not exist outside of your control.
I give you a dollar and get a DRM-free video file? That is buying.
I give you a dollar and can watch a video file an unlimited number of times in your app? That is not buying, and it should be fraud to claim that it is.
Are they offering complimentary doctors visits if you register as being too warm?
Nah, the other kind of infrared sensor (i.e. just using movement to detect if you're there).
They could be part of a totally innocent turn-the-lights-off-when-nobody-is-working system that doesn't track individual users or log data. They could also be part of a log-how-much-time-you-spend-on-the-toilet system.
Anyone with some experience with something like this?
I had a leak in January that perfectly lined up with an actual reading. The estimated bill afterward was so high that the next actual reading was a few hundred dollars into the negative. I'd paid it because I wasn't sure if their leak allowance would cover it, but it did so we haven't had to pay again since, which is nice I guess.
Pretty sure we'll be back up to zero dollars this month.
Do you think your company would give you 5 weeks off ?
I just asked for an extra week of annual leave instead of a tiny annual payrise back in the early days of COVID and they didn't even bat an eye.
Assuming you have the ability to unpaid leave once your four weeks are used up, five weeks is the equivalent of a ~1.9% pay rise. It's a trivial cost in and of itself, though that is ignoring those jobs which are difficult to find cover for and might need hiring a temp or similar overheads.
That's a huge part of why we have 8 hour days/40 hour weeks/paid break times/etc. It's less about workers' rights, and more about folks being more productive when not overworked.
It's even sillier than that - 5x as much is 400% more. 399x as much is 39800% more.
Alternatively, pair up with other job seekers to be each other's references.
But what does a lawn cost in your part of the world? $US650 would buy me maybe one square metre of land down here in NZ.
I had to pay for a static IP just this week because it turns out the new ISP uses CG-NAT.
It's not quite that bad (yet...) - it has reasonably clearly labelled subscription and non-subscription cartridges. So when you cancel the subscription, you just throw the non-subscription cartridge back in.
If you're printing quite a lot, but not enough to justify a laser printer, then they can work out okay. The vast majority of people would indeed be wasting money though.
Having some word or phrase marking the end of a request makes the voice recognition a little more reliable. It doesn't have to be polite, but being polite when it's totally unnecessary is a good habit to build.
"Do X please" makes it unambiguously clear (to a machine) where the end of the request is, whereas "Please do X" is mostly pointless.