I think the issue here is that the game developers may not have any contract with PRS. Historically they wouldn’t have had to - they’d license the music from the big music labels, stamp their game onto a CD and sell a product. Now they’re not just selling a product - they’re licensing access to a “performance” of it. Valve is the playing an active part in this by “performing” the works on demand. It seems stupid to me, but that’s the world of content licensing.

But with Steam you haven’t purchased a copy. First sale doctrine isn’t likely to apply. You’ve purchased a license for access.

Sure, as a good admin he should certainly implement all industry best practices.

Of course, once he did that he’d still have the same fucking problem as unless he convinced the rest of the world to drop SPF the relayed messages would still be rejected.

I think it’s more about making things easy for his employees. His comment is just recognising that they already have personal gmail accounts so he’d like to allow them to use the same client for work email. Data privacy doesn’t seem to be an issue for him.

I do the same thing for my mail - rather than juggle between accounts I can just select from a dropdown which account to send as, and I see all my mail in one inbox.

His setup is complicated because he’s doing additional processing on the incoming mail for his domain - he can’t just hand it over to gmail, he wants to relay it. And because SPF breaks mail relaying he’s been relying on a workaround - he’ll just move on to implement RFC8617 instead now (assuming that gmail supports it - it’s still listed as experimental).

It’s not his SPF record.

The forwarding he’s talking about isn’t the same as you hitting forward in your mail client.

SPF only authenticates the first hop from the origin MTA. If you put a relay server in then you either need to disable SPF checking on subsequent MTAs or implement RFC8617. If you don’t then when subsequent MTAs check the original sender’s SPF it will fail because the message came from your relay.

Sorry, it didn’t seem like you were aware of them from the post above. There are plenty of reasons to stay with Windows, Linux lacking enterprise management tools just isn’t one of them.

People don’t generally care which OS they use as long as they can get their job done. We had one sub-division entirely on an immutable Linux desktop, another media unit was all-in on Apple products. As you say though, they’re outliers - simple inertia will keep people with Windows for a long time to come, their dominant position ensures it.

The cost vs complexity argument isn’t a compelling one either - there’s a reason so little of the internet runs on Windows.

If the taskbar position changes then the screen dimensions available to applications change - windows may need to be moved and resized. The applications themselves handle that. Of course, they need to be able to do this anyway so it’s not really an issue.

There’s plenty of enterprise management tools available - these tools all existed in the Linux world before their adoption to Windows.

There’s a bunch of different configuration management tools available:

• CFEngine
• Puppet
• Chef
• Salt
• Ansible

Or you could go for an MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution:

• ScaleFusion Unified Endpoint Management
• 42gears SureMDM
• ManageEngine Endpoint Central

These lists are not exhaustive.

The same tools that manage data centers full of servers can also be used to manage user devices.

So one of his examples is that he bought stolen goods and when they were returned to the original owner he felt he deserved them as well? If he didn’t submit a charge back he’s complicit in supporting this fraud. The vendor should have offered to sell him a copy for the price he paid to the scammer instead.

Probably. As others have said here no one seems bothered by female leads in good stories - but the focus on gender when it’s a bad story is probably sexist.

I’m likely guilty of this myself, grumbling about “woke nonsense” and blaming the ideological messaging for the bad writing rather than just the bad writers.

It’s not all doom and gloom though - check out this list of books. Lots of highly rated entries there with female protagonists - many of which are targeted at a broad audience, not just women.

Isn’t it still a straight line from the perspective of someone travelling it? It just appears curved because you’re looking at it from outside the curved surface.

Servers make the same federal minimum everyone else does, their employer just gets to claim ~$5.50 an hour from tips in order to pay it. More in states with a higher minimum.

If no one tips the employer has to pay the full minimum wage themselves, not just $2.

I don’t understand how this is any different to just not tipping? Both situations lead to the worker needing to look for another job, right?

This is just wrong. If tips stopped tomorrow you’d still get whatever your state minimum wage is (or at least the $7.50 federal minimum).

The standard federal minimum wage still applies. If tips aren’t enough to get you there then the employer has to make up the difference.

Tips are literally a subsidy paid to your employer so that they don’t have to pay you (just the $2.13 federal tipped minimum wage).

Your advice would require people to drastically change their lives right now. Everything’s tipped.

Telling people to stop tipping requires almost nothing from them.

And yes, it will make things worse for the exploited workers - they’ll have to find new jobs if they’re not happy with their agreed-upon remuneration. But it’s this that will convince the employer to pay more - if they can’t attract staff they’ll have to offer more

Stopping tipping also puts the burden where it should be. You are the one saying your pay isn’t enough (and thus need tipping) - you fight for it yourself.

It’s so much nicer travelling in places where service workers are valued by their employers.

I still support the anti-tipping people though - it’s the single best option they have to effect change. It’s something small, concrete, and moves things to the desired end-state.

Stop tipping and donate the amount to community organizations fighting poverty instead.

Why not? He was personally seeing to their security.

If you outsource your work, you outsource your reputation. BYD is absolutely responsible for the conditions of the workers.

Spills and dropped items are kind of expected in a kitchen, no? Wouldn’t most of this damage be categorized as normal wear and tear? As a tenant it’s not expected that you hand back the property exactly as it was when you took possession - it’s up to the landlord to budget for normal maintenance.