I believe it does.

Here in Denmark, it’s legal to circumvent piracy protection, if the purpose is to legally use the product.

The example that was used in the media when this was new, is when you buy a DVD and want to play it on a PC instead of a DVD player. Usually piracy protection would stop it from working on a PC. Of course the circumvention also makes it easy to make and distribute a pirate copy.

So the ability to use the product in the way the customer choose (within reason), is weighted higher than stopping piracy a little.

Sorry for being inaccurate, I said “bulbs” but it’s actually a mix of bulbs, spotlights and panels. I’m okay with any form factor that fits the situation.

That said, I haven’t had any issues with bulbs. The shape is practical due to history, meaning there’s a very wide selection of lamps etc.

For both bulbs and spots I tend to go with “several”. I have very few places with just one bulb, it’s usually 2, 3 or 4 bulbs in a lamp, and up to 9 spots. This means that they rarely need to go full power, and that should make them last longer. I haven’t had any dying on me yet.

I don’t know if this is exact enough, but I use IKEA switches and IKEA or other ZigBee bulbs.

The switches looks like a different brand of paddle switches. They work like “dumb” paddle switches as a starting point, and then you build smartness on top of that.

If you do it right, they also work when internet is down and your server is crashed. Actually this is how they work out of the box. (I think the bridge must be powered on, but if you don’t have power…)

That’s fine, but I’m opposite. When I moved to a different house, smart lighting was the first thing I did, requested by everyone in the family.

Just the fact the light switches are wireless and can be positioned wherever I want then is gold, specially in an older house where things has been moved around so much that the switches locations doesn’t make sense anymore.

Specially in the bedrooms, kids and adults like that the magnetic buttons are movable.

Also, the family in the car leaving the house and I notice a light is on - I can just continue driving while we turn it off. And this is just remote control. Even smarter is when the house recognized that everybody left, and I get a notification that some stuff is still in, with a button to turn it off.

The hallway connecting almost every room on the floor has two switches. None of them are near a bedroom or a bathroom. Or in use. A motion sensor and schedule switches the lights between “almost off”, “day” and “night”. Nobody ever thinks about the light switches, nobody walks around in the darkness or gets blinded at night.

In the living room I have scenes for the TV area.

• Teatime: Slightly dimmed light on the table, brighter light on the wall decorations.
• Board games: Bright light on the table, slightly dimmed light on the walls.
• Movie: No light on the table, very dim light on the walls. Increase brightness when the movie is paused.
• Night: A single bulb on lowest setting, so that one kid can see that there’s no monsters while walking by at night.

…etc

This is one of the basic problems - mixing sick leave an vacation.

This thing where you have a certain number of sick days to spend, it often ends up as another kind of vacation. And then when you are out of sick leave, your vacation leave is just another kind of sick leave.

Here in Denmark, there’s virtually unlimited sick leave. If you’re sick, you take a leave with full pay. No “max 14 days of paid sick leave”. If you need to go to the doctor and you can’t do it outside working hours, it’s sick leave.

Then your vacation leave is for vacation. And sometimes errands, but with 25-30 days per year, there should be time for both.

I’m in Denmark, if I need to go to the doctor, dentist etc during working hours, it is usually counted as sick leave. This means full pay and no deduction in vacation time, and here we don’t run out of sick leave.

Although we do have a dury to try doing it outside office hours.

Meanwhile, here in Denmark any manager I’ve ever had insists that I take sick day when I’m sick. Not for my sake, for the company.

And i have virtually unlimited sick days, I don’t loose any money or vacation days by taking sick leave.

Also, if the place is understaffed because just one person is on sick leave, that’s a management decision. Why would anyone who cares about you, be pissed at you for acting sick while being sick…

XD

It went up BY 18%, not up TO 18%. This says nothing about how bad it is, only that it’s getting worse.

It went up TO 0.23%.

The price wasn’t too bad for me. I didn’t have a very high income, but I paid for my ISDN myself.

But I do remember the improvement after switching to DSL, even if this was the early days of DSL that didn’t work thaaat great, it was still way better than analog modem or ISDN.

Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP’s question) didn’t work very well, and DSL wasn’t an option yet I think.

For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:

ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.

But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.

Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.

Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.

I assume the “somewhere else” has attainable jobs and affordable housing?

Right?

…right?

Most companies don’t listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first.

It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning.

But it’s the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that’s great!

So 1920 rows x 1080 columns.

No, it’s definitely 1920 columns and 1080 rows.

So yeah the sticker is right but OP is wrong.

I don’t know what the sticker is trying to say. I can read it in two ways, and one of them is kind of correct while the other is definitely wrong. And that is unnecessarily confusing, and therefore mildly infuriating.

I don’t know what you think OP is wrong about.

These numbers refer to the rows, so the horizontal resolution.

Yes, that is the number of rows. But that makes it the vertical resolution. There’s 1080 pixels from top to bottom. If the arrows/triangles are indicating the direction of measurement, they are wrong.

I suspect that it’s an attempt at indicating a wide screen. 16:9, 16:10 etc was fairly new at the time, many buyers would be expecting their usual 4:3 screen ratio.

Number of features that is has? Sure.

Number of features that I need? Google Sheets wins.

As I use Excel at work, I’d be happy if you prove me wrong here. Just yesterday I needed to do a simple search/replace with regular expressions. My solution was to copy the data to Google Sheets.

I spent some time looking into this, getting nowhere. What’s your favorite library that actually works for you?

I don’t use a sound bar because it’s cheap, I can get surround sound for half the price.

I use a sound bar because I don’t want speakers anywhere but on the TV, plus a subwoofer hidden away.

And it sounds waaay better than just the TV.

(Although the box said that it delivers surround sound, but in that respect it’s no better than the built in speakers, as expected.)

They can just leave it at full.