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There was a good episode of Planet Money where they interviewed some doctors who were trying to get rid of beepers at their hospital. Basically during testing, it was found that when using an app to send messages to doctors, it was almost too simple and non critical messages were being sent to doctors. This was creating a lot of noise and causing them to be overwhelmed and ignoring the notifications on the phone. It seemed as though the clunkyness of paging someone was a feature so that doctors on call were actually getting relevant information.

I refuse to use the Zoom client on my computer and instead use the web client. There might not be 1:1 feature parity, but it's never been a problem for me with other people.

That's bs and also reminds me of a joke about two mathematicians at a bar:

My take on it is there's more downside doing the facial scan than opting out. The worst case is the scan can miss-identify you and then you get pulled aside for questioning. The worst case for opting out is raising suspicion with an agent? Sure all the security cameras could be doing facial recognition and come up with false positives, but why add another opportunity to be misidentified by doing the scan?

It also takes longer for the scan. I was with a group and figured I'd hold everyone up so positioned myself last, and it was 2 seconds to hand them my ID. The only way this the scan is more convenient is for people who don't care to pull out their ID or are too timid to say "no facial"

[Bracket City]
June 30, 2025

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Maybe you can check the manual if the laptop has a CMOS battery. If it does, you'll have to take apart the laptop to remove the battery for a few minutes, which will reset all the settings.

Are CMOS batteries still a thing? Removing that and the laptop battery should wipe the BIOS to the default settings. Actually before that, can you reset the BIOS settings with the admin password, and will that wipe the user password settings?

Molecules of water? hair follicles? Grains of rice?

There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.

This isn't me shilling the card, but I guess it's 15% off on your first purchase or day of having the card? That being said, the rewards are best buy points so that does limit things.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/misc/financing-rewards/pcmcat102500050032.c?id=pcmcat102500050032

15% back in rewards: *Offer valid 6/2/25–7/6/25. Get 2.5 points per $1 spent (5% back in rewards) on qualifying Best Buy purchases when you choose Standard Credit with your My Best Buy® Credit Card. If you apply and are approved for a new My Best Buy Credit Card, your first day of purchases on the Credit Card using Standard Credit within the first 14 days of account opening will get an additional 5 bonus points (an additional 10% back in rewards, for a total of 15%).

I think the rewards are in best buy points, which is something I guess but not 15% cash back