If you still have the Brother printer, try disabling IPv6 on the Brother printer.

I remember this issue from a while back. Some update happened, and then wireless printing stopped working on some iOS devices. It happened to a colleague's macbook, and disabling IPv6 on the Brother printer fixed it for us. I can't remember where I found the initial advice, but here's someone else mentioning it: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250584298

Any sufficiently large discussion of software complexity will spawn a large sub-thread about printers.

Any sufficiently large discussion of printers will beget a number of ad-hoc support sub-threads.

Wow! You're not kidding.

I just did a quick search and found this [1] It's the exact same 1 minute scene from UK and US. The UK is constructive criticism and wholesome banter. The US version cuts the playful banter as if he's just being mean, adds music and a narrator of doom, cuts his concern about her going home to her daughter, and her "very good day" quote is way out of context.

[1] https://youtu.be/RFVLPcTWfBk

Too bad the clip is fake.

And from The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

Agreed. However, I smirked a bit when I read your comment, since this is ultimately coming from Microsoft. Let's hope some of this mentality seeps into other Microsoft projects

GitHub is owned by Microsoft but as far as I know it operates pretty independently. Let’s hope it stays that way.

At this point we're all just waiting for that last E.

What would be the benefit for Microsoft in that case? - They are transforming themselves from a platform company based around windows, it a platform company based around Azure. GitHub is a relevant part there.

This doesn't mean they are only doing good™ with GitHub, but destroying it and open source vendors would be counted to their interests.

I don't understand this reference, can you elucidate

Most likely a reference to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. A strategy Microsoft employed in the past.

Ah thanks, yeah. Familiar with the strategy, but didn't get the connection - been a long day over here

We should Eulogize

elucidate, extend, extinguish

Or, pro-actively moving to GitLab - either self-hosted or paid and using GH as a simple mirror for discovery.

Spot on about using little to no text.

TedX has a pretty good style-guide about slides [1]:

What goes in my slides?

•Images and photos: To help the audience remember a person, place or thing you mention, you might use images or photos.

- People will understand that the images represent what you’re saying, so there is no need to verbally describe the images onscreen.

•Graphs and infographics

- Keep graphs visually clear, even if the content is complex. Each graph should make only one point.

•No slide should support more than one point.

What should the slides look like?

•Use as little text as possible -- if your audience is reading, they are not listening.

•Avoid using bullet points. Consider putting different points on different slides.

[1] https://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_speaker_guide.pdf

Great point, and it works great for Ted, but Ted is only but one format. For academic purposes, I would go with all the opposite.

I had similar problems at work until I realized there were two competing agendas at play. One group wants the slides to be "here's a record of what I talked about so people who didn't make it can read it later", while another wants the slides to be "here's stuff that supports what I'm talking about now". Those are fundamentally incompatible, and it's a bad idea to try to use a deck generated for one purpose to satisfy the other.

One potential solution is two slide decks--one for the presentation and one as a "reading deck", but that's a pain in the neck. Another option we're currently using at work is to go with the Amazon 6-page-paper: write what you're going to talk about, and then the slides are only to support the actual presentation. The paper is the thing people read if they missed the meeting.

I came to the same realization and started putting all the text for the "reading version" in the presenters notes part. The first slide says "If you're reading this on your own, press 'p' for presenter mode" or whatever.

Smart! I just wish PowerPoint had better support for content formatting in the notes. It’s really barebones and hard to edit—more like working with text in an Excel cell than a proper document. (Which kind of makes sense, from their perspective.)

most slide formats support graphics and notes to cater for this.

As someone who (finally) went from employee to small business owner, I wouldn't wait for "someday". Start the process while you're still working now. Take the time to learn everything you can to make this happen over the next couple of years.

"Free and clear" stops a lot of people, but it's not as important as knowing how to scale up and down so your cash flow is always above paying your debts. There will be balancing acts whether you own the building or not. Figure out the minimum sales you need to survive, and plan the maximum size you can grow to. You can start toward "free and clear" by negotiating a "lease with the option to buy". Considering recent situations, hire a lawyer to put contingencies on rent in case of government mandated shutdowns or reductions.

If this is truly a dream of yours, don't wait. Start looking at locations and gathering information.

Sometimes the dreaming is sweeter than the doing. Why ruin a perfectly fine fantasy?

I for one will continue to dream about winning the lottery and owning a bigger house. No clue what I'd do if I never had to work again though, I'd probably find some kind of employment anyway to keep busy.

This is very close to Richard Feynman's explanation of the scientific method: https://youtu.be/kBqemHR49-c?t=33

" Guess -> Compute Consequences -> Compare to Nature / Experiment / Experience / Observation

If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science."

There absolutely is a reason. Microsoft's reason. Scaring users away from independent software distribution means more people will use the Windows Store.

Or it means more people will stop using Windows.

Unfortunately, Android, iOS, and MacOS are the alternatives non-technical people look at, and they're all much worse about installing software than Windows.

I meant that there is no legitimate reason. Microsoft's need to encourage people to use the Windows Store is not legitimate.

Of course! If they made independent software distribution impossible at the same time as introducing the store there would be an enormous backlash.

The strategy is to introduce the store and slowly make independent distribution more and more onerous, using security as justification. When people complain you can say "just put your app in the store and you won't need to worry about signin/notarisation/etc."

Apple are doing exactly the same thing.

I think it's about money, not security.

A 2011 study identified 13 DNA variations across 11 different genes that could be used to predict hair color.

This seems like a clearly recognizable inherited trait, based on a large influence of certain small pieces of DNA. The abstract mentions eye color as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057002/

mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. taso ijo sona la ona li ike. mi wile sitelen e lipu sona la mi ken ala pali pona e ona. taso jan li wile toki lon pilin lon ijo pona la jan li ken toki e ni kepeken toki pona.

Translation:

I can talk using Toki Pona. But (in the context of) knowledge thing, it bad. (In the context of) me want to write knowledge documents, I cannot do it well. But (in the context of) people want to talk about feelings and about good/simple things, people can talk this using Toki Pona.

Speaking of feelings, I think you underestimate their complexity. Poetry was essentially invented because our vocabulary, for all its breadth, fails to convey exactly what we mean.