Without the buyout, the company would have failed even earlier. Doesn’t help the employees either.

My employer. Who owns the laptop. And forbids me to fuck around with it…

I haven’t heard of either, let me check if I can run those with my user profile and not break anything I need to log on to our corporate network in the process.

Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll double check.

I tried and it doesn’t update, even after a clean reboot with no browser open whatsoever. However I did find another entry in the Firewall that comes up right on boot, which is a service called MS.Edge.Webview2, which seems to be triggered through the Teams App. I’ve now completely uninstalled Teams, and after a fresh boot the ad (or “media control”) seems to be gone now. Guess I’ll be using Teams from my phone or via browser in the future.

Thought of that as well, but all ads are blocked and I get this popup even with the browser closed and after a full reboot (not just suspend and reactivate), so it must happen on system level, I assume. Checked my run on startup applications and services, and they appear to be clean as well.

Nah, they’ve been forcing kids to sing the anthem every morning almost as long as the US, where they got the idea from.

Contacting the hospital is way more effective than asking random strangers online for a best guess based on vague details. Just sayin’

Sure, though quite a few of those things are not explicitly written down, and court transcripts are only published in high profile cases, so you won’t find any official reference to the group size. So it’s mostly from second hand experience and hearsay. You pick up one or the other thing if you live in China for nearly a decade.

But here’s some official reading - I hope the sites are accessible from outside China, that’s something I can’t validate right now.

You should be good to go with google translate; though specifically for Chinese legalese, I suggest yandex translate (assuming you don’t speak Chinese):

https://m.66law.cn/laws/1470356.aspx

https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/llyj/202111/t20211130_537133.shtml

http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0416/c205462-32079979.html

https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_20925867

It’s sufficient to mention it in a wechat group with >10 people, which already qualified as instigating “the masses”.

Oh nice, thanks! Will give it a shot.

I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.

Just sign up for their API and use chatboxai.app (free software), use the GPT4 API code, and you’ll use the model through an alternative front-end for pennies on the dollar.

I’m using it extensively and rarely spend more than 1,20 - 1,50 a month.

Aren’t they regulated in some way or other? I had problems with them in Europe (travel a lot for work, including some African and Central Asian countries) and they blocked me when I tried to buy something while in Nigeria. Fair play, common scam hotspot.

But no matter what I did to prove my identity after returning, they wouldn’t unblock my account. So instead I sent a complaint to the CSSF (the FED of Luxembourg, where they got their European banking license) and within days I had the head of compliance from their HQ in Ireland on the phone telling me that my account was open again and practically begging me to drop the complaint.

They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

Discord is great for casual chatting. Was it ever intended to be a forum though? For that use case, it’s completely impractical.

Excellent choice of music. Though I gotta say I even prefer their older albums when they sounded less refined. Same with Ensiferum, over time they just got a bit too polished for my taste.

They might give you the possibility to opt out thanks to living in the EU, the OP might not be as lucky.

Sure, I’d take that over ads anytime.

I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.