Reactions like this always make me appreciate not having kids.

Interesting, PNC has never once done anything like this to me. In fact I feel that they are pretty up front about telling you what you have available and what your actual balance is.

It’s generally not something you’d notice if you’re not living on the edge of $0 balance. I’d be surprised if any banks are still doing it after the bofa settlement.

They were supposed to stop doing it 10 or so years ago. No clue if that's true. Haven't been the zero person for a while.

This is hilarious

Typical conservative brain-dead response.

It’s tiring for good people when every cop they interact with thinks they’re the villain. The cops are not the good people.

At my company they started placing the emails in your inbox in a way that rules looking these headers didn’t flag them. Except that only seems to be true in Outlook and other email clients flag them just fine.

My company locks down the USB ports on our macbooks so that only input devices are recognized. Flash drives and the like are not recognized. We’re a small private company in the telco space so definitely not the mob or a cartel.

Why would I need a USB drive to docker build or run a debugger?

Firmware development, IoT, basically anything embedded. Mobile devs that want a responsive debugger. Yubikey authentication. Smart card readers. Remoting into air-gapped machines.

Thats just stuff I do.I’m sure there are many other use cases.

For context, I work for a very large company in Redmond that has a renowned history of antitrust litigation.

Lot of places just lock down USB to read only. Exceptions could be made for specific machines and device IDs.

It's pretty common really - and if the internal disk is fully encrypted reasonably hard to easily exfiltrate a large amount of data.

Of course that doesn't stop taking screenshots with another device but that's a slow process

But I don’t have to use any apps from the store, in fact I’d say that at my company there aren’t any apps available on the store that we use. So the parent is right, it’s perfectly usable without ever touching iCloud. I don’t think I’ve ever even opened the settings for it on my work laptop

Apple certainly uses Numbers, Pages, etc. internally extensively, so you really do have to sign into an iCloud account as an employee.

That's rough. Not just the iCloud thing but, Numbers is so much worse than Excel or even Google Sheets.

Not anymore, it’s been slowly improving over the years and is pretty good now.

I'm saying it's bad because my new work laptop has Numbers instead of Excel ;_; There are CSVs I had to import into GSheets because Numbers was choking.

You don’t know that they didn’t try anything, it’s a bad faith assumption to try to downplay their points.

As they say on stack overflow, don’t show up with only a question, show what you tried.

Also, I understand bad luck happens but that is not a normal list, a dozen things went wrong and not a single word about how they tried to improve their situation. All of them are not the fault of “construction” of new homes, which can be, and often is accomplished with less disruption.

If this were the typical reality we’d have to shut down home-building for good as too disruptive.

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