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Plenty of TVs are capable of radioing your neighbour’s TV and piggybacking off their internet connection, so if it’s not in a Faraday cage, it might be overconfident to say it’s never been connected to a network.

It’s rare that English children who learn Spanish as the first foreign language that they’re exposed to. If their parents are immigrants, then it’ll likely be their parents’ mother tongue(s), and if they’re not, they’ll likely be taught some French before any Spanish. That can then lead to a habit of saying any foreign word with a French accent.

Also, England has strong regional variations in accent, so you might be hearing people say exactly the same vowel sounds as they’d use when speaking English, but those vowel sounds might be totally different to how you’re expecting that they’d speak English.

It’ll be maintained for a while, so we might get to 3.14.15 or 3.14.16, which will be a better approximation and better because of more bugfixes.

Plenty of bank apps work just fine. None of the ones I’ve tried had problems, except Santander, which works perfectly after changing a setting.

The green slime was originally mouldy bin contents made of food waste from several days before. It was far from innocent.

We’re in a thread that was started by someone complaining that their Windows machine kept waking up seemingly on its own when they put it to sleep, so how wake on LAN behaves for a computer that’s completely shut down was never particularly relevant, and certainly not something to be taken as the only situation we’re discussing. When a computer is asleep, wake on LAN can wake it, and because the OS is still loaded, it doesn’t need to do a full boot before running any wake on LAN handling it has. If wake on LAN is disabled in the motherboard settings, then a computer in a deep sleep like S3 can’t respond to network activity at all.

Also, I’m not sure where you’ve got the idea that wake on LAN is mainly for fully powered off machines. There’s a reason it’s usually called wake on LAN, not power on by LAN. The ability for a network event to power on a machine from S5 power off is usually a separate setting and isn’t even possible on all hardware that supports wake on LAN.

I’m also not sure where you got the idea that only the hardware aspect counts as wake on LAN and the OS-side handling for being woken on LAN doesn’t count. Like with many things related to computers, it requires a hardware aspect and a software aspect working together to form a whole system, and in this case, it’s the whole system that’s called wake on LAN.

It’s not any packet that’s waking up machines configured to wake on LAN without restricting it to magic packets, it’s any packet addressed to the machine’s MAC. Just like a regular packet when the machine’s fully awake, it’s specific to the network adapter with that MAC, and gets handled by that network adapter. Once it wakes the machine (either to fully on or a sleeping-but-still-doing-things state like S0), the OS starts/resumes and is told why it was started and can choose to access the packet and respond to it. From the perspective of the device on the other end of the wire, it sent a packet to a machine and got the response it expected. It doesn’t have to know whether the machine was fully powered on or whether it woke up to deal with the request before going back to sleep again.

By default, for most network traffic that partially wakes Windows when the machine has wake on LAN enabled in the UEFI settings, Windows sees it’s been woken by LAN activity, checks the packet, decides it doesn’t care, and goes back to sleep before anyone notices (or remains in S0 sleep if it was in S0 sleep as it wouldn’t need to wake up to deal with the packet). For a few other kinds of LAN activity, it opts to respond to the packet. If you’ve got your UEFI settings set to only wake on magic packets, these won’t make it that far, though. There’s also a Windows setting to force it not to respond to regular non-magic packets and immediately go back to sleep if it’s woken by them.

The MAC-specific magic packet is an optional mode for wake on LAN, not a mandatory one. Plenty of network adapters forward packets to the OS if wake on LAN is enabled and let the OS decide whether it only wants to respond to magic packets, and by default when wake on LAN is enabled, there are other kinds of packet Windows responds to, e.g. Address Resolution Protocol, which lots of routers use to check whether devices are still connected. It’s not supposed to wake the machine, especially if S0 sleep is enabled, but it can, especially if it’s done excessively.

When Windows wakes itself up to do things like that, it wakes itself to a different sleep level where it can still do things but the machine isn’t visibly on. That’s the whole point of S0 sleep. If it’s fully waking itself up to do things, then either S0 sleep is disabled or there’s a firmware bug affecting the motherboard that means certain actions during S0 sleep will exit sleep (which is more common than it should be).

That’s almost certainly because you’ve got wake on LAN enabled in your BIOS settings and something else on your network wants to have a late-night chat with your computer.

He’d already contributed to humanity by writing the definition of wanker for the Oxford English Dictionary by the age of 28, though.

I’m not saying it’s not worthwhile to do this to fix a broken phone, just that if you have to do this, then the phone was bricked, and once you’re replacing hardware, you’re not just recovering it.

You’re well into Ship of Theseus territory once you’re replacing major chips. You’ve not really recovered the phone, you’ve just replaced big chunk of it so it’s not entirely the same phone anymore, just with extra hassle because you’ve not replaced the main board as a whole.

Nail polish typically uses acetone as its solvent, and despite smelling, acetone is something that humans naturally have low levels of in their blood, so slightly higher levels are pretty safe. Obviously, having exposure to large quantities is bad, but that isn’t how nail polish is typically used.

Like a real powertool, if you unscrew the safety features because you feel they’re getting in your way, they no longer provide safety. Having the guard from a chainsaw in your back pocket does nothing to protect you from the chainsaw you’re holding.

Thunderbird is basically an Outlook-from-fifteen-years-ago clone, and I’ve always disliked Outlook, even before the recent push to make it even worse. Everything I disliked about old Outlook is exactly the same in Thunderbird, except the licence.

I don’t want much from a mail client, just:

• basic stuff works
• I can see an unread email count for each of my accounts at the same time, and also have the list of messages for the account I’m looking at and a reading/writing pane at the same time, too.

Thunderbird and Outlook will only show the unread count once you’ve expanded the list of directories in an account, so once you’ve got more than two accounts with a reasonable number of folders, any further accounts end up pushed off the bottom of the screen. This isn’t something that a theme for Thunderbird can change. It’d be a small change to include a total unread count next to the list item for each account when it wasn’t expanded and a total unread count next to the combined inbox button, but I’m not maintaining a fork of a mail client myself when it’d still be too Outlook-like to avoid being annoying.

In the end, I settled on Mailspring, but it doesn’t score brilliantly on the basic stuff works bullet point.

The basic Mail app in Windows 10 is still the baseline I compare every other email client to, and I’ve yet to find anything I like as much. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, it only ever ran under Windows, and for stupid reasons, it was deprecated and now if you try to launch it, it exits and launches Outlook (New), which is a horrible email client.

It’s already a stretch to assume that men complaining about loneliness are happy with the number of male friends that they’ve got, but it’s a bigger stretch to assume that what they did to get their male friends should also get non-male friends. There are still men who haven’t realised that women are people and that to befriend them, you need to talk to them as if they’re people, but they’re not the ones referring to a male loneliness epidemic, and would instead blame conspiracy theories where crazed feminists want to do evil deeds or whatever nonsense it is that the likes of Andrew Tate peddle. Plenty of men just don’t meet anyone new, and on the rare occasions when they do, it’s when engaging in a male-dominated hobby or at a male-dominated workplace, and so it’s another man. E.g. for reasons I don’t understand, all the bars near me where it’s quiet enough to have a conversation (the bare minimum to befriending someone) are almost exclusively attended by men. After you’ve shown up a few times, you might be friends with the regulars, but no matter how effectively you make friends with them, they’ll still all be men.

You’re probably right that no one would listen if you made a video, as anyone who needs to hear the thing you’re trying to explain is too entrenched exclusively watching manosphere influencers, and anyone without that kind of terminal brainrot already knows what you’re trying to tell them.

The meme doesn’t really work. The working-class people who played football the most always called it football. Upper-class people at public schools (don’t confuse this with state schools - in the UK, public schools are even posher and more expensive than private schools, and the name comes from letting anyone who could afford the fees in, not from any intention to educate the general public) needed to distinguish it from Rugby Football so they could make a rule against playing it, and invented the name Association Football. There’s a tradition at public schools to shorten names in a particular way (Rugby football to rugger, buggery to bugger etc.) and when applying that to association football, it becomes soccer. Soccer has always been a term used to mock poor people who play football instead of rugby, so of course it’s badly-received when people say it.

Humans with two working eyes can tell the difference between a flat painted surface and a 3D world. Humans with only one eye might crash, though.