Ugh! I wanted to test out the new Platform SSO and other configurations on a Mac, but also have the power to keep working by using a Windows VM: Apple Silicon means I can't use the Unity mode or similar. boo! Windows 11 ARM64 doesn't support RSAT. boo! Mission aborted.

The average income in this state is only $75k/year, and that is massively inflated due to a small percentage of very high incomes earners. There's absolutely no way that we can justify million dollar houses, especially this far out, and in somewhat undesirable suburbs.

The West Australian property market is beyond silly. When I built, the only way to make it affordable was to move over 30km away from the CBD. My neighbour just sold their (nothing special) house for a ridiculous $900k. How far out will my son need to live, 100km out?.

Considering the laughably poor investment in Windows, and the fact it's a delivery mechanism for advertising and for collecting telemetry, I can't see there being much need to nickel and dime customers for each of several versions of the same slow, buggy, bloated desktop OS.

But a new computer, get Windows. Need more advanced enterprise security features, buy a EA/EES license, apply the MAK/KMS during OOBE/Deployment (whenever) and unlock the bits needed. like nacOS did with Server back in the day. Easy.

Heck, I wish more Windows SKUs die. The Home versus Pro thing is stupid. The Education versus Enterprise is even more ridiculous. The Workstation SKU is unfathomably silly. All the price points are moronic. We need a nacOS style one-and-done SKU with license key variations only.

In fact, I don't know a single person that even knew Windows 11 SE was a thing, as Windows 10 SE on the 1st generation Surface Laptop was the thing Microsoft made a big deal about for EDU, and that didn't have a qualifying CPU for Windows 11. In other words, SE died long ago.

"Windows 11 SE hasn't even been out for four years, and Microsoft is already canning it". Not surprised. No OEM cared about this, except Surface; Sales weren't huge for the Surface Laptop it came on; Those that did buy, used the free upgrade to Pro; And the Laptop is EOL, anyway.

People are sick of just existing. Many are saddened when they realise they are just in a cycle of being at work, at home resting from work, or commuting between those two locations, and nothing else. Between cost of living, and government meddling, there's no "fun" in the mix.

The feeling I get from people at the moment, across gender, age, and political leanings, is they are extremely angry with the constant waste, rorts/corruption, arrogance, nanny-state overreach, and having their voices unheard or discarded by politicians with agendas & big egos.

I hope the politicians realise that their part in the removal of freedoms, and the erosion of the spirit of our representative democracy - among other things by voting for high friction laws & over-regulation, against the will of their constituents - risks radicalising people.

We pay a fortune for these products & services.: The product & services only seem to get worse, raise more friction/blockers, and deprecate important functionality. We pay far too much for support: And they take months to either give no answers, or come back with "by design".

In my case, my support ticket, uncovered that Exchange Online has now removed all operators from the Dynamic Distribution List rules, and you can now only do direct and full attribute == value check. Apparently "by design", though a very recent change made without updating docs.

Microsoft like ves doing this: Taking away important features without communication; Failing to update the docs, causing user confusion as to why something is missing; Gives you a "by design" only via paid support tickets; Just a terrible company.

The Sig P320 videos of late are weird. Yes, it would be great if it was a little harder to make it fire uncommanded, but taking up trigger slack and jamming stuff into the trigger to disconnect a safety doesn't align with the reported incidents where this wasn't at all the case.

Yes, of course some of these apps allow you to click an Insert/Create Link toolbar item and enter the text, or select the text and click a link button to enter the link again to make it clickable. But all this, combined with the Open/Trust popup, really adds friction to its use.

You know, it sure would be nice if @Microsoft365 apps recognised strings starting with "ms-edu-secureassessment" as a link like it is meant to be. Using Take-a-Test is crippled by the fact Teams, OneNote, Word, etc., don't convert that to a clickable link automatically for staff.

Apparently this change was brought in in 2022, and is government policy that can't be worked around. Typical Labor didn't include any exceptions for when your regular GP is on leave, retires, or moves away. In all those cases, you have to pay even if staying within the clinic.

Labor has ruined Medicare. My primary GP - who I've exclusively seen for regular bulk-billed test results & prescriptions for years - moved back to the UK, so I needed a new GP. But because I hadn't seen this GP in the last 12 months (obviously), I had to pay instead. What!?.

Argh! Why is Windows 11 so slow? This device is a Surface Laptop Studio with a 13th gen Core i7 + 32GB RAM, but it is so laggy despite being the "best example" of Microsoft. AND I rebooted this morning. If I press Windows + R, then type notepad and press enter, it misses keys.