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Please use a categorical colour palette when visualising data like these

Some other comments are discussing this. I just tried it but could still not enable ADP. Perhaps subscriptions etc. additionally require cancellation, as rumoured.

I've been using university-licensed Office for a decade across several fresh MacOS Installs. Only in the last year have I started frequently receiving "sign-in to verify license" nags not unlike the OP's. These also cripple editing functionality until you sign in, forcing you to do the 2FA dance every time. The same rot afflicts mobile apps lately. It's such bad taste to perform license checks this aggressively.

Teams is also flaky on the Mac. About 1 in 4 times I join a call Teams gets stuck and I either must restart it or use the browser (which never fails). This has recurred across multiple physical Macs.

Seems not to be blacklisted, but I see the domain is only 22 days old, so that'll be it I imagine.

Thanks for sharing data. I suspect this effect is heavily stratified across demographics.

After a point, how much someone chooses to spend on their car is about their values more than their wealth.

I once lived in a street with many parked cars worth almost as much the houses of their owners. They were clearly bought (well, financed) as status symbols. I now live in a more affluent, desirable area where the cars are much more modest despite higher wealth and social status of their owners (doctors, scientists etc).

"As vehicles are reliable indicators of a person's social rank and wealth"

The wealthiest Europeans I know drive the cheapest vehicles. Modesty is wealth in many parts of the world, but perhaps not in California (the authors are affiliated with UC Berkeley).

I too would far rather bear a token cost than have my sessions rot silently beneath my feet. I usually have ~5 running CC sessions, some of which I may leave for a week or two of inactivity at a time.

Thanks for publicising. I recently decided not to renew my Backblaze in favour of 'self hosting' encrypted backups outside the US. But I was horrified to learn that my git repos may not have been backed up, nor my Dropbox, whose subscription I also recently cancelled. Good riddance.

My experience using restic has been excellent so far, snapshots take 5 mins rather than 30 mins with backblaze's Mac client. I just hope I can trust it…

> Probably obvious for many, but I didn't realize ACs don't transport any air into the room, but just moves it around

I had the same epiphany as you days after acquiring a CO2 monitor. Most people notice poor indoor air quality from proxies such as humidity and temperature. AC (without ventilation) eliminates these and tricks our senses very effectively, giving us cool and fresh feeling indoor spaces full of CO2 and devoid of oxygen.

> There’s another distance limit at work here, and that is the speed of light. It takes milliseconds for the signal in your phone to reach the hotel above ground and be handed over to the mobile network.

It takes roughly 100us for light to travel 30km – Can you explain how the speed of light is relevant here?