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The BBC has an important role. Millions of people fall asleep when watching the BBC every night without resorting to addictive sleeping tablets. Gardner's World has helped me fall asleep many times over the years for example. I believe it is important that people are forced to pay the licence fee even if they can't stand the BBC. For their own good.

When a company does something that seems to be out of The Godfather...

You are right. I feel much safer now! /s I really need to look into those other versions of Android or even Huawei. I have a feeling they might not quite work in Canada. Part of the reason I am incensed about this, is that right now there are all sorts of measures globally, under the guise of safety, that seem to be about something completely different.

I use Android because it lets me install whatever I want on my phone, which it does not seem to me, controversial. The phone is either mine or it is not. I don't want Google's protection. Particularly, if I can't refuse it.

I just decided that the function keys and right Alt plus a key would be mine to bind to whatever I wanted. I am using a program called Clavier+ on Windows, and some transparent keycaps for labels for function keys. I press F1 for an AI, and Right Alt + E for text editor for example.

From the point of view of an end user, I remember versioning on the Vax using EDT when I spent hours on end entering data from our local emergency department in quite large text files. Over the years, every now and then I have been looking for this functionality on Windows.

Dropbox and OneDrive do this nowadays, in that I can just right click a file and see the different versions and change to a previous one. I work with long documents I write, and this functionality has saved the day a few times.

Psychiatrist here. What the author of the article describes sounds familiar to doctors in many specialties. Happily, I am not that far from retirement. You can't imagine how many burnt out doctors there are everywhere.

I really enjoyed reading Programming Pearls by John Bentley many years ago. (Not working in IT sadly)

I spend many happy hours copying, changing, and pasting text to Ms Word documents on Windows. Eventually, I am using the middle mouse button to paste without format, and ctrl-v to paste with format. (Using X-mouse button control) Power toys has a setting that says it pastes as text too, but if I ask it to use ctrl-v, it gives me an warning saying that there may be issues if I want to paste a picture.