Lol @ "some 20 years ago ... ADSL from 2002". Thanks for making me feel old!

How are they retaining staff?

They retain them for the 4-5 years it takes for signing cash and signing stock units to all run out, at which point many people start to get itchy feet.

Nearly 30 years ago, I worked for a tiny li'l anti-virus software company that got acquired by one of the big boys, and everyone's performance-based options they were holding were suddenly worth a lot. Being hungry for career growth at the time, I'd left the company and forfeited those options. Less than 6 months later, they announced the sale of the company.

My options woulda been worth a few million at the time, maybe double that in today's money. Importantly, it would've set me up with a nice house, car, etc, without any debt, in my early 20s.

Not rich, but certainly comfortable.

My wife's Italian. Replace your items with always having a bottle of sauce and a packet of pasta in the cupboard, and there's always a meal to be had no matter how empty the fridge is.

Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

It's a legit rule they're enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don't bounce. Easy to use if you're spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

fknlol - like people WFH are working from their bed. I can't think of a more uncomfortable location for my to do my job from. Except the office five days a week of course...

This dual-port charger can only output 45W of power when using one port at a time, with the output halved at 22W to each device when plugging in two simultaneously.

Yes. That's literally how max power ratings on devices like this work. And, to be that guy, even when plugging in two devices and getting 22.5W on each socket, the charger is still outputting 45W.

This feels like a paid advert written by Ikea's press department - not The Verge itself.

Might be time to look into Proxmox. There's a fun weekend project for you!

As an outside observer of all the religious, right-wing bullshit going on in the US, I'm loving what TST are doing.

Today, Gaughen deleted his original tweet about the zero-day vulnerability and posted an apology to his followers, saying that “the information he had been given earlier was false,” and there’s no zero-day on Signal relating to link previews.

And, yet, they still lead with the clickbait headline "denies existence". Dickhead move.

You a Paperless user too? ;)

For me, this referendum boils down to exactly the same pair of questions as for the same-sex marriage postal survey in 2017:

1. Does this affect me adversely? (answer: no, it doesn't)
2. How does this benefit those that want it? (answer: for the better)

Easy.