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Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Post by Deimorz »

reaperducer wrote: post #9
ryanmercer wrote: post #3

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an o…

I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet. Can anyone remember any of them?

I don't know how complete it is, but there's a list on MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/games-with-boss-key/off...

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Post by hyw »

huac wrote: post #20
hyw wrote: post #11

anyone have any clue what the mschf.xyz/venmo link at the bottom is about? a little skeptical about the concept of being paid (a nominal sum?) via venmo as a substitute to an email newsletter subscription. for example, how would I unsubscribe?

people are more likely to check their venmo push notifs than email i suppose you could just block them to unsubscribe?

that’s an interesting approach to getting around “notification fatigue”, I wonder if there are any other successful examples of this.

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Post by MiddleEndian »

reaperducer wrote: post #9
ryanmercer wrote: post #3

Reminds me of a past job 14~ years ago, I was in SAP and spreadhseets pretty much all day so I made my MIRC wallpaper an SAP window and had the font and colors set up similar so if someone snuck up it looked like I was just looking at SAP and I could casually minimize the active chat window. Similarly I would read Project Gutenberg titles at that job by opening then in notepad and then copy pasting sections into an o…

I remember back in the 90's there were some pretty high-profile computer games that had "boss keys" where you could smack F1 or something and the game would pause and the screen would show a spreadsheet. Can anyone remember any of them?

It came out in 2006 but Defcon had a similar feature, as well as status updates in the system tray so you'd be able to follow some of what was going on even when it wasn't active.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Post by aaomidi »

lol768 wrote: post #17
writepub wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

70% market share is reason enough. Start with chrome, and if there's traction, port to other browsers

>port to other browsers Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist This is just laziness.

I've had one or two compatibility issues.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Post by dpkonofa »

aaomidi wrote: post #24
lol768 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>port to other browsers Except it requires literally no 'porting' at all: it runs fine out of the box without modification https://lol768.com/i/ReveilleAgitationsIncurablesBicyclist This is just laziness.

I've had one or two compatibility issues.

Good point. Scrap the whole thing.

Re: Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call

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Post by withinboredom »

wickedOne wrote: post #12

preposterous! i wonder how many people who welcome this idea as a work thing, actually had to pay someone's salary some point in their carreer...

Let people go home when they’re done for the day? Not care what people do all day as long as they complete their tasks? Why does “work” have to 9-5 once you get a fancy degree? Some people like working nights.
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