In that position you're far more protected from retaliation than a "regular person" -- it's easier to prove with an established history and courts really don't like have their judgments undermined. You've also shown your employer trying to screw with you is expensive.
Go back and do your job to the letter. They're either going to be very wary of pissing you off, or they're going to do something stupid and you'll get another payout.
Connect the TV to wifi, then go into your router's settings and block it. It's usually under "Access Control" or "Security".
Projectors come with their own set of issues, but at least you can still get a really good one without all the "smart" features.
A set of torx screwdrivers and an exacto knife will take care of that. Pretty hard for a cellular modem to transmit data when the traces to the antenna are cut.
"Freedom Fries"
Netbooks need to come back with modern hardware.
If I need an ultra-portable computer one in a usable form factor would be amazing.
Windows 11 is fucking horrible.
The only reason I still have a windows machine is for PC VR gaming, and even that minimal interaction is annoying. Every major update seems exclusively be MS further enshitifying their OS. It's an hour of research and work into remove whatever new garbage they've added.
Yeah! Anyone that thinks "Corporate run AI is problematic, obnoxious trash" is obviously a luddite. Everyone knows that all implementations of new technology is inherently good -- even when it's used by awful people with bad intentions.
Every city in the western world already has at least one rack of servers running 24/7. The have their own domain names, they have a web presence, etc -- running a mastodon instance on existing infrastructure hardly qualifies as wasteful.
It's not and if anything the fact it's small has advantages. Small is easier to turn into an echo chamber.
If you can push bullshit onto a small but passionate group of people online they'll do all the hard work for you. They'll recruit, polish/tailor the message for other audiences, and spread it across the wider internet.
And we know it works, because that's exactly how the whole "Q-anon" thing operated. Some vague, crazy bullshit on an obscure imageboard became a nearly mainstream "movement".
Maybe they're a kid?