Not a HR professional or recruiter (I work in IT), but I know my company uses a third party background checking service for this kind of thing.

It sounds like a nuclear option but it should avoid what would otherwise be a lot of fucking about. Fingers crossed a reinstall sorts it and you don’t have an underlying hardware issue.

Clean reinstall the OS.

Also top. Started with MacOS but have carried this through to Windows much to the annoyance of my fellow Windows using coworkers.

DayZ has entered the chat.

considering hopping onto a different instance because of this. Lemmy.world in particular always seems to be experiencing issues.

Did the same. Three story townhouse. To run Cat6 from top to bottom I went out, round the side of the house, up the wall, and back in.

The effort of achieving this in the average UK house is so much more than what I am guessing is OPs American house.

Crawlspaces don’t exist and we replaced sheetrock for double skinned solid brick walls.

I have a R0DE NT-USB and am extremely happy with it.

https://rode.com/en/microphones/usb/nt-usb

It comes with a desk stand and pop filter. I have it mounted on a £40 Amazon mic arm.

Jesus. Never mind.

Feel free to insert the equally stupidly large number of iPhone users for your particular geographic location.

So you’re saying WhatsApp isn’t fucking horrible to use on Android?

Here we go.

I use edge exclusively on Windows and have zero issues

Until cross platform messaging is a good as iMessage and FaceTime from an iPhones user’s perspective it’s going to be bad.

I have only ever used an iPhone (ignore non-smart phones) and have been weaned entirely on Apples stock apps. Conversely almost everyone I communicate regularly with is also an iPhone users. I do use other platform for communicating with non-apple friends but the experience is significantly poorer.

I couldn’t say how many people existed within this almost exclusively Apple ecosystem but I would hazard a guess that there are a few.

19.7 million UK iPhone users will care about this.

It’s pretty good right!?

Not going to lie, Gene Wilder was fucking fantastic as Willy Wonker.

Fuck me I only just got here and it’s already cracking off.

I used WefWef for a while but PWAs don’t feel as snappy on my phone.

The current preview is massively lacking in functionality. They have a lot to sort prior to pushing this.