I live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it's pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants
It's the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants
Actually, the same for the US. It's not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html
Are you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don't actually provide it?
They have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it's tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
I feel like it still does sometimes, with some sites that feel like they are nearly a whole OS in themselves.
I've heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of "friends" referred to as "antisocial media".
It may be both a factor of who you live with (the ones itching to get back to the office either lived alone or with people they didn't really gel with), and could have also been the length of time we were in lockdown (we had one of the strongest in the world - for the first 6 weeks or so even McDonald's wasn't allowed to open). After a couple of months of not being allowed to leave the house and having no face to face contact with friends or family, I can understand the desire to get back to the office. The people I have in mind mostly lived close to the office, too.
One other factor may have been that our remote working infrastructure was in no way ready for the entire organisation to work from home with a couple of day's notice. Video calls were just not possible for the first stretch as the work computers were all VPNed through a potato.
No problem! I've used it for years, though my home assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4 is now doing the pi-hole thing with adguard instead as the original one was having issues. Though you get weird DNS quirks when the machine running DNS also relies on the internet.
Plus that time I did a dumb thing in home assistant to see what would happen, and it brought the internet down.
So I am keen to get another Pi. I highly recommend keeping it on a dedicated device you never touch except for updates!
This was also my experience during the main sweep of the pandemic. It was so great getting to cut the commute and be home. Something I have luckily managed to largely continue. Prior to the pandemic my kid was in daycare pretty much 7:30-5:30 so it was really nice to not have to do that, plus during our lockdown we used to go for a family walk at lunchtime.
While some of the single guys I worked with hated staying home and were straight back in the office the moment they were allowed.
I ran it on an original Raspberry Pi B which has the same RAM and a slower CPU than the original Zero! It was still in use as a Pi-hole (running the DietPi OS) until recently where it seems to be dying or not keeping up.
Haha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don't normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse 😅
Many of the .ee communities are in the process of migrating, so hopefully the list can be updated with their new homes.
This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?