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I'd say it's like half meetings. and the other half is prepping for meetings. In office and out of office too, dinner, golf, etc. Small meetings like with the other C positions, mid level mgt, to large meetings like conferences. Pretty much from mid-size company and up, it's all just meetings. And when shit hits the fan, they get to decide on which shit tastes better.

Types of meetings change too. Like if you want more cash, which companies usually do, you're on constant hunt for investment meetings and networking. And generally the entire time, various companies will try to approach your company (or you) to setup a meeting so they can say how wonderfully helpful their company is for your company. Sometimes you agree to those meetings and sometimes you don't. Again, even as a mid sized company, you likely get enough requests for meetings that you literally can't book all of them. So you get more C levels to delegate some of those meetings for you and then you have meetings with your C levels. And as you grow, you try to weed out less important ones. And you do that through... networking.

Everything kinda keeps looping back to networking.

Imagine you're playing CK3 or any grand strategy 4X game. Networking is like allies. You can just get whole bunch of allies to attacc other kingdoms even if you're weak. That's the power of networking. And every click of a button to do something is like a meeting. You want to build a fort? In CK3, click. In IRL, meeting.

It's the ad networks fault. And it's 1337x fault for using shitty ad network. But once you get into shadier and less commonly approved business, only options you have for ads are shitty networks that have nearly no ad vetting system. Which means sometimes you get shit like this happening.

I would bet this is actually multiple people sharing IP.

Many countries and ISPs that lack IPv4 pool many people under single public IP and then redistribute later to individual. Very rare at ISP level in NA but very common in SEA. Though VPNs also give the same effect. And there's probably no country in earth more lacking in IP assignments than North Korea. The entire country shares measly four of /24 assignments which means roughly 1024 IPs for the entire country including all of infrastructure equipments that need IP assignments.

So likely a pool of people from NK show up under the same IP. They do physically connect through China entirely. But these few IP assignments that's assigned to NK should show up as NK instead of China.

Speaking of VPNs, some VPN companies claim they have NK IP. Never tried myself, but if true people using that VPN and connecting to steam would also show up as a dot there. So they may not even be North Koreans.

Mangajikan used to be THE place. Like supposedly even more traffic than Facebook in Japan. But they very recently got shut down. Like less than a week ago.

You can look for possible future revival. Which they had briefly but dead again.

I don't know any others. But you can search starting from that keyword.

Sorry for Reddit, but check this out.

https://old.reddit.com/r/FluxAI/comments/1laxin7/flux_kontext_veo_3_is_insane/

No more uncanny weird shit in latest. And this one is open source.

I thought I already replied to this, but apparently not. Sorry for the late response.

The start menu no longer has the windows 10 tiles. It's just search and icons of apps you've pinned. Similar to phone app menu. You can put some into folders/groups together. And that's it. There's no further customization possible.

You can get third party solution to bring back more features such as Start11 from Stardock, but that means paying for an additional software and I've heard it gets buggy with windows updates.

Start menu is permanently lacking features. But besides that it's not a major change. There is third party softwares that puts back 10 style or other start menus, but heard there are issues with windows updates. Besides that just get shutup10 again and tick stuff off. Pretty much solves it imo.

I finally upgraded to 11 last week by accident. Apparently one misclick means straight to next version with no cancel. So after the upgrade first thing I did was get o&o shutup10 to kill the spywares.

P.s. I know I can revert. But that's also effort.

Yeah this is Lemmy so I can't say your votes turned out unexpected. But you're right, all this will do is make their job end quicker. There's no money to give, Ubisoft is dying as is.

Patent troll means to get patents for purpose of litigation rather than to produce goods.

Wouldn't work. This has nothing to do with Japanese customers or Japanese laws. These aren't even in Japanese courts. It's US patents.

Surprised it's still online. Doubly surprised it's still getting updates.