I really hope kids in the womb today get the chance to die of old age.

The last printer I bought I returned because it said Internet access is mandatory to complete the set up.

I tried temporarily turning it on but as soon as I disconnected it after a couple days it would tell me I have to reconnect to continue printing.

It’s like how IT people don’t trust printers.

You can pry my 1080 from my cold dead hands.

I’ve sent out a lot of resumes, but every job that I’ve gotten was because I knew somebody who had a relationship to that place. This really sucks as someone who is extremely introverted, but I definitely recommend reaching out and trying to build your network in an attempt to know somebody who knows somebody who does what you want to do.

Unironically, yes. That’s not nearly as common sense as you may think. There’s no such thing as idiot-proof steps. To some you may very well be a pro from that alone.

This makes sense. I have a friend from way back in HS who interned there while he was working on his degree who said that cloud services was the priority at the time, and Windows was more just a vehicle that they continued to maintain. That continues to be the approximate temperature of the product and is in line with my expectations.

I never understand this mindset because a person who is technically skilled like this is exactly the kind of person who wouldn’t struggle with Linux.

They’re already the kind of person who would be an excellent Linux user. I can only imagine that, for whatever reason, they’ve grown emotionally attached and are simply too stubborn to consider anything else.

They might be surprised that open source software exists, is sometimes the best available in the niche, and highly skilled contributors are often willing spend their free time making it better for little more than bragging rights.

Until the next re-bloating update where your settings get reverted and services re-installed.

Being good at de-bloating (as you may very well be to do that in a few minutes!) is an anti-skill that shouldn’t have to exist.

I could imagine a future where Windows is just a proprietary DE over a Linux system. I don’t think it’s coming anytime soon because of the development cost it would impose, but I don’t see why they would go to such efforts maintaining a system they could get for free if the desktop user base keeps shrinking. They’re just too greedy not to do that. Even the backwards compatibility with Windows software is becoming a solved problem.

Aside from my above rant, the PC is definitely fast becoming an enthusiast/business platform. I opened a retirement account the other day through my smart phone!

Precisely. Windows is a side project for Microsoft now.

This is definitely slop. I don’t recommend this to any human readers.

Holy mother of sandwiches. Absolutely would.

Throuple of 7 years here. It absolutely can work, but please exercise extreme caution. It requires a level of discipline and security that just isn’t realistic for most people.

Many people will tell you it doesn’t work out, but the same can be said for relationships in general. There’s always risks. There’s no life worth living without risk. If you want to do this, you need to ask yourself some deep questions and answer honestly before you get hurt.

In the same way relationships aren’t just about sex, you need to know as sure as you can be if you can handle a relationship of three. It’s all the trouble of two and then a huge scoop more. It has got to be worth it, and a lot of it isn’t glamorous.

No.

You do realize you’re in a Linux gaming community?

You can quickly and easily filter this community out from being shown to you.

Not everything is Chrome just yet. We still have Gecko and Webkit holding on.

It was fun! It worked well when compared with IE back in the day which isn’t saying much, but it was a sensible bedfellow with iTunes and all the Apple mobile support software that was common to run alongside for your iPod. I enjoyed using it as my main browser because it was aesthetically pleasing.

Apple used rigged demos and made false claims about their own technology so outstanding that their own project managers were taken aback by how far behind the features actually were vs. what was pushed. There’s already informal documentaries on the massive internal disconnects within Apple that have lead to poor product testing and stagnation.