Do we really want to diagnose and medicate everyone with “deficits in rule-governed behavior”?

Yes.

Then all the plebians who go along don’t have to think, and they get to feel good about themselves while condemning the non-compliant.

Thank you, memory wasn’t pulling up the proper name - too much in there to sift through, I guess, haha.

I not disabled, and I’ve had the same problems with HMO healthcare.

Those organizations drive decisions based on statistics, not the individual. I’ve seen my doctors working to find ways describe/categorize my problems so they could justify the treatment they felt was most appropriate (only after working through numerous doctors in the organization - one actually said “Well, I guess you’re just going to have to learn to live with the pain”).

Walking into an independent doctor office is completely different - they’re quick to work toward a solution, and move to a different approach when they see things aren’t improving. Because they don’t have to justify their actions to a risk/cost-management board.

Interestingly, the HMOs don’t hesitate to do surgeries. Never had any pushback there, even for things with moderate risk, but relatively low need.

It’s a pointless distinction.

And in this case, it makes 8gig look even worse.

Like has been done on laptops with on-board video cards since, well, forever?

I took apart a lot of batteries as a kid. The nine volts never had batteries like this inside them.

Yawn.

I had my first UNIX class in about 1990. I wrote my first Fortran program on a Sperry Rand Univac (punched cards) in about 1985. Cobol was immediately after Fortran (wish I’d stuck with Cobol).

I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured it as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery.

There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.

There are many reasons why Linux doesn’t compete with Windows on the desktop - this is just one glaring one.

Now let’s look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. No, I’m not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That’s just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn’t realistically shareable with other people.

Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default, and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?

Networking… Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t say “save creds”? Oh, yea, command line again or go download an app to clear them for for you. Smh.

Someone else said it better than me:

Every time I’ve installed Linux as my main OS (many, many times since I was younger), it gets to an eventual point where every single thing I want to do requires googling around to figure out problems. While it’s gotten much better, I always ended up reinstalling Windows or using my work Mac. Like one day I turn it on and the monitor doesn’t look right. So I installed twenty things, run some arbitrary collection of commands, and it works… only it doesn’t save my preferences.

So then I need to dig into .bashrc or .bash_profile (is bashrc even running? Hey let me investigate that first for 45 minutes) and get the command to run automatically… but that doesn’t work, so now I can’t boot… so I have to research (on my phone now, since the machine deathscreens me once the OS tries to load) how to fix that… then I am writing config lines for my specific monitor so it can access the native resolution… wait, does the config delimit by spaces, or by tabs?? anyway, it’s been four hours, it’s 3:00am and I’m like Bryan Cranston in that clip from Malcolm in the Middle where he has a car engine up in the air all because he tried to change a lightbulb.

And then I get a new monitor, and it happens all damn over again. Oh shit, I got a new mouse too, and the drivers aren’t supported - great! I finally made it to Friday night and now that I have 12 minutes away from my insane 16 month old, I can’t wait to search for some drivers so I can get the cursor acceleration disabled. Or enabled. Or configured? What was I even trying to do again? What led me to this?

I just can’t do it anymore. People who understand it more than I will downvote and call me an idiot, but you can all kiss my ass because I refuse to do the computing equivalent of building a radio out of coconuts on a deserted island of ancient Linux forum posts because I want to have Spotify open on startup EVERY time and not just one time. I have tried to get into Linux as a main dev environment since 1997 and I’ve loved/liked/loathed it, in that order, every single time.

I respect the shit out of the many people who are far, far smarter than me who a) built this stuff, and 2) spend their free time making Windows/Mac stuff work on a Linux environment, but the part of me who liked to experiment with Linux has been shot and killed and left to rot in a ditch along the interstate.

Now I love Linux for my services: Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, containers for Syncthing, PiHole, Owncloud/NextCloud, CasaOS/Yuno, etc, etc. I even run a few Windows VM’s on Linux (Proxmox) because that’s better than running Linux VM’s of a Windows server.

Linux is brilliant for this stuff. Just not brilliant for a desktop, let alone in a business environment (or really for the average user).

If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.

These are what MS did in the 1980’s to make Windows attractive to the 3 groups who contend with desktops: developers, business management, end users.

Not modest enough.

A Modest AI proposal would be to eat the shills who are dishonestly promoting it.

Water. Notice the threads are standard hose bib threads (forget what they’re called, it’s not pipe thread, just similar).

It uses a key to operate it, helps prevent average jerks from just turning it on. (These keys are widely available for about $5)

Edit: the little cap is for freeze protection. It’s part of a mechanism to vent water from the last foot of the pipe and bib, so there’s no water in it to freeze when the valve is closed.

Exactly.

Email doesn’t get buy-in from stakeholders as well, either. It’s also a lot harder to flesh out subletities and nuance in whatever problem you’re addressing.

Meetings are a different problem.

If meetings are used merely to disseminate info from above, then it should be an email.

Email shouldn’t be used for decision-making conversations. It doesn’t work well.

(I didn’t come up with this, it was taught to me by senior management at one company that had the most impressive communications I’ve ever seen).

And those can change - it’s a local file system reference.

Windows historically has been really bad about this.

I have thousands of files in windows where the created date is actually last modified date - because the local file system updates on copy/move, or it gets altered by email/transfer systems, etc.

Really, would I have come up with my own naming system if the last mod and create dates were effective?

I have thousands of photos where the file system create time is years different than the metadata create time (what the camera stamped).

Yea, fuck him - he’s just an ass.

People who grew up with him can probably attest to this.

Anywhere there’s a stream, really.

Great for places that are off-grid. A friend’s cabin uses one to fill the supply for a gravity fed filter

Meh.

Overpriced.

I can buy 3 or 4 pairs of BT5 earphones for the price of these.

My most expensive pair currently was $75.

I’ve never had batteries go bad in them - they get broken well before that happens. Though I have a noise canceling headset from 2006 that still works. Battery lasts long enough.

I’d rather break a pair of $30 earphones, and have multiple spares than a single pair of $150.

And they all sound about the same given the source and environment.

The costs (overhead) are too high. They make more by simply manufacturing and selling.

Otherwise they’d be doing it.

“Supposedly”

Right.

Why not just don’t allow minors to use the service?

I’ve said this from the start, and people called me names, or “prove it”. Sigh.

If the capability is there, that’s a problem.

So you’re saying you want to send nudes to minors?

Wouldn’t not permitting minors to use the service at all make this issue moot?