But can we at least be thankful that it shifted focus from augmented reality? Prior to AI, the buzz was around things like the metaverse and digital avatars in your teams meetings.

Even crap AI is more useful than avatars in teams.

I’ve used only office and it’s still not Excel. Like the prior commenter said, even excel online isn’t as good as desktop excel. I actually run a VM for just a few apps, excel being one of them.

I haven’t eaten at McDonald’s in…I’ll just say a long time. So when I see comments like yours I just think its complete garbage they price their food like that.

Ok, have memberships and rewards because everybody does that (even though I hate it) but for it to essentially be 4x the price without it that’s crazy. Its cheap (as in quality) fast food, it should be priced that way.

Exactly. I tired SuSE back around 2001 and Ubuntu around 2006. It was not a better experience so I never stuck with them. I started using Mint last year and it just stuck. There are some quirks and learning curves, but it’s a good experience. Linux has changed a crap ton.

To your point, the easy-hard concept is so vague. What does that mean? Less enemies? The same amount but they have less hit points? I take less damage? Longer time before enemies react? It can be literally anything.

Let us control the settings like you said, and then have some presets for easy configurations and starting points.

I think a special shout out needs to be made to the sniper elite series, which let you reduce the difficulty of the enemies but keep the difficulty of the sniping mechanics.

Oh crap, now they have my phone number and I’m going to get scam calls that people can’t find my business listing.

Samnsung takes a screenshot every 500ms. LG is every 10ms. For crying out loud they can “stream” everything you watch.

I’m not sure I can answer that in detail. Also, “safe” is kind of vague so I’m not sure what your threat model is.

But I will say that I would 100% be running it as my home windows if I wasn’t using Linux. Do I think it’s the equivalent? No. Do I think there’s a possibility of Microsoft turning things back on with updates? Yes. But its far easier than running O&O and a bunch of power shell scripts to try to remove bloat and telemetry hoping you got everything. I have no complaints.

Your lack of time is the biggest issue, followed by your music needs (which are not impossible but I also know its not plug and play).

I would recommend going with win11 for simplicity and times sake. I would also recommend at least trying out ameliorated windows11. https://ameliorated.io/

Basically their stock run book makes the OS far more secure and private by setting up an admin account and then making your account a standard user (the way it should be done). Then it strips out all the bloat, restricts services, and installs open source alternatives like libre office and libre wolf. It also drastically changes the UI, which most of it I like and some is meh, but its all much better than the crap stock UI. I run this as a VM for all the stuff I still need windows for and I love it. Nothings ever going to make windows not windows, but this is pretty close and a simple click install. I highly recommend it.

I mean, if the company doesn’t think you’re worth it to show up and see if you are right for the position, then how crappy are they going to treat you when you work for them? It’s a red flag and saving job hunters time by eliminating that company as an option.

Reminds me of Don’t F*ck With Cats. Good watch if you haven’t seen it.

Ugh, that sucks. Depending on how high the damage goes you can potentially sister the joists though. Cut out the damaged section, replace with new stud, then put a secondary stud that spans past the seam. You’ll use more lumber that way (most likely) but the benefit is you don’t have to rip open the entire wall.
Obviously there’s a break point where that stops making sense, bit that’s all in how far the damage goes up and if its literally evey stud or not.

Sometimes in the darkness of the internet where all our worst sides come out and I get trampled by the evil of governments, corporations, and people in general…a small beam of light shines through illuminating the beauty of this world.

Today, your comment is that beam of light. You didn’t mean it to be, but sometimes little things have bigger impacts. Thank you. Have a great day.

…and that is how I quit smoking.

It didn’t help that the next post in my feed also had to do with an S… So I thought I missed something in current events.

I can flip it back and forth in my brain. But yes, I saw the negative space as the object at first view.

Not my cup of tea, but looks good for the genre. The selling point to me was hitting the lady with the stop sign and nursing the dog back to health. Thems the feels lol

I agree with this mentality, but it goes both ways. If a cyclist rode with consideration of the fact that they will lose every battle with a motor vehicle of any size they would also ride more cautiously. There are tons of bad drivers, and they are driving both motor vehicles and bicycles.

That depends on when you’re retiring. The money is running out, period. The fact that its running out in the 2030s isn’t news (the article even states this hit to SS only changes things by a year), and that payments will be reduced is true. But a 50 year old will get that radically reduced rate, but get something. A 20 year old really doesn’t have that guarantee, especially with how freely the rules can change by the time they hit retirement age.

We’re at the tipping point, so of course there’s a lot of upheaval about it, but there really hasn’t been a definitive plan (let alone a good one) on how to change this predicament so that resting on “you’ll get something” seems optimistic at best.