I mean… Have you seen the stuff my parents share…?
I’m just thankful that my kids will never be embarrassed by me. (This is sarcasm. Of course they will!)
I actually hope my kids are at least a little embarrassed by me, someday. I hope they will embrace new kinds of pragmatic effective compassion and community, even if I’m unable up adapt.
That makes sense. Innovators and early adopters.
No, It’s not like there’s an abundance of options for this around.
Agreed. It’s getting better, but there’s a long way to go.
But putting a new OS on something is always going to be a worse experience than pre-installed.
For folks that can find and but something pre-installed that fits their use case, things are very nice, now. Considering most users who just want to surf and stream, it’s a really good percentage of folks.
AutoCad / Not every day but often
Lucky guess, I suppose - but yes - that’s a more common complaint, and still an unsolved problem. I wouldn’t consider it a typical user’s issue. I understand how that doesn’t help you.
Another example of a recent problem I had was I couldn’t open pdfs off my network storage because the application didn’t understand the SMB in the path.
I’ve had mixed-to-bad luck with SMB, both on Windows and Linux. For a counterpoint, SMB has been utter shit on Mac, for me. Buy I agree, Linux SMB support should be made better, if possible.
Then there’s the fact that my secure boot enrollment randomly disappeared which somehow prevented it from booting regardless of if secureboot was on or not and I had to start from scratch with a new install just to get going again.
At least pre-installed Linux should address this, once hardware available catches up to your needs. But again, since you need more hardware, that doesn’t help you, today.
Edit: To your point, I don’t disagree that web browsing isn’t the entirety of many people’s computer experience. It’s just funny to me how often AutoCad comes up. Maybe it’ll be a moot point someday in the next few years.
but when you’re hitting roadblocks every step of the way on what to you are everyday tasks in Windows
Did you buy hardware with Linux pre-installed?
We need to be better about clarifying that, for apples to apples experience, it’s best to buy hardware with Linux pre-installed.
Or is AutoCAD one of your everyday tasks? We all have different definitions of “everyday”, but I haven’t had an issue web browsing on Linux in ages.
I was too afraid of windows corrupting my linux if I ever booted it. So I effectively just had a Linux machine with half half the disk space. Never had a problem with it though.
That’s basically my story, as well.
I eventually had a close call where Windows almost booted by misclick - and it scared me it was going to mess up the Linux install I actually use - and I decided the stress wasn’t worth it, to me, to keep a fallback copy of Windows around.
VIP grew on me slowly, until I saw Anna’s performance as the little boy who wished to become rocks - which is now one of my all time favorite comedy sketches.
I do think VIP is an acquired taste.
Game Changer being ineligible is a bullet dodge for everything else in the category.
Game Changer is the most fun innovative thing in the history of game shows, including among everything happening now.
One of the now deleted research collections focused on “race relations” and the other on “gender studies.”
The memo, written by Mississippi Library Commission Executive Director Hulen Bivins
How does someone who would let political winds result in destruction of research even become director at a library?
WTF, Mississippi?!
… Had become upsetting for staff, parents and governors…
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Joking aside, antifa-whale was a really interesting character in an otherwise predictable film.
I wanted to like Cloud Atlas. It felt like it was fighting itself for air time. I’ll give it another try someday.
He’s giving off “Hydra Bob” energy, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
Tom Hanks is close, but Cloud Atlas exists.
HTTP works pretty well, if you don’t mind various governments spying on the traffic.
I wanted to fact check this, but I guess Meta doesn’t have a tool for that, anymore. I’ll have to accept it at face value.
People aren’t adding as much value as they used to
That’s simply not true. Skilled creative problem solving work is the largest percentage of jobs today as it ever has been in history.
And those same worker’s outputs is augmented by automation, collaboration, and various kinds of advanced science, to the greatest amount it has been, in history.
The value added by each median individual worker is the highest it has ever been.
Yes. If you’ve ever worked at a runaway success company, that still had shitty poorly kept bathrooms, this is why.
People can negotiate larger or smaller shares, according to the rarity of their skillset, but to build a real team requires real ownership.
how can you measure total value of the labor?
Simple laws like requiring job postings to list a salary range have a huge impact, and allow people to negotiate a much more fair wage.
Companies also save money through reduced turnover.
Stockholders get better share price gains through continuity and staff loyalty.
The only losers are C suite executives who want to boost the stock price for one quarter before leaving for a new job.
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
As a developer, we use AI “extensively” because it’s currently practically free and we rarely say no to free stuff.
It is, indeed, slightly better than last year’s autocomplete.
AI is also amazing at letting non-developers accomplish routine stuff that isn’t particularly interesting.
If someone is trying to avoid paying for one afternoon of my time, an AI subscription and months of trial and error are a new option for them. So I guess that’s pretty neat.
Now I want one. That’s delightful.