I had a friend who lived with a few dudes in a house, and I go over to her place and she’s getting ready and one of her roommates is sitting in the kitchen eating a chicken breast and broccoli. We get to chatting, and he tells me he’s going to Olympic trials for luge, and so obviously I ask how you get into that.
He ends up telling me he ran and was successful at track, and he basically got poached, mainly because of his size and his running ability.
So yeah. That’s it.
Right. I should be able to be common sensed through age verification at this point.
Yeah, I used PowerToys and it’s now Right Control again. It was probably easier than finding drivers for Linux.
Yeah, but there’s also seatbelts in the back. The car is either straddling the line between generations or it’s set design fucking with us.
I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.
I kinda take solace in this a bit. I’m 38, got young kids, and I don’t generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it’s always with the thought that I’d miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you’re okay saying “Welp, that’s enough!” Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that’s my hope, that I’ll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I’ve seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.
Obviously the darker alternative is that I’ve seen enough pain and I can’t take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!
I appreciate what you’re saying. I will agree 100% it’s gotten worse. I use it because I have a software that will never work on anything else, and a piece of hardware that only has drivers for windows.
I just find the argument to be disingenuous that Linux is this - to use the Ron Popwil catchphrase - set it and forget it OS. And I’m not suggesting you made that, but I see it often.
And so because I’m stuck with my work software (which I will use until I die because retirement isn’t real), I just don’t feel like going over to Linux is going to somehow better my life. I get along more than fine on Windows, same as I always have. I do get the itch to try Linux though, just to see, and so the constant bombardment here on Lemmy might be working. I did try Red Hat briefly 20+ years ago, but that’s about the limit of my experience. I wanted to take over a MUD that had gone extinct.
Except that’s not true. The little tweaks, remove onedrive, turn off copilot, use powertoys to reprogram the Copilot key to right control. Little, useful tips to improve user experience.
And the thing is, it’s something we’ve been doing for as long as I can remember. I remember screwing around with windows 98 to improve my experience. It’s been a fact of life with windows, and it’s fine.
The piece of nuance every one of these threads seems to miss. I have software that literally only runs on windows. What do? Rather than talk about how to make Windows work better, the best you get is jump ship!
Ha, I used to love this show as a kid, so thanks for that. Felt like a fever dream.
Yeah, OneDrive became an instant uninstall for me because of how it works. I have 2TB of empty cloud storage that I would love to use, but refuse to completely rework my file structure. I am not going to move literally everything. I’ll let you read my boring ass work shit, I don’t care, I let Google do it probably when I upload shit to drive, I just want to organize things the way I have them, because that’s how they work.
That’s interesting, apparently false, itsumi means something else that I forgot in the time it took me to swipe back over to Lemmy here, but I do like the line of thinking.
Yeah, this is it. I understood him because I’m of Italian descent from New Jersey.
I need to talk about the Mario thing. The first time we heard him speak was N64, when he said “It’s a me, Mario,” with an accent that is clearly not from New York or New Jersey. And now he’s all of a sudden not Italian?
George Washington literally died from being cold and wet.
I read that he “surreptitiously” gave them to her, which tonme implied some kind of sneaking. On the other hand, I’m confident she was clearly aware of everything but never went public because then they lose all that money.
This advertisement is exaggerating, I would say.
I French press for a long time, back when I’d drink four or five cups a day. Believe it or not I ended up with heartburn. I actually took to putting filters (bamboo) in between the screen and the metal spokes to filter my French press, and it actually helped a bit. And apparently French press coffee is super high in cholesterol, and running it through a paper filter can reduce that.
I do drip now though. And it’s fine. I really just drink coffee to wake up in the morning. I put the coffee in, it fills the pot, I pour the pot in my cup and I drink it. They’re both easy, and they’re certainly easier than some of the silly methods I see nowadays.
Drip coffee. Easy. Coffee is a utility.
Just watch that cholesterol.
Part of my job includes sitting in on meetings of land use boards, and the number of applications for warehouses, starting back around 2020, was astonishing. And yeah, we saw a major uptick in online sales and so it was an obvious reaction to that, but the conspiracy theorist inside me is bristling thinking that somehow this was all part of some CIA plot to have these places set up and ready to go.
Even during the pendency of some of these hearings, folks would bring out statistics from updated treatises suggesting warehouse propagation was oversaturated and that it didn’t make sense to keep building them, but keep building they did. That’s the part that really tips my tinfoil hat.