Yeah, I have this conversation and lot on the sad truth is that until there’s a Linux distro that’s as manageable as Windows is with Group Policy, no big organisation is adopting it. Unfortunately, nothing in the Linux space comes close.

There’s a particular BBC comedy that you can mine for insults once you’ve established no-one else present has seen it.

• He’s so dense light bends around him.
• As useless as a marzipan dildo
• As useless as lube at a funeral
• I’ve never seen anyone look so fucking ugly with just one head
• Do you know 90% of household dust is made of dead human skin? That’s what you are to me.
• Watching him work is like watching clown running across a minefield.
• He’s here, depriving a village somewhere of their twat.
• I’m like flypaper for dickheads today.
• Sorry I’m late. Traffic was an absolute bitch. No offence.

My personal variation, “couldn’t organise a pissup in a pissupery”.

I was taught to use the Oxford comma by my parents, Ayn Rand and God. I had a strange upbringing.

Something, something, neighbour’s lawn, sprinkler, something.

I love strawrbrerry mllilkshakes.

If you started from first principles and made a car or, in this case, told an flailing intelligence precursor to make a car, how long would it take for it to create ABS? Seatbelts? Airbags? Reinforced fuel tanks? Firewalls? Collision avoidance? OBD ports? Handsfree kits? Side impact bars? Cupholders? Those are things created as a result of problems that Karl Benz couldn’t have conceived of, let alone solve.

Experts don’t just have skills, they have experience. The more esoteric the challenge, the more important that experience is. Without that experience you’ll very quickly find your product fails due to long-solved problems leaving you - and your customers - in the position of being exposed dangers that a reasonable person would conclude shouldn’t exist.

Don’t you dare give me hope.

Edit: Holy shit. Orland actually says that exact line in the linked article. Kudos.

Yeah, ususally at this point someone goes “ugh, I’m never using Firefox again because Mozilla don’t respect people any more… iT’s TiMe To iNsTaLl BRaVe!”

Fuck Microsoft and all, but this headline and article are basically bullshit. The requirements for Windows 11 aren’t changing. This requirement covers future models of PC released by OEMs. It doesn’t affect existing models, home-builds, second hand, refurbished, end-of-line, surplus, etc, etc.

Stupid question. With a bag clip bag bag clip, obviously.

Y’know, I bought a bag of bag clips from Ikea years ago and I’m only now realising that they’re less suited to the job than a clothes peg. Smart.

A twelve year old computer in 2013 would have been utterly useless. Doesn’t matter how good is was in 2001 it would die under even a modest 2013 workload. But a decent computer from 2013 is still useful today. Not for triple-A gaming, VR, or 8K video editing, but still a decent productivity and media machine. I just bought my first handheld gaming PC and I made sure it had eGPU support since that’s the likely bottleneck in the future (i7 and 32GB RAM, so that should be good for a long while) and I fully intend to get a decade out of it. There’s no real appetite to upgrade your machine regularly any more, and the manufacturers hate that.

A bridge rectifier circuit for each battery slot would solve the issue and, at the low currents of things like remote controls, would be pretty tiny and introduce inconsequential power overhead bbbuuuuuuuuu-uuuuuu-uuuuutttt it would cost money, precious pennies per device. And it would be tricky to market it, educate users, and so on. Such things are too good for this world.

Can I ask where everyone is from? I’m in the UK, which uses 230v, and even cheap-ass LED bulbs last forever. But a lot of the bulbs are rated for both 230v and 115v so I’m wondering if those same bulbs are being sold in the US. If that’s the case, they’ll need to pull double the current to manage the same output which is far more stressful on the electronics than higher voltage with lower current.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen packaging as described in the UK. Normally they’re packaged in individual blisters that can be pushed through the foil covering in a single step. I’m not sure about this ‘peeling’ action that’s described.

Also, for what’s it’s worth, medication in the UK is publicly known by it’s International Nonproprietary Name rather than brands, so for the most part people will ask for ‘paracetamol’ rather than Deludomex™ or whatever. ‘Acetaminophen’ is a new one to me, though.

Capitalists compete to make the most money by convincing customers to pay as much as possible for a product that’s as cheap as possible to make. The competition argument works in areas that are white-hot with innovation but can anyone honestly say the office chair of 2025 shows thirty years of innovation over the ones from 1995?

If this is a regular issue for you I’d recommend a decanter or at least a large carafe. It solves your problem, helps the wine to ‘breathe’ and looks fancypants as balls.

The gravity-assisted bag roll is a staple for me. Cereal, bread, veggies, anything too big for a bag clip.

Anything other than watching fullscreen video? 3:2 is so much better for reading, drawing, anything even vaguely productive. It’s very close to the ratio of metric paper.