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- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 4 hours ago:
“We can’t be friends if you don’t pray”
OK.
Walk away.
This is my response to any kind of ultimatum. And I say “OK” as dispassionately as possible, as if someone said they prefer vanilla over chocolate ice cream.
- Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 2 days ago:
That sweet, sweet data.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026. 3 days ago:
I don’t think too many people will get caught short. I haven’t seen a company using it since before MS acquired it.
In the publishing/layout world, there are much better products… Or there used to be. PowerPoint and Word can’t come close to what a page layout program can do. I use it all the time for simple stuff that would take longer using Word, and I wouldn’t even try even slightly complex stuff with word.
I suspect of lot of page layout is outsourced by companies any more, which is why MS is killing it. Weird.
Guess I need to find the latest full version, I only have Pub 2016.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026. 4 days ago:
I’ve been worried about this with Publisher since MS acquired it in the mid 90’s. It’s always been a niche product (I used it before it was an MS product).
Frankly I’m surprised it’s survived this long.
Thankfully I have a standalone copy. Screw Office 365.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 4 days ago:
I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated
Dude, I lost that faith during my first month, decades ago.
Even worse, Robert Pirsig documents the loss in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, written (partly) about his experience as a professor in the 1960’s.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 week ago:
Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that’s not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).
- Comment on A crate for puppy 1 week ago:
I didn’t know that was a called a Brenton bolt. Neat!
- Comment on Observer 2 weeks ago:
Which is what’s so “magical” about it - Newtonian rules seem to break down at the quantum level.
It was an incredible discovery, and for practically anyone not a physicist, it’s incredibly hard to comprehend. I say this as a not-a-physicist who struggled to comprehend it decades ago, and read several books on the subject to finally get my head around it (as much as a non-physicist can).
Also, it’s just a meme mate.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ll blame the drivers (and some of that blame lands on MS).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen an ad on Windows. Not sure what people do to get ads.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
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Just installed Debian, no wifi
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Lots more stuff just like #1, such as my 10 year old and 3 month old Logitech wireless mice weren’t detected, and support for them is (fortunately) only available from a third party, which I found by searching the web for an answer.
I could give you pages of why Linux doesn’t compare to Windows for the desktop, which I’d follow with where it really shines - as a server for all kinds of things. It’s so good for specific tasks that even VMware replaced their own Workstation virtualization with Linux KVM.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Unhinged or older?
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 2 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha, omg, awesome. Wish I had more than one upvote to give.
- Comment on Since Volkswagen is a German company, the popular Jetta car is probably supposed to be pronounced "Yetta" 2 weeks ago:
Damn you, I’m having to stifle a laugh here.
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t like socializing, you won’t have friends. Those things go hand-in-hand.
Maybe examining why you feel this way about socializing would help. Do you really not enjoy all socializing, or just certain things?
Socializing is a major part of life, you could almost say it’s “The Thing”. I’m not saying you need to go throw on a lampshade every day, just that we’re all engaging with each other every day. You may talk to a sibling for a while, then a friend, have lunch with a coworker, take a walk with someone from a class to discuss what you’re not getting.
Without socializing, we may as well go live in a cave, and that’s not good (nor realistic).
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 2 weeks ago:
Spot on.
Only thing I’d change is when turning down an invite, act like you wanted to but can’t (even if the reason is you’re tired).
“Oh, man, I’d love to go, but I’m wiped. Need to get some sack time”. This may seem disingenuous, but it really isn’t - you’re not going because you need that recharge time, just phrasing it in a way others can understand, and making it clear you’d like to do such things in the future.
- Comment on No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you and the premise, in general.
Unfortunately even the little bits of data that are gathered can form a bigger picture over even a few years. See the recent acquisition of Ancestry.com by Blackstone (a finance company, IIRC) - now pretty much all of us have some of our genealogy held by them. Why would a finance company want that data(rhetorical question).
- Comment on Wall oven selection 3 weeks ago:
Not to dissuade you from upgrading at all, but it should be very easy to find a replacement element. I just replaced one in a 30 year old oven for about $22 on Amazon. The tech really hasn’t changed much, just need the right shape.
If you decide to upgrade, look for a convection oven, but make sure it’s fully configurable. With countertoo versions, some never turn off the fan completely. I could see similar stupid design happening in full size units.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
What counts is how the other person perceives it.
Talking amicably is just being polite. Knowing how to say things “with a wink and a nudge” would be more flirting.
Flirting occurs when you demonstrate attraction to someone indirectly or obliquely. Such indirectness creates tension, because we both know what I’m saying, but since I haven’t actually said it, there’s ambiguity.
It can also be direct statements, but that doesn’t demonstrate that you understand the dance. And I really do mean dance. Dancing is all about connection, being able to stay connected to a dance partner when you’re moving apart, and sensing just when, and how firmly, to pull them back toward you. It’s like you have a rubber band between you. Feeling that tension in it when you’re far apart is exciting, releasing that tension by coming closer resolves it. Back and forth you go. Flirting is the same.
Flirting should be a fun thing for you. Don’t view it as something you “just” have to do - it’s how we assess each other, it’s part of the process (it is a process, not a check box). It also never ends, just changes within a relationship.
We do the same with non-romantic relationships, there it’s called small talk (or you could say we don’t move from small talk to flirting).
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Really good points.
Own yourself, your goals, your intentions. People can sense/read when your behaviour doesn’t seem to align with what we think is concealed intentions.
Nearly all people enjoy when someone has the sense of self to be forward.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
No.
Yes.
Depends on context, and the non-verbal signals you give.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Flirting is part of the process, the dance. It’s also a pretty broad term.
- Comment on Custom nightlight as a gift! 3 weeks ago:
I had no idea this existed. Dammit, another toy I really didn’t need to add to my list!
- Comment on Custom nightlight as a gift! 3 weeks ago:
Very cool!
Whats the mill?
- Comment on Should I DIY this? (Electrical) 3 weeks ago:
This kind of falls in the “if you have to ask” territory.
While it’s technically pretty simple (you’re just moving it, not setting it up initially), code has specific rules, and this is the knowledge you’re paying for with an electrician. Since code can vary, knowing the code for your area may be important.
May be worth a call to the electrician about the code and homeowners doing such work. He may not mind talking about it. Just be honest with him.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 3 weeks ago:
I imagine people are confused and don’t know the rules, because of things like the attempt to make English match Latin grammar, plus the rules from French and Middle/Old English (which is where some of these things come from).
English is very inconsistent in the rules, you almost have to know a word’s etymology to apply the right rules.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 3 weeks ago:
“Could” is a very strong word with lots of assumptions.
Have you never read anything from antiquity? Even the Bible is a good start, you see the stories of how humanity has always been, and will be for a long time to come still.
Though it’s easily arguable humanity has already come a long way, and continues to improve (though non-linearly, naturally). Just your post here demonstrates this. You, me, and a bunch of other people, from anywhere in the world, are discussing these ideas, practically in real time. This was impossible as recently as 35 years ago.
Worldwide privation (notably starvation) has dropped 30%+ in the last 10 years.
The difference from my parent’s generation, to me, in the west is staggering. Infant and mother mortality dropped a staggering 90% from their birth to mine. They grew up always hungry, I did not. They saved everything: pieces of wire, string, old worn out parts, etc, because even if you had money, that stuff wasn’t necessarily even in the store. While I can order just about anything, from anywhere in the world, and have it in two days. They couldn’t get air mail across the Atlantic that fast.
- Comment on Man does not live by bread alone. 3 weeks ago:
Cheese. Don’t forget cheese.
Wine and it’s compatriots too.
- Comment on What determines whether people are likely to purposely (but mistakenly) put two words together (without a space)? 3 weeks ago:
Such things are possibly influenced by things like Latin. English (generally) has different written forms for noun and vern forms, which kind of reflect spoken language (though none of this is set in pudding, let alone stone).
There’s a great podcast “The History of English” By Kevin Stroud, that discusses such things.
- Comment on YSK: This meme is not a porno. Just a random Instagram Post. So, Stop asking for sauce. Thanks 3 weeks ago:
In my best Dude voice: “Like, hey man, don’t be prescriptive about what people think of as porn!”
Also, Rule 34! 😆