Would you download a car?

Hell yeah, if I could.

Disney DVDs are full of “that button doesn’t work here” zones making previews (ads) hard to skip… which strangely are just not an issue after you rip the feature presentation to your NAS.

If the screen savers work like they did before, why would you care?

And here I was having sympathy for the convicted rapists thinking that they didn’t really intend to rape anyone - yeah, was a nice day here sun just went down. Hope you have a good one.

Sure, and what’s standing in the way of a vibe-coded port?

Unpopular opinion at the moment, but Russel Brand and other celebrities may actually, genuinely, be unaware of how they might be pressuring their partners of the moment into doing things they are uncomfortable with - hard to know when that crosses the line into inappropriate, maybe impossible.

Make a bootable USB with the installer .iso of your choice - preferably put the Linux system on something other than your daily driver computer and get used to it before making the switch. Install to the hard drive and run it like you really would, booting a desktop from USB and using it without installing to the local hard drive is possible but it’s not a good experience.

You know how AI is demanding all this compute hardware? You know how AI can do things superhumanly fast? Welp, all those AI agents running around are taxing the network infrastructure, not just bandwidth but also endpoints and servers. If we’re going to have AI agents “force multiplying” humans 10x and more, they’re likely to be using 20 to 100x as much computer/network resources to do those superhuman fast jobs.

In other words: the AI server datacenters are just the beginning - once AI really starts doing human-type work, the digital systems that are currently serving humans are going to be crushed under the tsunami of AI users. The increased demands for RAM and processor chips and datacenter space and electricity associated with AI are only just beginning.

The FAA may actually understand this, now that their SMART system has blown out their infrastructure capacity.

it’s just funny she took it personal

Found an insecurity. Probably should leave it alone in the future, unless you’re close enough for her to actually open up and let you help her work through it (very rare, not just among “work sisters” but even close platonic friends, in my travels.)

I like photo slideshows… never had too much trouble with the various things that do that… A lot of times I’ll just have a rotating desktop wallpaper, if I want to watch the photos I just minimize my apps.

Same, but… know that OP is “only” 6’9"- standard (US) doorways are 6’8" - OP photo is in a smaller than normal room.

Would be interesting to make the same photo of a 5’4" woman in a scaled down room for her size and see how they compare.

Our training says, basically, anything that makes anyone feel uncomfortable - pretty much for any reason whatsoever - is harassment, and if there’s anything sexual in the context whatsoever, that makes it sexual harassment.

Our reality is that people who are overly sensitive and probably complaining to HR on a regular basis about “normal” (whatever that is) workplace behavior tend to be downsized due to a diminished need for their role within the company.

He touched me inappropriately!

She touched me inappropriately first!

Can you PROVE IT?

If it takes that much explanation, guarantee most people “don’t get where you’re coming from.”

Long before Tinder I matched / went on a date with a heavier woman who had obvious issues with her size. Not sure what she was trying to do, but apparently f a t was her trigger word, she instantly dissolved in a pool of irreconcilable tears. I made it clear I had no problem with the size, found her attractive as she was - even before saying the trigger word, but the fragility and deep lack of self esteem was more than I could handle.

There’s no timed desktop lock?

The technical reasons for a screensaver pretty much vanished 10+ years ago, the security aspects are stronger than ever.

Outsourcing.

The Linux Foundation receives approximately $133 million annually in membership dues and donations from its corporate and organizational members.

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Musicians learn in large part by playing “covers,” programming is really no different.

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