Cries in USA.

I link this article every time the discussion comes up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

The first paragraph is a doozy.

Shit, I can’t get Windows to print on my network printer. Have to uninstall it, reinstall it, manually set the IP, restart Windows, and then it’ll work for like one session and then not work again. Windows won’t even throw an error, it’ll just tell me it printed while my printer sits silent.

On linux it works every time. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even try to print in Windows anymore, I just forward all documents to my laptop and print in linux.

One day later:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/hp_ditches_15_minute_wait_time_call_centers/

https://youtu.be/_ChQK8j6so8

The bots are there to sell things to humans, collect data on humans, or persuade humans to do things. You want money, power, or to manipulate people into voting against their own self-interests? That’s what bots are for.

Go with Braindead just for shits and giggles.

Your son is almost certainly making a huge mistake, but he’ll be way better off if you’re on his side vs. if you’re estranged. Go.

Is this your first exposure to FOSS? If so, you are in for a treat. There’s a whole world of free, open source software out there for you to enjoy.

Yeah, it’s 100% free.

Windows was doing an Ubuntu-like release cycle on 10 with standard releases every 6 months and LTS releases every 2 years. There was no need for them to release Windows 11 other than branding. They could have simply kept up their scheduled release cadence like every linux distro does.

Yes TikTok, that’s what a ban is.

Any of the businesses that have hopped on the AI train. $200/month is basically the price of a single Indian call center employee. A company can pay for the AI subscription and fire 90% of the call center, using humans only for escalation.

That’s nothing to a business.

Not sure what you mean. The McChicken bars are not showing a 200% increase regardless of how you slice it.

They’re not. The $3 bar is not 3x the height of the $1 bar next to it. The $2.99 bar on the right is higher than the $2.99 bar on the left. Someone just free drew the bars and it’s extremely noticeable and annoying.

I’m neither financially ruined nor unhealthy, so…

I could change it to “anything” and still make the same point.

It’s time for this silliness to come to an end. You must ride a bike. We all must. It’s not a weird fringe form of transportation that only people in Portland and Colorado do. It’s just simply the way we all get around for moderate intra-city distances.

Ah yes, because we all live in areas where everything we need to access is a moderate intra-city distance away.

That tropes are not bad, and overusing them does not automatically make a work bad.

Noo, MTG only allows you to go to “arbitrarily high.”