BearOfaTime

C is no more scientific than F, as they're both based on water at sea level pressures on earth.

F doesn't need decimals for human-relavent temps (because it started with 100 being human body temp), which makes more sense to me. But whatever, they both work and provide the same info.

I prefer F (mostly because I grew up with it, I'd say we're all biased this way), but I can use either one.

I really prefer Metric for almost anything else though, because relationships and scaling is just trivial. Though Metric lacks a 1-ft equivalent (no one speaks in units of 10 centimeters), which is unfortunate.

Interestingly, even Metric began as being human based, and later rationalized to universal constants that were closest to the Metric units.

Woodworking is one exception - lumber and framing systems are built around units of 12,and the different relationships you can easily and quickly figure without thinking. It's a legacy thing, probably going as far back as the Sumerians or Egyptians with their grain counting and bushels - they used systems (base 16? I don't remember) that enabled them to quickly calculate all sorts of things (like tax, lol).

Now stone for people weight just messes with me!

And yes, we're all a mess of contradictions... Lol

Oh that's pretty cool

Meh. I only read a translated version, so it's hard to tell nuance.

But nothing in there is inaccurate. Maybe overstated.

Personally Signal seems trustworthy, but... I have some ambivalence, given their bullshit reasons for dropping SMS support. They claimed it cost them engineering, which is at best wrong, at worst a flat out lie. Signal has nothing to do with how SMS is managed - it merely hands the message to Android's SMS system. It's trivial. So why would they drop support and use that lie?

When I'm being misled, I start to look at everything else as having a bit more validity.

Plus UI/UX on signal sucks. It's no better than the lamest SMS app. Hell, old SMS apps are better. And no multi-device sync. They claim it can't be done and maintain encryption. Right. Clients just need to use the same encryption key...like Telegram does, and now Teleguard - and they're claiming full e2e at all times.

I could really use color, but I'm unwilling to pay the price for a decent color laser.

I picked up a Canon color from Craigslist for $50. It prints fine, but I can never get it to print dark enough, even in black. You get what you pay for.

Laser.

"It costs money because it saves money"

My 1997 Lexmark black and white laser just quit. I don't remember when I last replaced the toner. Plus, I think I can fix it - it acts like there's a paper jam. I've never seen an inkjet last that long.

A used laser (of the right brand, say brother), is far better than a new printer made by a crappy company (especially inkjet).

Funny someone downvoted you.

Clearly that person has never managed a 10,000 pc domain. Or hell, even a 10 pc domain in an SMB.

"The license is worth the cost" - I literally had this conversation with a peer not two hours ago. They have a client who's previous IT management built a domain using Linux. Yes, you can do it, but I'd only do it if your IT is fully in-house and stable. This was an IT vendor. It saved them (the client) licensing...like $250 or so.

Imagine how quickly they're going to burn $250 for a support issue because there's something odd about how the Linux software isn't exactly duplicating a windows DC? Or the next IT vendor doesn't know what you implemented, so have to find out about which packages you used and how they work. (In this case they're building a new domain and migrating everyone, because it's currently unsupportable. Glad they saved $250 to spend $20k today).

You don't use Linux desktop in a business to save licensing costs, unless you know the use-case inside and out. The first time your business has a need for something that doesn't exist in Linux land, all those savings are gone as you build a virtual host for Windows, and deal with the lost productivity.

And I use Linux every day for things like Proxmox, UnRAID, TrueNAS, etc. Even there the difference between design approaches is really problematic.

Preach!

These are people who can't be bothered to write things down, because that takes effort.

Pretty much anyone can read at least 4x faster than someone can speak.

There's a place for video, 98% of YouTube isn't it.

Because "we" do, as evidenced by the people willing to pay the price(s)

I'm sure for Windows Pro this isn't accurate. There's no way a business could legally permit this, it's a massive risk.

It's probably just with Windows Home, and I'm sure O&O Shutup already handles it.

A Pro license is worth it just for Group Policy, which provides control over such things.

I appreciate what they're trying to do, but just like Top Gear, it's very difficult to pass the torch with something like this.

If you're a fan of radio, Car Talk is another good example. How do you pass the torch if you don't have the next gen already there, with the audience getting used to them?

Hopefully the new crew will be able to carry the flag in their own way, with as much humor.