BearOfaTime

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Verbal acuity"?

The man hasn't been able to carry a conversation in a bag for years, and we have hours of video showing his mental emptiness.

He tried to shake the hand of someone who wasn't there.

He's being abused by his handlers.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (17 children)

I've had 400% more failures of USB C than of micro. Keep in mind I've only had C for a couple years, and micro for 14 across numerous devices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

As my father would say "locks keep honest people honest"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Lots more is holding it back, but I'd agree apps is a huge issue.

It's still has significant issues with being end-user friendly. Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click, not supporting right click, ambiguities galore when looking at a package repository, odd defaults in packages that one really wouldn't expect to have to check (e.g. Selecting RDP connection in a Remote app, but it defaults the security to something other than RDP?)

As for apps, there's problems like Libre Office devs refusing to support tables in the spreadsheet app, saying data management should be done with a database tool. While they're not wrong, it takes a LOT more effort to setup a DB than to simply click "make table" in excel, which millions of people are familiar with. I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn't need a database. No one has time for that.

Or you plug in the most prolific wireless mouse on the planet, that's been around since 2000 (Logitech), and it doesn't work. Now pick any random piece of hardware and this is the stuff you run into. You go down the rabbit hole of searching for a solution

Or CAD (which falls in your app argument).

Linux is great for many things (things I run, UnRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox, etc), it's just not a great general purpose desktop for the average user, yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Who's Kurt Advice? 😆

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Your scrum leader is dropping the ball. Uggh, how frustrating

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Gotta say, the "new" Indians are a thing of beauty

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

C47 if I remember right.

The plane used for the Berlin Airlift after WWII

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Meh, pretty thin discussion of midlife crisis. And focusing on "happiness" isn't a great way to measure anything.

It seems the midlife crisis comes about because many people "hit their stride" in middle age. All they've known to that point is struggle.

By middle age, the kids are mostly grown (or at least self-sufficient for managing their day and don't "need" mom and dad like toddlers do), you know yourself pretty well, work has become less challenging (it's wash/rinse/repeat).

You've been pushing against a wall for decades, now the wall isn't there, or it's less important to you, and you don't know what to do now - there's a loss of meaning because of this change in perspective.

Meaning in life comes from such things - facing challenges. Without the challenges to which one becomes accustomed, people are adrift for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, prescriptivism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

People here really don't like it when a post talks about the English language

Haha, I love projection like this, you assumed and people are downvoting, and you're wrong: hubris.

People are downvoting for multiple reasons, right up front is this is a community for memes - I don't see a meme here.

Second reason: you're patently wrong about the word fry. Frying food has one meaning (as clarified by others), with different techniques for each food.

Also, your post comes across as criticising, which isn't interesting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And still unmatched.

What other launch system comes close?

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