Mine is off too. I’m usually too busy to bother with worrying too much about Google stealing my data. I’ve been using Google for so long that it’s too late for me.

Save yourselves.

“Should” is doing some serious work in your last statement.

As someone with ~72 TB of raw storage… Heh. Good luck.

Mood

Both for this and for healthcare.

The nurses are struggling to get a fair deal while somehow the billions a year put into healthcare goes where exactly?

Not to the front line staff, I’ll tell you that much.

And I get it, materials and equipment isn’t cheap but between nurses salaries and material costs, and the occasional multi-million dollar piece of equipment… I just don’t see where it’s all being spent. Between the middle and upper management, there needs to be an overhaul.

Education on every level isn’t dissimilar.

Hell, most government services need a review, at the very least.

Those words mean things. They might not make a lot of sense in the context we used them in, but they formed a thought.

6-7 isn’t even a semi complete concept on the surface of it. It’s literally devoid of any meaning at all.

Yes. This was it for me. I spent enough time in traffic that I just memorized which car was which.

If I go out driving now, which is fairly rare, I’m always going, I don’t recognize that car, what is it ??

And the cycle continues.

Yup. I agree. I was just checking to see if that was the case.

I was certainly hoping it was, but I wanted to see what other people’s experiences have been.

Thanks for the conversation.

Oooh. That version. I forgot they called that basic 2.0

Alright.

One of us.

Also DOS. Now I’m a digital plumber, keeping the pipes and tubes of the Internet from getting backed up with all the things happening commercially.

Remember, the Internet is not something you can just dump something on, it’s not a big truck.

There was a 2.0?

TIL.

Lies and slander.

I am a system administrator and a network administrator. I abhor database management tyvm.

I was 8 when Linus posted on that Minix Usenet group about his hobby that won’t be big at all.

“poor people shouldn’t be able to afford food because I’m irresponsible with my money”

… That’s what this sounds like.

If you’re not “poor enough” to need snap, and you can’t afford to buy whatever food you want, within reason, then either, you need snap and you’re in denial, or you need to learn money management.

Snap recipients are forced to spend the money on food, since that’s the only place that money can be spent AFAIK… So they’re forced to be responsible with their food money. They can’t use the funds to get drunk at the pub and stumble down the street picking fights and ending up in the drunk tank.

See, that’s what I was thinking. I’ll have to do more research, but I would think all the overhead from Windows being Windows, would kind of diminish the gap between running it natively on Windows, and using proton or something so you can run it on Linux.

The overhead on both should be fairly similar, though with how Windows is, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was slower.

Okay, real talk.

I know there’s probably 100 videos on this, but I don’t have time to watch any of them right now…

How much performance is lost/gained from using Linux to play games via proton?

I’m certain any game with a native Linux version will work great, I’m mostly concerned with the ones that need some kind of emulation layer.

As an IT professional, it’s getting harder to find what I need from Google.

At the same time, it’s borderline impossible to find what I need from other search engines, most of the time, and it’s downright stupid to ask AI about it, because it will always give you an easy answer that doesn’t work using controls that don’t exist.

Yay?

I would agree that’s what people mean, but they’re completely overlooking that the problem has already been recognised, and addressed, with a solution that’s been around for decades.

It’s just that people take these modern amenities for granted, so they see them as part of the burden of doing the dishes or doing laundry, rather than relieving the burden of doing those things.

We can load up the dish washer and sit on our duff watching YouTube while a machine does the hard work. Then we just have to suffer through putting the dishes where we want them to go.

This is textbook “first world problems”. AI is only expected to solve these first world problems. By definition, these problems are less actually problems that need solving, and more inconveniences that we perceive as problems.

I’m sorry you’re going through that.

I understand why they want to, but professionals give and have, consent. This is just kink shaming, honestly.

There’s already done fairly aggressive agree verification laws there that were recently enacted, if memory serves me correctly, so now you’re telling agree verified adults what they can, or cannot, watch.

I have zero doubt that the actors in the adult films depicting these kinds of scenarios are consenting adults. And while it may not be everyone’s kink, it is some people’s. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. You’re an adult. Deal with it.

Making laws so that everyone needs to abide by what you think is acceptable in terms of sexually explicit material, is ridiculous, with the only caveat being that all people involved must be consenting adults (depictions of non-adults is another legal matter entirely, and should continue to not be permitted - this is one of the few exceptions to the rule).