No I’m glad she let us know who she really is

Same on my e6520 latitude

Basically how I do rubber duckie debugging

See? It should work because I initialize it as this and iterate doing this and this which gives me a data structure like this and … wait … oh hell that clearly doesn’t produce the data structure I want. 🤦

We tend to see what we want to see, not what actually is.

Luckily I’ve only had to use “find my device” whenever my phone decides to catch-up with the TV remotes under the couch cushions

Probably not what they tell them

In general, I feel like the music streaming market is in much better shape than TV streaming. Price increases have been modest, there’s no fighting for exclusive streaming rights (that I’m aware of). I pirate all of my movies and shows, but Spotify’s alright, for me it’s worth paying. And even if it turned to shit tomorrow, Tidal and Apple music are pretty good too.

Same, Spotify and steam are too convenient for me. Everything else though…

Thank you very much, I’ve been noticing it’s been getting a lot of good little updates recently

I’ve heard that that’s similar to why Adobe creative cloud was so easy to pirate for years (maybe it still is, idk, I switched to affinity forever ago). Adobe is the industry standard because everyone uses it -> person wants to learn photo/video editing, digital illustration, etc, but can’t afford it -> pirate Adobe instead of trying cheaper/free alternatives, because it’s the industry standard -> person with Adobe skills gets hired by business that pays for Adobe legitimately because that’s what most people know -> Adobe is the industry because everyone uses it, and the cycle goes on…

Magically no, but sometimes a clean slate is easier than a refactor. I’m speaking generally though, I’ve never looked at Lemmy’s code, and I’m not even who you originally replied to.

“boiled sausage juice” 🤤🤤

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Skinnier tires are actually better in snow because they can dig down to the ground somewhat and find traction there. Wide tires tend to float on top of the snow because of the larger contract patch (but not enough to stay above it, that requires huge, under-inflated-balloon-like tires like what you’d need on an antarctic expedition)

I mean, it’s a large American pickup truck. We all know that it’s only a matter of time before those rims are replaced with polished aluminum trashcans

Definitely important, but in my experience with good tires and patience you can basically plow the snow out of the way

Even on Windows obs is the best performing option, last I tried (which was a few years ago granted)

I’ve actually had decent luck with it for big-picture questions. Like, “How do I go about accomplishing this, with this, given this?” It might list a few options, so when before I didn’t have a clue, now I have some ideas and can ask/Google the questions that I didn’t even know I didn’t have before. Of course, you’ve gotta use due diligence, don’t just take its word for it.

Sometimes even when I don’t get a good answer from it, it still breaks me out of the mind block I’m in, so I guess it’s helped me indirectly that way.

This is an excellent reply

This is pretty much my take. For tech newbies that essentially only need a browser, linux mint is great. On the other extreme, if you want to tinker, get your hands dirty, then you probably already know what distro you want.

It’s toughest for the people in between who need some more advanced os functionality or need programs that aren’t natively supported, but otherwise don’t want to know more about their os than they have to. Not because Linux doesn’t have that advanced functionality (and more!) or because there aren’t alternatives and workarounds for those programs, but because of the learning curve.

For someone already tech illiterate, the learning curve is almost a moot point. For the tinkerer, it’s practically a feature. But for the people in between, it can a real obstacle.

Been there. Frustrating af