Laurel Raven

I just pour a little of the hot water into it while I start my coffee brewing, swirl it around and pour it out, then wipe out the mug

I’ve never had any buildup and it gets plenty clean enough, and takes effectively zero time because I’m already waiting for the coffee anyway

They asked what’s wrong

Like, Microsoft’s CEO bragging that 25% of all their code was written by AI, and that was a year plus ago now so it’s probably higher at this point… I don’t find that reassuring, it’s part of the reason I won’t let my Windows workstation upgrade to 23H2 and I’ve almost completely converted to Linux at home (I keep the laptop running my simulator games on Windows because peripherals can be a pain to get working right without the manufacturer’s software, but it’s also locked to 23H2)

And I’ve used AI to assist me with writing code.

But that’s the distinction: it assists me, it doesn’t write it for me. If I don’t understand how or why something works or why I would do it this way, I’m not using it in production. Far too many seem to be checking out, though, and telling their GPT to take the wheel, and that’s where I think one of the biggest issues comes in.

This is why I’m on Linux at home and I refuse to update my work Win11 machine past 23H2

On the flip side, errors in 3D graphics typically won’t cost a company millions, while errors in an SQL query very well might

Anyone who cannot stop working and live off their own wealth (and not rely on the working income of others) for the rest of their lives is, by definition, working class.

So, the new Silent Generation (which only got its first and only president in 2021)

A few years ago I believed that.

Now that the fascists have taken over…not so much anymore.

I actually really liked 8.1, preferred it to 7 once I got used to the Start Screen. Surprisingly well designed, actually found myself preferring the menu over 7’s

10 had the best start menu in my opinion, but the quality was just an ever advancing downward spiral.

Now, I can’t even stand it, deal with it at work as much as I have to, but at home, the only Windows machine left is only still on it because simulator peripherals are a pain to get working right on Linux sometimes, so my dedicated simulator machine still uses that, but it’s used for nothing else

Just throwing this out there, you can turn off web search in the windows search bar… I believe it requires editing local group policy or registry, but it’s an easy tweak that you shouldn’t have to do again

It should not require this, but for those of us stuck on Windows, full or part time, doing that does make using it marginally more tolerable

I think my last count hit north of 500 tabs…

I… I may have a bit of a problem…

Oh yeah, most people just have no clue how much yarn is needed or how much time it takes to make even a fairly simple item

Not to mention, did we ever find out what happened to all the stuff that had been in the East Wing?

Hell, I heard that the Resolute Desk had been spotted at Mar A Lago…

I don’t even get the point to the flashy BIOS interface, the thing isn’t something you should be spending much of any time in. You get in, make the change you intend to make, burn a sacrifice as an offering to the gods, and hope that it works out right.

LibreWolf is a solid choice, I use it as well

Well, more battery isn’t the only thing they could put in there… Like said, I’d love my fingerprint scanner on the back again (even if I’ve stopped using it to unlock my phone… Thanks, dystopian hellscape the US has turned into…)

I can recommend checking out Zen as well

The idea of needing to jailbreak a laptop you own is just insane to me

Sounds good to me, I think the camera bump is one of the dumbest design decisions modern phone designers have forced on us. Just make the thing a uniform thickness, gives them room to put back those things they removed in the quest for more thinness, which they never could have really done because of the optics.

I lost my fingerprint reader on the back because they wanted to go thinner and I’m stuck with the significantly worse screen reader, all so I could get a phone that’s more awkward to lay down without a case that effectively limits or eliminates the bump anyway, so nothing has been gained.

Then: “If you don’t have to pay for it then you’re the product”

Now: “You have to pay for it and you’re the product”