None of what you say is wrong, but I will say that though my regular number is on permanent silence and straight to voicemail because of all the spam calls and texts, the Google voice number I have had for years has been largely free of all that BS and continues to work great.

Maybe they are tracking everything I do, but the product DOES work pretty great.

I just got it yesterday, don’t worry your day will come!

because all of my coworkers and I keep failing these really hard tests, we aren’t allow to study during downtime on the clock.

Well there’s your answer. It sounds like they are tired of making losing investments.

I think you are getting too caught up in their stating “1995”. Video game graphics had already improved a lot by then. By talking about “pixelated” they probably really mean mid to late 80s technology. Heck, even in 1995 they were still using digital video disks the size of records.

When you compare that to the amount of memory in video game consoles, they had to keep things simple and couldn’t afford to go fill professional digital audio.

I think people may be missing a big factor in their replies. The graphics and audio on video games is digital, but music and video used in the rest of the world had been maturing for quite some time as analog.

Think about a record, you are capturing the vibrations of the noise directly into physical media. Digital requires translating that somehow into a pattern of 1s and 0s, and at the beginning, we just weren’t that good at it and memory chips were just painfully small at that time.

I’m using Garuda with Nvidia and it’s been painless. I do feel like a get a little less performance, but it’s been good enough to keep me happy.

Tabs are a totally different thing with completely different properties than any particular number of spaces.

If you are thinking of tabs in terms of how many spaces they are, you are doing tabs wrong.

A tab is really a jump to a specific measurement that you set. That most word processors have tab stops automatically every half inch has only helped train people to not understand tabs.

Roboburbilbear!

I think it’s important to realize that these old stereotypes aren’t necessarily as true as they used to be. I started on Bazzite and it was great, but I didn’t like immutability so I switched to Garuda. It’s an Arch distro and is dead easy and super beginner friendly.

I’m mad, but what? Once we pull out the guillotines there’s no going back, so right now I’m hoping that checks and balances thing starts to kick in soon.

There’s a lot in this world that will get you down, but you are wrong about the dog. There’s a dog on death row right now that you could save. I guarantee it will be happier with you, even if you aren’t perfect. And that dog will probably give you more love than any of us deserves. And that, often helps a little bit.

Go save some poor doggy, maybe they will save you back.

The burp let’s you know it’s working, and who couldn’t benefit from extra hydration?

Rock on, you are an inspiration to us all.

Somehow I’m doubting that you keep all your computer files in your download folder. You still have to move it. My way just makes it obvious it needs to be filled instead of leaving it on the junk drawer.

And the physical desk analogy still holds. Yeah you put it in a folder in the drawer, but it’s the wrong one. Unless you are specifying a custom filepath for each file, in which case, carry on.

Rebuttal, with a physical desk you put things you need right now on top in the open. You wouldn’t grab something off the printer and put it into a drawer first, then reopen the drawer to get it out of your need it now.

The desktop is “right now” workspace. Why bother to put it into a folder whose only purpose is not to take things out of to put elsewhere? I could at least understand people who download direct to documents… but that still leaves a mess to clean up with installers and such.

Downloading to the desktop is not only sane, but more efficient.

Leaving everything on your desktop is a different conversation though.

Bazzite was my first first into Linux. I loved it overall, the thing that eventually made me switch was that the login screen background was locked behind immutability. It’s stupid, but matters to me. I’m on Garuda now and it has been great too.

Look for kindness. Look for a group trying to build something for others, not just tear something down or personal gain.

No one is surprised by this headline. How depressing is that?

Next week in the news, Indian customer service phone bank companies shutting down as they are replaced by AI!

I think the judge decides the penalty after the jury decides on guilt.

I tried Bazzite as my first try with Linux for a while and liked it; it was super easy. I didn’t like that the immutability went so far as to lock me out of some parts of the OS that I thought should be open, like lock screen customization.

Now I am on Garuda Arch and it has been really easy too.