I filled up at Costco in Moreno Valley for $3.50(87) a few months ago.

California is a big state

Program doesn’t open all of sudden?

I guessed Windows update immediately, glad my IT skills are still sharp.

If all you needed was admin access to, I presume, finish an installation of something or permissions got messed with, then IT should’ve been able to remote in and fix it within 5 minutes.

Also, have you tried restarting your PC yet?

Oh beyond, but it’s going to be completely out of your control.

Funding never being available, requests taking forever to get approved that people forget you even asked, and nobody taking ownership of anything and stuff just gets passed around until people stop talking about it.

Oh and this super important project that somehow affects the smallest workgroup in the building? Drop everything! You need to get this done NOW! And then that workgroup comes in after it’s done and they tell you thanks but they didn’t need the project done for another 2 months. Oh and in 2 months that project you got finished needs to be moved to a completely different location now and it’s due tomorrow.

But everyone is mostly chill and for 90% of the job it’s not stressful. Pay and benefits are…average, but you get bank holidays off now.

I feel like this would be my mindset. Like you’re bummed out or disappointed that a certain action wasn’t successful, but you’re not upset with the person just the event in general.

My kids are still quite young but I’ve already had to catch myself mid-sentence and reword or rethink how I say certain things. It’s hard because at work we’re all cursing like sailors but at home we don’t want anything like that around the kids…to the best of our abilities.

Want a real schizo theory?

People are going to use the ID verification thing to see which accounts are child accounts, pull all details for those accounts and make a database of children’s accounts, and then sell that information to bad actors who plan to traffic children.

To be fair, YouTube is a giant piece of shit. On mobile, IronFox and Firefox are terrible with it, but switching to Chrome and everything loads instantly.

We all know Google is purposely slowing down non-chrome browsers.

Yeah it’s all just in the GUI to enable and disable what you don’t want.

I don’t get what people are complaining about with LibreWolf being “too hard”. Like it’s 1 minute clicking through menus and you’re done. 5 minutes if you need to read and search things up real quick.

But LibreWolf, ublock installed by default, and then set up containers. Just pure bliss.

And I absolutely hate Gnome. But thank god we have over a dozen DEs to choose from. One of the great things about Linux is user choice.

All modern monitors are like this now. Dell, HP, Asus…

Doesn’t detect input? Instant power off. Now you have to press the menu key every 5 seconds to try and find the input for your PC.

Beyond ridiculous. I have a Dell that’s like 15 years old and it stays on for multiple minutes before going into power saving. It’s glorious

For real. What is stopping a program from querying if an account is an adult or child, and then seeing if there’s an email or username or whatever tied to that account age?

So now we have a database of children with their names and emails? Addresses? Or if a system gets hacked and that information is sold to bad actors?

What is stopping a pedophile from making a “child” account and then being lumped in with a group of other children?

These are things you think about in the first 10 minutes of questioning whether something like this is viable and how it can be exploited.

I can’t wait until it’s leaked that these child accounts are being used to target minors for whatever: ads, sexual exploitation, etc.

The average user trying to switch to Linux? YES, they would.

The average user like my mom? No, because she sure as shit doesn’t even know what Linux is nor how to make a bootable USB drive.

I’m sick and tired of this cop out answer of the “average” user.

This is like someone buying a car. Do you want to get a lemon? Sure, buy whatever “looks good” OR you do some RESEARCH and figure out what car to get from reliability reports.

Do you think a Mac user wanting to switch to Windows won’t do any research?

Supposedly Linus switched to Kubuntu, but we’ll have to wait for part 2 to see how that turned out. But from the WAN show I don’t think it went well.

My biggest issue is that there is zero information of what everyone is actually running.

“I’m running Kubuntu”, cool, what version? LTS or STS? What kernel? What version of Mesa drivers? How did you even install the OS? Ext4? Manual partitioning? Are you using swap? Is steam installed via flatpak, snap, or the deb?

But nope it’s “lol I installed pop again, shits still broken, Linux sucks! I’m cursed!”

It’s both, Utah has a larger base with Idaho coming in second afaik

Yeah this is how I’m leaning as well. I just searched my specific online tag that I’ve used for 10+ years and I have 100 searches all located in…Idaho? I guess the Mormons are out to get me!

The site is trash IMO and potentially a huge nothing burger.

It’s not even just US related subjects though. There was just a post the other day about physical media(photos, dvds, etc.) and I posted a comment detailing pricing out a local NAS so you can backup your shit to it(because physical media can get destroyed) and replies I got were the whole “digital stuff can get destroyed too”, “ransomware”, “it’s about the experiences! you can’t have that with digital!”, “prices are CRAZY for computer stuff!”(even though I linked products at reasonable prices and people said it isn’t that price anymore, CLICK THE LINK DUMBASS!).

And it’s all an asinine argument because you can DO BOTH. Have your physical photos AND back them up digitally.

It’s all or nothing with some people and it’s infuriating. It feels like I’m arguing with children over ice cream flavors. Yeah, chocolate is good, but I prefer strawberry and then it devolves into “CHOCOLATE ONLY FOR EVERYONE!”.

That seems to be the answer for everything on this site. I left reddit because I didn’t like all of the doom scrolling, nihilistic, bullshit posts, yet they’re here too now.

As a hobbyist if I can’t side load my necessary apps to make my phone functional, then I have a non-functional device. And if my device is non-functional then there is no point in having one.

I’ll legitimately just go back to a flip phone or have no phone. And there’s no fucking way I’m touching a iPhone.

It comes with ublock installed by default, it also defaults to having certain features enabled by default like clearing cookies on browser exit, letter boxing enabled, and webgl disabled. This may or may not hamper your usage of the browser, but you can enable/disable this stuff via the settings.

You can also go to the Firefox extension marketplace and install extensions natively.

What’s the point of having the experience when our memory deteriorates?

See how stupid that argument sounds?

Guess what, you can do both!