Kongar

For my 75 year old mother who doesn’t do anything besides Facebook. Ya an iPad is perfect! ;)

She thinks it’s a full blown computer and it’s impossible to break or install a virus on it. iPads can be surprisingly good for that purpose…

Do it. Get a second hard drive and distro hop. Eventually you’ll find what you like and use windows less and less. Doesn’t have to be all or nothing at one point in time.

This is honestly such a pile of shit from Microsoft. Right…. Grandma is going to resize her partitions with those ridiculously cryptic instructions. She’s totally going to figure out which partition we’re talking about, she’s totally going to open a command line interface as admin, heck she totally even knows to find those instructions. Its hard enough for people to distinguish between “ya that’s windows update, click that button” vs “no that’s a phishing attack, never click that button”

Now the rest of us who know what we’re doing have to fix everyone’s PCs in the family. Keep pushing everyone to iPads and Linux Microsoft…

It’s hard when you’re starting out, but think about it this way:

1. you have to live somewhere-that means rent or a mortgage.
2. rent goes to “the man”. So does most of your mortgage payment but you DO pay some of that to yourself. So when comparing the two you have to subtract that out.
3. you get a tax break on mortgage interest - so you have to take that out
4. the house is likely to appreciate in value - so any equity you build has to be taken out
5. this means that a substantially larger monthly mortgage payment might actually be equal to or even less than paying monthly rent.
6. rent goes up, nobody talks about this. Mortgages are fixed.
7. renting is forever. Eventually (if you’re not stupid with refinances) you’ll own your home and have zero payments.
8. in favor of renting - if something breaks in a house, you have to fix it. Renters just yell at their landlord.
9. even if you have a crappy interest rate now, you can always refinance in the future if and when rates come down.

Paying for your first mortgage can be daunting when just starting out, but it’s often cheaper than renting when considering the above points, the one exception being how much money you sink into repairs. (Don’t buy a money trap of a house, stay away from major fixer uppers). Eventually your salary will go up and your mortgage payment will be less and less of a burden.

Being in debt sucks, but I’ve felt paying rent sucks even more. So a mortgage ain’t so bad. That’s the way I see things - ymmv

If I knew who you were and what company you worked for, I’D report that to HR. If that ever happened at my office I’d fire the guy without even consulting HR. I’d confiscate his stuff and walk him out the door, HR can clean up the mess.

If there was one hint of retaliation by another employee, I’d fire them on the spot. If there is any hr or manager retaliation to you, you call a lawyer. You’ll be paid extremely well.

The situation you described is so black and white in your favor - your management and hr department should be quaking in their boots that you don’t sue.

I picked up palworld again. I like the recent improvements to controlling pals in the base. You can tell them to not do certain tasks and there are other base management qol fixes. I summoned one of those base bosses and it literally destroyed my entire base lol. It's still a little grindy and boring but they are making positive changes.

Brotato on the steam deck has been occupying my time - I don't know why I keep picking it back up. But I do.

I'm eyeing red dead redemption 2 - I've never played that. I'm also looking at Stellar Blade. I may pick one of those up and give it a go.

I worked at a college bar for beer money. Her friends came in all the time, she did not. Then one night she did, and I was literally struck dumb - just like the stories. There was a few months of seeing her here and there, a few conversations - I had never met a woman so amazing. I was a bug, and she a goddess in every way. Imagine my shock when she handed me a napkin with her phone number on it and said “call me sometime.”

You bet your ass I called her the very next day. That was 28 years ago. The crazy part is things got steadily better over the years. Nothing got “boring” it got more exciting. Looks fade, but she’s more beautiful to me today than ever. Kids didn’t drag us down, they made things more fun. Bills and chores and life’s troubles became something we worked through together - teaching us that we can overcome just about anything and be successful. I’d argue all of our success is because we’re a team.

We truly hit the love lottery when both of us were “done” and didn’t believe something like what we have is possible. Put away your baggage, and keep an open mind - your napkin could be handed to you today.

I guess I’ll be that guy…. Can’t like MOST of the animals on the planet do this? I don’t get what’s so special about this, or why someone would fund/do research on it.

Every dog I’ve ever owned learned to communicate their desires to me - be it ringing a bell to go outside, giving me THAT side eye look then staring at the cupboard for a treat, etc. Cats do it in their own way. The birds outside my house make a particular squaking racket every single time they’ve emptied the bird feeder letting us humans know “I’d like you to fill it up please”. :) All manner of farm animals from goats, pigs, cows, and chickens I’ve seen do the same things. Heck if chickens, turkeys, and cows can do it - man those three in particular are dumb - then I think this is a trait of most animals.

TLDR: most animals can communicate their desires, I’d say they are about as smart as very young human toddlers. /shrug

I grew up on a farm and strawberries were one of the big crops. You might be right but I think the biggest thing is that they are simply picked green. Not 100% green, but as soon as they show a little red, they are picked. They last MUCH longer this way, but at the cost of flavor. There are different varieties, but those two berries look the same (most of the ones you see are the jewel variety)

I see this sentiment a lot and I’ve disagreed. Something didn’t really click for me with Metroid prime - I much preferred the side scrollers. I think it has to do with controllers - up until then I was a mouse and keyboard person, the controller was jarring and janky.

Maybe I should revisit the series. I never thought it was a bad game, maybe I’ll appreciate it more the 2nd time around.

I do love me some Metroid games whatever the form.

I agree. I’m the guy who picks, buys, assembles, and installs the OS and programs for like everyone around me. I enjoy doing it, they enjoy getting awesome PCs for good prices.

My next build for them will absolutely not be Microsoft. The average person can get away with an iPad running iOS for their computing needs. So it’ll be a user friendly Linux distro going forward.

Glad they have time to call out everyone else’s problems, yet Microsoft still can’t fix their broken jan win 10 update.