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Funny you should ask.

In all seriousness, there was a Texas-sized-chunk-of-ice event in 2016.

M’Benga: I can live with it

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The pandemic ended

Hey guys, ChrisFix here!

Jack Quaid plays Jack Quaid.

It was so hyped for so long. I was beginning to fear that it couldn’t possibly live up to expectations.

I was pleasantly surprised.

It’s late. It was supposed to be April 1.

Nope. Been using the same installation of Windows 10 for years, and everything just works.

Even swapped the SSD from one laptop into another one. Added a UEFI boot entry, and it came right up.

I think the only problem I ever had was audio or Wi-Fi occasionally failing to work after resume. But that resolved itself after one of the major updates.

The only annoyance I’ve run into is the “Let’s finish setting up your device” screen after feature updates. But you can disable that fairly easily.

I mainly use it as a glorified Chromebook though. Browser, Windows Terminal + WSL, maybe the occasional Inkscape or Lightroom. All the “interesting” stuff happens in Linux VMs atop ESXi running on an old desktop.

But for everyday use, it’s nice to have something that “just works” when I pick it up.

I might check out Linux again in a few years though. From what I’ve read, PipeWire seems to be killing it in terms of progress on the audio side. So once the Wayland ecosystem matures, it should be fairly easy to get back that “just works” status with Linux.

In terms of performance, the main issue Windows really has is disk I/O. But a modern SSD fixes that easily. I am using a second-hand, nine-year-old Dell Latitude laptop, and it does everything I need it to do. Boots up in seconds. Has to stay plugged in though.

Backpack?

I reached a point in my life where I just didn’t have time for things that don’t “just work.”

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

As a man I can assure you we have the same problem. I have garments with a 30" waist that fit the same as a 34" waist. And I have pants with a 29" inseam that go past my feet and 32" inseam that don’t.

My biggest gripe is that the all feed is not actually the all feed from across the fediverse, but a feed from all instances your instance is federated with.

It’s even worse than that. It’s all communities that users on your instance have subscribed with. If someone creates a new community on another instance, you won’t see it on yours until you or someone else discovers and subscribes to it.

We didn’t ask for stretchy pants. Give me back my cotton jeans.

And while you’re at it, put back the other two belt loops.

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Print. At. Your. Local. Library.

The Enterprise computer illuminates wall panels to guide Ortegas to her quarters. In “Encounter at Farpoint” Riker was guided to the holodeck and Data by a similar system.

And IIRC it was introduced as being a relatively modern innovation in UX. So that’s a continuity break.