Final Final Project

Windows breaks:

1. find a Windows installation Disc or USB (1 hour)
2. backup files from broken installation (2 hours)
3. Install windows (15 minutes)
4. Install Windows updates (8 hours) 4a. Debloat/Decrapify Windows (30 minutes)
5. Restore backed up files (2 hours)
6. Find and install previously installed programs (??? Years)
7. Try to remember accounts and special settings for special previously installed programs (3 hours)

Done in 16 hours

Linux Breaks

1. Find Linux Live USB (5 minutes)
2. Reinstall Linux (10 minutes)
3. Install updates (20 minutes)
4. Reinstall previously installed programs (5 minutes)

Done in <1 hour and spend the rest of the weekend playing Elden Ring

Separate /home partitions are a godsend.

IMO, blurring a house in Street View could lead to the Streisand effect, especially when 99% of all other property is unblurred.

If you want to remain private, in the case of Street View, your best bet is to keep it as inconspicuous as possible, otherwise people will start looking closer and ask questions; the exact opposite of what you want, even if you have nothing to hide.

I've started having issues recently, too. After a work injury, I finally saw my GP, who recommended Physical Therapy, which has basically just been a guided workout with some yoga moves worked in over the course of an hour.

It hasn't fixed my pain yet, but it's made it better, and my pain was explained in a way that makes sense (my shoulders and core weren't as strong as they should have been, placing undue burden on some of my backmuscles).

If you don't want to go to PT, I'd strongly recommend just slowly doing 10-15 minutes of simple stretching like what you might have done in Gym as a kid. Stretch to the point of mild discomfort, not pain, doing each stretch 3 tines for 10 seconds. It might be worth looking into some basic yoga poses that target your particular pains (or the ones that you want to target first).

I'll bet you'll notice good results after a week. If not, definitely go see your GP again.

Obligatory "I am not a doctor"

If I'm honest, video games and computers in general. The community has some to do with it, I guess, but more because the people making them just seem to not care about the customers at all anymore.

If I had to put my feeling into words, its that they try to make things at the smallest possible cost with the highest return possible, including throwing ads into everything (making for a poorer experience for the users), while simultaneously making everything bland so they can appeal to everyone.

Ten years ago, I loved video games, and now the only "next-gen" console I have is a Switch and a Steam Deck. I used to be a huge Windows fan, but now I can hardly stomach Windows 11, and run Linux exclusively as much as possible.

Big tech ruined tech. Big video games ruined video games.

Because all the cool people are too busy homebrewing tabletop RPGs instead.

Phones are generally seen as more secure because they're less likely to have malware and the apps should be running in their own sandbox, meaning it's more difficult to see what each app is doing and so theoretically it's more secure.

Most desktop operating systems do not have sandboxing in place, have known malware that could be installed much easier than on a phone, and harder to verify that the system is secure. This is doubly so taking into account that basically the only way to use the banking information is through a web browser, which could have any number of junky web extensions installed.

While things are incrementally changing on the desktop front (mostly on Linux with Atomic distros, Flatpak/Snap, and Firefox container tabs), most banks are only familiar with Windows and macos, and since those two have the most security risks, they'd rather play it safe with the relatively more standardized, theoretically more secure phone OS.

It's a hard sell to try to get people to seed Terabytes of data. Might be easier to find people to seed if the collections were split up to make them a few hundred Gigabytes.

I just linked you 6 articles and a peer reviewed paper on the subject, but if you're still not going to believe me, I'm not going to spoonfeed you. This is my last reply to your motonormative idiocy.

You have me confused for someone else. Lemmy is a big place with multiple users, someone else said that it's both.

But sure, here you go:

Pedestrian fatalities are correlated with two major factors: speed and vehicle size. In North America, streets are designed to make driving easier and faster: lanes are made wider, and obstacles are removed to reduce visual clutter. This results in everything in NA looking flat and being spread out.

Vehicle sizes are goibg up because of the "size wars": the EPA made limits on fuel emissions barring vehicle size, so auto manufacturers decided to make larger vehicles to get around the limitations. Consumers wanted bigger, "safer" vehicles to make it more likely to survive a crash, so there's become an arms race for vehicle size. As these vehicles get bigger, pedestrians become harder to see, and if a pedestrian is hit, the grill is so high, the pedesteian will be thrown under the vehicle as opposed to over it.

As North America grows, we expand into suburbs, which are residential only, requiring residents to commute into the city to get groceries or go to work. More driving means more km driven.

And if you want my sources, here are a few to get you started:

Pedestrian deaths all-time high - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car

And https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7317a1.htm

Vehicle size: https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/more-and-more-american-pedestrians-are-dying-because-larger-vehicles-incorporating-data-safety-regulations-can-help

And https://www.cdc.gov/pedestrian-bike-safety/about/pedestrian-safety.html

And https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33147075/

Lane width and speeding correlation: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/review_lane_width_and_speed_parsons.pdf

And https://narrowlanes.americanhealth.jhu.edu/report/JHU-2023-Narrowing-Travel-Lanes-Report.pdf

I hope these provide the answers you're looking for.

The only thing I know as someone not in the business is that many of the experts are saying larger vehicles are nearly half of all fatalities.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedestrian-deaths-increase-crash-data

Do note that these are numbers for the US, and may not correspond with other countries.

Were already at an all-time high of vehicle related deaths. We'd actually probably see a decrease in fatalities if we made cars smaller.

I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.

Doesn't make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that's just me.

As a kid I didn't understand hermits.

Now that I'm an adult, I'm jealous

I personally don't use Photoshop but was using it as an example. You could fill in the blank with other tools like AutoCAD, MS Office, QuickBooks/Quicken, etc.

I think there are two major hurdles keeping Linux adoption back (besides the obvious installation bit). The first is that our backwards compatibility is terrible. It is easier to get old versions of Windows software to run in Wine than it is to get some old Linux software to run natively.

If something like Photoshop did finally release a Linux version, even if they only did one release to make 2% of people happy, it likely wouldn't be able to run natively after 5 years.

The second is a good graphical toolkit. Yes, GTK and Qt exist, but neither are as simple as WinForms or SwiftUI/Aqua.

I think my favorite comment from that thread was "It's perfect for organizing people's /tmp folder" from outofpaper

It tried, but it missed some good context

Yeah, I was wondering why they were going to continue with such a dangerous mission after all the bad press Boeing has been getting lately. Sunk cost fallacy, maybe?

The only wrong choice is being indecisive, so you start by picking one and watching YouTube tutorials about it.