Oh, don’t get me started on Windows issues. Lol. But the only reason we use Windows at work is for Office, otherwise Tue CAD software has a Linux version yet runs better.

It would be bad if it was the least powerful Mac ever, It makes mW laugh they need to tell people it is the most powerful everytime

Yep, I have used Linux since 2017 after W10 just made everything slower for home use and work. I have been using W11 for work lately, and it sucks. The office16/root/vfs/ProgramFilesCommonX64(86)/office16/ai.exe and aimgr.exe keep hogging resources in task manager and bogging down the system when ever I try to get work done. Deleteing those files helps but they come back after updates, so for now I created two empty text files and changed the filename and extensions to match the deleted files, so far that has kept updates from reinstalling those ai files

No, all my systems are Linux. Work is W11 and I have to keep deleting ai.exe and aimgr.exe from the vfs MS office16 folders or the AI takes most of my processor for no reason and my applications run like molasses.

No I was counting as non property wealth, but as multimillionaire of world wide company. To meet the guy on the steet in a 90s Honda, you would never guess his wealth.

Ah right we should inform comedians, since everyone is so offended by harmless joking in 2025. Dude, it is(was) Dull Men’s Club…assumption being it is men here, that are dull, and are boring their wives talking about Linux. (I understand that some men may have husbands, and many women contribute to Linux use and FOSS maintenance, and Maybe your wife or husband likes talking about Copy on Write Filesystem OS choices, but stats say many people do not want to hear about OS choices, and stats say in a “men’s” group the majority would have a wife that falls into that Venn diagram–as opposed to a husband.

Yes they would think we were softies.

I even see it just in my families immediate generations. My grandfather rode his bike everywhere, and never owned a car. He was fit. He got hit by a car once and waited at the hospital, after a few hours he said screw it, and cycled home.

For me growing up most families had one car, which the working parent drove, so if you needed to get to a friends house or anywhere it was by foot or by bike if it was outside of town. Or waiting several hours at a place for a ride. Being further from home meant you had to sometimes get creative for food. Friend and I once sharpened sticks and spearfished and cooked lunch over a dried stick fire rather than walk all the way back home.

My adult kids are hardworking individuals but they grew up with more modern convenience of 2 cars, uber, functioning bus system, food delivery. If their car or phone app broke, I think they would find walking or biking somewhere a deterrent to following through, especially if it was raining.

And there is the teen generation who you hear instantly complain “oh my gawd, my uber is like 1 minute late, like I have been standing here sooo long” LOL And a parent suggesting they walk leads to “oh my gawduh, then I will be all sweaty!”

That teen is never spearfishing because the walk home is too far. If their phone dies (along with payment app) they will probably have a breakdown/ feel stranded. My grandfather would never be able to fathom somebody being so unreliant on themselves let alone Somebody from 150 years ago seeing an able bodied teen not be able to use their legs.

To be fair bringing up Linux is only dull for the wives. :). OpenSUSE here, not as dull as Debian, but not Arch either.

My wife is on NixOS, because she 100% does not care about an OS, only that it works identically every time even if drive died; so I have her config stored elsewhere in case a new build is ever needed. Turned a 2010 sloooow windows laptop into a peppy zoom call, web, email machine.

To be honest, us getting a dog forces us to go for 3+ walks a day. It has made me lose some weight and lowered my BP, so I think your comment is accurate.

I read a good post about this before, the summary was: a philanthropist billionaire helps causes specific to their discretion. While their rise to wealth has taken the toll from many victims, some dead directly because of it, their donations back may not even help the location they robbed it from.

You can picture United Health suddenly helping world hunger, it doesn’t bring back all the people who died miserably from denied claims, or those who are still alive but became permanently disabled by lack of care.

That is a big factor, but they also have regular assets and personal imvestments

Me neither. I have only personally known Millionaires. Both multimillionaires that I know fly totally under the radar by being completely humble, non flashy people.

Gates and his ex were helping. They have pledged to spend half their wealth on various humanitary things. They were trying to convince other billionaires to follow suit also. Looks like musk and bezos didn’t get the memo

Not sure the vehicle in the photo, been the Honda ones you can just buy the $7 insert rather than the whole $40 blade. The insert comes with graphite on it to try to make sliding the new insert into the track easier, but it still is fiddly

Any alien photos of a coloured shaped were already disproved by an optic expert. Just ike you get sunflare in a regular camera lens as hexagons, you get triangle flare in military recording lenses.

People used to write that frogs were spontaneously born from mud. Just because a belief is written down or etched in stone doesn’t make it true or real.

As for supernatural stuff you have to realize that before scientists discovered things like we aren’t the center of the solar system, people were ignorant of physics and astronomy, and attributed everything to some supernatural god or alien force. We have moved past the idea of a guy in a chariot toeing planets across the night sky.

As somebody who had been vegetarian for 30 years and now vegan for 3+ more. Iron and hemoglobin have never been a problem. Neither has B12 or vitD. What matters more (assuming you eat a well planned diet) is calories and activity level. There are times in my 35 years of veggie/vegan where BP has been way too high…it was directly related to weight and exercise.

I had 145/95 a few years back from being lazy and 15lbs overweight, got it back to 120/80 with daily walks and avoiding empty calorie stuff like Jelly Tots.

This is why a government needs an actual technical expert. What UK has done is make icloud less safe for everyone, while the “criminal” activity they seem to want to be privy to will force criminals to use another method of data transfer/securing.

I picked up a pair of Andrew Fezza brand boxer pouch brief, once. They were absolutely amazing. The fabric was a smooth stretchy/silky feeling stuff, almost like a compression garment, but not tight. They lasted 20 years of washing before the elastic in the waist stated to give up. I haven’t seen them for sale since.

It all depends right? When I first setup Linux I spent hours tweaking the look of it in Plasma. Now that its coming up to 8 years on Linux, I just use GNOME desktop and don’t mother with customizations.