To be fair, this is also me when I look at a network setup years later. (I do IT with a specialty in networks)

Say what you want about John Oliver, he’s not always right, and doesn’t nearly cover everything about a topic ever, but he’s out there doing good work for the people.

Similar to Florida?

Well. I think I’m officially out of touch with the newest generations slang terms. I only understood about half of that.

Assumptions are the corner stone of the curse of knowledge.

NTs make a lot of assumptions about the listener and how they will understand something, because they always operate within a contextual box. They either don’t care, or don’t want to examine their statements from outside perspectives because their perspective is the only one that matters to them. That makes it sound worse than it is, but it’s accurate.

Neurodivergents generally spend a nontrivial amount of time trying to “fit in” with the NTs, often at the cost of their own mental well-being, but I digress. The majority of divergents have the skillset of understanding someone else’s point of view, since it’s a critical tool when building up a persona, aka masking.

I don’t care what anyone says, that’s a skillset, and it can be extremely useful. It’s often not used in a good, or productive way (looping back to the argument of masking being mentally burdensome here). As a tool, out can be used to great benefit, or great detriment, depending on how it’s used.

That’s apt. I like it.

Neurotypicals seem to suffer from the curse of knowledge far more than others. The worst part is, they’re neither aware of it, nor do they want to be aware of it.

They don’t realize how many assumptions they’re making about what you know, and that the information they’re assuming you have is the same information that they are working from.

For the uninitiated, the curse of knowledge is a concept where, by knowing the context of a thing, you understand it, but others do not because they don’t have the context of that thing. It’s a curse because the speaker with the curse of knowledge assumes that others have that context, often unaware that context needs to be provided for that thing to be understood.

The easiest demonstration of this I’ve seen is, try having someone guess a song by tapping it out on a table or something. More than 90% of the time they will not be able to guess what song you’re portraying because they lack the context. As soon as you mention the song, assuming the listener has heard the song before, they will be able to hear the association between your taps and the song, but not before being told.

This phenomenon happens a lot, and it’s the worst on government anything because often you are not provided any reference to look up what is intended for the question, form, information or whatever that you’re being asked to provide, you just need to provide it, but you lack the context to know what they even mean.

A small but important distinction.

Thank you for the information. Have a good day.

Thanks for the ad hominem response.

I will take your comments under advisement exactly as much as I have respect for your opinion.

Have a good day.

As long as their line goes up, they don’t give a fuck about the environment.

Honestly, at this point, this sounds like the optimistic outlook.

AFAIK: Gentoo used to be just source repos, but times have changed. Gentoo repos now have binaries. You can opt out of them, so it’s up to you.

With binaries, it works like any other distro. Download the updated binaries, install, done.

If you go from source, then it will download all the source code, and do the whole makefile thing, and install the new binaries when the compile is done, every time you do an update.

So the direct answer to your question is: it depends. If you’re compiling everything then yes, you need to recompile everything that is updated. If you’re going to opt for binaries in the package manager, then no.

As a person who did this for a job in my youth, may I first say, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

As a worker, collecting stray carts that people left around the parking lot ate up the most time and was the least productive time I’ve ever spent while working. Also, at the store I worked at was fairly popular, on busy days, just collecting carts from the corrales took up enough time that I didn’t really have time left over to make up for you being a lazy asshole.

As a consumer, I put away other people’s stray carts, not only for the reasons above but because I don’t want the cart demon to direct the carts into my car and cause it any damage. I also don’t want my discarded cart to end up causing damage to anyone else’s car. So fuck you for creating an easily avoidable problem that has the potential to damage my property. You suck.

Objectively, returning your cart is the correct, and proper path to take. However, nobody will arrest you, or fine you for not doing it. It is purely voluntary, but universally recognized as the right thing to do. Since you do not do it, what does that mean about you as a person? I think it means you’re a dickhead.

Stop being selfish and lazy, then justifying it with “someone gets paid to do that”. No, that’s not the reason. The reason is that you’re a terrible person, an asshole, and a dickhead.

So I reiterate: fuck you, and the horse you rode in on.

That too. FFS.

I just want the OS to run things, and get out of my way. Windows used to fit that description.

I went out of my way to get a TPM from my systems OEM. I’m a tech, I’ve built dozens of machines without issue. I personally use a Dell, because I can’t be arsed to deal with it for my own kit.

Granted, the Dell I’m using can easily fit the HEDT description, but still.

I’m still using Windows 10 because fuck Windows 11. I am forced to use that shit for work and I hate it. I’m constantly in need of stuff from the settings/control panel to fix other people’s shit, and every time I go to settings, shit is somewhere different, buttons are moved or entirely missing… It’s a right fucking mess.

On any Windows 10 system, I go to control panel, find the appropriate item, such as programs and features, or network and sharing center, etc… And all the controls are there, working, and haven’t changed in any meaningful way since XP.

The thing that Microsoft seems to have abandoned is sent semblance of consistency. They’re so deep in the shit with their CD/CI with the settings panel that for every feature build of Windows 10/11, the settings menu will have options in dramatically different locations. The main difference between 10 and 11 here is that, in Windows 10, the control panel was still in one piece. In Windows 11, several control panel icons now take you to the settings menu “equivalents” to the cpl you’re looking for.

This is particularly bad with printing. Omg. How tf do I check/change the fucking driver in use for a printer in the fucking Windows 11 settings menu? If I go through what’s left of the control panel, and go to devices and printers, I get taken to the settings menu for devices which includes a section for printers, so I go into printers, and I have to hunt down a moving target for where tf they put the button to open the control panel printers and devices dialog, which seems to change weekly. Then I can open the printer settings dialog and see what driver is in use on the advanced tab, or what fucking port it’s connected to… Which, when you deal with network printers, is a pretty fucking important piece of information. Then, half the time the printer port is a fucking wsd, and I have to go spelunking into the registry to find it’s fucking IP address.

Wsd ports are fine right up until they fuck up, which happens frequently, TCP/IP ports don’t really have any problems at all. So why the fuck are we moving everyone to fucking wsd ports? Where is the benefit? Explain Microsoft! Explain!

It’s so goddamned frustrating to use as a technician. A lot of this stuff doesn’t really apply to steam users or home users in general, because these menus aren’t really looked at a lot. So the TPM requirement is the usual suspect for people’s frustrations with Windows 11.

I wouldn’t give nearly as much of a shit if they would just leave things where they are. I would only need to learn where the buttons and knobs and dialogs are once, and that would be it. But they have a bug shoved so far up their ass about making “improvements” that I can’t rely on anything staying where it is.

I’m certain there would be a pile of unpatched vulnerabilities with windows 7.

I would not recommend it.

I feel like this is obvious.

Honestly, I don’t give a shit if I have to work for that security, but the job markets have gone to absolute garbage. Nobody has a lifetime career at a single employer anymore. Employers don’t do raises, and just rinse through the entire employable workforce with no care in the world because there’s always some bright eyed college grad willing to take the job for less than the person who has it now, so raises don’t serve companies. Long term experience and knowledge is both highly desirable, and completely worthless.

If you’re trying to get a job for anything beyond entry level, you must have years and years of experience with the specific products and software that company uses to manage their company. Experience you could only have if you’ve worked there before.

Entry level positions have wages so low it’s barely better than working at McDonald’s.

The world is fucked.

The difference is respect.

I can disagree with you but still respect that your decision is yours to make. In spite of any moral arguments, if it’s not illegal I don’t have grounds to demand that you do anything differently. I can provide suggestions, guidance and opinions on it, but I can’t force you into a decision I agree with.

But I’m also not a vegan. I see the world as much as I can from a neutral perspective. Things are not good nor bad, in and of themselves. The value statements of “good” and “bad” are a matter of perspective. If I were to win the lottery, that is, for all intents and purposes, a good thing… For me. For everyone who lost, not so much. My win, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t good nor bad, simply something that happened.

I would agree that from an empathetic viewpoint, many of the practices I’ve seen publicized about factory farming from pro-vegan groups or persons, hasn’t been good. Often it can be cruel or lacking any sympathy to the animals, which isn’t great. However, looking at things more broadly as I tend to do, any such report will be cherry picked as the worst of the worst from an unknown sample of the industry. So I take what I see from those groups and persons with a grain of salt.

Of course the industry, defending itself, will do the opposite and cherry pick examples of their most humane practices and locations. So that isn’t the full picture either. Even news media, largely owned by corpo’s who are likely invested into the meat industry, will skew their coverage to their own benefit, so even that cannot be fully trusted.

As always the truth lies somewhere in the middle, and bluntly, I can’t be bothered to dig deep enough to figure it out. My thoughts on a solution is to impose policy and procedure via laws and ordinances against factory farms for a minimum standard for their livestock, and government run enforcement that’s well funded to ensure those regulations are being followed. IMO, that’s what government is there to do. If the majority disagree that needs to be done, then such measures will not pass their respective legislative process to be passed into law. In that case, the focus should be on changing the hearts and minds of those who are opposed to the regulation and trying again when the number of people who supports the idea has increased.

You make your own choices though. Get mad, yell in the park at strangers about it, do whatever. You’re free to make those choices.

Sad but true.

Not all Americans called for it, just very vocal ones. The people that were fine with the lockdowns and restrictions were not represented in the debate because they were sheltering in place at home trying to keep more people from dying to the virus.