I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can’t think of anything they’ve improved and a whole lot they made worse.
Even assuming you start with room temperature water, it’d be several hours before you start feeling the effects of hypothermia. Given the water starts off warm, it’s only a bathtub of water so body heat will keep it above room temperature, and you’re (probably) in a small room that’ll help hold in the heat, I’d say you’d more than likely be okay assuming you don’t sleep more than 8-10 hours. If you pass out in the tub for something like 16-24 hours then I’d be more worried.
In some ways, I’d be more concerned about what would happen in the drain plug wasn’t completely watertight and the water drained away, particularly if you weren’t naked and were wearing clothing that holds in water like cotton.
Demolition Man.
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
I’ve seen the line drawn a few different places, but generally Gen Z starts at around 1996-1998 or so. In any case, the oldest Gen Z have been drinking age for a while.
I don’t think Wisconsin is as purple as it initially appears. It’s just that the Republicans have managed to get a real stranglehold on that state.
For my Manjaro systems, I usually check the forums and after I see a new stable update is posted I’ll do an update in the next few days. Sometimes I’ll check between the big updates for things like browsers or other occasional high priority updates that get posted between the big updates, but usually only if I’m having a problem or have some other reason to do this.
I had a cat that played fetch. When he was young fellow, he’d fetch and bring the toy back to me. Eventually he’d only bring the toy most of the way back, and I had to cover the remaining distance. Then he’d bring the toy back some of the way back, and it eventually turned into him running to where the toy ended up, sitting down next to it, and looking at me like “Okay, I found where you tossed the toy, now come over and get it so we can do this again”. He still loved to play, but it seemed he kind of outgrew the fetch thing.
Doesn’t surprise me at all, really. Seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy too, because if you make a show like that, then someone who sits down and actually tries to watch it is more likely to start getting bored and starts to get out that second screen.
The other issue, particularly with movies, is a lot of this stuff is created with the idea of making it easier to translate to other languages, hence things like the overly simplified dialog.
My favorite is when they they say something like “it starts getting good in season 3”. Like I’m going to watch tens of hours of a show that kind of sucks just to see if it actually starts getting good or not?
Of course, the reality is that they aren’t really watching the show like I would - as in, they aren’t sitting down and giving it their undivided attention. The show is on, but they’re also on their phones the entire time, or it’s on in the background and they are doing something else, or whatever. Probably one of the reasons why the show feels like it’s full of filler - they need to make sure that someone that’s only sort of paying attention can still follow what’s going on.
You can do that in Linux too! Just put an entry in crontab to reboot the system sometime during your working hours.
As I say, when you’re hunting around for something in Windows and you come across a dialog box that came straight from Windows XP… you’re getting close.
I have to use Windows at work and it’s inconsistent. Sometimes I can do a search in the start menu and it’ll immediately pop up with exactly what I was searching for. Other times I’ll get something like the OP shows. And other times it just returns nonsense results. I don’t get it.
Scientific calculators were some of the first pocket computers.
I have two color laser printers. The old one is a Dell branded printer from about 15 years ago and was about the cheapest color laser printer you could buy at the time. It has some issues now particularly with color printouts, and combined with poor Linux support meant I went ahead and bought its replacement, a much nicer Brother model. But as the old printer can still give acceptable results for some things I’m keeping it until it runs out of toner which could be a while.
On top of that I still have an HP LaserJet 4 but that’s been disconnected for a while. Still prints but desperately needs new rollers.
To be fair, Windows 11 also runs like shit on a desktop with an i9 and 32GB of RAM.
That’s tackling a different myth about light bulbs using a lot of energy to start up so it’s better to leave them on rather than pay the extra energy cost of starting them up again.
Here, the hypothesis is that stress of thermal cycling of the components in LED light bulb by cycling it on and off will shorten the life of the bulb and the cost of replacing the bulbs prematurely is greater than the energy costs of just leaving it on. While it’s certainly true that almost all LED light bulb failures I have seen are not the actual LEDs themselves but the other components, I’m still skeptical. Especially as LED bulbs have gotten really cheap now.
It’s the latter for all of the Bluetooth audio protocols that I’ve worked with.
I don’t know about ChatGPT, but Github Copilot can act like an autocomplete. Or you can think of it as a fancier Intellisense. You still have to watch its output as it can make mistakes or hallucinate library function calls and things like that, but it can also be quite good at anticipating what I was going to write and saves me some keystrokes. I’ve also found I can prompt it in a way by writing a comment and it’ll follow up with attempt to fill in code based upon that comment. I’ve certainly found it to be a net time saver.
Leaded gasoline has to be worse.