turn on the news for five seconds to know that’s absolutely true.

probably had an intern change their windows’ locale to prc and then construct the ‘proof’

while personally training the next generation, too.

that wasn’t ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.

a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal… republicans wouldn’t win the white house back until 1952.

when re-broadcast on television or cable, those older programs are often re-edited or literally sped-up (or a little of both) so they can have the current norm of 10-12 minutes of ad time per half-hour.

“considering”.

hah.

it’s your interview for a staff position. don’t mess it up.

they had been offering a no-cost equipment promo in some coverage areas for awhile, with only a year or something commitment. you paid $20 to ship the gear. your recurring bill was the monthly plan rate. that’s it.

they’re probably going back and now charging those sign-ups a ‘rental’ fee.

that’s a special feature of hanes socks from walmart.

the feds don’t run states’ elections either, even for federal offices.

the last ide adapter i got (this would be at least 15 years ago) came with a separate power supply for the molex connection. i’ve used that power supply more often than the adapter itself.

lowering the price and doubling the storage.

meanwhile, new google/gmail accounts are getting 5gb instead of 15.

4-day work weeks are great, especially if you have a significant commute, because you’re cutting 20% of that right out. the adding 2 hours to every work day, not so much; but the longer hours can mean that traffic is a bit lighter. the guaranteed week day off is huge when you have ‘stuff’ to do.

probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.

is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system

my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.

in most cases, still ‘downloading’ something to boot to initially. might as well just make a usb installer. i also had zero luck with any usb keyboards working with netboot.xyz when i tried using it on a 7th gen optiplex, had to steal borrow a ps/2 one.

debian has a great netinst image that has most the drivers and firmwares needed to install debian over the network on pretty much anything. debian’s installers were also the only installers (of a dozen or more i tried at one time) that worked ‘out of the box’ with my particular usb wifi for a net install.

the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.

endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.

hardly any ‘salutes’ to the screen, but definitely some uh… ‘verbal exchange’ happening. usually several times a day, and you wouldn’t want children nearby if i’m really on roll because windows fucked something up big time. aaaaand, occasionally to and at myself because every now-and-then it truly is my fault.

the entire planet… with every breath.

my boss (of 20+ years) abuses an old core2duo era desktop (8gb ram and sata ssd, both upgrades from original specs when 10 was put on) with 150+ tab firefox plus word and excel and voice software all going at once. never shuts down, never closes an application. sleeps, wakes, hibernates on weekends. it just keeps going. she’s never had any problems and it runs really well. she’d be bitching if it didn’t.