I feel this most keenly in the reboots of sitcoms from the 90s/00s. Things like That 90s Show used to have 24 episode seasons where you could do character growth in a bottle episode. This obsession with staying in that 10 episode envelope means that the structures of the shows are so compressed, you don’t attach the way these shows needed us to to make them engaging.

I also feel this with NuTrek like Strange New Worlds when they do too many concept episodes that don’t move the plot and the balance of the season feels rushed since they can’t let anything breathe.

Sounds about right since Delaware has many “company HQs” set up in just that way so they get access to Delaware business law.

Have a child and work in a factory. That did it for me. I used to be a 2pm to 4am kinda person.

Given the attrocious attention to quality in manufacturing and primary materials shortages across the USA, I’m not surprised.

Didnt expect a Gundam Zeta reference. Nice touch.

Just based in the ballpark numbers from another on of these articles I saw today, it works out to like 40 some bucks a person. Just absolute garbage.

I need my numpad. That was the worst choice for me given my work and workflow at home. I could do without the number row across the top. I guess I haven’t really given a great deal of thought to my most maximally effective keyboard layout.

Context: I bought an 80% out of frustration with another logitech keyboard dying an early death with the double strike key issue.

Is this my phone? Lol

See? We could have technobabbled it into a new character on the show but here we are, arguing about this again lol

I never understood why they didn’t just use the transporter to recreate Tuvok and Neelix. You have their patterns on file when they last transported. Just leave him alive and duplicate those two and you get both scenarios. We have seen examples of duplicates throughout the show. I know this isn’t really the point, but it’s always felt needlessly contentious when the writers could have just done it.

Couldn’t ya just… Leave him there, after the caretaker episodes, in that bondyard where they found him? I know he’s annoying but like damn.

This was my experience. While I had nothing but time to learn Windows over the years, my time now is more limited. My Creative Sound Blaster sound card worked… Somewhat under Pop_OS!, but kept having issues. It got to the point that I opted for an external DAC and my issues cleared up.

While I want everything to “just work”, I knew my time is more valuable to me than figuring out why this particular hardware didn’t want to work, so I swapped it.

I remember the win9x days of looking shit up and figuring it out. Most people nowadays don’t have that skill or never had it and onboarded with computers that “just worked”. Side note in my opinion but, that’s the insidious nature of Big Tech. They make it so easy to use, you don’t care that they pick your pocket for every ounce of data. Linux, by its nature, is generally ok at most things but you are going to run into walls like the accelerometer mentioned above. Expectations need to be set and if you aren’t willing to know how to run your computer, it’s going to run you. I view this as no different than understanding the fundamentals of cars so you don’t get fleeced at the mechanic. But that’s just me. I want a certain level of competence in what I utilize on a daily basis.

I want people to switch. For people like me who have been power users for 20+ years, it’s as close to an easy hand off as is ever going to exist. Trying to convince my Normie friends? I’m still fighting that battle and all they do is Facebook, youtube and WoW.

I agree that setting expectations and having to adjust to the new norm should be part of the onboarding speech. “It just works” shouldn’t be uttered to anyone short of grandma for email and youtube on a computer you install the software on.

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Rimworld is leaking again.

That is hilariously reductive.

I’m not an economist but I’d imagine the tariffs and dedollarization will help y’all in the short term.

Thats not what the author is saying in the article. He issaying that Trump ratted him out after getting accused of the money laundering for the Russians. It means Trump always knew and only bothered to turn on Epstein after Epstein threatened to out him being a Russian asset.

Those CNC black boxes need to be going burrrrrrrr full time now. Get armed and quick.

Love those who ignore the flat out voter suppression that occurs across the country, but go off. Edit: redundant words

Don’t forget about his connections to the SB5 fiasco that haven’t been fully explored. Hes more than generally corrupt.

Anyone remember this?