I found that the shiny black chrome looking disks seemed to be better than the purple tint kind. Chemically different media. Its anecdotal, not a scientific tested theory

I think it definitely has gotten a tarnished reputation. But even modern software tiers are standard, advanced, premium and premium means you get all the features at a huge price

Premium.

I don’t have a study, but the tumbling and rubbing wears on clothes, compared to hanging to dry.

Some good shirts you will notice the collar seams and other edges start to wear.

In some cases like jeans and cotton cashual henley style shirts this gives a softening effect.

If I recall he was more hung up on the consent part, because he was probably a black and white logic thinker. If Teen consent, therefore OK. I think later he made a statement that he had re-thought it, after people argued that a teen saying yes is not consent because they can’t legally consent.

Pavucontrol is great. Sometimes just entering that GUI has fixed the sound connection for me

Steam gets me off Microsoft spyware and onto Linux. If anything they have done the world a favour

I wouldn’t know, I don’tstuggle with that. Russell brand being clean more than 7 years from heroin, said that the craving never went away.

Well that’s the trouble with HR, its a person(s) and they are unpredictable. Thankfully where I’m at the HR is good. I had a situation where a coworker was being toxic. I made a complaint and they handled it discretely and in a way that the source wasn’t needed.

That’s just one step and doesn’t break addiction, you need a mental shift and life change to stay away from the drug that holds you

What does it take to get a counselling cert etc. Out our way therapists and psychologists charge $120-150 per hour to listen to peoples problems. Some work from their own house.

It might be wise to talk to your boss or HR to have a written record of the situation, and ask they don’t act on it. Just in case the person is one that takes rejection really badly and goes to HR to say you sexually harassed her

If you want completely different genre, these I find helpful if I can’t sleep.

Darknet Diaries - stories of ex hackers and penetration testers telling their experiences on a job. Sneaking into various facilities etc.

Stuff You Should Know - two hosts laying out various topics with a bit of silliness and banter mixed in.

Lost SciFi Podcast -dude reads various short stories from ages ago. He’s a good reader but just enough monotony to fall asleep to if you aren’t into the story

Debloating a system for a tiny appliance device is worth it. Debloating on a machine with a modern processor, 16-64 GB ram and a TB harddrive is not necessary. You may not even notice a difference.

But if you enjoy that stuff, go for it.

I have only used KSH for a proprietary software install that needed it, it didn’t feel much different than working in a BASH shell.

Hmm that inspires me to make pumpkin flavoured ones

We have W11 pro for work, it is janky AF. And I keep having to deplete the office AI.exe and aimgr.DLL stuff, otherwise it hogs the CPU, even when not using office.

Wut? I don’t buy games often or right away. I put them on my wish list and sometimes there are ridiculous sales. I think I have paid $20 max, and lowest was $2 for an prior version of a Rally game.

Business managers who don’t understand work flow and lead time properly. If they read The Theory of Constraints and understand the concepts they’d realize the important part is keeping the work/product moving even if that means an idle machine that just punches one hole all day, but necessary.

Yes, a hardware person I met through a family member said it’s hard and had they known how complex they would have chosen another dicipline

Lol