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indepndnt,

The OP lists four numbered rules.

indepndnt,

Man, I read these comments and I can relate to so many of them. But honestly, this year, nothing. We’ve recently moved to an area that’s more healthy for our family. I have a partner who’s not abusive. My kids and myself are getting the mental healthcare that we need. It’s snowy outside! We have a Christmas tree and presents! It was not amazing; there was nothing over the top or spectacular. But there was nothing bad. Damn, that feels nice.

indepndnt,

I’m a CPA and my PC runs Linux, but also has a Windows VM for when I need Excel (unfortunately the open source alternatives just don’t cut it, and I’m guessing it’s similar for someone who relies on Word the way accountants rely on Excel), and my work laptop runs Windows.

If you ever edit PDFs with Acrobat Pro, there’s no good Linux equivalent that I’ve found for that either. It can be done, but you’ll need a couple of different programs depending on what you need to edit in the PDF.

In general I’d say that you can run your business in Linux, but it is probably not the best choice.

indepndnt,

Right front or right rear?

indepndnt,

I’m just pleased to see so many comments talking about dealing with your phone before you drive. Thank you all.

indepndnt,

Also, the 2032 numbering indicates its physical size: it’s 20mm x 3.2mm. There are for example 2025’s (like in my car remote) that are 20mm x 2.5mm.

And CMOS refers to what the battery was powering on the motherboard (a small amount of CMOS static RAM) rather than anything about the battery itself. I don’t know if motherboards still use any static RAM, the batteries might only be there to power the clock these days, making the name just a historical convention.

indepndnt,

Really? I wasn’t sure which one I “should” use so I looked at a cable that I had laying around (probably came with a cable modem or something?) and was able to see the wire colors through the connector and it was A. So that’s what I’ve been using when making patch cables or wiring my house.

I guess my question is what’s your experience with where B is used? Mostly I’m just curious, it probably doesn’t really matter for me since I only do networking work in my house.

indepndnt,

My first car, a 1973 Dodge Charger. This is a representative picture, not my actual car. 1973 Dodge Charger

I bought it for $750 with no engine or transmission (but it came with a bunch of tools). It was a stock automatic but I converted it to a 4-speed manual in the process of building it back up.

I probably spent twice as much time working on it than I did driving it before I totalled it. That was very sad.

indepndnt,

Same, I just can’t get over that name. I’m not sure if that’s because of or in spite of the fact that I had a fedora phase when I was younger…

indepndnt,

L*******y, or the L-word.

indepndnt,

No joke, printing is like the #1 thing I like most about switching from Windows to Linux. I still get errors about the bypass tray every time I try to print from Windows. I’M NOT USING THE BYPASS TRAY!

indepndnt,

I dunno about everything, but my car has a talk button on the steering wheel, I think you press it to answer the phone or whatever, but when Android Auto is active, that button works the same as saying “OK Google”. I would imagine it does something similar with CarPlay. Maybe you have a similar button?

indepndnt,

This incident has been logged.

indepndnt,

It didn’t change everything, but it did change some things. We still take our shoes off to get through airport security, for example.

indepndnt,

Man, I can relate, I was in a bad way when I was 24. I was very lonely and dangerously far down the incel path (though nobody called it that then) before I snapped out of it.

What I wish I had understood then is just how vast the bredth of human experience is. It may be hard to imagine right now given experiences you’ve had, but there are a lot of women who would be into you if given the chance. I know this is true because women are people. Quite a few of them are into men, of those quite a few are available and also yearning for a connection, and of those quite a few still are into some of your interests and particularly like various traits that describe you.

Rejection can be hard, but it only means it’s not just right just now for just her, not that there’s anything wrong with you.

indepndnt,

I keep getting more and more glad that I moved here.

indepndnt,

I imagine to accomplish this, you would probably be trying to rotate them out rather than pulling straight up.

indepndnt,

Adding to the chorus of older folks telling you do it. I’m 45 and currently in braces, for nearly two years now (about to get them off). As far as I can tell, not a single person has reacted negatively to them in any way.

indepndnt,

I was just talking to my wife today about how trees lived long before the bacteria that could decompose wood, how generations of trees lived and died and just stayed there. That the reason we have coal is because of all of these trees that died ages ago and couldn’t decompose. Not only are trees the lungs of the earth, but the only reason we ever got an atmosphere that we could exist in is because of the innumerable trees that captured carbon from the air and contributed oxygen back to it. Trees are fucking amazing and we owe them everything.

indepndnt,

Yup. My kids are learning about it in school, and they regard it about how we regarded the civil war. Like dude, that was really fucked up, but it was a long time ago.

Well it turns out it wasn’t that long ago, and now we’ve had an insurrection in your lifetime so, …probably some good lessons in there.

indepndnt,

Maybe it’s that restricting current would be more of an inductance thing than a resistance thing? Like Amp should be pushing the walls wider while Ohm tries to hold Volt back?

indepndnt,

The path to change through customers decreasing their tips would be:

  • Workers who rely on tips for income make a lot less money, many of them suffer. There is no impact on the companies.
  • Workers who can, move to different industries. There is less competition for these roles, and they are filled with less skilled and/or more desperate workers. Companies employ more draconian tactics to compel performance, which the more desperate workers will tolerate.
  • Eventually the quality of service will deteriorate to an extent that customers will start to notice. Most customers won’t really care. Companies will raise prices to compensate for the few customers who leave.
  • Given the money saved by not tipping, customers won’t mind the higher prices. Companies will tout their record profits on earnings calls with shareholders.
  • Eventually some kind of legal or political action will be mounted to challenge the minimum wage exception, now that “tipped employees” don’t make minimum wage when counting their tips any more. Most people don’t feel like they’re affected and don’t care. Companies lobby the government to ensure it is not successful, or if it is, to ensure that it is toothless and won’t impact their earnings.
  • Companies raise prices more with the excuse of the recent actions. Customers are now paying more than they used to when including tips. Workers are poor and abused. Shareholders think these companies are winners and invest more.
  • Problem solved?
indepndnt,

I had jaw surgery this year and it was incredibly comforting that my surgeon was such a huge nerd about it.

indepndnt,

I couldn’t either until I saw the explanation, and also scrolled to where like 1/3rd of the pic was off the screen.

indepndnt,

The most harrowing fact that I know is that during the Apollo 11 mission, as they began to enter the moon’s orbit and headed behind it, they were no longer able to communicate with earth. This is indicated on the flight plan* by the note “Broken trajectory lines indicate loss of earth communications.” So here’s the crew, impossibly far from everything any human has ever known, for about an hour unable to hear (or most of that time even see) any sign of the only experience humanity has ever known. It’s just them sandwiched between an unfamiliar moon and the blackness of space.

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