Genuine question: What do you recommend? I want to replace Windows 10 on a 8-year-old midrange laptop with something that works reasonably well in terms of performance with a connected 4K monitor.
I’ve already tried Ubuntu, but unfortunately the experience has been marred by bugs such as poor performance, visual glitches, windows jumping around when attempting to move them, and DPI settings not being able to be applied per screen.
My experience has been the same. As a software engineer who used Linux throughout university, I just can’t enjoy having a lousy experience with poor performance, constant tinkering, limited software and constant bugs. I can’t even adjust the DPI scale of an external monitor on Ubuntu without the entire windowing system going haywire.
I guess I’m just too old to have the patience to try to fix that kind of stuff by hand, and I thought I’d never say it, but I just like Windows 11. It works. Sue me.
Would you care to elaborate? My understanding is that the region has encoded haram into their legal framework.
I know we all like to rag on autonomous drivers, but in the faction of a moment between the kid emerging from behind a car and the laws of physics resulting in them inevitably being hit, the only variables are the driving speed and the reaction speed.
Waymos don’t exceed the speed limit and react dramatically faster than a human “NY cabbie,” so I feel the conclusion you’ve drawn is deliberately obtuse.
Those checks are there to confirm that the visit is from a genuine browser (as opposed to a bot that is trying to scrape the content).
You’ll never have to buy a ticket again if you fly Germanwings Eurowings.
That’s kind of them, but I feel like I paid for your ticket in a roundabout way because Luftscamsa swindled me out of $1300 by cancelling my flight without a refund at the start of the pandemic.
Just posting this message so nobody gets the impression that that company is anything less than the epitome of corporate greed.
OpenAI: hold my beer
MLK Day is a US holiday. It’s not celebrated anywhere outside the United States of America.
I know you’re replying to a photo of the S&P 500, but I’m equally confused about the statement since I’ve not seen any global market slump.
Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole researching the thorn character, þ, and today I leaned:
[With] the arrival of movable type printing, the substitution of ⟨y⟩ for ⟨Þ⟩ became ubiquitous, leading to the common “ye”, as in ‘Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe’. One major reason for this was that ⟨Y⟩ existed in the printer’s types that were imported from Belgium and the Netherlands, while ⟨Þ⟩ did not. The word was never pronounced as /j/, as in ⟨yes⟩, though, even when so written.
Thanks, that was an interesting read!
That gave me a chuckle, so there’s hope yet!
An extension that can read the content of every page you visit as a joke. What could possibly go wrong.
I remember owning an mp3 player in 1999.
As a mod, this is all I ever did on the platform. Thanks for the appreciation!
Ironic how your comment is downvoted as well. It’s funny to me to observe through platforms like this that most humans are thoughtless pack animals and will just do whatever all the other humans are doing and how discourse goes against our nature. There was a study on Reddit some years ago that found that generally speaking, the first vote determines whether a comment will get up- or downvoted.
I love this term! It’s been added to my active lexicon!
I know we’re all eager to rag on Windows, but can we not act as though Ubuntu is a flawless replacement?
My tech-savvy mother and software engineering spouse have both tried switching to Ubuntu but ultimately switched to Windows and ChromeOS because of the constant errors and unreliability of Ubuntu. Everything from ambiguous “problem detected” messages at startup to terrible video performance and a lack of basic functionality out of the box like DPI settings per display or clipboard history. Even the most basic interaction with display settings cause Ubuntu to go haywire.
I’m well aware that Ubuntu can be customized, but I wish I could say it’s designed for daily use by the same demographic as Windows or Mac. Unfortunately, it’s really not.
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If you like this music, Christopher Tin has some amazing classical crossover albums. My favorite is The Drop That Contained the Sea.
It’s a HP Pavilion Power 15-cb091nd.