Posts by werdsmith 7139 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
This was my choice for crouton linux on Chromebook. My reasoning is that the gui doesn't need to be pretty, I don't do productivity in the OS GUI I spend as little time there as possible. Its job is to get me into the applications where the actual productivity happens.
The fragmentation of linux, right from the different distributions, with their different ways of doing the same thing, for example, package managers, through reworking in different releases right through to different user interfaces has been a great choice which has pleased a minority but held linux adoption back for the majority.
4% without internet access. This really means 4% without internet access of their own, that they subscribe to themselves.
Very close to 100% have internet access because they can make use of access from a friend or other provider, who can guide them rather than leaving them to blunder on by themselves.
You are stating the obvious a bit there @andy 103 I'm not arguing against what you've done two paragaphs on. Nobody is suggesting that slack security is consent. It clear is still stealing in the eyes of the law and the rest of us (even if insurance companies would refuse to pay out).
The point I am making is that this is not an ideal world and these bastards are out there. There is no doubt where the fault and blame lies with the thief who steals the car. But it's still not wise to make it easy for them. Because we know there are thieves out there, there always has been and always will be.
Society really needs the news, unfortunately we don’t get news from print media. Just bias and distortion.
If you’ve ever been close to a major news story and compare the reality you know to what is reported then you would never trust a paper again. They are embarrassing and responsible for their own downfall. As the older generations who habitually read dailies, and swallow every word, die off we will see the end of these rags.
They’ve never lived up to “public interest”. They are a toxin on society.
I don’t know what will replace them, social media is shaping up to be even worse.
There was a journalist in a local paper, a few years back who wrote about a gay pride event. The jist of the article was expressing that it would be nice if it wasn't necessary to hold these events because different sexuality should be accepted as absolutely normal and there should be no need to take any special action to promote and achieve absolute equality. There was nothing in the piece against the event, in fact it was supportive.
But it spread on social media with out of context quotes and the journalist was vilified, with the employer also under attack as well as family members. An absolutely barrage of sanctimony. It ended with the journalist resigning.
I weep for humanity.
I wonder about the the rabid pack-hound behaviour that happens on social media that led me to abandon all of it years ago, is because of social media enabling or stimulating it? Or was it always there but I didn't know before because there was no social media to expose it?
I feel I would rather not know that humans can behave in the way that they do on social media, and when I found out I lost something I will never get back.
We have Concordes on display at various places, for public to look at, walk underneath and on board. This is better than leaving them laying around. The Russians should consider taking 2K Buran and the full size model and creating a tourist exhibition from them, as US have done with their retired shuttle fleet. Leaving them to rot in sheds in not something to be admired.
What shocks me is that people are prepared to accept what comes out of this snake’s mouth now. What’s changed from Barnard Castle? Best not to forget that while he has the stage to himself and is pointing the finger, he was in the thick of it, and as much part of it as anyone he is trying to push under the buses.
The reason this is a rather silly dog and pony show. Is the showman cannot be trusted.
I think they had a chat about herd immunity, as some other nations did. Then backed away from it when the reality sunk in.
The vaccination program is a success because the government chucked money at securing the supply early. The roll out side of it is little to do with them. They approached the procurement like a chav looking for big rolls in Tesco’s at the start of the first lockdown.
We don't know if it's honest. Cummings is a professional spin artist and its his skill and profession to make things look a certain way to influence people. He has been very effective at it and maintained the government for many years in the face of some very unpopular policies.
Last year the whole country was scathing of Cummings words. This year the nation seems to be swallowing every word.
Tell 'em what they want to hear, trigger the old confirmation bias.
I don't believe him and I don't disbelieve him. I certainly don't trust him. So he might as well be Basil Brush as far as I'm concerned. Actually I don't trust any politician.
Boom Boom
If you think these “royalty” are in some way productive, you are deluded.
I’ve sat in these meetings and they are a total waste of time. They add nothing to deal closing and payroll making.
The people doing that are not in meetings.
Stealer’s Wheel summed them up nicely in the 70s.
It seems to me that there are so many people who are paid to sit in meetings all day.
A whole generation of people who think that spending most of the day in meetings is actual work.
I'm sure if they were required to output actual productivity they would complain to HR.
Receiving data by a WiFi signal is extracting energy from a radio wave.
To cut down on wasted energy, the base station should be made directional rather than isometric with a method to determine direction and boost gain in that direction, and shouldn’t be broadcasting ssid until a key signal is received, then it should operate at the power it needs to maintain data rate.
Maybe they do that already. Dunno.
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