Oh, neat! Message received: if I eat enough beans, I can be my own creme brulee torch!

Excel flash fill is amazingly bad. I've never seen produce anything but unintelligible garbage.

As impressive as the physical catalog is, their website is legitimately phenomenal. Super easy to find anything (as long as they sell it), most items with freely downloadable CAD of several formats, all with zero BS.

And if you think the McMaster catalog is beefy, you should see the Misumi catalog!

That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I'd need windows for some reason or another.

6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.

Just because it's red hot does not mean it's near molten. The material still has sufficient proprieties to support its weight.

Hell yes! Fascists are running scared and I'm here for it.

This is a drop in the bucket when compared to the damage they caused.

Hello, this is the IRS. You are delinquent $10,000. This is payable with iTunes gift cards. If you do not comply, straight to jail.

Way back when, I loved Windows XP. I was always dorking around with it, seeing what I could do to personalize and customize it. I had that mindset until Windows 11. I just couldn't anymore.

So I finally tried Linux. It turns out, this is exactly what I wanted back in the XP days. I just never had the need to try it. Now that Microslop has forced my hand, I've experienced the environment outside of windows. As such, I really don't see what they could possibly do to bring me back.

Or putting it on the back of your truck, where it will get covered in road grime, but you won't care because you're a 'patriot'.

Also /s, of course.

To me, this is its biggest flaw. You can't scroll back in chats very far, but you can search for lines further back. However in a truly spectacular display of uselessness, the search only returns the chat bubble you searched for, with no surrounding context.

Have you run the compatibility troubleshooter in win11? It works reasonably well but it's a laughably stupid process. It asks you which application is having problems, then displays the first ~10 apps, alphabetically. If it's not there, you have to click a button to see the next 10 apps. Scroll, click, scroll, click, and so on until it shows the app you're looking for.

Why not just give a full list??? Or let the user start typing and bring up relevant entries? Oh, right. Microslop search functions are embarrassingly bad. Clicking through the list is better, I guess.

Pretty clear he's using pardons to build loyalty in people who hold or have held power.

Exercise. Exactly how is not important. What matters is just being consistent. Eventually it becomes a habit that will grow with you.

If it's difficult or frustrating, you're probably trying too hard. Ease up next time. If it feels like a chore, you're not doing the right activity for you. It should be enjoyable.

Fun story from my win11 work machine. I've de-copiloted it to the best of my ability. Even so, 'ai.exe' was always running, consuming more RAM than I was comfortable with, and if I killed it, it would respawn.

I found i can delete the folder it resides in with no ill effect. But a few times a week, a process would recreate it.

System owned the parent folder but for some reason I was unable to revoke its write permissions. So instead, I created a junction so that anything written to the ai folder would instead write to a folder that I had sole ownership of.

This worked, except it ended up causing kernel failures and bootloader issues. Big yikes.

I think LLM's are incredibly useful in limited circumstances. But it needs to be on-demand, NOT omnipresent.

For example, I'm learning a bit of C#. I was following a tutorial a few weeks ago that had some code I didn't understand. I spent an hour googling and reading documentation, but found nothing. I headed to ChatGPT and asked it what it meant. It gave a clear, easy to understand explanation.

Unfortunately, the industry is going about this all wrong. Google wants to force Gemini on my Pixel. So I nuked Android. Microsoft silently installed Copilot on my laptop without consent. That laptop is now happily running Linux.

Forcing these tools on people will just alienate people like me. In a way, I'm glad it happened. I'm much more satisfied now that these companies are minimized in my life.

Even more annoying is when the green car leaves 2+ car lengths in front of it so the car behind can't get into the turn lane if they need to.

Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.

Former industry guy here.

Some HD's park the head on a plastic ramp at the OD of the platter stack. I don't see that structure in your picture.

Others park the head on the platter itself. This area is always not usable area, since contact isn't great for data integrity. This is a simpler solution but comes at the cost of reduced data capacity.

I don't recall if this park area is on the ID or OD (it's been a long time), but the position in your picture is reasonable since it would cost less disk area..

I don't know about y'all, but I'm trying to find ways to resist what's coming. They want to fuck us over. Don't make it easy!