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I've used vim for so many years now that it blows my mind when people act like it's difficult to use.

The same thing with installing Arch and even Gentoo .. if you've got good experience with something like redhat/centos and can read documentation it's a breeze.

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Usually if you're involved in something that is genuinely urgent, it doesn't even need to be said. I remember being in a situation where a server wasn't starting back up after some changes while we were in the data centre, and if it didn't come online by the time we left the office, one of the largest pay as you go networks in the UK would have gone down lol. If a PM had approached us with something 'urgent' during this they'd have to run away from projectile rack mounts..

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Music Piracy Is Back, Baby

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The main issue to solve is kids not having access to a computer at home, whether it be lack of incentive or money. Most people don't even own a laptop anymore, so the only computer time they get is in a school setting.

Once the majority of schools have a system in place for most homework to be done on a PC, then there may be some creative ways to incentivise more PC adoption... again. It's like we've gone back to the early 90s again where only kids who were really interested in computing knew anything about it.

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iPad / tablet, and applying for jobs can easily be done on a phone. My wife works at a high school - half the kids can't even use a mouse properly,and don't understand minimizing a window etc.

She had to teach someone what the enter button did yesterday..... They were using space bar to get to a new line. I shit you not.

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S01E03 - Draw a Blank - Episode Discussion

I'm calling it, the hijackers are being blackmailed, possibly by the other guy who was done for tax fraud who keeps being subtly shown.

The black hijacker dude reacted in an interesting way when the passenger behind him commented saying 'they're scared just like we are'.

There hasn't been any motive shown by any of the hijackers, which makes me think they don't want people to know their real motives. Reminds me of a certain black mirror episode...

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Why do you use Linux?

I use it because I'm more comfortable with working with it under the hood than Windows (day job experience). It's also less of a PITA when it comes to bloat, updates (not just OS, general software too) and telemetry.

I did use Windows on my desktop until about a year ago to be fair, as I didn't feel gaming was quite good enough - but after trying again it's brilliant now. No reason to ever go back.

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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features

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The other thing worth noting is that just because a linux distro is noob friendly, it doesn't mean advanced users should feel the need to use more complicated distros. Quite the opposite in a lot of cases - I've used Linux for work over ~10 years (first tried it in 2007) and yet find myself back on Ubuntu for my laptop. PopOS for my desktop because of nvidia convenience (+ less issues than most other distros).