Australis13

@Australis13@fedia.io
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Well, I guess that's one ISP everyone will want to avoid...

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Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.

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So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don't.

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I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.

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I really hope you're right about him losing the general election.

It is refreshing to see someone who has left MAGA and realises the full potential danger that Trump and the GOP pose.

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The browser addon "AdNauseum" can help with that, although it's not a complete solution.

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Indeed. I'd hardly classify this as going "rogue"; rather, inadequate guard rails in place for this application.

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Well, if political emails didn't read like spam so often, they probably wouldn't be as much of a problem... Despite not even being a US citizen or living in the US, I still sometimes get US political emails or end up signed up to email lists, so they get marked as spam!

Ugh. If I need to collaborate with my colleagues, I'll visit their office; I don't need (or want) to hear every phone call they make or their music escaping their headphones.

I cannot stress enough how much I hate open plan offices and am so glad I do not work in one.

That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you're correct - surely there are checks for exit door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.

Another cult that clearly doesn't follow the Bible they claim to believe in.

I wonder how the men in this group would feel about Proverbs 31 and the successful business woman it describes.

Very likely to be the physical force applied by the headphones, depending on how they are worn. I cannot use certain designs because they become uncomfortable even if only worn for short periods.

Given how bad the show's writing has been for years and the declining in viewership in the Chibnell era, I'm actually surprised the BBC actually reversed course for once.

I wonder how long before someone works out how to manipulate the AI and get it to say things the campaign didn't intend.

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Only a subset. Unfortunately they are doing their utmost to ensure they're the ones making the decisions.

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Perhaps she could start with her own.

The thing is, though, I think most (or at least enough) voters actually do want this. Trump is clearly the preferred Republican candidate and that's been obvious for some time. On the Democrats side, Biden is the lead candidate and likewise, it has been obvious that he was likely to be it for months. Ergo, it's a Biden-Trump rematch.

Obviously nobody is happy about this, but it's hardly surprising.

Same.

Was about to say exactly that.

I second the suggestion of RSS feeds (I use TheOldReader) and DuckDuckGo as search engine replacement.

Also, Mozilla's Pocket is a useful tool for collecting articles (and having related ones recommended to you).

This whole mess regularly frustrates me... why the units can't be used consistently?!

The other peeve of mine with this debacle is that drive capacities using SI units do not use the full available address space (since it's binary). Is the difference between 250GB and 256GiB really used effectively for wear-levelling (which only applies to SSDs) or spare sectors?

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Somebody please tell me that this guy is wrong.

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Thanks for that. A very interesting read; I am inclined to believe the author, given how they describe the failure of processes.

Out of curiosity, given that the author of the posted article formerly agreed with you, what do you make of his views now?

Well, I guess they had to come up with something to explain the fallout from COVID since they simultaneously claim that either (a) it's not real or (b) it's just a mild flu.

Yeah, that's what concerns me. It definitely sounds plausible and I'm not an expert in the legalities of this, so from my outside (Australian) perspective this very much looks like a viable path for the GOP to take power. I haven't followed much of Johnson's activities either, but from what I've seen of him he strikes me as very dodgy.... much like our ex PM Scott Morrison.

Thanks, will do!

A subset of humans. Not everyone fails to learn from history.

Of course. The thing is, though, that if the units had been consistent to begin with, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much confusion. Most people would just accept MiB, GiB, etc. as the units on their storage devices. People already accept weird values for DVDs (~4.37GiB / 4.7GB), so if we had to use SI units then a 256GiB drive could be marketed as a ~275GB drive (obviously with the non-rounded value in the fine print, e.g. "Usable space approx. 274.8GB").

Because I haven't yet updated from Windows 10 to 11 and had been putting it off. In the past week, though, I have seen a number of news articles highlighting issues I am going to have with Windows 11 and this particular article, indicating that they have been effectively leaving systems vulnerable simply because they have applications they don't like installed is just not good enough. I'd understand it if they were saying "we can't guarantee your OS stability with these apps" or "we can't guarantee these apps will work anymore" if they were removing older API support, but this is ridiculous.

Good to know. I don't play many games, but do have some older ones from GoG that would be nice to keep.

Turns out one of the video-editing programs I use (VideoRedo) has shut down anyway (I think the owner passed away) and so I'll need to look for an alternative anyway - I don't think I can activate it on new machines anymore.