Because when it is to actually get paid work done, all the bloat adds up and that 3 days upfront could shave weeks/months of your yearly tasks. XKCD has a topic abut how much time you can spend on a problem before effort outweighs productivity gains. If the tasks are daily or hourly you can actually spend a lot of time automating for payback

And note this is one instance of task, imagine a team of people all using your code to do the task, and you get a quicker ROI or you can multiply dev time by people

Decades ago I would prebuy their burittos in evening and throw them in fridge at home, and then take them for breakfast the next day. But their prices have jumped so much, and the quality dropped so much that I now make everything from scratch at home and it is much more satisfying

That stuff will kill you or maybe preserve you. A guy I know worked there as a manager and later moved to an internal corp Starbucks role. He said never buy any of their food. It is loaded with junk so the shelf life is super super long.

It never will be until cities adopt bike/pedestrian only roads…because no amount of awareness fixes a stupid or angry car driver. I have had a few instances of car drivers purosely attempt to block my travel.

One was on a one way street and truck did not like that he may have to switch lanes to pass safely, he was yelling at me to use the side walk. When I told him I had the same road rights, he turned his truck into the curb ahead of me so my path was blocked and I had to curb hop to avoid getting squished.

Second one was a stop sign that backed up traffic, i stay toward curb and all cars pass me until they get to stop sign, as a cyclist I can still keep travelling and pass those that passed me. There would always be some jealous idiot swing their door open hoping it would stop me. Again, I would hop curb to avoid their door.

That mentality of “I have more rights” as a driver, will never go away unless every vehicle had to be a bike for a while. A good punishement for bad drivers would be force them to bike for a few weeks to see what it is like on the receiving end.

If you have the budget Siemens NX CAD CAM FEA runs on Linux (Redhat and SUSE, also works on OpenSUSE). However the GUI version is NX 12 or prior releases, newer versions are headless…maybe that will change with Linux Desktop gaining percentage steadily

I’m not sure peripheral vision needs training, it is a reptilian connection. If something comes at out in the field of vision your body will react before you have time to think.

If you meant trying to state at the center while trying to discern info not in your central field of view that seems more like an attention shift than vision improvement

I was watching a Netflix documtary about killers, the guy said he was on drugs by age 9…so pretty sure that messed up his life before the murder. It is debatable on if surroundings or self choices are why you try drugs I guess.

Ours was exactly that, the oulet and inlet pipes in the tank corroded badly. Cold pressure fine, hot pressure was flow restricted

I grew up in Britain no one I knew says sinjin, but Sinclair,warrik (Warwick) etc were the norm

Did your Slow, Lazy, Underachieving get diagnosed as ADHD, or was it parental over expectations?

A few for different use cases. NixOS on my wife’s 14 year old laptop because it proved to handle the hardware the best, and she struggles with change so if that system dies the NixOS configuration can be redeployed identical to how she had it with no additional effort.

Debian on my old IOmega NAS.

OpenSUSE on my personal PC and Work computer, since it supports my proprietary CAD software, and nVidia releases a driver specifically for SUSE/OpenSUSE use.

Steam for your PC will have a large library of free games you can try, and also paid games. If you like board or card games there is an application called table top simulator. This opens up access to traditional board games people have converted to PC–when you can’t find it as a standalone game. Also a suggestion for standalone games if you are into cards:

• Wingspan. It has a steep learning curve but hours of fun once you learn it.

• Dominion. If you like this genre of game it can be a lot of fun.

• Catan. if you have played Catan board game and enjoy it, you can also play online for free https://catanuniverse.com/en/game/

Some of thaose restrictions get stupid. We had a client ship us their hardware and they included Laser Mouse on the manifest. The US border controls would not allow delivery due to a Laser being included LOL. Had they just entered it as a Mouse the package would have been delivered.

Eww…David!

Interesting. So attention seeking behaviour is possible to gain what you missed from your family?

Did your parents over validate you and / or praise you, even when you were in the wrong?Thus promoting narcissm?

Wow that is a gorgeous image

USB Cable connection, power failing? Is drive set to power down on idle and then falling off the radar?

WSL is fine for doing ssh type stuff or simple things but it is wonky for full distro use experience.

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