Sadly almost all these comments are wrong. I work in a computer shop and we see the scam you’re talking about all the time. It happened because you unknowingly opened an ad. So you clicked on a button that looked legitimate like “download” or “next” or whatever, and that pops up full screen. The fix is a good ad blocker like ublock origin. Google’s being a piece of shit right now about ad blockers so I recommend something Firefox-based for effective ad blocking.
I agree with you and I would like to add a couple points:
Safety: a lot of people buy big vehicles to feel like they have a chance of surviving a crash with another big vehicle. Not saying this is good, but it is a thing that happens and it feeds the vicious cycle.
Regulation: I know these types of threads tend to lean into “regulation good” but let’s not forget that regulation caused (or a big part of it) this whole mess in the first place. Actually a couple of them: the chicken tax is a big one (a 25% tariff on imported light trucks), and the other one is the way the minimum fuel mileage requirements are calculated. Basically, you can break the math of the EPA fuel mileage requirement by making the vehicle longer. Unfortunately this looks aesthetically stupid, so it makes the proportions correct they have to be bigger in every other direction too. This mileage math is effectively what killed the mini trucks that used to be so popular like the S10, and smaller versions of the Tacoma and Ranger.
Much better
Life itself doesn’t get easier until you learn how to make boundaries and life the way you really are. Ask anyone that has “come out” as gay, trans, or autistic. It sucks at first but life gets better once you learn who you are and stop being sorry for it.
Cool write up!
I recommend you play TRAIL OUT, which is a spiritual successor to the best FLATOUT games. I like it a lot and would love to hear your thoughts!
I work in a PC repair shop and I run my tool stick on this way. By the way, you can just put a folder in your Ventoy and store non-iso files so you can have portable apps and so on.
Edit: ADHD did ADHD things. Here’s some more stuff. A lot of it is Windows-centric because that’s what we specialize in. ISOs:
Utilities:
I’m here for that type of family memory.
Yes this is the correct answer. The words in the meme are written to a hypothetical end user. They would not reference technology like the other person said.
Green and yellow need to be swapped.
The fun bus has no brakes.
🎵 And I should have died 6000 more 🎶
I love old machines but 7 years old is a lifetime in computing and especially laptops. Most normal laptops last like 3-5 before they fall apart. One thing that is cool about Thinkpads is that they are often obsolete before the fall apart.
Super tall mountains do stay snow-capped but that starts at elevation roughly double of where I live.
So that is true in terms of convection heat. Aka the sun gets the air hot, then the air gets you hot. When you’re in the shade, this is how you feel heat in high altitude. At sea level this is also mostly how you feel heat.
The difference is radiation heat. When you’re in the thinner atmosphere you get more UV light and it heats you directly. UV can also penetrate skin a certain amount so it heats you inside too. You also burn super fast up high.
Logically I know that of course.
Friendly reminder, this is specifically a thread about petty and pedantic topics. I self-nominated as pedantic here.
I like that and it’s probably the right metric tbh. But in terms of just linear distance it makes my blood itch lmao
Yes! That’s another one for sure. I personally can let that one go however. But as for heat, I have studied it formally and something about makes me need to fix the misinformation.
So not to be pendantic (lol), but this is the definition of a pendant:
noun noun: pedant; plural noun: pedants
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
With pedantic of course meaning acting in that way. I feel like pointing out my technical knowledge is unnecessary in the grand scheme of things but even if I try to let it go my brain will hang on to it until I tell them, even if that is much later on.
That said, hopefully it’s not pointless to share!
I live in a high altitude area. It gets very hot. People will say that it’s because we’re “closer to the sun” as if the 6000ft/1800m difference is what matters vs the 93,000,000mi/150,000,000km distance to the sun is affected by something so small.
The difference is the lack of atmosphere to soften the various types of light from the sun.
Our teeth do much better when we eat a diet that’s more in line with our evolution. Check out pictures of primal tribes. They very often have beautiful smiles.
Watch it for the plot.