Agreed! Though give me the backports any day.

This guy’s right on the money. That’s about as far as I got with my T470. Be sure to stress test it with some hot, CPU-heavy action to make sure it doesn’t freeze. I was able to get mine down to about -120 mV, but raising that a little bit made it more stable.

That’s definitely a possibility, depending on the year and make. Now you’ve given me something to think about.

“You slurred the word ‘golden.’ Roll a d4. You need 20 to live.”

Or, a bag of holding embedded in a doll’s butt. Try being taken seriously when you’re fisting a plushie for a magic potion.

Sorry, had to.

I bought a used Chevy Bolt, then disconnected the antenna to put a dummy load on the OnStar transmitter. Never told it my Wi-Fi password. It can’t connect to the Internet unless I park it next to a cell tower, unless I pay for OnStar, which I refuse to do. I only use CarPlay so it can’t even hope to use my phone’s Bluetooth tethering (not that it seems capable).

Fortunately, Chevy’s only OTA infotainment update was to remove the video player, so I’m not missing much. Unplug the power cord and drive.

Username checks out.

I can’t say I’ve used a fountain pen, but I write better with rollerball pens. Those also dump ink everywhere.

Maybe. Some people have used SpinRite 6.1 to rewrite every sector, and that’s improved performance on some SSD’s. It rewrites each sector and restores the cell’s charge. That’s great if you need the data on there now.

Now, if you’re erasing the disk (by any means, including just a quick format C:), any sectors you use will be written with new data, so that shouldn’t matter.

Just erase the disk (securely, if you want) and get going, and it should be fine.

I’ll second this. I’ve got tons of FLACs. I let PlexAmp do the transcoding in the background.

Because I never learned Bash scripting, for whatever reason, and WSL wasn’t yet available to load on my work PC at the time.

Windows doesn’t make you oil the machine. Your move, nerd. </sarcasm>

You lost the birth lottery. Congratulations. Welcome to crony capitalism.

I graduated college directly into the Great Recession. I’m pushing forty and it took me well into my thirties to find a job in my field that actually paid well and didn’t abuse workers. So now, here I am, getting started in my career a good ten years behind the curve.

However, with macOS 26 (Tahoe) being the final version for Intel-based Macs, Rosetta 2 will be on the chopping block afterwards.

Starting with macOS 28, Apple said that only a limited version of Rosetta 2 will remain available for older games that rely on Intel-based frameworks

Part of the issue is most keyboards in America don’t have keys to add accent marks. macOS has Option keys, iOS has the long-press popups, and Linux has dead keys, but on Windows (the vast majority of the market), you still have to bang open Character Map or memorize numeric codes to get accented letters. Sure, you can get an international keyboard for your desktop, but most people won’t, and if you have a laptop, swapping the keyboard is significantly harder.

I wanted to correct someone’s last name in our system, changing Munoz to Muñoz. It took me a good minute to get that ñ in there. Not that most of my coworkers know how to pronounce that, mind you.

I studied Spanish in high school. That has relatively few accent marks and diacritics compared to the Eastern European languages, which was not an option at all in high school and still something I barely know.

Now, enough ranting. Are there any quick videos or tutorials for learning how to pronounce some of these letters in the various languages?

As someone who would like to buy a house and get rid of my landlord, while living in one of the most expensive parts of the United States, I completely understand. It’s a no-win scenario and I’m not getting younger.

Agreed. It’s not exciting watching a bunch of people work together to build a windmill. Nobody will spend millions of dollars to hire actors and release it on Netflix.

The only way it could be is if they’re also working together to, I dunno, resist murderous aliens or armed human capitalists at the same time. (“Oh no, the capitalists have come to destroy our peaceful and productive commune!”) But then we’re getting back to some kind of “us versus them.”

Have you tried the fork VSCodium? It strips out some of the telemetry and makes it more FOSS.

I owned one for a while. It was great. But Apple will eventually drop Intel support and these can then become well-built Linux laptops.