https://xkcd.com/1053/

I use Mint, and my brother sister uses Arch. Seems accurate enough to me.

The factories may use fossil fuels, but I do not.

The fossil fuel companies are responsible for their own actions, as are the companies and people who still choose to use fossil fuels.

The people who have made an active choice to avoid fossil fuels (or the people without a choice) are not at fault. Blaming them instead of the people who can make a difference helps no-one.

“we all use”

Speak for yourself. I refuse to pay them a cent, and have taken every step I can to distance myself from them.

Also check out sponsor block.

Try induction. It’s so much better than standard electric, and in my opinion, also better than gas.

Peter Capaldi as Caecilius in Doctor Who (The fires of Pompeii) before joining Doctor Who as The Doctor

I’ve heard of Australian bushfires traveling close to 100km/h (60mph) with a strong wind.

What’s even worse is if the flame front is diagonal to your path of travel. The flames might be going 50km/h, but if they’re coming at you at 60%, then you have to be going at least 100km/h to outrun them.

Fires don’t need to follow roads. If a fire is traveling perpendicular to the only road you have, you can’t drive away from it.

How many do you have?

Are you using a rechargeable battery?

AA batteries are typically 1.5V, but some rechargeable ones are only 1.2V. This leads to the product thinking the battery is always low even when it’s fully charged.

If you have a Li-ion rechargeable, you get the opposite problem. The battery is actually around 2.7V, and has a converter internally to step it down to 1.5V. You will keep getting 1.5V until the battery goes flat with no warning.

The laws of physics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in the UK is the law of the UK

It’s not easier than Windows, it’s the devil you know.

Sure it’s slow, but you know how slow. It does updates at the wrong time, but you know it will turn on again eventually. It sends all your data to Microsoft, but no-one has come to your door to harass you because what’s in your data.

Linux is some obscure thing that would take time and effort to learn, and you’re tired from work and just want to use a computer without thinking about it.

Things might be different if Windows wasn’t the default/only option when buying a new laptop.

Stone

If talking about relativity, the distance to destination is further compressed only for your perspective, not the train’s, and not the earth’s. The amount compressed is imperceptible.

It might help.

At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.

I have 2. One has broken twice from over use, so I reprinted the broken piece and swapped it.

I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.

The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press “Num lock” on the keyboard.

About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn’t work.

Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new “Num lock” button they’d never heard of before.

This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say “Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter” when typing a single “A” on a line, but didn’t know what “Caps lock” was and couldn’t find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.