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_dax6··on Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Unetbootin either dumps the raw ISO directly to the block device or, in the case of Windows, extracts it to an exFAT partition. Ventoy doesn't require you to extract or dump the ISOs at all, which is where the real beauty of it lies.
_dax6··on Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Having biked in Philadelphia, only Center City has anything approaching usable bike lanes, and even there they come and go seemingly at random in places.
_dax6··on Comparison of Postsurgical Scars Between Vegan and Omnivore Patients
Maybe I'm reading into it too much, but the outcome of this study seems to suggest there may be other healing-related issues attached to veganism.
_dax6··on Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to compl
"Did your computer science program cover X, Y, and Z" is not an elitist, condescending, ignorant, or racist question.
_dax6··on Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to compl
The tweets have been made private, it seems. https://web.archive.org/web/20210227001627/https://twitter.c...

"In several cases, students were questioned IN INTERVIEWS about the quality of the computer science curriculum that they were receiving at their HBCU"

Dear god, it's almost like they're being interviewed for a tech job or something.

_dax6··on Switching to Windows
Yeah that's not what OP is talking about. Windows lets you half-width maximize windows next to each other, then drag the border in between to resize both [0]. What you've provided is, essentially, a way to make it easy to line up the edges of your windows, which is a feature I largely consider unnecessary.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-window...

_dax6··on Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
>An apple developer account is only $100/year.

When the other operating systems have options that are entirely free of cost, that's not as good of a deal as you think.