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Granted my favorite video game is an updated version of something over 20 years old (AOE2DE), but I use Proton for a Windows-only game all the time and it works like a charm. I've done some other small games with friends and everything on Steam has worked either natively or with Proton. It's quite impressive.

No argument here, but the comment I was responding to said no major brands had an electric car to show, but the best selling electric car for years was by one of the most common household name brands for a car.

It wasn't until last year that Tesla Model 3 surpassed the Nissan Leaf to be the best selling electric car. I know the Leaf is not as competitive in some ways, but it's sold in the US for years with plenty of success.

Yes, it's a very different experience running Android with Amazon's setup on a Fire Device than on with Google Play Services, even if it's binary compatible.

For me, technical stuff is much better in eBooks because of the search functionality.

> As one of the first online banks (I know Ally was a little ahead of them)

Am I missing something? As far as I can tell, Simple didn't start doing business until 2012. I remember around 2012 opening my first on-line bank account and having a plethora of options. I had heard about Simple but it was still in beta and I couldn't get an account. There were on-line banks going back to the 90s, such as First Internet Bank.

McDonald's lobbied to pay minors, as new hires, less than minimum wage, which is still allowed. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/32-minimum-wage...

Perhaps a parallel to internships.

I've seen ways of running Android (Linux kernel) on iPhones for over a decade on-line, though I don't know that any ever fully supported it.

I've tried running in cotton and it is not a pleasant experience, especially in high humidity or rainy conditions (very common where I live).

Hmm I'm a runner and pretty much everything I wear for running is plastic. The common advice I've gotten is to avoid cotton and it's worked well for me. Anywhere I can read more about this?

It very commonly refers to Portuguese-speaking Brazilians in my area.

Why is it called "Latino" when it is just in Spanish and not Portuguese (or maybe French? not sure if Haitians are Latino). It seems like "Hispanic" would be the better term since this is language focused rather than geography focused.

I had a Nokia N800 "Internet Tablet" and loved that device. Android was a huge downgrade compared to what you could do with that in every way except interface, and the interface wasn't too bad.

It's funny how "hash" sort of became a mainstream way to pronounce "#" but not quite.

> Now that is why if I ever have to send my CV to someone it will only be a PDF version.

Although it depends how you generate it how easy it will be, Word has built in support for editing PDFs. So does LibreOffice (in Draw I believe). It's pretty accessible to non-technical people without expensive software to edit PDFs nowadays.

Yeah I've had some disappointments with Mozilla over the years, but as this point I use it as my main browser in part because I don't want there to be a monopoly with Blink (and Webkit) rendering engines.

And Firefox is honestly still quite good. I have to open up another browser once in a while, but I use Firefox for 99% of my browsing on macOS, Linux, and Windows (mainly Linux these days), including a lot of web apps.

It seems obvious there would be plenty of "legitimate" dislikes coming, as probably a lot of people who followed this YouTube channel in the past 4 years were Trump supporters, and now the channel features Biden. Trump supporters still subscribed would dislike this content. I wonder if the same happened at the last transition.

Not to mention a Unix (Xenix) used to be one of Microsoft's main products.

My wife teaches in a small, poor town that is off the beaten path. It is just outside of what most would consider the suburbs (we live on the edge of a suburb and she commutes through rural area to get there). The only grocery store in town is what used to be a locally owned and supplied store, and is now under the branding of a "Piggly Wiggly Xpress." The options are to go there, Dollar General, or drive almost 30 minutes to another option, one of which is a Walmart. Everyone who can just drives to the Walmart.

The local grocery store is the worst excuse for a grocery store I've ever seen. There are only a handful of fresh vegetable options, including $1/lb bananas and $5/head iceberg lettuce. Everything is overpriced and there are very few healthy food options. Apparently a lot of people due to transportation limitations can ONLY shop at this store (or Dollar General), which is expensive and mostly has unhealthy options. There are talks of a Walmart coming in, and I have no doubt it would be a huge quality of life improvements for folks in the town.

Everything works without any fuss if you use Glorious Eggroll fork of Proton. I've played 100s of hours of AOE2 DE this year on Linux. Before it took manual steps, but I recently switched to a new distro, used GE, and needed nothing more: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

Interesting. They keep trying to push Chime on us, so I'm surprised to hear they're using Slack internally.

There is one on display the BMW Zentrum museum in Spartanburg, SC: https://www.bmwgroup-werke.com/spartanburg/en/plant-tours-ze...

/r/gendercritical was also banned, an active and well-moderated radical feminist sub.

I am not a radical feminist, nor was I particularly welcomed there as a man, but I found the sub interesting to expand my perspective.

We had these at my school in the 90s too. We used them for writing assignments and to learn to type, but several kids with bad handwriting got to use them for everything. I was always a bit jealous. :)

It's interesting RTF is discontinued when it is still the default format on the included word processor in Windows. I checked WordPad on Windows 10 and it still saves to RTF by default, though it supports docx and odt as well.

BlueJeans and RingCentral might as well be clones of Zoom. Amazon Chime and Microsoft Teams are fine for me too, but I'm not picky.

I'm a younger millennial (born in early 90s) who got his start with BASIC. The first programming I did was on Q-BASIC on our aging desktop machine (386 with Windows 3.1) that we didn't use for much, especially with very limited Internet use.

When I took programming in high school, we started with TI-BASIC on TI-83 calculators for about a month, as my programming teacher felt like this best replicated his experience learning programming on a TRS-80. I tend to agree, and this is a great use of BASIC. It's the default programming interface on a widely used computer to this day.

We then moved to VB6 for our "serious" programming, although we also did JavaScript and Java.

My first programming professionally was done in an office setting at a temp job using VBA to help with some Excel work. And then my first job as a software engineer, even though I wasn't writing it, did have some Visual Basic.NET floating around (most of my work was in C#).

My local credit union (one of the largest 25 NCUA insured in the U.S.) until about 5 years ago used your debit pin as the only password for online login and didn't allow changing the password or adding a second factor.

I got my start with web dev using Netscape Composer, which was a similar enough tool. Seamonkey, the successor of Netscape and Mozilla Suite, still includes it to this day and it works well!

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

It's also worth noting that while most of the Baby Boomers are around typical retirement age, Buffet was actually born in 1930, over a decade before the "Baby Boom" after WWII ended. His children are boomers, however.