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For some replacement computer parts and other such items shipped via FedEx to a certain remote location, all packages came with a coating of dust. Like wash your hands after receiving harddrive box, and then wash again after cutting the box open to keep the anti static bag clean. I guess if a shipping company can get away with it they will? Roofs and floors cost money.

Firefox used to have better redirect limitations, I guess web developers didn't like that and they were noisier than the users that took advantage of it.

I'd like to know this too-- my music player has a few different rendering options for one on screen view, GDI has always used fewer gpu and cpu resources than direct2d and direct3d in 7 and 10 so far?

That would be a great win for improving linux compatibility!

Yeah, IRC shows it's age, but it's easy to get connected and talking, no phone number verification or required account creation, or other byzantine verification process.

There are drying oils and non-drying oils. Drying oils are what you want to put on your cast iron pan to polymerize the oil into a coating. Tung oil would be a bad choice for chain lubricant because it will gum up, but castor oil should be more suitable for said chain.

I have a dishwasher that says an upright glass of vinegar is an option if dishwasher cleaning tablets aren't powerful enough but warns that it is harsh on the plastics and seals.

Mazda and BMW have had something like this in some of their cars for years now. It's been a pleasant experience in the few cars I've used that had that kind of setup.

And even better, you can just go into system preferences and turn off what you don't want!

At one point I had a newish version of OS X spotlight pared down to be about as functional as the Windows 7 start menu Search. If I had wanted command-space to be closer in feature parity to a Windows 10 start menu, it's approximately five reasonably intuitive mouse clicks to get to the settings prefpane with those checkboxes. I too have yet to find similarly well made functionality from any other major-ish desktop OS.

Also known as force touch on an iPhone.

It's a terrible idea to me! Like sure, I know the devs want to do the minimum of work, but that doesn't make it a good idea to take the easy way out.

To do math, I may literally visualize the numbers in my head, like an extra piece of paper I can manipulate numbers on, but it's not literal paper so it doesn't have to conform to annoying IRL properties like fixed transparency and permanent ink that can't be slid around.

It gets difficult to do more than simple calculus and algebra problems purely in my head, so I start offloading parts of my virtual workspace to a meatspace page.

If your wood frame house has been on fire on the inside long enough to scorch a wood frame through the drywall or damage the drywall itself, concrete construction isn't gonna be much better for you the owner/resident.

If a California wildfire comes through and ravages the area, your fireproof building will still be there, but the walls will heat soak can and then set things on fire inside a fireproof building.

Not all store bought ketchup is created equal, through trial and error I've found a few better store brands, some of which I've forgotten the name of. Sir Kensingtons > Heinz

A sub-10 mile ambulance trip can easily cost $1000 US if it's not covered by insurance. If you're already barely eeking out a living working paycheck to paycheck, that might be a bit too much to manage.

America does not have much compassion in healthcare, the fear of medical debt may outweigh the fear of death.

Unless the religion one follows condemns you to an afterlife of suffering for the actions you took to have a full tummy.

I guess it depends greatly on what version of bash and such, but with something recent, trying to execute the script will escape the problem characters when printing if it prints the interpreter name at all, and possibly also say 'bad interpreter: no such file or directory"

...since there's more than 2 valid line ending configurations?

As an end user, I care more about code quality and stability than I do speed of shipping code. I don't want to use some buggy code that was pushed through production too quickly just because the devs are lazy!

Need big bank to support the home loan and childcare.

I bought a pair of AKG k171's a while ago. They've taken everything without issue. The insulation on the cable got damaged a bit too much for my tastes after a few years, so I bought a new one. Nothing wrong with that investment, It's been through approximately 4 replacement cables and one or two sets of ear pads/foam.

I'm still getting my moneys worth 15 years later!

That does not at all sound normal. A stable system (linpack and furmark at the same time stable) shouldn't do that. It's not impossible for that to be a BIOS/EFI issue. Personally my 2060super with Debian stable has been a surprisingly pleasant experience.

At least you haven't gotten to the part where you can effectively(not literally) send hotplug events and such over displayport if you have two computers connected to one monitor. Kscreen gets a bit obnoxious in that situation. It wouldn't be too hard to send data between computers with that...

The effects of costco and walmart's behavior is largely contained within their own retail space. Amazon.com has no such constraint.

I think my answer is yesno. It isn't about the action of making and selling the competing products, but about how the internet and FAANG scale changes the customer-business dynamics. Consider that when you browse wares in a physical store like Costco or Walmart, the selection is constrained to what can fit within a building, thus the absolute worthless garbage junk and knockoffs will be culled to make space for less return-prone items ( At Costco, I don't see 5 pages or aisles of identical products listed under different brands that are mechanically indistinguishable from 'kirkland signature' products). Costco also seems to care about counterfeits and whether or not something they sold was found to be bad (this has happened to me, a food item at costco was found to be the source of a few food poisoning cases and was traced back to a single item at costco, and costo went around calling everyone who had that batch on their purchase history to let them know). I've wound up with counterfeit pieces of junk off Amazon that I'm not going to go through the effort of refunding/returning/complaining about, so it's all slippage that AMZN gets away with. Returns and replacements are so fast at brick and mortar stores 5 miles away from home!

It takes time to google things, and the engineer is paid to write code not google stuff.

Which for whatever reasons doesn't really work very well. You can request that the region be different, but it doesn't seem that the setting is uniformly respected or doesn't work in a useful way.

I ran into this when I was stuck using a connection that was detected as non-USA and was shared by people who would also be non-USA. I gave up using google search because I just could not get google anything to respect my requested region in a useful way. Even google maps on the web was problematic because it would constantly try to move the view right back to where it thought I was. It's quite annoying to search something like "$food near Massachusetts, USA" and get a list of stuff in Mexico one week and Canada the next.

It's kinda implied when you hear 'fully vaccinated people do not require a mask'. I think that it's a bit of a stretch to come to the conclusion that that implies the vaccine is a magic bullet, but I have been surprised IRL by people who really do think that and would expect to be completely immune after getting a few mRNA shots. I was not surprised by their annoyance at learning that wasn't the case.

I think you are coming from a place of having a bit more knowledge than the absolute minimum you'd pick up through osmosis by never doing any research or due diligence. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that awareness campaigns deliberately ignored facts that might make the vaccine sound less appealing. It's hard to make good decisions if you don't really have a full picture.

I don't like fullscreen applications. I don't like tiling window managers. I have large screens so I can see more and do more not less. The last thing I want is full screen.

Technology is making this easy to scale up, there will always be people who want to abuse this, and the abuse potential grows with scale.

What was once 'I'm particularly fond of a certain shops version of a food item' can then become every shop selling that category of item automatically guiding you to the same type of item. Besides the part where everyone knows your name and a quick dossier like you're a celebrity but without any of the perks, life would be so drab if it was "The usual today John?" at literally every place everywhere always.

I think the catch is that if you installed chrome and use it, you won't see those prompts, and if Microsoft changed teh default away from chrome against your wishes, you probably do want to be notified of the change.

I can opt out of googles nags by just not installing chrome, I can't say the same for edge on windows.

I don't really like clicky touchpads, so I consider that a bad point of most of these Apple trackpads. Apple trackpads still work better than anything on Windows cause software stack? I can't stand how mice work on macs, the acceleration curve is terrible so that's a trade off...

The force sensitive trackpad is nice because you can click with little pressure, taking away my biggest gripe about clicky trackpads.

I would expect SOME vehicles to do so just fine.

Really hot weather in the Continental USA can be pretty toasty, and if a garage was designed more like a crummy solar furnace, I would expect to see it hit those temperatures.

My car has survived at least 150F interior temperatures parked outside during a sunny Pacific Northwest heatwave. I'm estimating that temp because I had some plastic in the car that was rated to lose stiffness at 150F and it got a bit floppy after the car was parked outside in sunny 105F+ weather weeks on end and the plastic was in shade.

It can be hard on lead acid batteries and shorten their life, some lithium ion battery chemistries top out at 130F ambient operating temperature, and ABS plastic that dashboards can be made of is rated to about 176F. If its 150F ambient, the dash could be even hotter.