There are actually quite a lot of DRM free games on Steam, BTW.

• The grass is always greener in the hand.
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t look it in its mouth.
• We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
• Caught with his pants in the cookie jar.

100%

It’s the only way I open the start menu. There is no faster way to get to what I want than Superkey and typing.

PS I have all my OSes set up similarly. OSx has spotlight, my GNOME and KDE are configured to launch searchable menus on Super, and my mobile launcher is set up to search when I swipe up.

Cool! Yet another way to have Google loop the same 20 songs tangentially related to the artist I searched for without actually playing the artist I searched for.

They have touted for a long time their false equivalency that restriction equals security. If they backtrack on that (I believe) they believe they will lose customers. In reality their fanbase will likely stick with them because that’s what they know and the added functionality will make their offerings a more appealing product.

Now that Europe is forcing their hand on some of this we can see the impacts it will have on their market growth in the coming years. There are other factors that impact this potential shift in market share too:

• Is your current phone still working
• Have you had a lot of problems with your current phone or phone manufacturer
• Are you willing to ignore Apple’s past regresses in anticipation of actually being able to use their hardware as you wish

I side load. That’s why I stick to Android. If they get rid of that I need to find something else. Restricting what your users can do is actually a bad business process and the key thing keeping me away from Apple. If Apple were to actually open their systems and start respecting their users they would get more customers.

Not exactly an explicit ad, but more a product I heard about from an infomercialesque “review” for the PCPanel.

It was a cheap gadget that addressed a shortcoming I was experiencing. It works well and I use it every time I use my computer.

A microphone is a membrane attached to a means to generate electricity (like shaking wires around a magnet). When you make sound by a mic you shake the membrane and it in turn generates a small amount of electricity.

This electricity is an analog signal (it’s continuous, and the exact amount changes over time). We can take that signal and digitize it (literally chop it up into distinct digits) by using an ADC or analog to digital converter. Essentially an ADC takes a snapshot of the analog signal at a specific point in time, and repeats that snapshot process very quickly. If you take enough snapshots fast enough you can have a reasonable approximation of the original signal (like following a dotted line).

Now we have a digital signal and we can store those series of snapshots in a file.

But how do we turn that back into sound? We literally just follow the process in reverse.

We open the file and get the list of snapshots. We pass those to a DAC or digital to analog converter that generates a continuous analog signal that passes through every original point. We pass that signal to thin wire wrapped around a magnet and attached to a membrane. This mechanism takes the small generated electric field from the DAC and causes the membrane to shake in the same pattern that the mic originally shook in.

In practice there are often other steps in line such as amps to increase the strength of a signal or compression to minimize how much space the snapshots take up.

Can’t tell if the spelling misstakes are engagement bait or just a sad irony.

This is a literal plot point of Stargate.

Higher dimensional beings exist in a state manifest to us as differing realities. Which “reality” we see is partially dependent upon the difference in locations of the portals we take to the pocket.

There is only one Waffle House with doors around the world.

JFK’s head just did that on its own.

You can do that with an alternative launcher. They didn’t require root and there are some that are made to be very similar to the pixel launcher just with more settings.

I use lawn chair and have the search bar hidden normally, but it appears for local app only search when I swipe up.

Deleting my grub config instead of editing it. Fortunately that’s pretty easy to recover from, just annoying.

F’ed up installing graphics driver and had to reset everything from another TTY, also just annoying.

Chose the wrong permissions or path on a chmod call and locked out a big party of the system. I think that was during a setup though, so I just started from scratch again.

I used Ubuntu until PAE became required and then switched to either Puppy or DSL (tried them both, honestly don’t remember which I stuck with). Eventually got a new computer and used Fedora and Arch (btw) for years. I’ve recently switched to Debian on a machine I just don’t wanna be arsed with worrying about breaking.

Though I haven’t tried it, Yumi might be what you’re looking for.

Proficiency is absolutely key. I was troubleshooting a feature with a Jr the other day and asked him to search through the log out put (that was currently being displayed on his terminal). Unfortunately he was trying out a new emulator and didn’t know how to actually search the output.

We went about it a different way, but at the end I just told him it didn’t matter what tools he used as long as he actually knew how to do what’s required with them and to please get that figured out for next time.

Every week they gather and listen to a man telling them what to believe, unquestionably, and without evidence.

Then a politician comes along and tells them more things to believe, unquestionably, and without evidence.

If you don’t have food, haven’t for several days, don’t have funds for it, and don’t have a job (because you don’t have a house because you don’t have a job) and you steal some food, I would not say you made a personal choice to commit a criminal act. External factors can absolutely remove your choice in the matter.

Furthermore, what if you’re gay or trans or an atheist and just happen to be born in a regressive society? You’ve not made a choice to be a criminal even though your existence is criminalized.

That’s not to say that ALL crimes are the fault of society. There will always be people doing illegal shit for the thrill of it (like the whole Kia car jacking thing) and there will always be people who act on their own selfish desires to a criminally fraudulent extreme (like Rick Scott overseeing the largest case of Medicare fraud in history).

You do need to allocate memory to it though, and that subtracts from the pool of system RAM available for other purposes.