lurker_primo

Usually never. I will list a few systems that are there in my home:

1. My personal laptop: I did an Windows 10 erase and install when I purchased it to get rid of the junk, and split the hard drive for a dual boot. I also installed Fedora initially, but a month later shifted to Debian 11, and have not touched that since. It has been 6 months.

2. My wife's laptop: It is very old - maybe 10 years. It used to run Windows till 2017. Then it fell into disuse due to a hard drive failure. I revived it with an SSD around the time Linux Mint 20 released, installed it, and it has never been erased since.

3. My father's and father-in-law's computers: These aren't in my home, but I manage them. They are also a few years old. They run Debian. Started with 9 I think. I updated them to 10 and then to 11. They work flawlessly too.

4. Phones: I erased my phone (Oneplus 6) only once after Oneplus stopped updates to install LineageOS. Others haven't been erased since they've been bought. All are over 3.5 years old.

I don't have an iphone, but I saw a similar issue with Signal.

My wife and I use Signal to message each other and we have Signal as sms handler on our android phones. For some reason, she had to use a dumb phone with no Signal app for a couple of weeks. After a few days, she was suspicious that she is not getting some sms'es. I wanted to test if this was true, but I couldn't. Any message I sent to her number through Signal would be sent as a Signal message which wouldn't be delivered and I couldn't figure out how to send as sms. I had to change my sms app to another app, and then send using that app. Now, the new sms app couldn't read all older sms because Signal removes all sms from android sms database into Signal. So, now I use separate apps for Signal and sms.

This is anecdotal. I've been able to successfully install boot and install EndeavourOS with Ventoy. I've not done anything special - just install Ventoy "sh ./Ventoy2disk.sh -i /dev/sdb", copied the iso over and booted.

In Android, you can have starred contacts. Only their calls will get through.

You have flipped the definitions of redriver and retimer.

Also, while I agree with big money for hardware, do you see a way around if your design needs a retimer?

Not official Ubuntu, but there is Regolith-linux[0], which is a i3 based system built on Ubuntu. I use it regularly. It is good, but I'm not a power user.

[0] https://regolith-linux.org/

Yup.. My 2012 Macbook Pro is also fine, and is the more capable among my 2 personal laptops. I upgraded it with SSD, and 16 GB RAM, and installed Manjaro. The day to day usage (photo editing with Darktable/Rawtherapee, some light software development etc) is fine - no stuttering. The other one is a Vaio from 2008. I upgraded that one too with an SSD and 4 GB RAM. It is fine for Media consumption and office tasks - no slowdown at all.

I'll try to answer your questions. I may be partially wrong on some points. * India has multiple levels of government - village, district, state, centre. Now Ladakh will not have any state government as such. All the responsibilities will be handled by a Lt. Governor appointment by the center. It makes sense because Ladakh is very sparsely populated and the state legislature would have very few legislators to be effective. People would continue to vote in village, district, and central leaders. * Since Article 370 and 35a were in place, nobody else (except people of the state) could buy land. Subsequently there is very little industialization, and investment. These leaders amassed lots of land and wealth. They would do anything to keep it, including fomenting violence. They were placed under house arrest to stop this.

Maybe I can help address the feeling after exercise. Are you pushing too hard? I've read that the thumb rule is 80% of your exercise must be at conversational effort, meaning if you are running, for 80% of it, you should be able to hold a conversation.

If you can stand the smell, neem oil is very effective. I use low concentrations in a spray bottle, and spray my windows, they generally don't come in..

I think you should get yourself checked out. My resting heart rate is in 50s. It gets elevated when I'm running, riding, or working out, but returns to resting levels after only a couple of hours.

You shouldn't drink distilled water at all. It's bad for you. I don't know if such a system exists, a machine which would filter out all chemicals which cause endocrine disruption would help. Alternately, if you are so paranoid, you can create distilled water and add safe minerals by some method.

If you look at the box, it'll say active culture present. Any yoghurt with active culture will do. Once you have your first batch ready, you can reuse it.

> Being fit is not going to change some of the most unpleasant things in a lot of people's lives. A commute is still a commute. A bereavement is still a bereavement. A boring job is still a boring job. Debts are still debts etc etc.

I was almost obese (BMI: 29.8). I'm on my path to being at a normal weight (BMI: 25.5). I would say it is immeasurably better. I can walk up stairs without losing my breath. My knees don't creak. Random aches and pains are gone. I'm generally healthier (less common cold etc). I can participate in many activities such as sports without tiring myself and taking a couple of days to recover. I can go on longer hikes and see many things which were quite impossible before. I much more comfortable at all times now. All the negative things add up in a person's mind. A commute + shitty health is worse than just a commute. If I'm working in a fulfillment center, I'm not uncomfortable while exerting physical effort.

It says film. So, it could be movies or images. What else would be possible? Are you thinking of quickest ways to rip the DVDs if they are movies?

You can have an offline account which is not connected to a microsoft account in any way. They try to force you to connect a microsoft account. There are scripts that disable all telemetry - reddit.com/r/tronscript is a good resource. The issue is that we don't know when Microsoft turns it back on.

I wonder if you could use turmeric powder for yellow dye. I don't know how it will taste with the cocoa bread. I like it, not many do.

I have nothing useful that I can say here except that this has happened to me. A few months back, I created a new account on Outlook with a username that I wanted to adopt for my communication. When I tried to login the next day, the account had been suspended by Microsoft with a similar reason given. I didn't do anything further because I had just created the account and had nothing associated with it.

Sumatra PDF can open .cbr/.cbz files too. So, it serves as a comic reader too.

I believe that if the job can be automated, it will be. That is the way humanity is progressing since the beginning. If you want a current example, you can look at farming practices. It is highly automated and industrialized in developed countries. It is common to see 1 person managing a 500 acre farm with machines. In developing countries, farming is still a very labor intensive process. It isn't economically viable to bring machines to farms yet and the labor rates are sufficiently low. Over the decades, I have seen more and more machines coming to the farms as the availability of labor has decreased and the wages have increased.

> software developer, strategist, manager, etc.

These jobs cannot be automated easily now, but in future, we may have a good enough AI that can do these jobs. Consider the jobs that existed in 19th and 20th century. Many of them don't exist nowadays at all. For ex., Horses were a major component of transportation. There were a lot of people involved to support this industry. If we stopped the progress of automotive industry on moral grounds that these people would lose their jobs, wouldn't we be cheating our future?

We cannot legislate job protection because then somebody else will come along, automate it, and offer the service at a lower price. What we can do is legislate for fair working conditions, wages etc, and a stable social net that will support people who can't/won't work for any reason. This brings us to the topic of UBI and others.

If we expand the question to include problem solving, logical thinking, building things using different components(ex. Lego), there isn't an age where a child couldn't learn. Having a strong foundation in these topics will definitely help the child if he/she learns to code later in life.

> As far as life-hacks go, I generally seek to run my domestic operations like an OS scheduler - start background things first (get that kettle boiling, get that washing machine running, etc) and then proceed to interactive chores that need direct attention while other things are happening in the background.

I too try to do this as much as possible. But I find that this is only possible with tasks that follow a specific pattern every time. If I try to change even a single thing in the background task, I have to interrupt interactive chores because I will have forgotten something else. To remedy this, I always take 5 min to mentally list each step before starting.

People recommend listening to podcasts/audiobooks in the background while working. I would recommend against that. Eliminate background distractions - reddit, podcasts, anything. If I browse reddit while I wait for something to complete, I waste a lot of time by finishing the article/thread before taking action on finished items. This makes a lot of difference when time is limited, especially in the morning when I'll be running to catch the bus on time. If I listen to podcasts, I miss some information in the podcasts, and I miss some things on the tasks I'm working on.

I think they meant they have money that they are willing to pay for a new iphone. What is over-pay to you might be just-the-right-price for somebody else with different values.

There is Gnucash for Android. Here is the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gnucash.an...

I primarily use Pocket - I know of 3 services (P2K, crofflr, en2kindle). Those perform satisfactorily for me at the moment.

Your service also looks good. I was able to download articles to kindle. Does it archive downloaded articles? Can I set the number of articles to download at once?

There is a podcast called "The Earth Collective" where an entire civilization is constantly moving. I guess they use big RV's there too. It is quite interesting.

I need my monitors to be at the same brightness as ambient light. Otherwise my eyes start to hurt and after some time, I get a headache. I couldn't even think of looking at a monitor in the dark.

It is accurate most of the time. Sometimes, it puts your location at a place that is impossible to get into. Assume you are traveling on a freeway. If you suddenly get into a stop and go traffic, it assumes you have got onto a surface street near the freeway - either redirecting you back onto the freeway, or reroutes you to a completely different route. It confuses you if you aren't paying attention to your location.

Please note that Moto G4 doesn't have the compass. That means Google Maps is not as accurate. I've had problems with inaccurate location(or current location jumps around) on Maps when I'm in situations where there is a mix of stop and go, and freeway traffic. I didn't have this issue with Nexus 5 which has a compass. (It could be an issue with Moto's GPS receiver too)

What is the typical rate for internship if you were not a remote worker? I would guess it is higher than 400eu/month. What if you were a non remote worker in Brazil itself? It would be lower than 400eu/month, right? So, your company would want to pay you somewhere in between. I would suggest you start from a salary closer to a typical Dutch one and allow them to negotiate you down to what you expect.