It will definitely burst, and might take out some fairly large companies with it. Potentially even one or two tech companies that have been around for decades depending on how large it gets before that burst. One or two companies will end up with the IP all of them are “building” and it will fizzle into the background of daily use just like the previous assistants like Alexa, Cortana, etc. have.
This doesn’t surprise me at all.
At Circle K, the video system in the back uses “police” to access the footage so they can review and make a copy. Not sure if that’s the only access level, wouldn’t be surprised given how old many of those systems still are.
Depends on what the jury decides. Did they manage to find 12 people that will consider a sandwich a weapon and completely discount the protest aspect and all current events?
Considering the prosecution doesn’t get to pick the jury, and both sides decided on the jury via voir dire, I doubt it.
That dude is still gonna have to live with all the jokes about him being a little bitch overreacting to a sandwich. His buddies will never let him love that down regardless of the verdict. And that gives me a tiny spark of happiness in these dark times.
To be fair, that’s because of a 1972 law that classifies bread as a staple food with extremely specific requirements. Namely that sugar content is no more than 2% of the flour content, above that is technically a cake legally.
Ignoring the fact that cakes usually have a sugar content of about 35%. The bread is nowhere near actually being cake, no one would actually mistake it for cake, and the courts only classify it that way because of those legal definitions.
Our dishwasher has a bright ass white LED when it’s done and clean. As long as you don’t open the door it’s lit up like the Lighthouse of Alexandria. If you’re opening the door, you need to just empty it. Even with that we have a magnet that says “Hella Clean” on one side and “Dirty AF” on the other, makes people actually want to swap it around since it’s not just a basic boring ass dirty/clean sign.
I didn’t even realize that, last I had heard was them putting it before the third jury, and then that there was going to be a trial.
I’m sure we all know the phrase that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich”. It took prosecutors THREE Grand Juries to finally get an indictment for someone throwing that sandwich.
It’s all a complete waste of time and taxpayer funds, and in any other point in history these prosecutors would have been fired immediately for incompetence at even considering an indictment in the first place, not even considering the possibility that they would try for three attempts.
I mean… God literally commits genocide multiple times, and that’s just from the stories that they chose to actually include. Satan/Lucifer mostly tempts people to do things they want to do anyway.
Seems pretty cut and dry honestly.
Lucifer’s crime was daring to question his father.
After being cast out he was put in charge of overseeing those that were deemed by that same father to be bad after death.
Seems to be a common link there, and it’s not Lucifer.
It is. And so do I. The terminal isn’t hard, it’s just for the average user, it feels intimidating and/or extremely old and thus inherently bad. They rely on the GUI as the user experience. And to be honest, they’re right. A modern system should not require terminal interaction for every day use cases, or even infrequent use cases. It’s just not a user-friendly interface for a consumer.
And that doesn’t even get into the youngest generations that have grown up with touchscreens, where many can barely use a mouse. Even those most would probably consider to be more tech-literate, like gamers. PirateSoftware (I know, I know, but it is a real world interaction versus theoretical) brought a demo to one of the conventions, with 2 stations for a game, 1 KB&M and 1 controller. For the few kids that tried to use the KB&M stations, they moved the keyboard out of the way and tried to touch the screen to interact, because they didn’t know how to interact with it like that, they knew how to use a controller and a touchscreen. That was how they played games. Their tablets, and controllers probably on consoles. Youtube Shorts video explaining. That’s the average user. No one anywhere near a place like lemmy is an average user.
It’s nothing about learned helplessness, it’s about what the average user experience is for new and inexperienced users. And terminal commands are just not new user friendly. If Linux ever wants to consider being true competition for a Windows replacement with the average user, it has to provide easy to use GUI options for most commands, and it needs to do all basic functionality without a terminal ever being needed.
Like @[email protected] posted elsewhere in the thread, KDE has a good GUI for an end user experience for this exact situation. It shows files are open from the device, and what has them open, in the same interface an end user would use to eject the drive.
And the same works 99% of the time in Windows. We’re talking about the small fraction where pressing eject doesn’t work for whatever reason.
It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.
Oh the irony. You clearly don’t work with any sort of end user.
For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist. They aren’t searching past a basic Google of the issue showing them step by step instructions of how to use the GUI to fix the problem. If there is no way to do so in the GUI, it’s not getting fixed by them, they’ll take it to the Geek Squad if they even decide to fix it at all. They’re must more likely to just ignore an issue. In this case, just removing the USB drive and complaining about something being corrupt later on. The idea of the terminal scares the average person.
Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does Well that’s simply wrong.
winget upgrade --allI just upgraded 44 apps I definitely didn’t install via winget, they were all installed via individually downloaded installers at some point in the past, but all upgrade with a single package manager command in a terminal. Certainly seems similar to me. It may not be everything, but it’s certainly the majority of things on this system other than the games.
By default Windows disables file caching on external USB drives. It should be writing those files directly. That doesn’t prevent a program from locking a file or folder that it is using though.
So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.
Windows probably has some equally complicated way of finding what is locking a file/folder… or you can just install File Locksmith which is a Microsoft PowerToys tool, and just have it in the context menu everywhere.
They could request a bench trial. No jury, just the judge.
The poverty line formula was developed in 1963, at a time with much less severe wage differentials between top and bottom. While it technically is updated every year, it is a national level. There is a massive swing from rural America to Urban New York or Los Angeles, and the outliers really fuck up the formula. Especially with the wage stagnation since then.
In 1963 the federal minimum wage was $1.25. In 2025, it is now $7.25. With inflation alone, not considering actual buying power… $1 in 1963 is worth $10.59 today.
The wage stagnation is the core of the issue. It’s the core of a LOT of problems in the US at the moment. Low wages force employees to stick with employers because hey can’t afford to be out of work. They don’t make enough money to build up a safety net, and as soon as a small unexpected expense happens like a car repair, anything they did manage to save is immediately wiped out. Tying healthcare to employment also means many employees can’t readily quit to find better jobs, if there even are any they’re qualified to do. It also prevents many from being able to protest, because they need to be at work just to make ends meet. Taking a day off work to protest means a day’s pay they can’t afford to lose.
For some perspective, that’s 8% of the population. That’s 8% of the population that doesn’t even get paid enough to afford basic necessities like food.
My absolute favorite bit of social media was this instagram exchange. It just encapsulates so much that’s inherently stupid with it.
That’s what they want. An excuse to legally use the military.