I’ve never seen a more relevant username.

Exactly! They didn’t explore the “aerial flight” or “beautiful colors” tech tree at all, but are maxed on armor and chomping.

Depends on how reliable you think my Uncle Charlie is.

I was about to make a similar comment but you beat me to it.

It recently showed me a bicycle as part of “select all motorcycles” so I didn’t pick it. And I failed. Twice. Finally picked the bicycle and it let me through. Guess the computer knows best.

I’ve often wondered that as well. I can copy a file the size of an entire game cartridge across my home LAN in the time it takes some games to load the welcome screen.

Well yeah, I mean not always but for probably 20 years their laser printers have been terrible, and their inkjets have been not consumer friendly for even longer than that.

For instance, I once had an HP color laser printer that was designed in a way that toner dust would build up on the prism and mirror, causing streaks and splotches to be printed on the page. The official recommendation was to buy a new printer, and the local repair shop said is it even though it’s a known issue and they’re capable of fixing it, getting it apart and putting all the pieces back together is such a time consuming hassle that it would be just as cheap to buy a new one. A $300 color laser printer. If I did it successfully, I would need to do it again in a year or two anyway. I now have a Brother; it’s black and white only but has been rock solid.

I did see on The Other Site a discussion from a year or two ago that Brother isn’t so great anymore, but the consensus seemed to be that they’re still better than anything other than maybe those Epson printers with the ink reservoirs.

I remember that my high school, college, and first couple of jobs had amazing HP laser printers, but sadly those days are gone and the company is a shell of what it used to be. I would not buy an HP printer at this point.

Sorry for your suffering but welcome to the club.

Oh, and how about some ethics rules? Didn't Amy Coney Barrett just come out in favor?

According to another poster in a different thread a few days ago, the ethics guidelines are basically already in place and just aren’t enforced. That person suggested that we need more enforcement or penalties rather than more ethics rules.

I like your idea of adding more justices because of what you said about diluting the president’s power to appoint a majority. It’s an interesting point, although we shouldn’t be in the situation we are in now (“Wait, wait, you can’t rush the process…oh, now that we have the majority we need to finish this quickly!”)

New Zealand and the Philippines, to save you a click.

I think you have to be more specific.

This could be the most honest and heartfelt statement on the subject that I have seen.

Thanks, I’ll add it to my wish list.

Are you me?

I grew up thinking we knew everything there is to know about dinosaurs. Then I had a kid, who started to learn all about them. So far he’s told me about how scientists think many of them had features, how Brontosauruses didn’t exist, how there are multiple T-Rex species, and more. The pace of scientific development is crazy, and he keeps up with a lot of it for also being ten. I love to hear about it.

Not exactly related to what you said, but what you said made me think about it. Dinos are cool.

We are talking about a code editor, not a whole operating system!

/s

Oh yeah, good point! I have file versioning turned on, too, so if I do need to roll back a file, SyncThing probably has a good copy.

I typed a really long comment in Memmy last night and my daughter bumped my hand, causing the reply window to swipe away and all my work was gone.

So “same,” basically, I guess.

I use a combination of technologies.

I keep most of my documents in sync between all my computers with SyncThing. It’s not a true backup solution, but it protects me from a drive failing in my desktop or someone stealing my laptop.

My entire drive gets backed up locally to a external hard drive using Borg. That provides me with the ability to go back in time and backs up all of my large files such as family photos and home videos.

Important documents get cloud backup with Restic to BackBlaze B2. Unfortunately, I don’t want to pay for the storage capacity to save all of my photos and videos, so those are a little less protected than they should be, but B2 gives me the peace of mind that my documents will survive a regional disaster like flooding or fire.

I use both Borg and Restic because I started with Borg many years ago and didn’t want to lose all of my backup history, but can’t use it with B2. I used to use one of the unlimited cloud single-computer solutions like Mozy or Carbonite but have multiple computers and their software was buggy, then they increased the price significantly. When I switched to B2, I found Restic worked well with it. I think they’re both solid solutions, but the way Restic works and the commands make more sense to me.

I have a lot of photos that I take. Amazon Photos gives me unlimited storage to back them all up, but it’s terrible. When Amazon Drive existed, I could grab a folder and drop it in the Photos area of Drive. My folder structure was maintained and it was easy to see what I’d already backed up or what else needed to be sent. Then Drive was discontinued and the only way to manage my photos is through the terrible web interface. There is no folder structure, putting photos in albums is unwieldy, and I have no confidence in the systems ability to give me back my photos if I needed to recover from data loss. Uploading a bunch of photos through the web page is slow and fails more often than not, leaving me to painstakingly figure out what went and what failed or just upload the whole thing again, creating duplicates. Most of the time, I can’t even find a photo or album I’m searching for. I hate that it exists and would fill a specific need if it wouldn’t have such a terrible interface.

I wish I’d have a friend who would share a few TB of storage with me but I’m pretty happy with my system, even though it has some gaps.

I think you’re confused; that’s quarantining. What they meant is when two people bicker or argue.

“Elon Musk, a rich a-hole who thinks he is much more important than he is, has opinions about things he doesn’t understand and for some reason believes we want to hear those thoughts.”

There, fixed it for you. Also, now it’s easy to copy and paste for his views on many other situations: Taiwan-China relations, the Thai cave rescue, aliens and the pyramids, whether autonomous cars need LiDAR, and many more.

“No, it’s a regular person.”

I’m speechless. I know the training draws a line between the police and everyone else, but for it to be right there in print, from someone high up the hierarchy…I’m stunned that they could be so callous with a life.

It really is “us versus them,” isn’t it?