its called that because you need 5 guys to finish 1 meal!

I literally never understood the appeal of urinals. Its less sanitary and literally a bathroom fixture that physically can’t be used by many people. Just sit to pee, its nicer and cleaner

Yeah this is what I’ve seen, especially in big destination cities like Chicago and New York City where they’ll have extra taxes for the city and sometimes also for the extremely desirable part of the city the hotel happens to be in. I think even I had one that had federal, state, county, city and neighborhood taxes, each as its own line item, adding about $40/night to the cost all said and done

Yeah Google flights only shows the base ticket price and doesn’t factor in taxes and fees which easily add an extra 15% or so on most flights. For example, I booked a trip just yesterday where the base price of the tickets was about $900 (and that’s the price that Google Flights showed) but the required taxes and fees pushed it up to $1100

My wife and I use that one pretty regularly

Dude I didn’t even realize until your comment that I completely interchanged “mobile phone” with “smart phone” because that’s just how long it’s been since non-smart phones were really a thing

The early smartphone era was wild. Motorola made the very first phone with iTunes on it for example

I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though

Heck this is a blast even at home. If I’m given an address in a small town it’s pretty fun to just drive around and try to find the address without looking it up

I really only prefer TUI because it bypasses most of the worst aspects of modern GUI design

There’s way too much “pop-up ui” infecting PC from mobile. I want a solid-state UI. Don’t make me hover over anything to show a pop up, or swipe, or stupid shit like that.

Stop making these shitty disappearing scrollbars that are way too thin! Scrollbars are the single most important UI element on the screen. They need to be LARGE and they need to STAY VISIBLE AT ALL TIMES

These are both UI features that suck for dodgey rdp connections. The kind where you click and wait 10-30 seconds for the update. Windows has gotten egregious about these kinds of UI decisions making it very hard to make changes over a lousy RDP connection

If it’s my first message to someone or first message in a long time I’ll start by saying who I am just in case they’ve changed numbers or lost my contact info or whatever. But obviously I’m not going to do that every few weeks/months

No, whole.

Would requesting a mac with the argument of having access to a Unix shell potentially work? In college my IT instructor used a Mac with a windows VM via VMware Workstation and it pretty seemless. He’d use the Mac for most stuff then jump over to the Windows VM for windows specific stuff, and then diving into the native Bash shell for anything else. Honestly it was a pretty sweet setup

I mean this happens. Traditionally it was companies with lots of digital artists for improved software compatibility, but these days it’s really more done for developers and anyone else just as an employee perk to put them on their preferred platform.

Honestly, for administration purposes having a proper native Unix shell running standard utilities is extremely handy, especially when you need to manipulate files, such as working with disk/VM images for example

Yeah getting paid to sit there while windows wastes 20+ minutes of company time updating is always a treat

Meanwhile I got local admin because the IT guy who’s no longer there couldn’t be bothered to install a couple of utilities for me and most of what I actually do is manage SaaS services in a web browser

So part of the reason for the whole envelope situation is that letter envelopes will go through postal sorting machines which will bend the contents so anything that can’t be bent (for example I once needed to mail a forgotten car key to a family member) can’t be sent in a letter envelope.

Usually the solution is padded envelopes, or for certain things there may even be special postage available like USPS’s Bound Printed Media rate for mailing books (which can I add is such a hilariously federal government-grade obtuse way of saying “books!”) but there’s also “non machine” postage rates available too.

Basically boxes are the easy solution but there’s more efficient solutions available if you’re willing to do a very small amount of research. For people packing it can be as simple as “I can quickly toss this in a box and not worry about it further”

Y’know what, I honestly haven’t looked at what the PCIe lane layout is like on newer chipsets. Maybe it’s gotten better since I last really paid attention like 5+ years ago. I remember in early-mid AM4 there was a lot of grumbling about how there’s only 20 PCIe 3 lanes followed by early PCIe 4 platforms that would give only 16-20 lanes with another 8 or so PCI 3 lanes. I also didn’t really pay much attention to AMD before AM4 given how far behind Intel they were. But I could be entirely out of date now that I think about it

So hardware that may still be perfectly usable but predates NVMe should be tossed out then?

The exact same thing you already have to do to upgrade the memory on such a computer, you go buy used/old stock DDR3 or cannibalize from another system. Pre-NVMe systems are DDR3 era and older. Time goes on, interfaces update and anyone looking for compatibility with their older system will need to either use an adapter or buy used/old stock. If there’s enough demand like with motherboards there can be a random Chinese brands making new hardware for old platforms using a mix of new and cannibalized parts

I did similar when preparing my wife and I for windows 10 EOL. I went back to Linux on the new drive, my wife to Windows 11. Honestly both have a similar amount of issues (mostly wake from sleep challenges on Linux, although my PC wasn’t great about waking from sleep on Windows to begin with) and most importantly my wife can still play Fortnite and I can have fun trying new stuff out and reveling at how every single game I try just works on Linux whereas 5 years ago it was more of a 50/50 chance whether or not a game would work