Get off anything news related and tell your girlfriend to knock it off. My wife used to send things or bring it up in conversation, and I tell her I don’t want to discuss any of this, because it pisses me off. It’s extremely selfish of your girlfriend to continue to send things after you’ve expressed your desire to not receive it.

As a ServiceNow dev/admin, I support this opinion so hard.

Dogs too!

I really want someone to try this and report back. It really does feel like something that could execute.

For sure, swimming and practicing swimming is the best way. Reading about it won’t likely help you in an emergency situation. In a controlled environment, I think that someone could probably survive if they’ve only read about how to swim. Not thrive, but knowing what to do would help.

Being put in a situation meant to induce panic with restrains, gear, and objectives is very different from surviving if someone falls into a body of water.

Sure, reading a book probably won’t do much if you capsize in rough waters or have tread water for minutes to hours. I think that if someone were to have a controlled drop in a deep pool, they would have a much higher chance of success if they’ve read about basic water survival techniques vs someone who hasn’t. Panic is still for sure the biggest factor, but having any amount of knowledge is still better than having none.

Same. I started learning French from English, and my experiences from software development have made learning a new language easier. I also took Spanish almost 20 years ago, and while I don’t speak it, I have a better understanding of how languages are structured so learning conjugations is easier since I understand the concept better. Perhaps the specific words I’m learning don’t stick in memory as easy as a child, but learning a new language is like 30% vocab and 70% sentence structure and conjugation. The hard part is the “logic”, if you will.

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I believe so, yes. For the vast majority of people, it will be seamless, same as with Windows.

Actually, it is. Anecdotally, I’ve never had an issue with my Nvidia card playing any games. Nvidia is certainly not as good as AMD, but it’s not as bad as the memes make it seem. In the past year they’ve worked more with Linux developers to provide better drivers. Not perfect, but it’s at least stable.

Installing the Nvidia drivers on Linux isn’t anymore difficult than it is on Windows.

If you haven’t used Linux within the last at couple of two years, then your experience is outdated and not relevant. There have been huge QoL improvements over that time.

You may have disabled copilot, but it installed and integrated into the Win 11 operating system. It takes 1 update to re-enable it without your consent. If there weren’t precedent, that wouldn’t really be a valid argument, but it wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened.

Linux Mint is easier to use out of the box than any version of Windows. It is 100% usable without typing a single terminal command. If you learn apt-get, it extends functionality and is basically 1 command, which again, is optional.

To install applications it’s as simple as opening Software Manager, selecting the app, and installing. The app store is better than whatever windows has installed by a country mile.

On a fresh install it has a full libre office suite, all of the basic apps like calculator, and many others. If you don’t want that, it can be prevented at installation.

It is inherently more secure, and updates won’t revert settings or install malware like Windows updates.

Major version updates will always support old hardware. There will never be a situation like Windows 11 not supporting older hardware.

The only thing the Windows has over Linux is proprietary apps for a lot of products. For the average and most above average users, that’s irrelevant. There are options for most fields but not all. For most people, life exists in a web browser, and that works better on Linux.

There is no way to install windows fresh, have all of those items disabled, and have all of the bloat uninstalled without creating a custom image.

Lol, I did butcher it. I only Lemmy from my phone, so I’m far more inclined to have typos. When I typed that I remember starting it and clicking on the suggestion to auto fill, but I must not clicked where I thought.

Ugh… Same. Legally, I couldn’t have agreed, but that didn’t matter. Not my proudest moment.

If those people didn’t have hippcrasy hypocrisy, they’d have nothing… Well, they’d still have racism, bigotry, and a bunch of other shitty attributes I guess.

There a very few notably religious people that I associate with. I have a coworker that was a pastor for years and is still religious. He approaches it in the way I think it should be. We discuss religion as a theory, he doesn’t push or tell people what to believe. His belief is that God has his plans and that’s between him and each person. If every religious person lived like him, I’d have a lot less issue with it. I don’t agree with many of his other beliefs that are born from his religious background, but he’s not trying to impose them on anyone or prevent anyone from living their lives.

Other than him, and even still sometimes him, I agree with you. It’s like a scarlet letter that was put on volunteerily to say, “hey, I’m a dick and my beliefs are correct and apply to everyone.”

Celebrating America hasn’t been something to be proud of since before 2001. We had a couple of high points during Obama, but nothing that tipped the scales.

I’m personally disgusted by this place, and anytime I see someone with an American flag anywhere on their person or property, I immediately assume they’re a conservative and I think lesser of them. I know that this isn’t a reality, but that is what the American flag means to me, and I assume quite a few others.

Day to day, I’d take a dry 100 degrees. My problem is a like to do cardio exercise outside, like run and bike. 100 degrees makes that significantly more difficult and dangerous. We’ve had upper 90s and high humidity the last couple of weeks and it’s been tough to do anything more than about 20 minutes at a time.

On the other hand, I love to snowboard, which can’t happen in triple digits. Snow and ice depending, biking and running are doable at single digit temps. I hate walking outside and feeling pain from the cold temps.

I’d probably take the triple digits and travel for cold vacations.

Imagine not understanding that single digits == cold and triple digits== hot. It’s funny how everyone else seemed to figure it out.

Let’s use our child brain for a minute so hopefully I can help you understand this. Let’s assume that the initial post was in celcius. Single digits is cool and livable. What about triple digits? Do you think that living at triple digits celcius is even a viable option? Did you really need someone to identify the unit of measure for you to understand the question?

Your pedantry makes you look like an idiot that has no critical thinking ability.

There are a ton of image manipulation options out there. Free would be inkscape and gimp. I’m not proficient or even mediocre at either and perhaps one would be good enough, but I’ve used both for various production elements I’ve created or modified. I don’t use iPhone, so I’ve got nothing for you there. I know that Pixel phones have built in editing tools, so I assume there’s an iPhone option that will more or less hold your hand through some level of manipulation.

The knowledge behind the fundamentals of editing images is fairly equivalent across platforms. Things like layers and some common tools exist everywhere, it’s just knowing which button to use. There will assuredly be resources out there for what you want. Think of specifically what you want to do, and search for solutions…when you come across a solution that mentions something that you aren’t familiar with, open a new tab and dive down the rabbit hole. Eventually, things will start to click and your ability to absorb new information will go much quicker since you have built a solid foundation.