There was a guy who got approached by a flight attendant for doing calculus on a plane. Some other passenger had reported him for doing something in Arabic, which we all know could hijack and take down the plane!

Chrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.

I’m pretty sure Obama was not happy about getting that prize. He won it before he was even sworn in due to having such a unifying campaign or some BS, and both he and everyone else knew he hadn’t done anything to deserve it yet.

I’m personally convinced that Thorbjørn Jagland, head of the committee at the time, was just smitten by Obama’s campaign and got him the prize so he’d be able to meet him.

Still less BS than FIFA giving Trump a fake one, though.

You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.

Is empath some sort of dogwhistle? The only time I’ve seen the phrase “I’m an empath” was in between conservative misinformation on Facebook.

It’s an art installation. I don’t remember the exact details, but it’s something like it’s constantly leaking red lubricant and is programmed to try to scoop it up to survive a little longer.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Help_Myself_(Sun_Yuan_and_Peng_Yu)

Docker does a lot of mumbo jumbo with the disk, I’m guessing that’s why. Start a container with a host folder mapped in and do something moderately IO-intensive, like clone a large-ish git repo, and you will notice it’s a lot slower than bare metal. I’m guessing this is because docker uses union file systems heavily, and that adds IO overhead. You’d probably get more or less equivalent performance to bare metal if all you did was set up a simpler form of container which just configured some namespaces.

TL;DR: Containers are fast, docker specifically does extra stuff which is slow.

I have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…

You should be able to set up letterboxing using either xrandr or your window manager, although I got pretty unsatisfactory results when I searched for “xrandr letterboxing”.

What are you using to draw on the screen? That would determine how best to achieve this. I’d expect it to be doable regardless, but the path there would be different.

Ads don’t need to make you explicitly go out to buy the product to be effective. All they need to do is make you feel more familiar with the brand next time they and a competitor are next to each other in the store, and you need to decide which one to pick.

TL;DR: For stuff you’ll need to buy anyway, brand awareness is all the ad needs to do.

Where do you live where you need to power wash your house on the regular? Also, that can’t be good for the paint.

It was in 2005, these days people tend to recommend Mint to the beginners.

They export them in droves to Europe, and I’d be very surprised if there’s a single thing on a vehicle which isn’t regulated stricter in Europe than in North America. Maybe emissions in California? Not much emissions from an EV, though.

They know exactly what they’re doing and how people feel about it.

They haven’t made money on Windows in years. Nobody has been willing to pay for a new version of Windows since XP. What they do make money on is cloud services. So Windows is a loss leader.

Just like the cheap rotisserie chicken at Costco is there to make you walk past and look at everything else they’re selling, the modern role of Windows is to funnel people towards Microsoft cloud services, which is what makes them money. Step 1 of that process is to make sure you create a Microsoft account.

Except if you’re calculating dates from a long time ago. It famously takes some liberties with leap years.

One of two things happened:

• They implemented it just now, and it’s nice of them to ask

Or:

• They’ve been doing it for years, and now legal told them they need to ask

Finland is a developed country. If they don’t have enough computers for that it’s a choice, not for lack of resources.

But does anyone do computer labs anymore? Every school I’ve seen the past few years issued either a laptop or a tablet to every student. That was admittedly in fairly affluent countries or areas, but again, Finland is a developed country. A country which routinely tops international rankings for education. They invest in education like a developed nation should, and could afford testing equipment if they wanted to.

I don’t know anything about the system in question, but having an exam system based on live-booting sounds like a nightmare to execute. Most people don’t have USB booting enabled by default for security reasons, and most people don’t know how to enable it. I personally have to look it up every time for my personal devices, because it varies by manufacturer and I rarely need to do it. Having to guide 30 stressed-out 15 year olds through that process sounds like it would take longer than the exam itself.

My guess is they changed it for practical, not technical reasons.

Have you read the American version of those comics? It is the only media I prefer in translated form, because the American lettering is extremely annoying. The grammar is weird, like spelling it “Unca Donald” instead of “uncle”, and every sentence has one or two words in bold. All the bold words feel like an aggressive way of showing emphasis which is so exaggerated that I find it exhausting to read.

As a contrast, Norwegian Donald Duck comics were advertised from day 1 as “translated by a teacher”, and there has always been an emphasis on good grammar. And most importantly, no bold words all over the place! We can figure out where to put the emphasis ourselves, thank you very much.