The proper etiquette is “not there”. Just because you feel the need doesn’t mean it needs to be here and now. When you’re disrupting other people you’re also causing a hazard to you and them. You can turn on a side street or go around the block or turn into a parking lot so you don’t obstruct traffic don’t cause a hazard, and it may only add a few seconds

Note that your gps would guide you around the block or other place you can do it safely

Suppose it might be easier to smuggle

It’s probably just jealousy that fashion designers compensate by giving men pockets!

I find it hard to believe that’s the same thing. It’s not that you have dangly bits that can be sat on but what you sit on.

Have you checked whether there’s still warranty coverage?

Yeah but you can’t do helicopters

You realize the church isn’t getting the money, the church is using the money

to house immigrant children entering the U.S. without adult supervision

You’re not hurting the church when you no longer let them use your money to help care for the needy, you’re only hurting those needy

Don’t let your hatred of organized religion distract who this hurts

I’m not buying this. Sure minimizing dependencies is a good practice, but not updating? That’s a recipe for disaster.

It’s important to note that you can’t predict supply chain attacks or vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are much more common. Also, while frequent updates might expose you to that supply chain attack more quickly, it also mitigates it more quickly. Frequent updates in combination with vulnerability scanning, and limiting downloads to reputable sources (that try to prevent supply chain attacks and discover them quickly) is a much better approach.

There also the maintainability argument, that I’m having right now with a couple of our legacy software teams. Not updating can lock you into the past, for entire ecosystems of dependencies. You cant update if you have to, you cant take advantage of new features anywhere in the ecosystem, and it’s now an expensive emergency when something stops being maintained or has an unresolved vulnerability. If you’re being continually kept up, then choices or features are easy

Then the goal is how do you automate your updates as smoothly as possible so they do not become noise, do not create extra work? Tools like dependabit and renovate bot have a lot of config options to help that

But seriously, some racist stuff in there would never fly

“That’ll show them I’m the good guy”

Depending on which oligarch you believe, we’re just about there. General purpose humanoid robots are almost ready to take over warehouse work

We can only wish teachers unions were as powerful as police unions. The world would be very different

That it only goes up to 2021

Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity

Aw come on, he’s not proud of massive increase in disease, people starving, needy people losing benefits, voter suppression, or depriving people of human rights? He’s not proud of loss of prestige and influence, alienating friends and allies (even Canada, that is a huge accomplishment), destruction of American science, education and technology?

Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted

But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons.

So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became

So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one

recently there have been problems with the grid

Also a problem with politicians. It’s not like it’s a surprise o r sudden

My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway

But doesn’t that argue against your earlier point? If our myriad of earthly problems are generally political and economic system, then Artemis does not take away from addressing them.

I’m sure that’s a common way for McDonalds to add yet more rules to their franchisee agreement

wtf, have they met a constitutional human right they haven’t violated?