I've been using Linux user for 20 years now, from RedHat (5.2) / Mandrake / *buntus / Mint. I have been looking at systemd-free options for a while now, and seriously considered FreeBSD. I read lots of blog posts, pros/cons, and I even read the FreeBSD Handbook! I get that it can be very stable and can meet nearly all my needs, but it just can't meet them all. I am not a hardcore gamer, but I've bought quite a few Humble Bundles over the years and have enjoyed many of the games. I have an Nvidia video card (oh horror!). It was a few months ago that I did my analysis, but there were a few gaps and quite a few more potential gaps.
I get it - for hardcore system admins, it's probably pretty awesome. But I am not. I am just a long-time linux user who (obviously) admins my own stuff. Since this thread is about Debian, it is what has spoiled me.. with all of its apt magic!! I don't want to have to go back to compiling packages to get them to work. I still do on occasion if I really need to, but I really can't spend hours on trying to figure out dependencies and troubleshooting build errors.
Maybe FreeBSD is somewhere in my future, but every time I have switched to a different OS / flavor of Linux, there has been a compelling reason - both for what I am switching from and to. I don't find FreeBSD compelling enough right now.
I have been on Mint XFCE for many years now, and systemd has been poking me with a stick, trying to get me to leave. I wanted to try out Devuan, so I fired up a kvm and installed it. I had a list of things that I have setup now that I wanted to make sure worked and I got them up and running in a relatively short amount of time. I would have to do these things if I reinstalled Mint anyway. (with the latest release, I don't get a good feeling that I can do it trouble-free as I have in the past) I hadn't played with vms for a while, and had always used Virtualbox. I have to say, using kvm/virsh was quite pleasant and I was very happy with the performance of it.
My plan was to just get a 64 or 128 GB SSD and install Devuan on it, then keep my current disk setup as-is as a backup boot option. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet because I haven't dived into the SSD pool yet and want to do some more research on the purchase. And I read that prices may plummet in the coming months.
Yes, yes! Please express yourself! Be unique. Put the SAME DAMN sports team sticker on your car as everyone else in your city. What kind of coffee mug do you own? Yeti?! Me too brother, me too! How many people are in your family? How many pets? Oh, I can just look at the back window of your vehicle. Haha, I have the same sticker on mine. Aw look, you know someone that died, so you put a memorial sticker on the back of your car. I know someone that died too... where did you get that?! I need one, so I can be unique and expressive too. Where do your kids go to school? Are you proud of them? That is unique sentiment amongst parents. Salt Life? What is that? Please tell me all about it. I like your Honda... thanks for putting the giant Honda logo sticker on the back window, it makes me not have to look at the other 8 logos that the factory put on it.
I hate all of that shit too, but I hate oppression even more.
You know what I hate more than oppression? Genocide. See, I can do it too. But when talking about oppression, since you brought it up, there is a HUGE range of degrees within that concept. I wasn't talking about that, I was commenting on the fact that putting stickers on something is a silly and quite simple means of self-expression, to the point that it is largely meaningless. Which in fact could mean that it counters oppression because it is so meaningless.
Favor the Lords of the masses, do not express yourself, do not talk to others about your interests, do not put stickers on your laptops and automobiles. Be a good sheep, please the Lords. Be normal. Carry on.
Yes, yes! Please express yourself! Be unique. Put the SAME DAMN sports team sticker on your car as everyone else in your city. What kind of coffee mug do you own? Yeti?! Me too brother, me too! How many people are in your family? How many pets? Oh, I can just look at the back window of your vehicle. Haha, I have the same sticker on mine. Aw look, you know someone that died, so you put a memorial sticker on the back of your car. I know someone that died too... where did you get that?! I need one, so I can be unique and expressive too. Where do your kids go to school? Are you proud of them? That is unique sentiment amongst parents. Salt Life? What is that? Please tell me all about it. I like your Honda... thanks for putting the giant Honda logo sticker on the back window, it makes me not have to look at the other 8 logos that the factory put on it.
I use vi... so it's pretty tough to exceed it's capabilities as a text editor.:) I say that tongue-in-cheek, but it is true a lot of the time. e.g. at work I saw someone struggling to create a data file with 500,000 rows using Excel. They wanted to read an existing file, modify the values for a couple of columns. Of course, they had Excel set to open csv files. Notepad even struggled with this file size. I have vi installed within MSYS64 and was able to edit that file to their liking within a couple of minutes. With vi and a few other command line tools I was able to create other large input files easily. One example was a 5 MM row file with 2.5 MM unique rows and 2.5 MM duplicates.
I know vi isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't push it on anyone. They've tried to learn it, and I've tried to teach them, but instead I am just the go-to guy for large data files now.
My needs for writing documents though are largely non-existent. I will use Writer for that, and I have used Calc for a couple of things. My wife uses Excel and Word though. We have an older version, maybe 2007?, on her laptop which runs Win7. If it ain't broke....
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I have this installed at home (linux) but I rarely use it - once or twice a year maybe. At work I use MS Office all the time... Excel and Powerpoint mainly, Word and Visio if I have to. Recently I wanted to create a database ERD, so I fired up Visio 2016. Apparently we have the standard version, and after lots of googling found out that the crow's foot diagrams aren't included in the standard version. They used to, but got removed. You can't even download and install them. What makes it worse is that you can pick that as a template when creating a new document, but none of the shapes are there to use.
Of course, we do have an Office 365 subscription, but even there Visio is not included in it. This was something standard in older versions of Visio. In fact, I have a damn MSDN license, but when I go to the site and look in my product keys page, all of them throw errors for any version of MS Office. Microsoft is really screwing the pooch on Office 365, so I am glad to see LibreOffice still making strides. I just recommended it to a co-worker yesterday who was trying to navigate the labyrinth of how to get Office installed at home now.
At work we use Skype for Business, which is OK (considering we used to use Jabber). But because we have some contract teams that aren't on the corporate network, some genius decided that we can use regular Skype to chat with them as a 'group chat'. AND.. we are piloting MS Teams as well because regular Skype is so unstable and just stops working randomly all the time - which kind of defeats the purpose of having a persistent group chat. So I have THREE different chat programs, and all of them are pretty awful.
Many years ago I used MindAlign at a company for group chat and it was fantastic. It was basically a prettied up IRC server/client. Then MS bought them and rebranded it the genius name of "MS Group Chat". Then of course, they had to make it "better" and over a few iterations ruined everything useful about it. Now they are touting MS Teams as the way to go, because... cloud... so we can monitor everything you do.
Just go to their blog post and read it. As it says, there is no voting they just want feeback in the comments about it.
To me.. marketing types are funny (peculiar, not haha) in that they feel the world and their product revolves around marketing and perception. I think it is somewhat important for a product, but you need a good product first and foremost. It seems that Firefox has been making strides to get get back to where they need to be, although I am not sure they're there yet. I am personally willing to switch back from Pale Moon , but they're going to have to really convince me of it...and new icons aren't going to do it.
Quite simply: I hated every single day that I went into work. I managed a small development team for an internal application in the mortgage industry at a global banking/mortgage company. We were in the Risk organization and not in IT, and apart from my three developers, nobody had any clue about technology or how software development works. This resulted in conversations with my peers (business owners) about how nothing worked right, and their idea of requirements was "we had a conversation about this!". They refused to document anything. My boss (a director) was even worse, a bitter old hag who admittedly liked to micromanage everything. When she would fly off the handle about something minor and demand to know why it was done that way, my developers would respond with a copy of her email requesting that exact thing. Then I would be told to talk to my team about their attitudes. It was like that EVERY DAY. My boss had multiple conversations with me about the "performance issues" of my team. They were actually fine, but had been beaten down by that witch over time. I could only shield them so much from her. I still can't believe I lasted a year and a half in that environment. I ended up taking a 9% pay cut just to get out of there, and was a couple of months away from a potential good bonus. It was worth every cent to leave.
I am an American, and I do believe that we are one of the greatest nations on the planet. We were seen as leaders of the world in the past. We have done a lot of great things for our country, other countries, and the world. We could be leading the charge to reverse climate change (don't call it global warming, because the mouth-breathers invariably spout "it's not warm out, it's snowing!" or other mindless drivel). But instead, we are denying it, and we are making our population more stupid and reviled globally than ever before. As a country we've lost the respect of the world, and deservedly so. It's quite embarrassing, and I can only hope that we will realize the truth sooner rather than later so we can work with the rest of the world to lengthen our species' stay on the planet.
Despite this rather nonsensical article which really doesn't warrant thoughts or opinions, I have a fundamental issue with this whole eject concept.
There is no "eject". You are unmounting the drive. The term eject has always bugged me because it does nothing of the sort. People think it's OK to just yank out the device because they don't actually understand what is going on. Which... I understand, with the wide number of people using computers you can't realistically expect them all to really "get it". It's part of the arguably necessary dumbing down of computers and their functions. What does surprise me is how terribly this function has been implemented to the point that articles like this exist.
But for something like Popular Science, or for Geek's sake SLASHDOT, it's embarrassing that this is even a topic.
Trump was the only one saying the election was going to be hacked during the election. Hillary, the DNC and CNN were all saying it couldn't happen. After Trump won, suddenly it was Russian hacking 24/7.
After Trump won, suddenly he does an about face and says there was no meddling in the election.
One side changed their stance based on evidence. Well... I guess they both did.
Trump is the president, election meddling or not. Please STOP talking about Hilary and the DNC. It's past, gone, they lost. It has nothing to do with them anymore. All that matters now is how our president handles things. Which is embarassing.
I don't get it. Do you think that Honda Accord keeps him humble? All he said that is that it is a perfectly good car. Maybe he doesn't give two shits about what kind of car he drives. He also said at the end of that clip that he wakes up every morning petrified and afraid [of the enemies of Amazon], and he tells his employees the same thing. To me, that might make sense when you are up-and-coming, but now he's the 800 lb gorilla. I would suspect that he is still that way because he didn't get to where he is by luck.
I just don't understand why people have an opinion on him at all. Does ANYTHING he does matter to you, REALLY? Even your statement about him not being "just your average billionaire" is quite ridiculous. Why are people so enthralled with those who have money - more money that is feasibly useful? Why do people desire that? Why do you think he's a great guy? I am not saying he's not - I don't know. It doesn't MATTER what you or anyone else thinks of him.
And also, the turning down sound of commercials is something I would pay good money for.
This just makes me sad for us as a species. Not because you don't like booming loud commercials - because nobody likes them. But because this is how our country works now. I can't tell what is worse in our society, Advertisers or Lawyers. Because advertisers are the ones who jack up the volume on commercials to annoying levels, it seems especially at night for some reason. It becomes annoying to the point where the only way to stop it is through legal means. Then our government has to get involved and put policies in place to prohibit it. Yet it still continues. see CALM Act.
We have this horrible ecosystem of advertisers / lawyers invading and influencing our lives constantly. They feed each other, we are the food. To the point where we are willing to pay money to make it stop. This is not only about commercials on TV, you can look at many aspects of our lives and see their influences there as well. It's all quite disturbing.
These sites should be blocked, they are too high profile and obvious. There are plenty of other solutions to download and convert locally, and they can do their business in peace.
p.s. 10 more conversions sites just popped up to take the place of Convert2MP3.
Hate replying to my own post... but I thought I would try the new FF. I actually still had it on my machine, as Mint has been keeping it up to date. First thing - backed up my bookmarks from Pale Moon to a json file.
Then tried unsuccessfully for about 10 minutes to FIND the bookmark restore in FF. It was hidden down in the Library > Bookmarks > Show all bookmarks. This is the kind of thing that FF implemented that drives me nuts. In Pale Moon it's under Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks. They imported fine though.
I use mouse gestures, and while the legacy add-on I used was disabled as no longer supported, it did have a "find replacement" button which gave me several options to choose from. I installed Foxy Gestures, and it worked well. I don't use a ton of add-ons, but some are essential and it's always nice to have them to make browsing easier.
I will have to see how configurable FF is now. I am not really into themes, but I like to have words instead of icons for things like back, home, etc. I don't like HAVING to use icons. I couldn't find an immediate way to change that in FF (another thing they did to aggravate me) but will keep looking.
As far as use, it's quick... and is what I would expect from FF. I opened up the same few tabs in each, and looked at the memory usage, and at first glance, was impressed! I have a script I can run to show the top 10 memory users. Slashdot says the output is junk characters and won't let me post the results. But it was using this: ps axo %mem,rss,comm,ppid,pid | sort -nr | head -n 10
palemoon at the top, with an rss of 812544 (10%), then firefox with 496528 (7.9%). Wow, that looks great. But... there were 4 "Web Content" processes that were spawned by FF as well. So the real FF total was 1536780 (19%) - almost twice as much as pale moon. Do I really care? It's yet to be seen. Previously when I left FF it was gobbling up memory and was slow. Now it's consuming plenty, but is fast. I only have 8 GB of RAM on my machine, and I rarely even use half of it. So not a huge deal. But I know on my Windows10 machine at work, I am very often pushing the limits of memory usage. So take my quick test for what it is worth, and check your own usage.
I am not switching back to FF just yet, because pale moon is doing great. But it's good to know that they are making strides in the right direction.
What I don't agree is the ability of what amounts to AC's having this level of control.
Don't like the service? Don't tip.
Really don't like the service? Talk to the manager.
But because the waiter scowled at your screaming, snot nose kid when he poured his coffee all over the the waiter's pants and you and your kids are entitled to better and so you gave him a 1 and got his hours cut is not right. And if you don't think that happens on a regular basis, then perhaps you'd share some of what you are smoking.
First of all, why are you letting your snot nosed kid have coffee?!:D
Second - don't just complain when things are bad. Praise when things are good! You get a great waiter, ask to see the manager AND TELL THEM THAT! We once ordered a pizza, and it was delivered on time, and it was made VERY well. You know what I mean, sometimes you can tell they are just thrown together. I called the place, and asked to speak to the manager. They asked what it was regarding, and I said a pizza I just got.
The manager came on and was full-on ready for a fight. You could hear the relief when I explained how happy I was with how well the pizza was made, the delivery, everything. I asked that she let everyone know who worked on my order that they did a good job. She thanked me for calling, and said that she would let everyone know. I felt good about doing it too! Back in high school my first job was at a pizza place, and I remember how nice it was to get compliments on the food and service. Try it sometime.
I agree with you about the first two being the only two REALLY good ones. But you should look up a video about Star Wars being saved in the edit. After watching that, I am fully convinced that Lucas has very little talent when it comes to movie making. Remember this - he said in interviews that the first two movies were NOT his vision. Even with this story, about where he wanted to take the storyline, illustrates this.
I think he's just a hack who got lucky by having good casting and good people working on the movies.
Except for a year or so of trying Opera, FF has been my browser. Right up until the point a couple of years ago when I couldn't take it anymore. So much instability, performance problems, and the change for the sake of change being rammed down my browser. I tried Chromium (I'm on Linux) and I just didn't care for the way Chrome does some things. I then found Pale Moon, and I felt like I was back home with good-ol' FF. I've been using it since, on my home machine and at work (Win10). I can simplify the interface, It's fast, I can still use bookmarks the way I like, and there isn't any spying.
I like keep a set of bookmarks for places I need to login. FF/PM give me the ability to add a description to the properties of my bookmark. That is where I put my password hint for that site. It's all nice and self contained. When I tried Chrome/Chromium, you couldn't do that. That's a deal breaker for me, since I have 20+ sites where I need this "feature". There are many other reasons as well.
I always said I would go back to FF if I felt a compelling reason to go... but I haven't found one yet. I am happy that the FF team is apparently putting in quite the effort to improve it again though, because I wasn't happy with the direction it was going.
The CEO could have changed that policy if he wanted to, in order to make it more lenient. e.g. any relationships must be disclosed to HR, and can't be between two people where one has power over the other, etc. That is what a lot of places do. I have worked with people that met at work and ended up getting married. It happens, and companies should deal with that. I don't think the policy is right either, but the CEO agreed to it just like everyone else.
Of course, changing it wouldn't have really helps HIS situation as CEO since he would have a position of power over everyone.
WhatsApp Web is great, and WA is so much better than SMS. You can send much larger messages, and it handles large attachments. I sent a friend a 30MB PDF via WA, and I get photos/videos daily from various friends across the country in a big group chat. The only downside of WA is that Facebook bought them, and up to that point FB didn't have any of my info.
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I've been using Linux user for 20 years now, from RedHat (5.2) / Mandrake / *buntus / Mint. I have been looking at systemd-free options for a while now, and seriously considered FreeBSD. I read lots of blog posts, pros/cons, and I even read the FreeBSD Handbook! I get that it can be very stable and can meet nearly all my needs, but it just can't meet them all. I am not a hardcore gamer, but I've bought quite a few Humble Bundles over the years and have enjoyed many of the games. I have an Nvidia video card (oh horror!). It was a few months ago that I did my analysis, but there were a few gaps and quite a few more potential gaps.
I get it - for hardcore system admins, it's probably pretty awesome. But I am not. I am just a long-time linux user who (obviously) admins my own stuff. Since this thread is about Debian, it is what has spoiled me.. with all of its apt magic!! I don't want to have to go back to compiling packages to get them to work. I still do on occasion if I really need to, but I really can't spend hours on trying to figure out dependencies and troubleshooting build errors.
Maybe FreeBSD is somewhere in my future, but every time I have switched to a different OS / flavor of Linux, there has been a compelling reason - both for what I am switching from and to. I don't find FreeBSD compelling enough right now.
I like open source, but if you want/need some kind of COTS software open source doesn't like you.
I think you got that backwards... COTS doesn't like you if you use open source, especially if you tie yourself to MS and/or Apple.
I have been on Mint XFCE for many years now, and systemd has been poking me with a stick, trying to get me to leave.
I wanted to try out Devuan, so I fired up a kvm and installed it. I had a list of things that I have setup now that I wanted to make sure worked and I got them up and running in a relatively short amount of time. I would have to do these things if I reinstalled Mint anyway. (with the latest release, I don't get a good feeling that I can do it trouble-free as I have in the past) I hadn't played with vms for a while, and had always used Virtualbox. I have to say, using kvm/virsh was quite pleasant and I was very happy with the performance of it.
My plan was to just get a 64 or 128 GB SSD and install Devuan on it, then keep my current disk setup as-is as a backup boot option. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet because I haven't dived into the SSD pool yet and want to do some more research on the purchase. And I read that prices may plummet in the coming months.
Yes, yes! Please express yourself! Be unique. Put the SAME DAMN sports team sticker on your car as everyone else in your city. What kind of coffee mug do you own? Yeti?! Me too brother, me too! How many people are in your family? How many pets? Oh, I can just look at the back window of your vehicle. Haha, I have the same sticker on mine. Aw look, you know someone that died, so you put a memorial sticker on the back of your car. I know someone that died too... where did you get that?! I need one, so I can be unique and expressive too. Where do your kids go to school? Are you proud of them? That is unique sentiment amongst parents. Salt Life? What is that? Please tell me all about it. I like your Honda... thanks for putting the giant Honda logo sticker on the back window, it makes me not have to look at the other 8 logos that the factory put on it.
I hate all of that shit too, but I hate oppression even more.
You know what I hate more than oppression? Genocide.
See, I can do it too.
But when talking about oppression, since you brought it up, there is a HUGE range of degrees within that concept.
I wasn't talking about that, I was commenting on the fact that putting stickers on something is a silly and quite simple means of self-expression, to the point that it is largely meaningless. Which in fact could mean that it counters oppression because it is so meaningless.
Favor the Lords of the masses, do not express yourself, do not talk to others about your interests, do not put stickers on your laptops and automobiles. Be a good sheep, please the Lords. Be normal. Carry on.
Yes, yes! Please express yourself! Be unique. Put the SAME DAMN sports team sticker on your car as everyone else in your city. What kind of coffee mug do you own? Yeti?! Me too brother, me too! How many people are in your family? How many pets? Oh, I can just look at the back window of your vehicle. Haha, I have the same sticker on mine. Aw look, you know someone that died, so you put a memorial sticker on the back of your car. I know someone that died too... where did you get that?! I need one, so I can be unique and expressive too. Where do your kids go to school? Are you proud of them? That is unique sentiment amongst parents. Salt Life? What is that? Please tell me all about it. I like your Honda... thanks for putting the giant Honda logo sticker on the back window, it makes me not have to look at the other 8 logos that the factory put on it.
I see good reasons to move this function away from the Air Force,
Name one.
There's no air in space.
That's all I got.
I use vi... so it's pretty tough to exceed it's capabilities as a text editor. :)
I say that tongue-in-cheek, but it is true a lot of the time. e.g. at work I saw someone struggling to create a data file with 500,000 rows using Excel. They wanted to read an existing file, modify the values for a couple of columns. Of course, they had Excel set to open csv files. Notepad even struggled with this file size.
I have vi installed within MSYS64 and was able to edit that file to their liking within a couple of minutes. With vi and a few other command line tools I was able to create other large input files easily. One example was a 5 MM row file with 2.5 MM unique rows and 2.5 MM duplicates.
I know vi isn't everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't push it on anyone. They've tried to learn it, and I've tried to teach them, but instead I am just the go-to guy for large data files now.
My needs for writing documents though are largely non-existent. I will use Writer for that, and I have used Calc for a couple of things. My wife uses Excel and Word though. We have an older version, maybe 2007?, on her laptop which runs Win7. If it ain't broke....
I have this installed at home (linux) but I rarely use it - once or twice a year maybe.
At work I use MS Office all the time... Excel and Powerpoint mainly, Word and Visio if I have to. Recently I wanted to create a database ERD, so I fired up Visio 2016. Apparently we have the standard version, and after lots of googling found out that the crow's foot diagrams aren't included in the standard version. They used to, but got removed. You can't even download and install them. What makes it worse is that you can pick that as a template when creating a new document, but none of the shapes are there to use.
Of course, we do have an Office 365 subscription, but even there Visio is not included in it. This was something standard in older versions of Visio.
In fact, I have a damn MSDN license, but when I go to the site and look in my product keys page, all of them throw errors for any version of MS Office.
Microsoft is really screwing the pooch on Office 365, so I am glad to see LibreOffice still making strides. I just recommended it to a co-worker yesterday who was trying to navigate the labyrinth of how to get Office installed at home now.
At work we use Skype for Business, which is OK (considering we used to use Jabber). But because we have some contract teams that aren't on the corporate network, some genius decided that we can use regular Skype to chat with them as a 'group chat'. AND.. we are piloting MS Teams as well because regular Skype is so unstable and just stops working randomly all the time - which kind of defeats the purpose of having a persistent group chat. So I have THREE different chat programs, and all of them are pretty awful.
Many years ago I used MindAlign at a company for group chat and it was fantastic. It was basically a prettied up IRC server/client. Then MS bought them and rebranded it the genius name of "MS Group Chat". Then of course, they had to make it "better" and over a few iterations ruined everything useful about it. Now they are touting MS Teams as the way to go, because... cloud... so we can monitor everything you do.
Just go to their blog post and read it. As it says, there is no voting they just want feeback in the comments about it.
To me.. marketing types are funny (peculiar, not haha) in that they feel the world and their product revolves around marketing and perception. I think it is somewhat important for a product, but you need a good product first and foremost. It seems that Firefox has been making strides to get get back to where they need to be, although I am not sure they're there yet. I am personally willing to switch back from Pale Moon , but they're going to have to really convince me of it...and new icons aren't going to do it.
Quite simply: I hated every single day that I went into work.
I managed a small development team for an internal application in the mortgage industry at a global banking/mortgage company. We were in the Risk organization and not in IT, and apart from my three developers, nobody had any clue about technology or how software development works. This resulted in conversations with my peers (business owners) about how nothing worked right, and their idea of requirements was "we had a conversation about this!". They refused to document anything. My boss (a director) was even worse, a bitter old hag who admittedly liked to micromanage everything. When she would fly off the handle about something minor and demand to know why it was done that way, my developers would respond with a copy of her email requesting that exact thing. Then I would be told to talk to my team about their attitudes. It was like that EVERY DAY. My boss had multiple conversations with me about the "performance issues" of my team. They were actually fine, but had been beaten down by that witch over time. I could only shield them so much from her. I still can't believe I lasted a year and a half in that environment. I ended up taking a 9% pay cut just to get out of there, and was a couple of months away from a potential good bonus. It was worth every cent to leave.
I am an American, and I do believe that we are one of the greatest nations on the planet. We were seen as leaders of the world in the past. We have done a lot of great things for our country, other countries, and the world. We could be leading the charge to reverse climate change (don't call it global warming, because the mouth-breathers invariably spout "it's not warm out, it's snowing!" or other mindless drivel). But instead, we are denying it, and we are making our population more stupid and reviled globally than ever before. As a country we've lost the respect of the world, and deservedly so. It's quite embarrassing, and I can only hope that we will realize the truth sooner rather than later so we can work with the rest of the world to lengthen our species' stay on the planet.
Rumor has it that it seamlessly integrates with The Phantom game console from Infinium Labs.
I can't wait!
Despite this rather nonsensical article which really doesn't warrant thoughts or opinions, I have a fundamental issue with this whole eject concept.
There is no "eject". You are unmounting the drive. The term eject has always bugged me because it does nothing of the sort. People think it's OK to just yank out the device because they don't actually understand what is going on. Which... I understand, with the wide number of people using computers you can't realistically expect them all to really "get it". It's part of the arguably necessary dumbing down of computers and their functions. What does surprise me is how terribly this function has been implemented to the point that articles like this exist.
But for something like Popular Science, or for Geek's sake SLASHDOT, it's embarrassing that this is even a topic.
Trump was the only one saying the election was going to be hacked during the election.
Hillary, the DNC and CNN were all saying it couldn't happen.
After Trump won, suddenly it was Russian hacking 24/7.
After Trump won, suddenly he does an about face and says there was no meddling in the election.
One side changed their stance based on evidence. Well... I guess they both did.
Trump is the president, election meddling or not. Please STOP talking about Hilary and the DNC. It's past, gone, they lost.
It has nothing to do with them anymore. All that matters now is how our president handles things. Which is embarassing.
I don't get it. Do you think that Honda Accord keeps him humble? All he said that is that it is a perfectly good car. Maybe he doesn't give two shits about what kind of car he drives. He also said at the end of that clip that he wakes up every morning petrified and afraid [of the enemies of Amazon], and he tells his employees the same thing. To me, that might make sense when you are up-and-coming, but now he's the 800 lb gorilla. I would suspect that he is still that way because he didn't get to where he is by luck.
I just don't understand why people have an opinion on him at all. Does ANYTHING he does matter to you, REALLY? Even your statement about him not being "just your average billionaire" is quite ridiculous. Why are people so enthralled with those who have money - more money that is feasibly useful? Why do people desire that? Why do you think he's a great guy? I am not saying he's not - I don't know. It doesn't MATTER what you or anyone else thinks of him.
And also, the turning down sound of commercials is something I would pay good money for.
This just makes me sad for us as a species.
Not because you don't like booming loud commercials - because nobody likes them. But because this is how our country works now. I can't tell what is worse in our society, Advertisers or Lawyers. Because advertisers are the ones who jack up the volume on commercials to annoying levels, it seems especially at night for some reason. It becomes annoying to the point where the only way to stop it is through legal means. Then our government has to get involved and put policies in place to prohibit it. Yet it still continues. see CALM Act.
We have this horrible ecosystem of advertisers / lawyers invading and influencing our lives constantly. They feed each other, we are the food. To the point where we are willing to pay money to make it stop. This is not only about commercials on TV, you can look at many aspects of our lives and see their influences there as well. It's all quite disturbing.
These sites should be blocked, they are too high profile and obvious.
There are plenty of other solutions to download and convert locally, and they can do their business in peace.
p.s. 10 more conversions sites just popped up to take the place of Convert2MP3.
Unfortunately, your are still getting stabbed. The only thing changes is by whom.
No, the difference is with who gets stabbed, and with what object.
Hate replying to my own post... but I thought I would try the new FF. I actually still had it on my machine, as Mint has been keeping it up to date.
First thing - backed up my bookmarks from Pale Moon to a json file.
Then tried unsuccessfully for about 10 minutes to FIND the bookmark restore in FF. It was hidden down in the Library > Bookmarks > Show all bookmarks. This is the kind of thing that FF implemented that drives me nuts. In Pale Moon it's under Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks. They imported fine though.
I use mouse gestures, and while the legacy add-on I used was disabled as no longer supported, it did have a "find replacement" button which gave me several options to choose from. I installed Foxy Gestures, and it worked well. I don't use a ton of add-ons, but some are essential and it's always nice to have them to make browsing easier.
I will have to see how configurable FF is now. I am not really into themes, but I like to have words instead of icons for things like back, home, etc. I don't like HAVING to use icons. I couldn't find an immediate way to change that in FF (another thing they did to aggravate me) but will keep looking.
As far as use, it's quick... and is what I would expect from FF. I opened up the same few tabs in each, and looked at the memory usage, and at first glance, was impressed! I have a script I can run to show the top 10 memory users. Slashdot says the output is junk characters and won't let me post the results.
But it was using this: ps axo %mem,rss,comm,ppid,pid | sort -nr | head -n 10
palemoon at the top, with an rss of 812544 (10%), then firefox with 496528 (7.9%). Wow, that looks great.
But... there were 4 "Web Content" processes that were spawned by FF as well. So the real FF total was 1536780 (19%) - almost twice as much as pale moon.
Do I really care? It's yet to be seen. Previously when I left FF it was gobbling up memory and was slow. Now it's consuming plenty, but is fast. I only have 8 GB of RAM on my machine, and I rarely even use half of it. So not a huge deal. But I know on my Windows10 machine at work, I am very often pushing the limits of memory usage. So take my quick test for what it is worth, and check your own usage.
I am not switching back to FF just yet, because pale moon is doing great. But it's good to know that they are making strides in the right direction.
I actually agree with this.
What I don't agree is the ability of what amounts to AC's having this level of control.
Don't like the service? Don't tip.
Really don't like the service? Talk to the manager.
But because the waiter scowled at your screaming, snot nose kid when he poured his coffee all over the the waiter's pants and you and your kids are entitled to better and so you gave him a 1 and got his hours cut is not right. And if you don't think that happens on a regular basis, then perhaps you'd share some of what you are smoking.
First of all, why are you letting your snot nosed kid have coffee?! :D
Second - don't just complain when things are bad. Praise when things are good! You get a great waiter, ask to see the manager AND TELL THEM THAT! We once ordered a pizza, and it was delivered on time, and it was made VERY well. You know what I mean, sometimes you can tell they are just thrown together. I called the place, and asked to speak to the manager. They asked what it was regarding, and I said a pizza I just got.
The manager came on and was full-on ready for a fight. You could hear the relief when I explained how happy I was with how well the pizza was made, the delivery, everything. I asked that she let everyone know who worked on my order that they did a good job. She thanked me for calling, and said that she would let everyone know. I felt good about doing it too! Back in high school my first job was at a pizza place, and I remember how nice it was to get compliments on the food and service. Try it sometime.
I agree with you about the first two being the only two REALLY good ones.
But you should look up a video about Star Wars being saved in the edit. After watching that, I am fully convinced that Lucas has very little talent when it comes to movie making. Remember this - he said in interviews that the first two movies were NOT his vision. Even with this story, about where he wanted to take the storyline, illustrates this.
I think he's just a hack who got lucky by having good casting and good people working on the movies.
Except for a year or so of trying Opera, FF has been my browser. Right up until the point a couple of years ago when I couldn't take it anymore. So much instability, performance problems, and the change for the sake of change being rammed down my browser. I tried Chromium (I'm on Linux) and I just didn't care for the way Chrome does some things. I then found Pale Moon, and I felt like I was back home with good-ol' FF. I've been using it since, on my home machine and at work (Win10). I can simplify the interface, It's fast, I can still use bookmarks the way I like, and there isn't any spying.
I like keep a set of bookmarks for places I need to login. FF/PM give me the ability to add a description to the properties of my bookmark. That is where I put my password hint for that site. It's all nice and self contained. When I tried Chrome/Chromium, you couldn't do that. That's a deal breaker for me, since I have 20+ sites where I need this "feature". There are many other reasons as well.
I always said I would go back to FF if I felt a compelling reason to go... but I haven't found one yet. I am happy that the FF team is apparently putting in quite the effort to improve it again though, because I wasn't happy with the direction it was going.
The CEO could have changed that policy if he wanted to, in order to make it more lenient. e.g. any relationships must be disclosed to HR, and can't be between two people where one has power over the other, etc. That is what a lot of places do. I have worked with people that met at work and ended up getting married. It happens, and companies should deal with that. I don't think the policy is right either, but the CEO agreed to it just like everyone else.
Of course, changing it wouldn't have really helps HIS situation as CEO since he would have a position of power over everyone.
WhatsApp Web is great, and WA is so much better than SMS. You can send much larger messages, and it handles large attachments. I sent a friend a 30MB PDF via WA, and I get photos/videos daily from various friends across the country in a big group chat. The only downside of WA is that Facebook bought them, and up to that point FB didn't have any of my info.