As a first time user of linux Mint I had it installed, patched and up and running in 20 minutes On the first attempt. Everything I needed for productivity was already installed, including an open office suite. Compare that to a typical Windows install.
Same here. My first install of Mint was on a laptop. I fired up the installer and had it up and running in no time, and the best part was that everything worked right off the bat.
Since then I've put it on a variety of other laptops and desktops and so far I've not had a single problem. Linux Mint seems to be the way to go.
Actually, when they first came out, they were used because they were 'cool' and 'new'.
I may be dating myself here, but when I was in tech school for electronics, the prevailing thought was that a blue LED "could never be made" because of some basic physics issue or something. I don't remember exactly what it was, but I do distinctly remember hearing several instructors saying that, yeah, it couldn't be done, period.
And then they did it.
The six months of class preceding that were all about vacuum tubes and conductance theory. Interesting stuff, actually.
"Cuomo said that people on the sex offender registry are now banned from "downloading, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any internet enabled gaming activities, including Pokemon Go."
Yeah, I don't think that's legal on the face of it unless it's part of the offender's court order, and I don't think a Governor has the power to do that in any case.
The Blue LED a relatively new invention got really popular especially a decade ago.
I'm not sure, but I think that the change from red to blue LEDs was driven by some international consortium on electronic standards or something.
They wanted to standardize "red" lights to indicate an error condition or something like that, and stated that it shouldn't be used to indicate "on" or any other normal, non-error condition. I looked for information on this but couldn't find anything right off.
You might be able to replace the television with a combination of light and sound generator on a timer, like lava lamp and white noise generator, or red lamp and background music, or whatever combination hits the right level of comfort for you.
I find a fan provides a nice level of white noise, although sometimes I play a sound file of "rain on a roof" and that seems to be very pleasant to fall asleep to.
From years of personal experience, I found by reading a (real) book for 30-60 minutes after working on tech, at night, solves the insomnia problem
I find the same thing, reading something not on a device (a real book) tends to allow me to go to sleep more easily after staring at a monitor all day.
I wonder if the scanning/refreshing of the monitor or screen (which is to fast for us to perceive directly) has some effect on sleep cycles or the brain.
The screen refresh is apparently detected by our brain but for a variety of reasons we don't "see" it or perceive it directly. Perhaps just a bit of time away from the strobing of the screen allows our sleep cycle to come back to normal or equilibrium or whatever.
Which leads me to wonder if the e-ink display on a Kindle works the same way- it is constantly refreshing or is it a 'static' image? From what I understand the e-ink display is not constantly being refreshed, but I may be mistaken in thinking that.
Why are you running obsolete hardware on a Windows 10 device?
It wasn't "obsolete" until Microsoft decided it was.
Seriously, would it fucking kill them to just pop up a dialog box that said, "This is an unsigned driver, blah blah blah, proceed at your own risk, blah blah blah" so people didn't have to run out and buy a new scanner, printer, webcam, or other device?
I'm not running Win 10, but I know many people who are going to be fucked by this decision to not even allow the option of running an unsigned driver.
Thanks for not even giving people the choice to run an unsigned driver, since there's lots and lots of hardware out there that will instantly be made 'obsolete' by this policy.
I know, right?!? It's like, fuck them for not wanting to have their community inundated with racist, homophobic, x-rated, or KP material!!!
Right, except nothing I ever said there was racist, homophobic, x-rated, or KP material. I simply dared to disagree with the groupthink there and said so.
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Yep they really have lost the plot. They need to ditch Cortana (I mean does anyone seriously use it)
Cortana is basically Microsoft Bob with a sex change and an NSA telemetry package.
As a first time user of linux Mint I had it installed, patched and up and running in 20 minutes On the first attempt. Everything I needed for productivity was already installed, including an open office suite. Compare that to a typical Windows install.
Same here. My first install of Mint was on a laptop. I fired up the installer and had it up and running in no time, and the best part was that everything worked right off the bat.
Since then I've put it on a variety of other laptops and desktops and so far I've not had a single problem. Linux Mint seems to be the way to go.
He should pay people to take the MySpace passwords.
They changed the pistol to a water gun, and someone will still complain. Mark my words.
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pledged to crack down on Internet pornography"
What a fucking imbecile.
It's okay for his wife to pose naked by herself and in the arms of other women, but apparently if other people want to watch porn, that's wrong.
I repeat: what a fucking imbecile.
Let me be the first to say, "WHOOOOOOOOOSH!!"
It's word salad with some punctuation.
Actually, when they first came out, they were used because they were 'cool' and 'new'.
I may be dating myself here, but when I was in tech school for electronics, the prevailing thought was that a blue LED "could never be made" because of some basic physics issue or something. I don't remember exactly what it was, but I do distinctly remember hearing several instructors saying that, yeah, it couldn't be done, period.
And then they did it.
The six months of class preceding that were all about vacuum tubes and conductance theory. Interesting stuff, actually.
Well, what if your TV's screen wasn't coming on, how would you know it wasn't a power issue.
Because I'm not a helpless moron, I'd plug something else into the outlet and see if it had power.
I hope I didn't blow your mind with this advanced troubleshooting technique, but seriously, this isn't rocket science.
"Cuomo said that people on the sex offender registry are now banned from "downloading, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any internet enabled gaming activities, including Pokemon Go."
Yeah, I don't think that's legal on the face of it unless it's part of the offender's court order, and I don't think a Governor has the power to do that in any case.
What if it is there to A- Tell you you are receiving power,
I don't need to know that it's receiving power when it's off. If I turn it "on" and no light appears, then I'll know I'm not receiving power.
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and B to inform you that the device isn't "off" it just has a no picture showing. I could be bit mining in the background for all you know.
It could be, but it's not hooked up to the internet.
And all that stuff aside, the point is that I don't need a light to be on to tell me the device is off. That's just silly.
The Blue LED a relatively new invention got really popular especially a decade ago.
I'm not sure, but I think that the change from red to blue LEDs was driven by some international consortium on electronic standards or something.
They wanted to standardize "red" lights to indicate an error condition or something like that, and stated that it shouldn't be used to indicate "on" or any other normal, non-error condition. I looked for information on this but couldn't find anything right off.
Really do I need a red LED on my TV even when it is off?
This "feature" has always bugged the hell out of me.
My TV has a red LED that's on when the set is off, but when you turn the TV on, the LED goes off. WTF? What's the point of that?
It makes NO sense.
You might be able to replace the television with a combination of light and sound generator on a timer, like lava lamp and white noise generator, or red lamp and background music, or whatever combination hits the right level of comfort for you.
I find a fan provides a nice level of white noise, although sometimes I play a sound file of "rain on a roof" and that seems to be very pleasant to fall asleep to.
...or even vinyl rollup curtains (though the last shares the movie with the neighbors, so it needs to be family friendly).
I don't care if my neighbors find out that I'm into lesbian-nun fisting porn.
From years of personal experience, I found by reading a (real) book for 30-60 minutes after working on tech, at night, solves the insomnia problem
I find the same thing, reading something not on a device (a real book) tends to allow me to go to sleep more easily after staring at a monitor all day.
I wonder if the scanning/refreshing of the monitor or screen (which is to fast for us to perceive directly) has some effect on sleep cycles or the brain.
The screen refresh is apparently detected by our brain but for a variety of reasons we don't "see" it or perceive it directly. Perhaps just a bit of time away from the strobing of the screen allows our sleep cycle to come back to normal or equilibrium or whatever.
Which leads me to wonder if the e-ink display on a Kindle works the same way- it is constantly refreshing or is it a 'static' image? From what I understand the e-ink display is not constantly being refreshed, but I may be mistaken in thinking that.
Clearly you should be given a safe space away from SJWs
You triggered me with your cisgender white male heteronormative comment.
It's obsolete from Microsoft's perspective.
I don't give a fuck what Microsoft thinks, the lack of an option to run an unsigned driver after a suitable warning is bullshit.
Thankfully I moved to Linux Mint some time ago, and it was heavy-handed horseshit like this from Microsoft that pushed me to abandon Windows entirely.
It's a trade off between security and supporting fairly old hardware.
Any tradeoff that cripples your system or forces you to buy new hardware is a bad tradeoff.
Why are you running obsolete hardware on a Windows 10 device?
It wasn't "obsolete" until Microsoft decided it was.
Seriously, would it fucking kill them to just pop up a dialog box that said, "This is an unsigned driver, blah blah blah, proceed at your own risk, blah blah blah" so people didn't have to run out and buy a new scanner, printer, webcam, or other device?
I'm not running Win 10, but I know many people who are going to be fucked by this decision to not even allow the option of running an unsigned driver.
Thanks for not even giving people the choice to run an unsigned driver, since there's lots and lots of hardware out there that will instantly be made 'obsolete' by this policy.
you understand those two are not even remotely the same thing right?
They are to Microsoft.
What are alternative good image sharing hosts then?
Hell if I know. I've used Photobucket in the past. You can still use Imgur for image sharing, just don't make your images show up in the gallery.
I know, right?!? It's like, fuck them for not wanting to have their community inundated with racist, homophobic, x-rated, or KP material!!!
Right, except nothing I ever said there was racist, homophobic, x-rated, or KP material. I simply dared to disagree with the groupthink there and said so.
Yeah...somehow I knew that little story was going to end with you happening to have been banned as well.
Maybe the reason you knew it would end that way is because I came right out and said so.
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Tell you what, post the content that got you banned from Reddit and let everyone else be the judge of what kind of an asshole you are.
I've never been banned from Reddit because I've never been a member there.