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This is great, thank you for making great TUI tools!

Like alcohol or cigarettes there's no way they could ever be banned, but I think if society really pushed for it we could lump soda into the same category: Illegal to give to minors, warning labels, ID to purchase. The slippery slope argument is that people will argue that next comes targeting ice cream, pastries, etc.. while conveniently ignoring that drinking a soda with one or more meals a day is normalized yet eating a slide of pie at that rate would be alarming.

I doubt it will ever happen but it would probably help with our obesity rates among children.

> Honestly, yeah. Just look at the comments.

Guilty. I don't feel strongly enough about this to really give anybody a hard time that uses their food stamps for it.. it's their choice, I'll roll my eyes and move on. It's just an opinion I have on the matter. I don't think what people buy with their food stamps is anywhere near a big enough problem to prioritize over most other things.

Hah I wondered the same and found that same list.

Obviously it's easy to speak from my perspective where I'm fortunate that I don't have to worry about accessing food.. but even when confronted with that my position remains unchanged. Maybe if you were arguing about healthy/neutral drinks I would feel different, but I've had enough people in my life develop obesity and diabetes from addiction to soda to regard it as marginally better for you than alcohol and tobacco.

I hope I live long enough to see society in this country start revolting against HFCS/sugar and excess sodium in our diets, it's death by diabetes and heart attacks/strokes.

Soda isn't food. It's empty calories with no nutritional value. Obviously Coke/Pepsi don't care about this, they just like money, but from my perspective if I gave somebody money so they could stock their pantry and feed their family I would not be pleased to see soda on the receipt.

That's just Nerrel; his narration is so flat that he's always sounded like an AI. I enjoy that mix with his humor.

If your use case allows for it there's nothing wrong with using the OS you find the most enjoyable to use. I find myself doing stuff on my PC frequently that either isn't practical or currently possible on an iPad (but in most cases would be on a Mac).

The only time I use my iPad over a laptop or something is for reading, watching videos or if I'm simply using it as a glorified ssh/rdp client to work on my other machines, but that's only if I want to consume media or read before I want to do anything else, which isn't often, and I don't generally put away my laptop to switch a tablet if the laptop can already do it.

Little things like the complete lack of multi-user support is why I don't ever hand it over to my kids or anything, they're insistent that it's a personal device and I find that unacceptable when they market it as a general computing replacement device that can't do something that has been available for decades everywhere else, even amongst their own products.. and that's without even going into having the ability to run software without Apple's blessing.. sideloading is not convenient and I've decided I'm no longer interested in buying a tablet or computer for myself that fights me on what software I can run on it.

Even if a cure isn't likely this is still exciting.

Isn’t it telling that my m1 iPad Pro gets signifcantly less use than my crappy old Intel Dell (doing tasks MacOS is very much capable of)?

I probably wouldn’t replace it if something happened to it. iPad OS feels like a toy compared to a Mac.

This is the real reason I’m not getting this game, linking accounts isn’t anywhere near as problematic yet nobody cares.

Still use it. It’s faster to open and move through photos than the windows built in one.

It’s perhaps wrong of me to generalize but I’ve lived in Utah my whole life, some are clean and healthy others are unhealthy slobs, just like the general population. The whole ‘drank all the booze’ people are more often those pretending to believe in their faith because of the social repercussions of leaving it.

Yeah but those same Mormons drink all the booze if there’s no other Mormons at the party.

I have a C2 myself, C3 was just my example, I imagine the OS is similar to your G3, but in anycase maybe it's worth updating the firmware? That can be done by USB. My C2 had some odd behavior relating to complaining there was no internet connectivity and other misc bugs before I did that. Now it's basically perfect and I won't touch the firmware again without a really good reason.

Would you be able to buy say.. an LG C3 that has things like Dolby Vision/HDR10, VRR, 120hz? I'm skeptical Dolby Vision would be present on a display not intended for movies given the licensing fees to Dolby. I'm a fan of dumb TVs in theory but I'd rather just airgap a smart TV and plug in an Apple TV than lose DV and the like.

I used some kind of white ceramic grease in a stick I would describe as 75-80% condition; it has been about 10 years with little deterioration since. I've read Lithium grease is better.

I've also read somewhere, though I could never find conclusive information, that Nintendo actually intended for these sticks to have some sort of grease included but was unable to for some reason that wasn't as trivial to explain as "Greedy company wants players to keep buying gamepads"..

Take that stick apart and put some kind of grease in there, lest your enthusiasm kill it like most of them out there.

I just can't see how anybody would want to give Boeing the benefit of the doubt at this point.

Was reneging on CentOS 8's support cycle what led to that Red Hat developer for individuals license that allows 16 hosts? I haven't gotten a good sense of if they introduced that to placate some people or if they had planned on it.

So both the iGPU and Discrete GPUs lacked power management all together, that would explain a lot about how miserable this has been.

It will likely be an AMD APU as well, and I'll probably install Fedora or Kubuntu on it. I have no interest in discrete GPUs on laptops anymore, I do appreciate the gaming options it provides but I don't appreciate the heat and poor battery life. I also play a lot of older games that run great on any recent APU, some of which were just too demanding for the intel GPU on that Dell and really needed the Nvidia GPU to run well.

Thanks for the Skylake information.

> Install Linux you mean.

I'll preface this by saying I should have mentioned it's an Nvidia Optimus equipped laptop, a Dell Inspiron i5 7559 and that I've been running Linux to some capacity or another on a variety of hardware for nearly two decades now and will probably never stop using it, so believe me I'm aware that trying Linux on otherwise landfilled hardware is always worth a consideration.

So no, I don't mean 'Install linux'. Until about 6 months ago I was running Fedora on it (historically Slackware and Kubuntu).

Nvidia Optimus is garbage and I refuse to put up with it any longer. Whether it was an Ubuntu derivative with its own means for handling this or not I've found that Nvidia Optimus under Linux is a recipe for tearing, poor battery life, lots of heat when doing seemingly nothing and frequently fighting Nvidia drivers failing to work when I update the kernel.

This laptop does not give you the ability to disable the Intel GPU and use just the nvidia GPU, so the only option that makes the laptop decently usable is to just not install nvidia drivers at all and use only the Intel GPU, but even then it was never stable enough to live with day to day. It didn't matter what distro I ran, it just randomly would freeze without any useful information in the logs as to why. I realize this is Nvidia's fault more than anyone else's but I just don't have the energy to fight it anymore, particularly because it was 100% trouble free anytime Windows 10 was running.

Once Windows 10 goes fully EOL I am either recycling this laptop or giving it away, it can be somebody else's problem. The replacement laptop will either be straight Intel or AMD, I'm done with Nvidia.

A happier story is the Asus U43F. I believe it was a first gen Core i5; it had a bios bug in it that prevented installing Windows 10, it was stuck on 7, didn't have any EFI support. Asus and Microsoft both refused to do anything about it so it was completely abandoned. I installed a linux distro on it and my niece used it during the pandemic when they were forced to do school from home. It worked out great. I got it back later and sold it to somebody who understood they needed to run Linux on it and as far as I know to this day it still works just fine.

I've gone down this path.. I have a Skylake Dell Inspiron, it has TPM 2.0 but of course the CPU is not supported.

The problem I've found is that the OS in general just isn't very responsive, everything is sluggish as hell in ways that it simply isn't with Window 10, but only when it comes to things like opening explorer, logging in and out, opening programs.. etc.. but programs themselves all seem to run just as well as they did under 10. shrugs, I think I just need to replace this thing finally.

> The MacBook Pros got thicker, and Apple have no desire to address this.

I suppose this would be a concern for me if that was an attribute I actually think of when shopping for a laptop but it isn't. Getting back the good keyboard, MagSafe, HDMI and to a lesser extend an SD card slot was absolutely worth the trade of a thicker machine. These are tools, not art pieces. I wish Apple would take it even further and give us back the ability to replace memory and storage, but that will probably never happen.

The first article I saw on this noted that the local authorities had to yell at people to stop picking up dead fish to take home and eat.

I hope this means Wayland is getting to the point where a multiple monitor, variable refresh rate HDR setup is well supported.

I like the X11 protocol for things like forwarding over ssh but xorg itself has given me so many problems throughout my entire history of using Linux.

>Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

I understand the sentiment of that, but as harsh as this sounds I really don't care. The least bad thing Sony could do right now is refund everybody.

I learned my lesson with Sony back in the Sonic Stage days. They are not to be trusted with digital purchases, period.

Maybe running a firewall on dedicated hardware so the internet doesn't drop if you reboot the hypervisor.. but even then I just live with that and run pfSense in proxmox.

I had to fight with my doctors as a late 20-something to get one. Polyps, the Doctor who performed it told me he was proud of me for being persistent and made it clear that colon cancer is not an old man’s disease anymore.

I knew this because my brothers best friend died at 30 from it.

I miss these, these days people just don’t want to bring hardware together anymore. I get it but the social aspect was wonderful.