Yeah, that didn't last long. Immediate error. Highlight error message. Paste.

Paste.

Paste!

Paste!!! Paste!!! PASTE!!!!

Oh. That's right. Windows doesn't highlight paste. Will that even work inside Linux apps? Plus I am one of the six people left on Earth who still runs KDE, and there is no Kubuntu.

Humbug! Humbug I say! Experiment aborted.

I can see the point. I just now heard about WSL. I've been running Linux for almost everything since 2001, but I started using Windows again when I got some mission-critical hardware that wasn't Linux friendly. After being a Linux audio developer for quite some time, I moved audio production to fricking Windows, because of the hardware issue.

More recently, I started producing 4k videos. One video took 28 hours to produce, and I decided to throw money at that problem. Perhaps I threw too much money at the problem, because the new Windows desktop produced the same reference video in 18 minutes. Woof!

So now I have the screaming hell beast mostly idling, while I do almost everything on an obsolete old Linux box from like 2008. I just don't like Windows. I don't want to install Linux on the Windows box for real, because that negates its entire reason for being in my possession, but maybe I could transition into actually using my $3500 computer for day to day things by installing this WSL thing on there.

Interesting. I guess I'll go start messing with it.

The lack of trust in established institutions didn't really start with social media. It started with the Enlightenment. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this lately. We've been on a slippery slope for centuries now, and while we certainly know more about our place in the real universe, are we actually better off for this knowledge?

I used to think so, but now I kind of envy my religious friends. Their beliefs are stupid, and yet marching off to a pointless death, sure in the knowledge that your life mattered, seems more attractive to me than marching off to a pointless death, sure in the knowledge that the entire planet where you lived and died was of no consequence to the universe.

I've just found it impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. I think society will generally also find this to be true. Our tried and true core institutions are rubble now, and will probably remain that way. This includes such basic ideas as knowing whether you are a boy or a girl. Every last thing we used to take for granted has been called into question, and there seems to be no end of it.

It probably does mean the end of the world as we know it. Western civilization seems likely to implode soon.

Order today, get FREE PRIME SHIPPING wuhoo wuhoo wuhoo! Receive your items in 6-8 weeks. It's just like ordering stuff out of the back of a comic book in the '80s.

As to food, nothing I've tried to order from them has even been available.

Color me not impressed.

It's fun to think about how many 7090s it would take to equal a decent modern laptop, but when I started thinking about it, I realized the more impressive reduction by far is power consumption. I kind of got lost in the weeds trying to work out a satisfying answer to how much power that many 7090s would consume. Let's just say the number is a lot closer to the total electrical generation capacity of the entire planet than it is to the mere 750w powering my desktop.

The title says it all. I have 2,995,171 files.

I never specified when "back in high school" was. Long enough ago that my ability to accommodate is also shot. I guess presbyopia is the great equalizer. No matter what your eyes are like in your youth, you're getting presbyopia.

If it weren't for that, I'd be a lot more interested in the Japanese glasses. They probably work, and it's a cool concept.

Back around the time when I was in high school, my nearsighted father was completely obsessed with the idea of correcting his vision without glasses. To make a long story short, several of the techniques he tried worked. More than once, he got himself checked out by an optometrist, and was found to have perfect 20/20 vision. The effect never lasted long, however. He had to do his funky eye massage and eye exercise dance regularly to maintain the effect. So when I read about these new glasses, I'm thinking they probably do something similar.

I don't think anybody spends $287.45 for a movie and snacks (a 5-gallon bucket of soda and a 30-gallon bucket of popcorn, which is the small size, and comes with free refills) with no intent to watch the movie. The problem is that most people in the smartphone age have the attention span of a fruit fly. "Movie is slightly slow, let's check Facebook for just one second. Oh look! Cat videos!"

Also, I would like the record to reflect that when they asked me to fire up the "flashlight" app on my phone, I scratched my head briefly, then got out my Bic lighter.

I went to my first rock concert in years, and all three bands had adopted the same shtick. Cell phones are the new Bic lighter, and if several thousand people all use the "flashlight" app on their phone at the same time, the amount of ambient light is impressive.

I'm going back inside now, so get off my lawn!

don't think that was the point... used to be a writer until the world lost its attention span... figured out it was a waste of time to spellel anything correctly punctuate capitalize or otherwise write well in this new age of five second attention spans... still can't bring myself to use "u" as a word yet but give me time

I can confirm that. My last box was a Core2 Duo, and one day it powered down out of the clear blue sky. It would boot and run briefly, but before long at all, blink!

down it would go.

It turned out that the little plastic feet holding the CPU cooler on had been going one by one, and it reached this condition when three of them had failed. I found the cooler hanging on by one foot, making very slight contact with the CPU.

A new cooler, and I could be running that box to this day. I used it as an excuse to upgrade anyway. Who wouldn't.

Hack the dolls to say, "Why are you playing with a doll instead of learning calculus?" Then have the dolls teach little girls calculus. Instantly the STEM fields will be bristling with billions of eager girls who love to dress calculus in pretty pink clothes, and take it to the mall.

Calculus will become a bigger hit than Miley Cyrus having a wardrobe malfunction.

I resemble that remark. The last version of Windows I used for anything serious was Window ME. I've seen in the interim that it got better, but it's still really annoying. I can live without it.

This is a clear case of irritatingly pedantic developer vs. user who just wants to do something. I've been on both sides of the coin, and it isn't always easy to see a clear way forward. I feel they got it wrong in this case.