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Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 34

"As I have always tried to tell women, you don't see tattooed women in the board room."

As far as you know. Most women that get tattoos don't get them in places where business attire leaves them exposed.

Which is why I said they would have to get them on their genitals or a tramp stamp, below the bikini line. I noted that I have seen them sleeveless, in shorts, in backless gowns. in bathing suits, It ends up being a additive process. I'd I've seen the uncovered arms, legs, backs, necks, Not all at once, but over time, most of them.

And the other thing is that most of these ladies are not the mentality of a woman who gets tattoos.

What is fundamentally unfair is that a man with obvious tattoos can have them disregarded through brute competence and presentation. Women are usually not offered the same path to being judged independently.

But make no mistake. There are tramp stamps in the board rooms. Just like how Chappelle once joked, "I'm sure there are a lot of gay men here... with their wives."

Funny, I've lived in the boardroom for around 20 years, and you know how many C-suite women have tramp stamps? Explain how you know this fact.

I've worked with enough highly placed ladies to get close to them as friends, and they are simply not the type. They tend conservative, they tend understated, they tend to have husbands who pretty obviously wouldn't put up with that.

I certainly would not. If my wife came home with a tattoo, we'd be divorced ASAP.

You might not like it, you might believe that a woman covered with tattoos on her whole body is empowering and putting to the patriarchy - but you can't shake the opinion of many men that tattoos on a woman is a sign of making bad choices, and the more tattoos the more bad choices.

The fun part is after the empowerment and showing men that their bodies are their choices, after a while, the tats fuzz out and if you have enough, they look like you have a skin disease.

In the end, it is a great way for men to winnow out who is worth it or not. Many of us look at tattoos on a woman as similar to the rattles on a snake or the colors on a poisonous frog - stay well away. And it is a great way for tatted women to avoid having men who don't like tattoos to stay away from them.

Would you marry a woman with immediately above her vulva a tat that has "Bobby forever" or a tramp stamp that Say's "Only for you Bobby" ? What if she wanted to reconnect with Bobby for a week or so to get "closure" ? A lot of moderns like to do that. Closure is very important.

Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 34

Show us on the dolly where women hurt you.

Being hurt or not is irrelevant to the facts of the situation. And your vapid comment just shows the womanist influence. Someone can lay out a lot of facts, and somehow, some way, the replay is using the M word, or the I word, or your dumb reply.

You folks have overused the pejorative words too many times, they now have the same effect as the rudder on a motionless ship. I only reply so that others might take note.

Comment Re:Good for them (Score 1) 43

Even if all 1 million downloads turn into real OS installs, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Windows installs. However, after Microsoft's recent announcement their own updates have broken their own system combined with no longer supporting W10, this can only lead to good things.

Yeah, my students are having a hellava time with their shiny new Windows 11 computers shitting the bed. I even switched over to the MacOS build of the software in order to know it works.

I've never been all that worried about market share or installed user base. More the opposite. I call it the VHS effect. VHS ruled the early camcorder and home recording market. It was also the worst technology among it's peers.

I guess the main difference is that Linux and MacOS aren't going away.

Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 1) 43

>"I need an OS that I can plug a sound card into, start up my machine and it installs the driver and starts working"

Generally, that is Linux. I have installed various Linuxes over decades on hundreds of various machines. For the most part, modern Linux detects all the typical hardware and just configures and uses it. There is no need to "install drivers".

By the way I don't know if you've seen the post I made about my Emergency Digital RF communications or not, and how W11 is making a trainwreck out of the sound drivers. of which the whole thing falls apart. During Windows 7 days you set it, and it worked. No more.

Windows 10 had enough issues with Sound drivers already, then W11 came along and said "Hold my beer!"

Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 2) 43

I don't care about the look and feel. I need an OS that I can plug a sound card into, start up my machine and it installs the driver and starts working. I need my system administration routine down around 30 minutes per month. I want GUIs for all common tasks and I want it intuitive enough the I'm not spending hours looking up which command line options to use or installing package managers to install drivers to install features to install programs. I'll try Linux, but it has failed me in this respect several times in the past, despite the insistence among lovers of Linux that it's actually just as low-maintenance as Windows.

Windows 1 sucked too. I haven't had one driver problem with Linux for over a decade and a half. In fact, I've had many many more with Windows. They will kill drivers, while Linux allows the old drivers to work. My group has had so many problems with W11 drivers bin wrecked with updates.

Never install Linux without an internet connection. It runs out to the net and downloads and installs them.

And do not try to impose Windows mores on Linux. I've seen so many people try to do that.

You will have to learn a little for some things, but there are repos that make the install process for programs a lot easier than Windows.

Anyhow, I just moved my windows 10 laptop to Mint, works great, and is stable.

Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 34

It's almost as if making long-term commitments while under the influence of short-term feelings is fundamentally unwise.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the high divorce rate in the developed world....

Cassandra moment follows. I've done a bit of research on the issues, because of personal interest. I'd spent several years in the attempts to increase the number of women in STEM careers, and wondered why they fail.So I do personal research - and no, not just the internet.

A whole lot has to do with the increased divorce rate or even increasing it. As we went into the middle of the first decade of the 2000's, some very strange things happened. Womanism gained a lot of traction, and taught women that they have no boundaries, that whatever they decided was correct. The whole open marriage concept became an anthem. Note - just for her though. Or covert affairs were also her birthright. Her body, her choices.

Back to the sub topic here, While it does happen that men will make impulsive decisions under the effects of drugs, women are. now encouraged to do this sort of thing by their peers. I've even seen attempts at normalizing facial tats.

As I have always tried to tell women, you don't see tattooed women in the board room. And yes, at social events, I've seen enough at various times. Backless, off the shoulder, sleeveless, in shorts - the claim holds (unless of course they get the naughty bits tatted)

There has been a trend of most divorces being initiated by women - usually because they get bored, and want new men to sample - with a sudden recent spike at perimenopause, when women almost universally hate their husbands in addition of being bored with them. So a lot of single women apparently looking for a last hurrah in the sexual marketplace.

A new phenomenon is emerging however, men are starting to catch up and divorce for personal peace.

An interesting and non-sustainable trend.

Comment Re:this is not really a microsoft problem (Score 1) 94

Its CI/CD, VIBE, JIRA(JIRA were software goes to die), AI non sense that has afflicted the entire industry.

It is exactly a Microsoft problem. An OS that fails after updates has nothing to do with your textwall. While very interesting to get an expert outlook, here is what people want. They want their gaddpammed computer to work after Microsoft updates it. My Mac machines work after updates, My Linux machines work after updates. My shiny new Windows laptop has had two failures already, and I've only had it a month. I have a post below about classes I teach, once upon a time everyone was working after two sessions. Today, It's like whack-a-mole. Whose computer is going to fail this time? We spend more time troubleshooting to find what Windows 11 did than actually work with the systems. The only good thing is we're coming up with a laundry list of failures (sound drivers and USB are the main culprits. I switched to the MacOS version of the software - 100 percent uptime.

So yes, it is a bit difficult to say that Microsoft is not at fault when the alternatives to Windows 11 function flawlessly, and even better, they stay functioning, do not fail.

Comment Training (Score 2) 94

I've trained people in Digital RF Emergency communications since W7 Days. And oh how it has changed. Back then we had everyone up and running in two 2 hour sessions, and they stayed running. Today, with everyone on W7, it has been 2 months, and still not everyone is working. Or better said, systems that were running stop running. Windows 11 updates come along and wreck everything. Especially Sound drivers, which are an integral part of the computer to radio interface. One big one is sound enhancements. They turn them off, the update turns them back on. Drivers themselves change often. And Windows often nucs the audio even if it is just downloaded, not installed yet. That last was a problem with W10 as well.

For my own part, I switched to Mac based system of the same software. It runs at 100 percent uptime.

Another good option is Linux. I've put together a number of Linux setups which run great. Software syncs with the hardware, and once you get it running, it stays running

The problem isn't that the system cannot run well - the problem is with the number of people who have Windows computers and expect them to work, when the problem is that Microsoft 11 is a disaster. I'm going to have my Cassandra moment, telling some folks where the problem lies. You can't decide where emergencies are going to occur, so they might happen right after an update. And if you update in downtime, you have to set up the system again. Go through it to find what changed, change it back to what it was, and test.

Not ready for primetime. Or any time. MacOS and Linux work, and stay working. Windows 11? No.

Comment Re:CORRECTION (Score 1) 33

Fun fact, there has been two Linux distributions officially certified as "UNIX". Inspur and Huawei for whatever reason bothered to get them officially certified.

On the flip side, there's an odd sentence in the XDG specification that explicitly qualifies the wording around filesystem feature requirements to apply only to Unix-like platforms. Clearly they had Unix in mind, but they explicitly bothered to give an implicit pass to any hypothetical non-Unix, non-Unix-like platforms.

Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 34

This isn't even the dumbest idea of the last 90 seconds. Somewhere out there a guy is getting a tattoo with the name of a girl he met in the last five hours while coked out if his mind. Compared to getting rid of that, extracting an RFID implant will be a minor inconvenience.

Or the young lady who tattooed her boyfriend's name right above her vulva, then broke up with him a little later. She's been having difficulties finding new relationships ever since. Seems new guys don't care for being reminded of her ex while entertaining her.

Comment Re: Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 1) 56

I run a few companies, more than 950 people are working with me, I have a few system administrator, it is a serious matter. Eventually there are people in any company that have access and control that really allows them to do damage that is massive enough that the very survival of a company is in question. This immediately has an effect on all of the clients, all of the people working for the company, partners, families, infrastructure contractors, quite a few things really. This type of behavior really compromises what people think about IT professionals everywhere.

This is true. And this is why there are penalties. Some here believe it is the physical injury aspect only, when in fact the computer crime can have an impact on thousands, and their families, and their cities, and their customers.

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