Yes, I did my fair share of bump/crash starting back in the day. The car we cranked by hand was a 1948 Lancaster, which did actually have an electric start but it often didn't work.

My post was more of a subtle dig at the EV haters who actually have a scaled down version of a full BEV system, just to start their ICE.

The biggest advantage is getting rid of the crank handle to start the engine, those things were a pain to use. For hard core EV haters they should probably start offering crank handle starters again so they can have a traditional pure driving experience.

Finally someone using new technology in a way to de-enshitify things!

True story from about 20 years ago. My company decided that getting patents would be good idea for a tech company. They booked a full day meeting for all the tech team. During the morning session I fell asleep during the powerpoint presentation about the process of getting a patent.

At the start of the afternoon session the presenter said "Hopefully you will find this interesting, I know someone fell asleep during the earlier session", to which I cheerfully replied "That was me!". If looks could kill, I wouldn't be typing now. He followed up with "So far only one employee has completed the patent process and has got a patent for your company's tech", to which I cheerfully replied "That was me!". He didn't know how to respond to that.

In my experience the first step to moving people to Linux is first move them to cross platform apps on their existing OS and give them time to get used to that change. Then the change to Linux is less jarring and makes the OS change go smother as their apps feel familiar and that is where most people spend most of their time.

Making too many significant changes all at the same time is going to get push back from users.

Let me counter your argument with this powerpoint presentation on why powerpoint is so great...

Hey you in the back! Yes you you big hairy gorilla, wake up, there is only 42 more slides to go!

I think I would trust "Pseudonymous Powers" advice more than yours. He makes reasoned arguments to justify his statements. How valid they are is up to the reader to decide.

Your counter advice appears to be your personal and very specific recommendation on porn choices, which says more about you and how weird you are.

I'm guessing you weren't on the debating team at school...

I guess you should get an upvote as "Informative" as I didn't know. I think the last time I used Excel was over 10 years ago and I switched to Calc. For me there was no real difference and I would assume that is still true today for casual users. It is more power user that would notice. By power users my threshold would would be quite low, as being someone who used a spreadsheet often enough to learn the less common keyboard short cuts.

Being pedantic it doesn't matter what the standard is, it matters what your employer pays you to use. If your employer says "today we start using Calc" then you learn how to use Calc, or start looking for somewhere else to work. Nothing new here bosses tell people al the time to use tools they don't like, you gripe a bit then get on with job or decided it is time to look for a new job.

The biggest issue I would see with moving is for cases where you couldn't exchange files with external sources because of file format compatibility issues.

When in school in the 1970s I had a teach explain to the class how soon the 4 day week would be how we all work. I'm 2 years away from retirement age so they better hurry up with bring it in.

Probably better phased as "It would be more likely in more civilized places.". For example you would raise the minimum wage by 20%, but that assume you live in a country civilised enough to not think tips are a core income source.

The reality is it would make the decent employers stand out because they would honor the spirit of such a change where and the profit above all else companies would maintain their bottom line by ensure employees saw none of the benefit.

Yea, I see three ways that plays out:
1. Vendor lock in so vendors can charge as much as they think the customer can bear.
2. An open enough ecosystem where customers can pick and chose a supplier where you have a race to the bottom based on the cost of the data center.
3. A truly open system where customers can invest in on premise solutions to control costs if they want to put in some effort and investment.

It is likely to be all three depending on the customer's attitude to getting stuff done.

Pretty sure it has happened before but I'm too lazy to check. The bottom line here is WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. It could have been an EV fire, but it could have been a lot of things, and given the value of the losses do you trust the crews' reports? It is all speculation, but being reported as if it was a fact for click bait and to serve peoples' personal agendas.

With the existing stats on ICEV fires vs EV fires it is more likely to be one of the ICEV that caught fire. It sounds like there was around 2930 of them on board that has petrol in them.

Much like you will never read a news headline that reads "ICE car caught fire..." the news reports on this are going to blame the EVs without proof.

Also if you where a crew member smoking where you shouldn't be would you be saying "My bad, sorry about the ship and the 3000 cars", or would you say "It was a car, one of those EV models I think. I heard they catch fire all the time for no reason".

Where does it say EVs caught fire? It only says the fire started on a deck that had EVs on it. Stats say the ICEV are far more likely to catch fire than a EV and there was 2400 ICEV on that boat with petrol in them, you know that flammable stuff.

They hoard them to stop the compiler from throwing errors. Why do think Python had to do without them? The C programmers got there first.