With so many RGB lights, your computer was just asking for it.

Problem is, while you are correct that it cycles from bad to good, every bad is way worse than the bad versions before it, thus every good is worse than the good versions before it, they are 'good' simply because they aren't as bad as the most recent bad.

So Windows Vista is better than Windows 8. Thus Windows 10 isn't as good as Windows 7, it's just better than Windows 8.

and at this point, I really feel Vista is better than 11.

Great question... and the best answer I can give is that it does, but possibly because they've been using it for so long that they accept its shortcomings as compared to the shortcomings they experience on linux.

You've triggered my PTSD. Well done.

I've tried linux on my spouse's machine. It is not a desktop OS that my family can use. Either Windows or MacOS are the only thing that works reliably and intuitively enough to perform the common tasks my family uses their computers for.

Windows was my go-to desktop on their machines as MacOS has the Apple Tax on hardware and they very much own the machine due to the need for appleID. But now Microsoft has basically done the same.

At this point, on slashdot, this will sound like I'm trolling, but I truly am not... I want to know what distros of Linux ACTUALLY are stable enough, and intuitive enough to have the non-technical-savvy (aka normal/average) person use it without being frustrated? So far, every attempt to switch to linux has resulted in violent rage from one or more of my family members because something just doesn't work.

We're now one step closer (at least in the UK) to thought crimes. "The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it" So what's the difference between an artist drawing/painting something based on a person, but clearly imagined, and a computer doing it? We call one a deepfake, and the other art? This is a terrible slippery slope, well on our way to punishing artists' with thought crimes.

Fully remote, I have all my equipment at home. Fully in-office, all of my equipment in the office. Hybrid, I'm lugging around equipment most days. Why?! Don't have equipment? Just a laptop? Great! So fully remote, I'm on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully in-office, I can actually meet people face to face in meeting rooms! Hybrid? I get to commute, be in the office, but still sit on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully remote, or fully in office (with allowance for special one-off days where you need to WFH). This 'hybrid' of X days a week in the office is killer. It really is the worst of both worlds, I wish companies would stop entertaining it.

I just hope that my Office 365 subscription and my MSDN subscription will include GitHub use... for a modest fee of a few thousand dollars extra of course... because these are tools of my craft, and well, obviously no real professional developer can live without these services.

What I love is how Siri has built in logic to detect swearing and tell you not to use such language, but it can't do basic things like keep the context of the question that it had literally just asked you a moment before. Brilliant way to spend your programming resources Apple... Make sure Siri has a witty comeback if I use profanity because of how crappy it is at not understanding context that it literally created by asking me a question.

Actual conversation I had with Siri.

"Siri, what is my relationship status?" ... "I can't answer that"
"Siri, what is my marital status?" ... "I can't answer that"
"Siri, phone my wife" ... proceeds to phone my wife.
"Siri, where is my girlfriend?" ... "Your wife is right beside you."


That last one has me confused. Did Siri know that I am married and thus girlfriend means spouse? Or did she try to warn me that my wife was right next to me.

Are you mad??? Asking people on slashdot to shower even less???

Pheremones don't have a noticable scent/odor... someone not showering AND failing to apply deodorant is gonna smell pretty awful, especially if it's for days.

Take the people who believe they're in a haunted house and send them through an MRI to see what part of their brain is damaged. Don't waste your time in the supposed haunted house, the feeling of a 'presence' and 'ghosts' and any other paranormal crap is all in the person's head. So start there.

Sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy if I've ever heard one... People don't play the final levels so we don't put much effort into them, so in turn people will not want to play the crappy final levels, rinse and repeat. STUPID logic. How about making every level more and more interesting, drawing the player further and further into the game. God of War did a great job of that. The story and the levels became more and more interesting as you went through the game. Give the users incentive to continue playing... spending less and less effort on the content as the game progresses leads to shit releases like DOOM 3, after the second level it looked like the level was script generated, by the 5th level I wasn't killing zombies, *I* the player, had become a zombie.

My guess is because they focused on 'safety'. Late 90's early 2000's, most of the cars were getting ABS, all sorts of airbags, traction control, stupid junk like 'on-star', navigation, power windows/locks/seats/steering columns/etc., Tire Pressue monitoring, climate control... The focus was on luxurious features and safety, which added lots of weight.

And then to add insult to injury the emissions standards got thrown in, and manufacturers were forced to scrap the old way of doing things to meet the new standards. It takes a long time for a new engine design to make it from concept to production, and the manufacturers were sitting on their laurels as it were.