If they didn't know where to click first, then whoever was responsible for the UI did a bad job. Once the program's open, it should be clearly labeled where you click to get started, and how to go from one step to the next as you go. There are thousands of websites out there that do this so that a novice user can get everything entered in the right order without any guesswork, so whoever botched that job had no excuse for their failure.

Also, a vehicle with a manual transmission can be push started.

You can do it with an automatic, if both drivers know what they're doing. You put the dead car into Neutral, get it moving and when the car in back stops pushing, slam the front one into Drive, or possibly Low. Not easy, but I've done it once or twice.

If even he thinks AI is dubious, you know AI is bad news.

TFS does not say that it has a breathable atmosphere, it says that astronomers have detected Helium in its atmosphere. For all we currently know, that's all the atmosphere it has, and no matter how high the atmospheric pressure is, that's not breathable, at least not by any Earth-like life.

Lol

The only one or two power outages I had my entire life in Germany: were planned weeks ahead.

You've been lucky, then. I live now in southeastern Colorado, where it's currently monsoon season. That means lots and lots of thunderstorms, hail and flash floods. (The standard advice for dealing with flash floods is "head for the high ground." We never bother, because we are the high ground.) Lightning and flash floods cause power outages, so they're common this time of year, but generally only for a few minutes.

The biggest outage I ever lived through, however, came before moving up here, when I lived in Los Angeles. That was caused by the Northridge Earthquake, back in '94, a real E-Ticket ride! One of the side effects was a better look at the night-time sky than I'd had since I left the Navy.

Who cares if they settle on EST vs EDT (CST/CDT and so on)? Pick one. Companies can always shift their hours from 8-5 to 9-6 or 7-4.

I'm retired, and it's long been my habit to update my Fedora box every morning while making breakfast. I agree with you that the kernel's getting updated far more often than it used to be. Recently, it was updated at least three times in one week (maybe four, I'm not sure) which seems excessive. I think that was while they were getting rid of the insecure forms of string manipulation, but I wasn't involved in that and could be wrong.

As a long-time Linux user, I have two questions. First, why does Microsoft insist on holding on to all of these bug patches and security fixes so that they can be released all together on Patch Tuesday instead of being made available right away as Linux does? Second, why do so many people insist on paying money for such a flawed system and putting up with such a slow update pace?

I could argue that there's a shortage of houses because nobody will build me one for $5K. I wouldn't be wrong, but the trick to not being wrong is the $5K caveat, and that's the issue with all these labor shortage proclamations. Labor shortage always means there's "nobody willing to do this job for what I want to pay", not a blank "nobody is willing to do this job". I guarantee you, without a shadow of a doubt, if cleaning restrooms paid $750K a year, there would be an endless pool of labor for restroom cleaners.

I mean it's roughly 30 years past the "Year of the Linux desktop".

And that's because Windows fanbois moved the goalposts and people either didn't notice or didn't realize what was going on. Back then, "the year of Linux on the desktop" meant the year when Linux was good enough to be used on a desktop as your daily driver, something that's been achieved decades ago. However the Windows lusers started using the term to mean the year that Linux was on the majority of desktops, something that clearly hasn't happened yet and Linux users let them get away with it.

Yes, most of the difficulty with wine is installing the windows applications, not wine itself. There are many knobs and compatibility options to adjust. Proton has done that for you for a huge number of the games in steam.

Actually I do want to memorize. But not random idiotic key strokes that have nothing to do with the action/command they execute. EMACS is a prime example for that. ^G for example, what has that to do with "help"? Good, ^H is backspace, so during normal editing not available ...

If you want to memorize the commands, knock yourself out; nobody's stopping you. And go right ahead and use ^H as backspace, as that's what it does in nano. I'm not saying that you must, or even should be using it, I'm explaining why I've been using it for the last quarter of a century.

wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup...

I use Fedora, so I can only talk about that. With Fedora, Wine is in the standard repos and all you need to do is tell the appropriate package management program (I use dnf, the CLI program, because it gives me the control I want.) to install wine, and away it goes, finding and installing wine and all the needed dependencies without any further work on your part except accepting the transaction. I'd think that most if not all of the mainstream distributions do the same, although the details change, but unless you really want to do it the hard way, there shouldn't be any need to descend into Dependency Hell.

But you don't need to memorize it; all of the most common commands are listed at the bottom of the window. And, if you need one that's not listed, there's always ^G, the first command listed which gets you to Help, a complete list of commands. Nothing to memorize unless you want to.