Yeah solitaire on zfs root. That's it alright.

Don't worry. The nice thing about getting older is that eventually senility sets in. Then slashdot dupes won't bother you anymore because everything will seem new and fresh every day.

Hopefully the editors do the right thing and pull this story down.

Our spreadsheets go back to lotus 1-2-3 also. Used to heavily use lotus macros. These days we don't use macros much so no VBS to deal with.

I've upgraded Fedora continuously for nearly 10 years, often skipping two versions at a time. And with an unsupported ZFS root filesystem. Very little breakage, even between major version updates. I've been continually surprised by that.

Currently on Fedora 40 and will upgrade this fall to 42 now that it's been out for a few months and ZFS on Linux support is stable. I've occasionally had issues with kernel updates when the kernel and zfs are updated together, but like I said, that's not a supported configuration.

I've had far more breakage with Ubuntu than I've ever had with Fedora. Don't get me started on dpkg dependency hell. Much prefer dnf/rpm to apt/dpkg.

Fortunately Office 2010 runs pretty well under Wine in Linux (I recommend installing Bottles from your distro's repository). Here's some information on doing this specifically:
https://github.com/tazihad/mso...

There's nothing wrong with continuing to use MS Office now that you've moved to Linux. But I am interested to know how you make out bringing your spreadsheets into LibreOffice. Some of our small business sheets are quite complicated and they almost work properly in LibreOffice Calc. I'm not the primary user of the spreadsheets or I'd get them working completely in LO Calc.

Preaching a message? What on earth are you talking about?

The observation that the Trump (and the GOP) is going full central planning is accurate. The party of honoring the constitution, small government and states rights is doing everything they can to trample on the constitution, centralize power in the federal executive (make the president a King), neuter the legislative branch (who should hold the bulk of the power) and strip states of their rights to run federal elections, etc.

Indeed you don't have to look very far to see this in action. Consider Texas' move to quickly gerrymander the few Democratic seats into Republican. Or North Carolina where the state legislature has drawn districts such that republicans will always hold the state house in perpetuity, regardless of whether the people elect a Democrat governor. The brazenness with which the GOP is acting now is really frightening. They used to at least pretend to believe in democracy and the constitution. Not anymore. Faced with this kind of nuclear threat, I fully support Democrats considering their own gerrymandering to counter this threat from the GOP.

Modded troll seriously? Wow.

And even if things are made in the US again, they won't be much cheaper than the import good plus the tariff. Why leave money on the table? So Americans pay way more either way, nevermind the overwhelming negative impact on the entire world's economy. Getting your average maga person to understand this simple fact is unreasonably difficult.

For decades hundreds of chemicals in our food supply have been declared as "Generally recognized as safe." Originally this applied to substances that have been put in foods for hundreds of years or more, and thus probably were safe. But apparently in recent decades all sorts of chemicals have been simply declared by companies as "generally recognized as safe" arbitrarily, particularly chemicals in the health supplements industry. Interesting article on the subject: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f.... Warning, CBS was contractually obligated to include a picture of RFK Jr for no apparent reason.

With trump wanting to gut all government agency and eliminate the FDA entirely, and RFK Jr pushing health supplement which are part of the problem, the future doesn't look so healthy does it.

The new design is fine, although I prefer the perspective projection of the older icons to the isometric projection of the new icons.

The use of a representation of a bare IDE hard drive was always a bit of a weird choice for an icon, especially for MacOS, but also for Gnome and other Linux DEs which copied it. It made perfect sense to me but your average Mac user has never seen a bare drive, just like how most people today have never seen a floppy disk.

Not as the law is written. The difference is who owns them. Under dealer franchise law, dealerships are not owned by the manufacturer and must buy the vehicles which they then sell. Whereas Tesla owns all their dealerships and thus sell directly to consumers, which Rivian rightly wants in on.

There may have been good reasons for these dealership laws years ago, but now that Tesla has carved out exceptions for themselves, it's only fair that all manufacturers should be able to do the same thing.

I've been watching him for years and he's an excellent resource for information on electric vehicles. Very informative.

Hopefully Hyundai and others have addressed this very real problem. I read once there are safety regulations governing when the brake lights can be lit, but automatic emergency braking systems on all modern cars do put on the brake lights, so I don't see why they can't light them when regeneratively braking.

Electric Trucker on youtube also recently commented on a video about one truck he drove that didn't light the brake lights when regeneratively braking, and he said that was big problem. But other trucks do.

Technology Connections is most certainly not in the pocket of oil companies!

Yeah it's quite the wasteland out there, sadly. PC Mag did a recent rreview of ergonomic keyboards on the market now, and none of the ones they reviewed looked any good to me. Chiclet key caps and hardly any key travel. Sigh.

There's a split keyboard from a company called Meetion. They want a pretty penny for it. A few reviews say it's favorable to the MS Natural. Wireless only unfortunately.

My father also loves the MS natural keyboard and he has two or three spares in boxes that he bought a few years ago. I looked on Amazon today and found one for sale (brand new) but it's a french version but might work in english? They do come up once in a while. I bought one off of ebay a while back.

I've been using the Adesso natural keyboard (PCK-208B) for years, and like it better than the MS natural. Just about wore the letters off the key caps. The version I use has been discontinued (sigh) but Adesso still makes and sell split keyboards, which they call TruForm. But I don't know if they are any good. They moved the two halves closer together.