I see you're trying to post a dupe on /.

... and sewing?

I've picked up reading again. RPG books for my sessions (I GM Coriolis and Forbidden Lands)
  I've also now added thimble, needles and thread to my EDC and fix buttons, snags in my cargo pants or holes in my backpack, jacket lining or whatever when I'm on the go, sitting in PT or waiting for someone or something. You can think and listen to a podcast or audiobook while doing it and you're doing something useful, helping the environment, saving money and training your confidence and motor skills. Good stuff.

We helped our uncle, Jack, off a horse.

EOM

That stupid math was likely done by the same guys who came up with that bonkers epic Jaguar rebrand failure. Likely to hide the huge loss in sales created by it.

What I haven't quite figured out is why every single organized religion goes out of their way to hide the pedophiles when they find them instead of just giving them over to the police. They all do it (except for the ones like the episcopals that don't care if their preachers are gay or married or gay married). But I don't get why.

That's easy. Revelation cults are - at best - evolutionary useful mind viruses that prevent people from becoming nihilistic or toxically hedonist and help position individuals in useful positions, such as father and mother of (many) children.

The problem with revelation cults is, well, that they are _revelation_ cults. Meaning they perpetuate the - very often bullshit and very easily abused - concept of truth by revelation not truth by insight and reason. This means they are very useful in putting people (often excess men with no sweatheart to call their own) in power who otherwise wouldn't have any or not nearly as much. That's why when some buddy in a cult abuses a child there is a veil of silence because calling out the crime would rub off on every member or that cult. Collectively preaching non-sense and avoiding/shunning reasoning helps strengthen this sort of toxic solidarity. This is a very similar reason to why abusive nuns get to torture young "lost" ladies. It's a lot about power and maintaining it.

Out of curiosity, I opened the web version (https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/, in Firefox 144.0, on Mint 22.2, using Cinnamon 6.4.8 on a Beelink mini-desktop). To make the usual "test call", I can't go to three-dots (...)--> Settings --> Calls --> Devices (there is no "Devices" under THAT version of "Calls"). However, I CAN go to the "Calls" menu on the far left of the window --> Custom Setup (gear menu) --> Device Settings, and then do a Test Call.

From there, all works fine, including sound and video. Of course, all my Sound Input/Output devices work OK in the OS itself....

I used Firefox (not sure of what the version was) to successfully hold Teams meetings on the web on Mint (likely ~20 or 21), and Vivaldi on a different Mint system. I'm sorry I can't remember more. It was 6 months ago or so.

I have a couple of people I *can* "upgrade" to W11 from W10, but I think they're ideal candidates to move to Zorin or Mint.

MS used to supply a desktop client of Teams for LInux, but hasn't for a year or more at this point. However, the web interface works well enough. And if you don't mind snaps on your system, you can try wrapping the web interface in a sort of desktop app: https://snapcraft.io/teams-for...

The most prominent example being the Amazonian rainforest, once heralded as the "earths lung", now has turned into a net zero factor in recent years. The area is getting so hot that some native tribes are already bugging out.

We are screwed. How hard is up to us.

... Is why the big players do not offer outdoor/rugged versions of their phones. They'd make a fortune, like apple with the apple watch ultra. I'd have started this 10 years about at least.

Drip is the shit version of coffee. Good instant coffee doesn't filter out the crema like drip does. In fact, good modern instant coffee is often even better than pressured "hand made" espresso, because you have to be skilled at grinding and operating the steam coffee maker in order to get anything of value out of it which most people can't. Espresso is what the name says: a fast pressured version of drip, originally invented to make lots of coffee fast.
Same with espresso bots. Price/performance is pretty much the worst with those. I'll take a good single serving instant espresso over one of those any time. For fancy nothing beats a good French press.

If you _have_ to spend lots of money for good coffee, I recommend cometeer coffee. They pre-brew their coffee at an expertly tuned industrial scale and then seal almost dry pellets of that coffee in single serves. You just pour boiling water over it and get the best coffee ever with zero the ceremony. Not cheap, but still lengths cheaper and better than Nespresso or similar nonsense.

... putting the people who came up with such brilliant ideas like the Rings of Power in charge of a nuclear fission plant? Think that's a good idea?

Cute, even with the unironic discussion of irony self-contradiction.

Don't say they can't be useful. I like this. I generally also like laws like the GDPR that enable EU regulators to fine megacorps for 50 bazillion Euros if they choose to get pissy with the rules and ignore them. Good stuff. Gotta hand it to the EU.