Thank you for the info - I honestly wasn't aware that some people suffer long-term effects from flu.

Please try not to conflate my ignorance with snow-flakery.

Tell that to the people who are suffering the effects of "long Covid", some of which last a LONG time and can be quite debilitating. Both my wife and I came down with fairly mild cases - even though we're vaccinated - and had mild-but-persistent tiredness and 'brain fog" for the following 18 months or so. And we're lucky - lots of people are way worse off.

I've never had long-term effects from the flu - even cases bad enough that I thought I might need to be hospitalized. So in response to your "Pfffftttt" I'll just say that you're being Pffffoolish.

Sorry, you've lost me. What's the connection between the distance that light travels in a millisecond, and TCP handshaking?

Note to CNN editors: You really should recognize that the figure of "186,000 miles" is approximate. Translating it to "299,337 kilometers" implies a degree of precision which in this case doesn't exist. Calling it "300,000 kilometers" would be much better.

It just occurred to me that the literality of the conversion may be an AI artifact, in which case we can expect a lot more of this crap.

Thanks - guess that teaches me to RTFA.

Just a guess here, and I could easily be wrong. But maybe that's 8500 hours of direct and strong sunlight?

I mention that because solar panels also produce low-but-still-useful levels of power when it's cloudy, as well as during early morning and late afternoon. In those cases of lower levels of sunlight, I suspect that that the UV levels are disproportionately lower; witness the reduced incidence and severity of sunburn on cloudy days and in the early morning and late afternoon.

Don't sweat it - that kind of thing happens to the best of us. Too frequently, I can't even blame my own errors on the "typo" cliche - it's just inattention and a failure to proof-read properly.

Good on you for catching and correcting.

Step 1: Find out which fake titles received the most requests
Step 2: Have AI write books to go with the titles
Step 3: Profit?

Wikipedia says that "Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality." If you didn't immediately recognize the quote from the summary as doublethink - or at least as extreme hypocrisy - read it again.

To those Americans who still deny that the US is now a dictatorship: open your eyes, give your head a shake, and wake the fuck up. There are plenty of people - Democrats and independents as well as Republicans, across the full wealth spectrum - who are in denial of just how bad things are. It's time to take your head out of your ass and start fighting to reclaim YOUR country.

Fair enough - I can see that cost savings might not be a valid selling point, at least in the short term.. I wonder, though, about the long term.

Seven to ten years out, there might be significant savings. A lot could happen during that time that would make Windows and its direct descendants either unavailable, unsuitable, or more unsafe than Windows is even now. Then, moving to Linux might turn out to have been a smart bet.

Given that our military is starting to wean itself off American planes, subs, etc, perhaps Carney would be amenable to switching us over to Linux as part of the effort. It's possible that he's not even aware of this possibility and its advantages, so someone should mention it to him.

If the military IT folks are as good as you remember, they'd likely jump at the chance. Nobody who's good at IT trusts Windows, and I imagine the best of them also don't even like it much.

If Canadian Armed Forces switched to Linux, there might be a push to move the whole government onto it. That likely won't happen, but I can dream...

I agree with you regarding MS Office. "Free as in beer" is dodgy at the best of times, but when it's only available on someone else's hardware then it's a hard "No" from me. But "free as in speech" AND it runs on my own computer? I'm in!

My wife is OK with Write, but she can't stand Calc - she's used to Excel and finds the LibreOffice spreadsheet impossible to use. She bought probably the last version of Office available on disk, and it runs without ever needing a network connection. For her personal needs she'll likely never need any kind of upgrade, and for work she's stuck with Orifice 365 and Tombs anyway.

I picture Agent Smith legions hijacking Teams meetings the world over...

As in "Ah, Paris"? https://www.pillartopost.org/2...

Yeah, but ripping DVD's is kinda socially acceptable, whereas ripping prostitutes is frowned upon and is wrong in every way.