There is a lovely Venn diagram meme running around with two circles, "Incel" and "Excel". The overlap is labeled "Incorrectly assuming something is a date".

Having to paste, change formats, and paste again is part of the ritual of using Excel. Nobody should be using it for science-ing when they could use a database and a real reporting tool, it's irritating enough when handling financial info. I used to be paid to use Crystal Reports. These days when I want to view some data, I use Drupal, and a fairly simple Perl script I wrote (based mostly on example code) which examines CSV files and imports them into Postgres. Drupal modules views_database_connector, charts, and geocoder are also very handy. For more voluminous geocoded data I use QGIS.

I assume you performed a double blind test with a statistically significant sample size to verify this. How many assholes did you taste in the process?

Go ahead. Show your work. Avoid false dichotomies in the process like the one you've presented here.

While you're at it, make sure to include the cost of cleaning up the mess. Oh, that's currently infinite since we don't actually know how to accomplish it? Well, why didn't you say so? Cognitive dissonance? You don't say.

Is the production of those products sustainable, or can everyone who is going to potentially be alive (if not killed by the pollution) longer than those of us who are enjoying them now just die for your comfort? How many of those products are there alternatives for?

If you know that, then you could have just not posted this entire comment.

Are "some people" in the room with us now? How many of them do you think believe that it would stop overnight?

God killed about 25 million people over about 4,000 years according to the bible. That's an average of only 6,000 a year. This is about 90,000 deaths per year. This is more than an order of magnitude more than a biblical scale.

Do you disagree with the statement? If so, why?

Some of us just go pick up food from the restaurant ourselves. I own a car, I don't need someone else to bring me food in their car and maybe eat some of my fries, and charge me for the privilege.

I might miss the Uber app if I traveled to some city where I wasn't driving around, I guess, but I really never do that. The last time I used Uber was when I went to a beer festival about five years ago.

I'm sure some disabled people would miss those apps a lot, but it wouldn't affect me at this point.

I have never used and will probably never use WhatsApp and have never even heard of Viber. The other old people I want to exchange messages with use SMS and have zero complaints about it. It works fine. I am even on a group SMS for the local CERT team and it works fine, we exchange photos and so on. And I think literally everyone involved is over 40 and everyone can figure out how it works.

I launched Excel yesterday. Today it was unresponsive and when I tried to quit it, it popped up a tiny window with no contents. I had to force it to quit from the task mangler because Windows (10) never offered me the option to force it to quit no matter how many close gadgets I clicked on without success.

I can leave LibreOffice Calc running for days or even weeks with no issues.

Running Windows or Office is asking to be abused.

They are both features, and LibreOffice offers both, and you neither have to pay subscription fees nor are there any hoops to jump through to switch, or to use both at once.

Yes, you can have LibreOffice and use it in that way. You can disable any phoning home, automatic updates, etc.

The reason is that if they worked, synfuels would make nuclear make more sense, and he's a nuclear fanboy.

The counterargument to saying synfuels require all that stuff so they are bad, and let me make it clear up front that I do not believe it is a reasonable argument, is that for the electricity to run the car you have to make the expensive batteries. But they are still preferable now and they are continuing to get cheaper and easier to make, so of course that's not a valid argument.

They could call it a long-period rental. Imagine having to put that on the button.

We don't really need another word. Force them to call it rent if they reserve the right to yank it back, so that it's clear. If they don't like it, they can offer better terms, and then they can put "buy" on the button.

I don't know if that's true or not, but if so, those people are stupid.

In my case I carry a whole-ass laptop bag to work (we bring our machines back in to the office for our in-office days) and the phone can fit in it without trouble.

Meanwhile, you are as you say allowing your employer into your phone. Mine has made it clear that if I use my phone for work stuff, I may have to hand the phone over in the case of an investigation into things that happen at work. Therefore I don't use it for that. Even if I'm taking photos for my employer I do that with the work phone.

I triggered cowards, increasing the chance that they will suffer a meal team six-related cardiac event.

Ahh, here is the link I was looking for:

https://www.androidauthority.c...

Google is not killing AOSP, but they are making it much harder to support AOSP on Pixel devices.

I hope your move to Pixel works out for you, but it probably won't.

I see now where you are going with that, but didn't I just read something about Google reducing code sharing? I'll have to look that up later, it's not convenient now.

There are also Moto phones with unlockable boot loaders, but it's not all of them. I'm on a non-unlockable one right now, sigh.

Oh yes, I agree. At best, the way this is being done is harmful.

They never could be trusted. Cisco proved that the government will demand back doors ages ago. But then, you can't trust AMD on the same basis.

We have to first enforce antitrust so we don't have any companies which are too big to fail.

Like it or not, and I don't, we do have those. And Intel is one of them.