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Comment Re:The gray/black keyboard has no numpad (Score 1) 68

I don't understand why there's not more choice in laptop options. Keyboard with/without numpad, with/without Windows or Option or AltGr key, with/without Home/End/Insert/Del/PgUp/PgDown/Arrow key. Touchpad with/without bottom buttons, top buttons or nipple. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Dell 19" with a fantastic keyboard that still runs Kubuntu perfectly. I recently bought a used laptop for a family member and I had a hard time finding one with a usable keyboard.

Comment Re:For once, yes (Score 1) 139

Anecdote time: when working in the US a couple decades ago, we used to go eat lunch downtown and would take turns driving with colleagues filling our car. Once I rode with a secretary. She backed out of her parking spot brutally and without looking. It was scary. A colleague, trying to stay polite:
  • Why don't you look before backing up?
  • And how exactly do you expect me to do that?
  • Well, you could turn your head, or look into your rearview mirror...
  • Ha! they do that in the movies!

Needless to say I never set foot in her car again.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 2) 162

I remember this Sci-Fi book a couple years ago about a guy who invents a time machine that travels only in the future and when he gets to the circa +100 year mark the US is a hellhole ruled by the Returned Jesus who is clearly just an AI with violent autocratic tendencies; and the country is basically back to 30AD Palestine. And some people still want to build the Torture Nexus.

Comment Re: gotta catch 'em all (Score 1) 126

On the early 2000 I was managing several family computers, regularly full of Windows viruses and got fed up. I installed Kubuntu on them and told the users "it's just a new windows update, things might be a bit different" ! There were absolutely no issues except for a few "I can't find this program" "let me ssh in and install this out that". Still ongoing.

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