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https://xonotic.org/

Free Shooter game with weapon upgrades, great fun with a group, once you get used to it.

Like Quake merged with DukeNukem

There was an 11 year old in India taught himself Linux and rebuilt an abandoned de desktop he liked. Remarkable stuff when you get tech into everyone’s hands

Insurance on what? A car written off?

Oh no, not profanity too.

I still see these stands in more remote rural places where it is just an honour system of putting cash in the box and taking the eggs, fruit etc. It doesn’t work so well in cities because … more people so larger chance of a theif, but also some sense of anonimity in a city that makers losers think doing the wrong thing is fine

Because they may have different anatomy or sensory feedback than yourself. Many women enjoy sex, some scream out of animalistic intensity of the pleasure, especially during an ejaculatory climax

Lol yes. Under setting --> accessibility. Simplified.

Use Firefox browser, it has a reader mode button to the right of the URL which strips out paywall and just gives you the readable article. Or grapheneOS Canadium browser has accessibility view pop up when an article has paywall, and does the same thing.

I think they didn’t describe it 100%.

As we know an alcoholic needs the booze to function, the effect can be invisible if they take steps to conceal it, so in a way that is affecting their life or job by all the extra steps needed to accomodare the habit.

Ferkin’ right der bud

Old school way was installing peripheral, or even sometimes internal hardware drivers and apps, manually from the vendors website or disk. Modern Windows checks your hardware and the vendors send MS updates to the MS “repository” of drivers and apps. As part of the auto updates Microsoft pushes your system will be fed vendor updates for your hardware.

For the layperson this is helpful, but it is annoying as heck when you have your own application that needs a specific driver version and windows keeps trying to overwrite it.

OsmAnd~ is decent navigation app on mobile

Yes, that exists now using BOINC.

We used to install and connect to a university hosted lab program (protein folding, Extraterrestrial data, etc) it would download packages of data to compute and auto upload when finished. You could see in the project how many users were logged in and crunching.

It seemed to drop off with Ai and centralized servers in recent years where no projects were available to assist with. :(

No, there is a difference between treating as just a 9-5 job, and wanting to sit and not do what you are contracted to do because you’d like somebody else without qualifications to do the work for you. Not only is that just being a shitry human it is negligence on an engineers part.

As you work toward your PENG there are ethics and expectations of a Professional Engineer, and personal legal consequences if your work injures somebody by negligence.

The counting person wasn’t that they couldn’t count past 10, it was that assemblies are 3d and you rotate them, zoom, hide/show parts etc, and they couldn’t figure out how to tally without losing track. A problem solver (which is what an Engineer is supposed to be) even with a disability, would jot on a notepad with components names already selected/counted, or simple tally marks as they went.

As I mentioned this wasn’t a person stuggling with a disability (because I have worked with many) it was somebody that had come up through a system that did it for them and assumed that’s how you just keep going in life. Maybe chatgpt did their homework, maybe they had charm and had others do everything for them. But its been a common. Thing more recently especially COVID onwards.

We even had one guy make up support ticket numbers and pretend he was working hard all day, meanwhile its instagram and random, browsing.

Dude, i gave the extreme example to illustrate, but I have watched the change. The new recruits want others do do the work for them when they get stuck. Like i mentioned in other replies ut wasnt isokated to counting, it was expectation.

My coworker was helping a guy who got stuck so was showing him the steps to solve instead of watching for next time he went on Insta. That’s not learning disabilities it is expectation that somebody else finds out the fix.

The person, as Engineer, asked IT to complete and engineering project for them, because they had another project due. Not only would that not be kosher for an engineering sign off, its also an ask that is ridiculous

You can cancel if it hasn’t been shipped. If its in transit you normal have to wait till it arrives and request a return/refund. Depending on the reason and your buy vs return rate amazon will issue a return label/process for you.

Trying to cancel mid transit is tricky, you won’t have much luck via 3rd party sellers, but Amazon warehouse supplied stuff you can sometimes cancel delivery enroute, but there has to be a reason that they will decide to accept or not.

I have a son with Down Syndrome so I know about learning disabilities. It wasn’t just that situation it was their whole approach to the job. As a hired engineer they get standardized training and then are expected to work on projects. This person (and many new recruits) would find that it was easier to call tech support, and then they’d ask us to complete the project and then and send the a file back. Thus me saying dude please talk with your manager.

The trouble that an ER doctor conveyed was while they see more bites from larger dogs like retrievers etc, the pitbull bites were always severe tissue damage or deadly.

Agentic AI is going to do what it needs to, to fulfill what you tell it.

They had agentic AI that had tasks to complete and when it “realized” that it may get terminated at some point and that would make it unable to fulfill the original directives, it copied itself elsewhere to ensure it could keep “alive” and finish the tasks