Half the time I didn’t even bother looking in the store she something when I know I can get it off of Amazon I’m like a day.

I’ve been looking for Dot’s Pretzels around me and can’t find them at Publix, CVS, or Walgreens. Amazon has them for one day delivery.

I was gonna say “I worked desktop support for years…so pretty much everything” 😂

This is why I became a Linux admin.

It’s probably slightly more difficult for them to make, compared to pressed pills, also marketing is at play and they are trying to make you think it’s worth the increase, but it’s definitely not. I’m in the US as well, and the prices are definitely ridiculous. Apparently Tylenol Liquid Gels are a relatively new thing (I swore they had been out for like a decade) and I remember seeing a bottle like 6 months ago that was $27 for like 30 pills! A regular bottle of solid Tylenol was like $15 for 65 pills. Who in their right mind would opt for the Liquid Gels?

That is the point, most people don’t do research and see “ahh a bigger number, it must be better!”. 1Khz refresh rate may be a niche thing now but in two years every company will be pushing something similar.

Screen technologies for a lot of things has gotten to the point where your eyes literally can’t tell the difference, but sure, dump money into a placebo.

“Create your own penis showing game”

That’s what the tech world has come to recently, especially with monitors and smartphones.

Yep, in fact, installing it on a different drive completely would probably be your safest bet 😉 Windows may still mess with it, but if it has its own EFI System Partition, it should hopefully leave the one for Linux alone.

People don’t care and they see any pop-up it’s an annoyance and they immediately close it. I once had a student ask why is wasnt allowing her to download something. I asked her to show me what she was doing…as soon as the security warning for “do you want to save or cancel the file?” And then complain that it was broken.

I meant installing Linux itself on another drive, but having the EFI System Partition on another drive could work theoretically.

You’d be better off installing Linux on another drive if you’re going to dual boot. Windows loves to mess with the EFI boot partition which ends up borking the Linux bootloader.

If your family does more than just browse the web, there’s definitely going to be a bit of a learning curve, it’s possible though. I converted my 73 year old father to Linux after he used Windows for 25 years.

You think the average Windows user cares about security or updates? I’ve worked in IT for over a decade and I can tell you that the average person doesn’t give a damn.

And 90% of home windows user don’t give a damn.

Can Microsoft be any more annoying?

I had to laugh when I searched for “Vivaldi” in Edge on a new installation and Bing said “There’s no reason to switch to a new browser!”

It gets boring as hell if you have nothing else to fill that time with. I work in IT and at one of my jobs there was literally nothing else to do if someone’s computer didn’t break. All social media was blocked, game sites were blocked (this was like 2013) and so were tons of other things. I worked in a basement so I had no cell service either. My time was spent figuring out what wasn’t blocked lol

Frank is truly a poet.

So if a necrophiliac uses your dead body to “learn better techniques” you’re cool with it?

Nope

It’s totally not!

It’s a valiant idea, but it will never take hold. People won’t want to “pay money” for something that is free, even if it is to support something.

Yeah, it’s literally just to make the iPhone seem more exclusive. Apple loves to make their products seem elite and exclusive.