I don’t like flatpaks because they never feel cohesive visually on my system.

I actually ordered an adjustable/standing desk. They shipped via FedEx on the 21st and FedEx emailed me saying it was coming today. Did it show up? Nope. Never even moved from the initial location. Now they emailed me that it’s coming tomorrow. It might, but I’m not getting my hopes up. Honestly I hope it doesn’t come because it’s only the top of the desk and not the adjustable base so I’m going to have a 48" x 24" table top just sitting around without the base.

It’s not even that. It happens before it’s even at the last warehouse. I know to disregard it but at the same time, if I have a phone coming from Google that I requested signature for delivery, I can’t roll the dice. I’ll move work from home days just to be annoyed again.

The only problem I have with FedEx is that they routinely bait and switch me with delivery dates. Something will ship on Wednesday. I’ll check the tracking on Thursday and it will say that it’s coming Tuesday. Cool. On Sunday, they’ll email me and say the package is going to be delivered on Monday. Then Monday comes and goes and the package is never on the truck for delivery and then they’ll say it’s delayed and coming Tuesday. Like why are you making yourself look bad? Don’t tell me it’s coming a day early just to then fuck that up. You’re going out of your way to piss me off at that point.

UPS on the other hand will just tell me a package is coming on Tuesday and low and behold, there it is on the delivery truck on Tuesday.

I mean, John Oliver did an entire breakdown on Law & Order on Last Week Tonight. Worth the watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNy6F7ZwX8I

Building off of this awesome and thorough response. There are some games that you might need a different version of Proton for everything to work right. I had issues with Blue Prince not being able to see any videos that played during the game. With Proton-GE, that is solved. So there might be a little adjustment and tweaks that need to be done but I’ve found everyone in the Linux community more than happy to help.

As to your comment about security vis-a-vis open source software. I think that comes from an inherent misunderstanding about what open source software is because I had a similar thought when I was younger. If a program is open source and you can see all the bones of the software, you can see the code and know how to hack it. That was my thinking at least. But the security comes from having everyone able to view the code and patch out vulnerabilities. Closed source just means that you might have the veil of security through obscurity where it takes a little time to have your bugs exploited.

Yeah I did some digging and it seems well-intended but its just done really poorly and misleading. From what I can tell, because of the paper outer protective layer, they were able to use a lighter plastic layer on the inside layer reducing the amount of plastic used. If not for the plastic on the inside, I don’t know how you’d really keep the bottle from disintegrating from all the liquid inside.

I do think that they were lying about not seeing how people could misinterpret what they thought they were saying with the bottle. Obviously some people are going to look at something saying “This is a paper bottle” and think that means the whole bottle is paper. I would’ve assumed some sort of chemical/hydrophobic coating on the inside which might not be great for the environment either. But them saying they didn’t expect people to misinterpret it is dumb.

Yeah 96% is great for me. I work in commercial credit analysis and I’m constantly typing numbers (account numbers/financial information/etc) so not having a number pad would suck. I work from home like 75% of the time and my work space is shared with my personal computing space. I have 1 keyboard that’s Bluetooth so I can swap between my personal desktop, personal laptop, and my work laptop. Same with my mouse. Sometimes I do think about getting a smaller keyboard and adding a separate numpad that can tuck out of the way when I’m not working as I don’t use it much for personal computing.

My only complaint is that tab is not an option to auto complete. It’s infuriating as someone who works in Excel all day for work and then has some things to do at home in a spreadsheet and I type =vlook tab and then it switches to the next column. Let me autocomplete the formula to the next input! And they don’t let you change it either. It’s the most infuriating thing. It’s why I refused to use LibreOffice for a while but the switch to Linux forced my hand. I like Libre Office more than Only Office.

Yeah but then you’d be stuck driving it for another couple weeks.

I’m certainly not. And I decided that election night was going to be the day I got sober so that’s fun. 120 days of no booze!

McDonalds isn’t a fast food company. They are a real estate investment company. Their former CFO said as much “we are not technically in the food business. We are in the real estate business. The only reason we sell fifteen-cent hamburgers is because they are the greatest producer of revenue, from which our tenants can pay us our rent.” - Harry J Sonneborn

I don’t think it’s a bad product but it’s just so weird coming from Framework. Given how their entire shtick is easy repairs, easy upgrades, less waste by being able to recycle some of these parts you swap out into other devices, etc. It’s just weird to have a soldered CPU and RAM on a desktop FROM FRAMEWORK.

uBlock Origin + PiHole FTW.

Even the NFL one, the front page of posts the most comments is 10.

I mean, there’s already apps that are good that were created by reddit app developers. E.g. Boost for Lemmy. The problem isn’t the apps, it’s the availability of content and people. The /r/orioles on reddit has 85,163 subscribers. 110 people on the page right now. /c/Baltimore_Orioles here has 150 subscribers and no posts in 4 months which was a bot posted game thread with 0 comments on it. The problem is meaningful content and people to interact with, not the UI. There’s no reason to join if you want to talk sports because there’s no on to talk sports with. I’m not going to sit in game threads by myself and post my thoughts to no one.

The tough part for me is that the reason I use Reddit is for bullshitting with people about sports teams I like. Lets look at some of the communities here.

• Baltimore Orioles – There’s one on lemmy.world with 150 subscribers. The last post is from 4 months ago and it’s a game thread posted by a bot with 0 comments. There’s also one on fanaticus.social with the last post from 7 months ago.
• Carolina Panthers – There’s one on fanaticus.social with 3 subscribers.
• Miami Heat – There’s one on lemmy.world with 10 subscribers.
• Pittsburgh Penguins – Again, lemmy.world with 11 subscribers.

I’d love to get off reddit but until there’s actually people to talk with, this place is just never going to meet the needs of sports content that I use Reddit for. I had no interest in Bluesky until some people actually got on it as well. The Shutdown Fullcast for college football brought a bunch of people and fans there so it gave some utility to the site. Without utility, there’s no reason to be here.

Oddly enough, the rise of software as a service I think has led to Linux being a more viable option for business use. For my work, I’d still be personally missing MS Excel but that’s because I hate LibreOffice Calc with a passion. I cannot understand some of their keybindings which are not changeable. But so much of what I use these days is just in web browsers.

My point is that just going direct for a new car without at least doing some legwork and seriously investigating second hand options is a bad move

100% agreed there.

In that broader sense, IMHO, new cars are generally a bad “investment” versus cars with a year or two because you’re paying a huge premium

That’s where I disagree with you though. There isn’t a huge premium vs a car that’s a year or two old. If you’re financing too, it could be more costly to buy a used car as you’d be paying higher rates on the financing. I agree with the sentiment that buying a used car is better but not one that’s just a year or two older. People have long been preaching that buying used is better than buying new and as a result, a lot of prices have crept up to the point that its less beneficial to buy used these days. COVID jacked up prices too and while they’ve gotten better on used cars, they still haven’t fully recovered.