It’s gross, fraudulent as three-card monte, and … as with many corporate tricksters … there needs to be a law with prison terms.

I’d like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.

A new Linux OS may emit unfamiliar sounds if some network app is still running and set to use them for notifications. Quitting the (sound-making) app(s) and/or the network connection will can avoid that problem. Of course you can just turn the sound volume all the way down.

Suspended OSs may sometimes ‘wake up for no reason’ if some vibration causes the mouse, for example, to jiggle around enough.

Logging out of your user account before suspending/sleeping the machine will stop that stuff without having to dig thru settings. Faster to log back in than to reboot.

This is the ongoing story of Microsoft since it started.

Go ahead and send me ads, and I’ll just block your site … never go there except when someone tries to trick me into it, and then my SITE-BLOCKER will refuse for me. Our now and future business IS OVER.

“But why don’t you just trust us?” Because I’ve been online for 30 years and it’s been downhill ever since.

Maybe you’re new enough that you haven’t found the Mint forums,

https://forums.linuxmint.com/

the best source for fixing obscure Mint problems, and full of Cinnamon users -and- a decent search. I only wonder how many people use Nemo from the command-line.

Tried Live 22 XFCE version out … everything worked well -except- the Display setting I’ve used for my (Samsung) monitor for years … was missing. No idea how -that- gets fixed. (No, xrandr didn’t fix it.) Had to quit before my eyes burned out.

Oh well, 21.3 is good until 2027

Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.

Wow. It was only after reading comments on this post until that I remembered WHY I was more than happy to leave Reddit behind. Too bad so many of these diseased children moved over here.

It took just one comment: ’ What is “4000ac”? ’ to start the drool-fest.

Got a neuralink? One word you never wanna hear: ‘Oops!’

Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.

Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.

The year of the four linux desktops, I hope! (I have 3, but two need to go to the landfill).

After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.

But I’m not in the field. My reasoning for posting this: I see news about PFAs a lot, this was fresh to me and I was glad to hear the news that chemists are at work on the problem (many communities in WA have contaminated water). And simply-enough for ‘newbs’ to learn from. I don’t find a ‘technology for experts’ ‘community’ on Lemmy.

Livescience is far from the best source, but I checked that they had a link to the study (Science) in it.

It appears, going by the comments, that others who are not ‘in the field’ were happy to learn about. It’d be great if more people ‘in the field’ would post about such discoveries now and then.

The balloon + helium has to be lighter than the (couple of liters of) air it displaces.

He Density (at STP) 0.1786 g/L

The density of air at sea level is about 1.2 g/L

Another interesting factoid about rare elements: Very little nickel is found in the Earth’s crust. Most nickel has arrived on Earth from meteors. Usually mixed with iron, which held-back the arrival of the iron-age.

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Blaming another business? Hmmm. Sounds like Boeing’s attempted solution.

While they’re written for a YA audience, (doesn’t include me) I read and enjoyed both Little Brother, Homeland, and Makers. Cory’s head is almost always in the right place for me (including at readings.)

Try again. Oh and you forgot residency. Anyway doctors don’t get PhDs, nor JD’s, nor MBAs … And a Phd is usually 4 years college and then 3-6 more years. Pretty clear you making that all up. Boxer in a warehouse, same pay as doctor? 9.5 outta 10 gonna wanna know what you on.

“earning the education for this career can take a significant amount of time to complete. In general, it can take at least 10 years to become a fully licensed and practicing physician, but with a specialty, this length of time can increase.” - https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-many-years-does-it-take-to-become-a-doctor

“anyone who intends to pursue a medical career in this country should expect medical training to last at least seven years beyond college.” - https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/articles/how-to-become-a-doctor-a-step-by-step-guide