spaghettiwestern

What fucking nonsense.

I use a W10 VM for processing individual files once a week or so. With the required 2 Windows programs it takes about 3 minutes to complete the task and shut down the OS. Not worth switching.

I know that Boeing's on everyone's shit list these days, but the company doesn't even make aviation tires. Unless a failure in one of Boeing's systems caused tire damage this is probably due to poor maintenance by the airline, or a defective tire manufactured by Goodyear, Michelin, Bridgestone or Dunlop.

These are the pieces that feel like they’re designed to be dramatic, and push that feeling onto the readers.

WTF? So you object to an opinion piece that is clearly labeled to being published at all? Or you object the fact that some other opinion pieces aren't labeled as such which has nothing at all to do with this post?

They’re not fact-based pieces, yet still get published alongside fact-based pieces on MSNBC.

Have you ever read a newspaper? Opinions, marked as such, have been published right along news since long before you or I were born.

Do you expect opinions to be put on a entirely separate website? Perhaps a brand new .opinion domain suffix should be made because you think that understanding an opinion piece clearly labeled as such is actually opinion is too much of a strain.

I've been wondering why I'm not a fucking genius.

The terrible twos is a normal stage of development in which toddlers can have mood swings, temper tantrums, and frequent fights with siblings or playmates.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/terrible-twos-and-your-toddler-2634394

MacOS is okay, not terrific (I hate how much RAM it uses though).

On that note, I've been amazed how well Mint works with just 8GB of memory. I've had Firefox and Chrome running with plenty of open tabs, Thunderbird, Libreoffice Calc, and a half dozen other programs open while running W10 in Virtualbox. Mint just takes it in stride.

I had to go into the BIOS, turn UEFI to legacy, turn off secure boot, reboot to boot from the USB stick, install Mint, then turn legacy back to UEFI to get it to boot from the hard drive.

That is ridiculous and it does sound like a Lenovo problem.

I'm running Mint on a Surface Laptop (which was difficult to install because Microsoft), but getting Secure Boot working only required changing the UEFI settings to allow non-Microsoft Secure Boot certificates. With that set Mint boots just fine both with Secure Boot enabled and disabled. So do USB installation ISOs.

Secure Boot can still be a pain. To get Virtualbox working with it enabled required signing several kernel modules which took a while to figure out.

Mint is great though. After distrohopping for years I finally decided I wanted to just use the OS and GUI, not play around with them and I came back to Mint. The latest versions of Mint just work and work for years once they're installed. For me, going back to Windows (especially W11) feels like punishment. I hope you enjoy the switch.

And btw secure boot is Mint’s fault. It just doesn’t support it yet

Not the case. I'm typing this on a Surface laptop running Mint with Secure Boot enabled. Even the bootable Mint USB can be run with Secure Boot turned on.

I went for a few years renting higher end cars on a regular basis. The primary functions on every single one of the "modern cars" were easy to figure out with the exception of the Teslas. For occasional use Tesla's controls are absurdly cumbersome verging on dangerous.

I can understand your experience would be different if it's your primary ride.

Spoken like an Apple fan. 🙂

I think they both look nice, but I wouldn't want to have to actually use either of them, especially while driving a car.

For someone who's the primary driver of a vehicle that's a good option, but there are plenty of Teslas out there that get driven often by secondary drivers who aren't familiar with the specific voice commands and IMO aren't going to learn them. Some standardization for controls is a good thing and although physical controls can vary, they're usually enough alike to easily figure them out. That's not going to happen with a touch screen.