Let’s be real here.

The entire point of what GE and others similar are doing is to force customers into connecting their devices and creating online accounts to slurp data, when those customers would ordinarily feel no desire to - because it’s an oven and they just want to do oven things, not get online.

GE know this, and so they need to come up with ways to force it.

Regardless of what weasly PR words they may spout, the truth is they DESIGNED the feature specifically and intentionally from the start to be stuck behind an Internet registration gate to force you to comply and go online.

So there’s no point talking about what GE easily could have done, or what the cost for a USB slot is. They wouldn’t have put a USB on there even if it was literally free, because that would let you avoid their ecosystem and that is the one thing they Absolutely Do Not Want.

The conversation to have is about how we don’t buy any products from companies that do this.

The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS

It’s an office though - not as if one person is sitting on all that RAM.

I agree.

See you there 🙂 <- slightly fake or sarcastic

See you there 😀 <- TOO excited

See you there :) <- Natural, relaxed, and just right

The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.

I’ve encountered a pretty annoying thing on Linux several times.

When copying a large file to a flash drive the transfer appears to complete very quickly, yet if you eject and remove the drive (which the graphical file manager will happily do without complaint) then on taking the flash drive where it needs to go you’ll find your file is frustratingly corrupt.

This happens because the write to the disk is cached in memory, and the file manager is apparently unaware of this cache.

You can avoid this by opening a terminal and executing the command ‘sync’ - this will ensure all cached file writes for all disks are fully written. When the command exits (which may be immediately or may take some minutes) the USB write is definitely done, and you can safely unmount it.

Not sure if this behaviour is distro-dependant in any way, or if other file managers deal with it better, but it’s definitely one of only a few times in modern Linux where I’ve had such an unintuitive experience and was super disappointed it didn’t do better. Normally if I shoot myself in the foot it was at least clearly my fault!

From the user perspective, if I copy the file and then ‘safely’ eject the disk and it lets me, I’ve done everything properly, right?

Non-technical users must get caught by this all the time, with the difference being that they can’t figure out why it is happening, or what they should do to prevent it.

At what point does a twig become a stick? Are all twigs also sticks?

I feel like the difference between twig and stick must be not intrinsic to the stick, but a property of the observer. To a bird, a twig is already a stick, and to a giant, that which we call a stick is surely nothing but a mere twig.

Please name it and provide some information so we can check it out.

You shoud definitely build it soon, even if just to test it.

If you don’t, it will invariably be your bad luck that a component doesn’t work and you are then past the return window…

The way I interpret it, Chihiro’s parents wouldn’t ordinarily act like that and did so only because the food (which we later know to be cursed) existed specifically to be a trap, and so had some magical lure on it that made it even more seductive and impossible to resist - like how siren song draws sailors to their deaths, even against their better judgement.

Indeed, her parents acting out of character is at least part of why Chihiro is uncomfortable with the situation.

wet_irl

There is no way the Crucial brand was not profitable.

They aren’t leaving an unprofitable brand, rather they are killing a profitable brand in order to pump its resources into an even more profitable b2b segment.

That’s why people are annoyed. Micron didn’t have to leave the market at all, but they are doing, because they are greedy.

On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.

Like, yes and no.

For people who are somewhat familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is certainty recognised as being about as mainstream as any distro is able to be, and a safe haven for Linux noobs for decades.

In recent years however it’s Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro for people fleeing the evils of Windows, ramping up especially with the discontinuation of Windows 10.

So right now, Mint might be more of a beginner distro than even Ubuntu.

I don’t think there’s any pride in it, they are just going after what is the most profitable at any given time.

That’s exactly why I suspect they will choose to resurrect the Crucial name later, because given a choice between launching a new name nobody knows, or a name people recognise (even if it’s been tarred a bit) then recognised will be the winning and more profitable option.

That is, if they haven’t sold the Crucial name to someone else first.

Probably just the same brand, honestly?

News two years from now: “Crucial back in business”

It doesn’t make as much sense, to me.

Like sure - they could design a Linux phone with their own polished UI, and Proton so it can run Steam games natively, and that would be super cool! But what about the apps?

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that for most people out there a phone is all about apps - in fact, completely synonymous with apps - and the sad truth is that Android and iOS have an absolute stranglehold on the app market.

There have been (and still are) efforts to develop Linux phones, but they are generally seen as rough experiments which for most people require far too much compromise - with one of the most significant compromises being that you give up all your apps.

Valve’s recent hardware successes haven’t come from making experiments for dedicated nerds, but from making polished hardware devices that you can put in the hands of a consumer and just work, and do everything they expect. That’s the strategy.

Now don’t get me wrong - I’d love to see a big-hitter like Valve with some financial clout try to make a phone. But this is an arena where even Microsoft failed, and heavens knows how much money they poured into phones before pulling the plug.

I’d love it, but I don’t think it aligns at all with Valve’s strategy, and I don’t expect to see it.

And yet ‘ship’ is masculine in French, despite even in genderless English being referred to by sailors throughout history as a ‘she’

Could be!

Deciphered:

Fast drying, and writes on any smooth surface without running. Replace the cap tightly after use.