BombOmOm @ BombOmOm @lemmy.world

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Yeah, I'm not sure why anybody is mentioning Windows IoT. When you lookup where to buy this, Microsoft themselves tell you to call or email a salesman; it's an enterprise-only thing. Recommending this for individuals is misguided.

I know when you install Mint there is a 'install codecs' checkbox during the installer, not sure if the same exists for Ubuntu.

For Ubuntu, you could try this and see if it solves your problem.

Two of my friends switched recently precisely because Win 10 was going end of life. 'I have to change the OS anyway' was the final motivator.

intimidating complexity of installing Wine

I would give that a shot. The full guide is install 'wine' and 'winetricks' the same way you install any other software you use. Then in winetricks, select 'default prefix', then 'run arbitrary executable', and point it to your .exe installer. After that, you just open the program like any other program on your system.

You generally don't need to do more than that and might let you forgo ever dual booting again.

Microsoft already lost enterprise servers to Linux, and has lost significant ground over the years in consumer PCs to ChromeOS, MacOS, and Linux. Hell, the top PC gaming handheld is a Linux offering. That was an unheard of idea just five years ago.

While I agree that business laptops will continue to be dominated by Windows for awhile, the market shifts we see everywhere have downstream effects on business laptops too. When you find yourself having to train more and more people on how to use Windows than you did in the past, the value argument for Windows on your employee's laptops quickly comes into question.

If you debate people and onlookers find themselves agreeing more with the other guy than they were at the start, the answer is to re-evaluate your arguments. When you go to social shaming, while you may get people to shut up, you also solidify those people against you. You blocked off the mechanism for those onlookers to have their mind changed and created resentment for the social cost you impose on them.

Isn't it weird how when you talk to someone online they generally won't go against the grain, yet Trump now won a second term? And not only that, but he won the popular vote this time around with 14,317,752 more votes than he got the first time around.

That is what social shaming does. Instead of trying to convince people, you force them against you.

Single sink makes cleaning pans so much easier. Everything smaller goes in the dish washer, so much faster than hand cleaning.

Do they want to lose half their navy in a day, again?

For those who want to watch a great animated video on the event: Operation Praying Mantis

race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning

Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids, thus kids have much the same traits as their parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?

This really isn't the argument we should be latching onto.

tell them race isnt real

This is the shit I was responding too. And rhetoric like that is painfully contrary to even elementary biology. If the best response to OP's question is a demonstrably false statement like 'race isn't real', well, that's a very sad state of affairs.

doesn’t make much sense to group them so roughly

Just as I wouldn't generally find it necessary to group people by eye color, the fact remains eye color is real. Same for other genetically determined things like race.

tell them race isnt real

Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two asians have a baby, you get an asian baby.

Regardless of culture/ethnicity: two slavs have a baby, you get a salvic baby.

Race is most certainly real.

That sounds like the connection itself to that row somehow got fucked up. A flame probably isn't going to fix that.

You can put a flame to a screen for a few seconds and they are usually fine. But really, you should be looking into a screen repair or a new/used phone.

Iran has multiple enrichment sites, with a reported 83.7% pure U-235. Such purity is only needed for one thing, and it isn't nuclear power plants which typically only need 3%-5% U-235.

It’s actually a specially made glass that is thin and flexible

The foldable screens scratch at a Mohs hardness level of 2. Glass doesn't scratch until 6.

• Pixel Fold
• Galaxy ZFold 4

Advantages:

• The screen is protected when the phone is closed
• It allows for a larger screen while maintaining portability

Disadvantages:

• The screen is plastic, instead of glass. Meaning it is very easy to scratch
• The screen has a hump where the hinge is
• The hinge can get dirt in it, at which point you start developing lots of problems
• They are very expensive

I personally buy mid-budget phones, which means these aren't even a consideration. But, I probably wouldn't buy one even at the same price due to the plastic screens being very easy to scratch and a larger screen not having much value for me. But, really it's up to you what you value in your phone.

The international response would be much stronger if Iran did something like that. Much like chemical weapons, actually employing such tools brings on unwanted responses.

Lots of updates, videos, and pictures in the article.

Why the hell would we need AI summaries of a wikipedia article? The top of the article is explicitly the summary of the rest of the article.

No. But much like an erratic hobo with an unfolded knife, I have zero desire to allow them the ability to attack anybody.

The Baltics are part of NATO because they didn't want to be part of the failed Soviet Union or the modern Russian Federation. And with Russia invading Ukraine, twice now, it isn't very hard to see why.

Get fucked Russia.