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  • Scaling, MacOS has no actual scaling it will only lower the resolution, and using Retina on anything that isn’t sold in an Apple store (and even then) just simply does not work. It essentially has no HiDPI support past using native resolution with slightly larger text that is not adhered to by most of the operating system itself. I am at a loss at why you think this is well handled, what criteria are you using?

  • I feel this is one of those few sectors, like wifi compatibility, where Windows completely destroys Linux, MacOS, and BSD. As someone who regularly switches between operating systems on bare metal & 4K, trying to use a HiDPI display on *nix is painful and will only kinda work with caveats after 100 hacks (as seen here), whereas Windows has a zoom slider that just works.

  • The real truth of what happens is substantially more complicated due to America being made of 50 states. The medical debt numbers are highly debatable (Related Snopes) and do not account for Regional differences. In some states such as New York there are catchalls/emergency funding so that usually anyone making below low six figures can get their bills paid. Other states make collections difficult such as New Jersey not allowing reporting to credit agencies, making ignoring a debt kind of a non-issue. Then there are states such as Florida that require the barest of insurance to keep rates low and provide no patient protections, so when an accident does occur out of pocket costs can be huge as your insurance covers nothing. In all these events the Hospital assumes that big pocket insurance is paying first so they break out the expensive menu, when they realize they can’t get blood from a stone they are grateful if you cover their wholesale price.

  • Op posted two links, the one in his comment is the original story. Below is the other link his comment refers to:

    https://apnews.com/article/woman-dead-baggage-entangled-chicago-ohare-80fe0d75d63c3b610e83c7f2da298c5f

    Updated 5:54 PM EDT, August 9, 2024

    CHICAGO (AP) — The dead woman who was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide, authorities said Friday.

    The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded following an autopsy that the 57-year-old woman died by asphyxiation from hanging.

    Firefighters responding to a 911 call found the woman’s body entangled in the belt around 7:45 a.m. Thursday in a baggage room near a terminal that serves international flights. 

    According to police, surveillance footage shows the woman entering the area around 2:27 a.m. Thursday, but it doesn’t show what happened to her. The room where the woman was found is off limits to the public.

    Police declined to comment further on the matter pending the outcome of an investigation. 

    Editor’s Note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.

  • The honest truth is you would have to be one of those in the woods off the grid types to actually protect yourself. For example, many utilities will require an SSN or SIN to credit check you along with obviously your name and service address. They obviously do not do that in house so they goto third parties (like the guys you mentioned) who keep troves of this information on file and swap information amongst themselves when beneficial. Considering that about half of the world’s adult age people may be in this list I would say there is more than a decent chance you are in this breach and probably have been part of others.

    Also this is just one attack vector, there always exist other methods such as just paying someone with “authorization” for your data, be it a credit agency through deceit, a private investigator who does no vetting, or just bribing a government official/police officer.

  • He was arrested in Houston en route to Dallas. Dallas/Ft-Worth Police were looking for him. By not waiting to arrest him in Dallas he now has to be extradited (most likely by car) from Houston to Dallas possibly with a hearing involved. Side note this obviously costs taxpayers substantially more money, and inconvenienced substantially way more people for a misdemeanor charge. There is either more to this story or it was overall a very poor choice not to wait a few hours.

  • Docx is the literal default format for Microsoft Word for almost 20 years now. PDF can be whatever, but if it is not what you were instructed to turn in, thats a failure no matter how close to your original intent it renders.

  • Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity has been tied to sea level and air pressure changes. So one leading theory is that climate changes will more likely than not cause more activity, however the last year has shown no such changes yet Source on last year activity