At this point I'm just happy my family have tolerated it to the point we're not using Facebook Messenger, Google chat (it whatever it's called this month) and WhatsApp.
The xmpp or whatever other convoluted alternative you're about to recommend is not something I'm going to get 20 or 30 family and friends to switch to.
Signal is imperfect... But not as bad as many other options.
Absolutely I've already learnt it, and I don't intend to stuff around translating. At first it's one thing, maybe not cumbersome but then many things become a hassle.
Master and slave are not in and of themselves offensive words. You just assign offence to them, based on certain specific context, again proving my point.
Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you'd have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.
It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect.
Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.
It was only beyond gig that you'd need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don't do it).
Efficiency at less than 20% and greater than 80% loads isn't great relative to in between those ends.
This is compounded by lower wattage PSUs being more limited with regard to features and benefits.
If you end up with a 650w PSU and your system idles at 80 watts for the bulk of a working day you spend long periods of time in this less efficient window.
We need to see some quality 300w to 600w designs come back onto the market.
I know where you're coming from, I use a closed notebook with external display sometimes.
I might need to be more specific.
If the notebook is used as a typical notebook, and one closes it with the intent of putting it to sleep, once sleep has been reached an external mouse should not wake it.
However if you do toggle the power settings to allow the machine to function with the lid closed and/or machine docked then you do want to mouse to wake it keep awake the machine.
One had some shit in the background the prevented standby.
Other was so simple it pissed me off....
.. the damn mouse jostling around in the laptop bag was walking it up.
I'm still going to point the finger at windows because 1) there should be a better tool for identifying what is keeping a system awake and 2) should be default for a mouse to not wake a portable machine who's lid is shut.
While us nerds can work out problems and use a terminal, it doesn't mean we're happy to spend our time trouble shooting instead of actually getting shit done.
And the fact that so many of these basic issues should exist in the first place leaves one with the sour taste that they have to hold the OS's hand forever.
I'm a few years younger, and have also started down the road to be assessed.
Your post resonated strongly with me.
Just normal life feels harder than things should be, but the Aussie attitude for blokes is "she'll be right mate, stop being lazy and don't be such a pansy"
I fight really fucking hard to try to keep my shit together and be 'normal' and I'm tired.
Even then you'd still want 100% with encoding running at a lower priority.