It comes across as trying to dissuade people from using their legally guaranteed sick time, though, which makes things iffy.

Yeah. That kind of behavior is super inappropriate and doesn't sound legal in Germany.

When I just tried to see if I could fix the issue it was no longer there. Apparently the Satisfactory 1.0.3 update silently fixed it. Nice.

It is for me. I already wasn't hot about Windows 11 and this year I went full Linux.

Has it been without problems? No, although most of my problems stem from dealing with the Windows partition I still keep on my desktop just in case. (Protip: Use NTFS-3G instead of NTFS3; the latter is horribly unstable.) Getting PipeWire to run my Bluetooth headphones on 44100 Hz to avoid crackling in Windows games was a bit arcane, admittedly.

On the upside, KDE looks nice with the default Breeze theme (I think that windows 10 and 11 are butt-ugly). My computers feel noticeably snappier and especially the networking stack blows Windows out of the water. KDE Connect makes sharing data between my devices comfortable. All games I've tried so far run well, with the biggest issue so far being that in Satisfactory I can't copy/paste settings between buildings.

I'm happy. There are still some areas that need work but it's pretty damn good already.

Right. Should've worn proper protective gear. Hard hat, headlamp, laboratory goggles, chemical-resistant waders, heat-resistant gloves, ESD strap, respirator, bomb suit, hi-viz vest. You know, the bare minimum to move a box.

My reaction exactly. I studied there as well. Lise Meitner may be underappreciated but at least someone made sure she's not forgotten.

True. Just this weekend I spent far too much time trying to get a printer to work again on Windows after its IP address got changed. In the end Windows refused to talk to the printer unless I removed and then readded the device from the Settings app, which prompted a reinstallation of the device driver. No, just changing the IP address in the device settings wasn't enough; Windows insisted on the driver being reinstalled.

Linux didn't need reconfiguration; it just autodetected that the printer had moved.

I'm not saying that Linux is without issues, not by far. But Windows has never been terribly "it just works" for me either. The closest to "it just works" was (aptly) OS X somewhere around Snow Leopard.

You forgot the degaussing sound for those screens that had that feature. Like turning them on but louder.

*KLONK*

I think Matrix 4 was specifically made to bury the franchise. It goes out of its way to make fun of its own existence and couldn't be more obviously a lame rehash of the first one. And as a franchise killer I can respect it.

Bonus points for not turning your parents' backyard into a Superfund site.

That's what happens when you comment right before going to bed...

I want clarifying as most as I was making fun of the LLM in the picture, which did put "an eighth season would've been too expensive" as a reason for the almost-cancellation after season three. That might've been a reason to cancel in the end but not then.

The show was almost canceled after the third season because an eighth season would've been too expensive. Better cancel five seasons sooner, then.

You'd need to fork if you decided that you don't like the direction an engine is moving towards. Other than that there's no real reason.

You could technically fork Blink but the question is whether you have the resources to keep up with web standards. The Web is effectively the universal UI toolkit these days and the pace of development reflects that.

Hurd?

Modern ANC is impressive.

When I'm on my bike I actually have less wind noise with my earbuds in than with my bare ears, which was a pretty odd feeling at first.

I also have a pair of over-ears, Sony XM5s, which have even better ANC. Used those while vacuuming and didn't hear the motor of the vacuum cleaner. I heard its wheels, though. Freaky.

Of course all of this is tied to the usual Bluetooth headphone drawbacks so YMMV.

On the other hand Bluetooth can crackle if the airwaves are too noisy, you have to spend more for the same audio quality (and it's still going to take a nosedive when calling someone because A2DP codecs like AAC or AptX aren't available in HSP mode), and the buds have limited batteries which makes them unreliable for long-term wear.

It's all about trade-offs and individual requirements. Of course these days you're pushed to get wireless ones because most phone manufacturers are too cheap to include a headphone jack.

Eh. I went for TWSes for my latest purchase because I wanted anti-wind ANC. I still have a wired pair (and one of those silly USB adapters) for long-term operation, though.

The TWS equivalent to that is one of the buds no longer turning on. I just had to RMA a pair because of that.

And I wouldn't know where to start using it. My problems are often of the "integrate two badly documented company-internal APIs" variety. LLMs can't do shit about that; they weren't trained for it.

They're nice for basic rote work but that's often not what you deal with in a mature codebase.