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Serious question: what if I am, and have no idea how to prep for it?

My pension and other things are tied up in stocks and such, if there’s a crash coming I’d think cash under the pillow would be better than stocks. But how do you do that, with your pension?

Didn’t think one was needed.

It does need to be Internet connected. It’s critical for patching remote exploit vulnerabilities…

I don’t know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I’ve used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.

For UI like menus and such, I’m quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.

Agreed on your last point. That’s when programs still had proper tool bars and keyboards shortcuts, before the “ribbon” shit started to fuck over everyone’s muscle memory.

It would have made sense for MS to start with “finger painting UI” and then work towards the power user UI - but the other way round makes zero sense to my poor brain.

The digital national ID is not corporate or government snooping. If you believe it is, I don’t think this conversation can continue. What it is, is what’s needed to log into your doctors system to schedule an appointment, or the schools system to read updates about your kids, or to log into your online banking. All of that, and more, in my country, is using the same ID system, which won’t work on a rooted android phone (at least, I haven’t been able to make it work for the past 3-4 major versions).

Yes but do they support the digital national ID and SSO apps that are (only) avaliable for android and apple? Until they do, a lot of users are going to be locked into those two big OS vendors. 😞

That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.

What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?

I have commented stuff like this before, and gotten it deleted (or gotten summarily banned). I have been searching for spaces where this sort of discourse is even allowed, where non-vagina-havers get to say that many men suck but it’s not only their fault and they certainly can’t fix it in a vacuum.

What mates you think I was overkill to replace a ceo?

🙂 Thank you for bringing up a fun memory.

My sincere apologies, Mexico is definitely on the good list.

…and simply agrees to never, ever, set foot in North America.

I’m in.

Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America, Mexico, and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours to The Wastelands.

That was one of Law’s finer appearances, oddly.

flicks neck, music starts playing

… Like what is not a very common skill? Touch typing in general? Or doing it under VR specifically?

• The latter would be quite niche I suppose.
• The former? I cry for the current and future generations. It really is not very hard to learn, realistic to master, and incredibly useful in daily (professional and personal) life.

Asking because I’ve never had the experience: how does one write anything while wearing a VR set? Please don’t tell me it’s one-finger “Fliegender Adler” on a giant floaty image of a keyboard?

This would utterly kill the comfort, convenience, and speed of touch typing, would it not? Ahh, progress… Even in Minority Report they had (friggin’ sweet-looking!) keyboards alongside their fancy futuristic FAUI*.

^((* FAUI - flailing arms UI))

New fear worry unlocked…

Seems like this was done by working out passwords based on figuring out where people were looking and gesturing, rather than looking directly at the keyboard.

As a person using an uncommon keyboard layout, I reckon this would make it harder to hack my typing.

IF I could even get such a layout on wherever VR system I would theoretically be using… 😬

You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It’s foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.

The way your comment reads, you’ve been using Windows 3.11 these past decades. 😂

Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

…which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.

A lot of ATM cash machines run Windows 7. Yes, still.