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MS Word is not a typesetting program. It is a wysiwyg graphics program - a very different beast.

Company with largest stock valuation

=/=

Most valuable company

Fuck 'em

That’s just FUD.

Test it under Wine. If it’s working, you’re good to go. Wine can’t make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn’t.

I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

(note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)

I’ve struggled to find an epithet for MS that would really sum up my anger in a single epic childish insult. Problem is, they already surpassed anything I could come up with.

They are tiny and flaccid, and no one should pay them any mind.

In fact, if you want me to create an account on your servers, you are first required to register your OS on my own website.

I love this sooo much!

When a post is a link to an article, I would prefer that the post title match the article. Many news communities actually require that.

Wisconsin already blocks access to all goverment websites if you use a VPN. I can’t even check the garbage collection schedule for my town. I always thought it was this misguided concept that they thought only “hackers” would want to be anonymous. It seems they are really working for the data brokers, who don’t want anyone to be anonymous.

The pause in Calyx updates has nothing to do with Google’s fuckery, and they are not “dying.” They lost a major lead developer and decided they needed to restructure so no one would be so essential going forward.

I could have stated it better. What I meant was that the fraction of kinetic energy that is taken from the wind is so small that the total kinetic energy in the wind is probably not the important factor that changes with wind speed. The dynamics of how the lift depends on wind speed is probably much more important.

We don’t directly harvest the kinetic energy. That increase probably has to do with how the wind provides lift to the blades. Of course, you couldn’t keep increasing like that until the harvested energy is greater than the kinetic energy. But I’m sure at any wind speed we only get a tiny fraction.

I would so love to have my phone and laptop run the same operating system. Would simplify so many things.

With Google attempting to further lockdown Android, the time is ripe for Linux Mobile. Projects like this can help make it a viable alternative.

Thank you so much to everyone working on this!

unfortunately imigration courts aren’t real courts. They are part of the executive branch, not judicial.

I identify strongly with the frustration in this sentiment.

But you do realise the US is the foremost nuclear power in the world? Right?

That’s why the world should have done anything and everything possible to keep US from falling into fascist hands. But now it’s too late.

ETA = Edit to add

Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.

McDonalds gets millions of applications? wtf?

ETA: Yeah, I guess they do.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/13/mcdonalds-hiring-surge/83595827007/

take the L and walk away.

I’m here having reasoned conversations with thoughtful people. I left the karma farming behind on reddit, and I don’t miss it. I can’t lose.

The word “see” predates the concepts of neurons, chemicals, and photons by thousands of years. We see objects, not light.

The word “see” predates any concept of rods or cones or photons by thousands of years. It has nothing to do with those things.