It's the same amount of effort to install Linux and never have to question who the owner of your computer is again.

> It's the same amount of effort to install Linux and never have to question who the owner of your computer is again.

In many ways, Linux is a complete paradigm change away from what is familiar and known in Windows, requiring a complete re-training from top to bottom.

Modifying the OOBE to bypass Microsoft Account requirement and permit a local account is a pebble in the road compared to the alpine pass that is switching to Linux.

And just installing Linux isn’t the issue. Learning from scratch an entire OS that behaves and is structurally very differently than Windows, and requires hundreds of hours to get equally as comfortable and knowledgeable in, is the issue.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux. But to say it’s “the same amount” is deeply disingenuous and borderline anti-reality.

They didn't say listening to audiobooks was bad (unless they edited their comment), just that it's a different activity than reading.

I think that's a reasonable point - is there anyone doing "State of My Framework" reports? It's hard to know how true their claim of timelessness through upgrades and repairs is without that.

Relevant to "I'm returning my Framework Laptop" from a day or two ago (500+ comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375174

I think the Framework model (OTC/commodity parts + mainboard) is neat, but what Beelink and others in the MiniPC space are doing is much more useful and compelling for someone who needs a modern, extensible system.

My work doesn't require a lot of local compute (or repairs), so there's nothing really a Framework offers that I'm not already getting on a 5 year old $150 4GB Chromebook.

What is beelink doing?

There's a short story with a similar plot from "Valuable Humans in Transit" by qntm.

It’s still up on his website as well: https://qntm.org/perso

Somehow, continuing the trend, this will affect none of the people responsible and only harm Millennials.

It's a protection for the faculty and students.

If you fail someone who rarely attended class, and they claim that they did, asked you for support, and never received it, how might you defend yourself?

If you have an excellent student who encounters a hardship, how might you petition for leniency to allow them to drop without penalty beyond a cutoff, or delay submitting final grades until they can complete makeup work?

The 'blank in the firing squad' technique of snacking is a pretty typical girl thing.

Eating cookies? Perfectly fine. Eating an entire bag of cookies? Gross. Unthinkable.

But how many cookies is really fine to eat? The safest best is not to know, either by breaking them into uncountable pieces or leaving some in the bag for someone else to finish (meaning, you ate less than a bag of cookies and are safe).

Additional anecdata, and also a woman:

I do this for any or all of the following reasons:

* (culture) it is polite to leave something for the next person

* (I have roommates) I don't want to be the last person who finished something. I would be obliged to replace it.

For the typical girl thing, I haven't seen this behavior in real life with my family members or friends. I have heard of the concept on social media.

I do this, but it's not really about if it's "gross" to eat a whole bag or not. I don't feel like doing that anyway. It's mostly that if you share food, I think it's considerate to leave one if there's more than one left. Someone else might be having a really bad day, but a small consolation could be that they didn't get home to discover there aren't any cookies left.

I do it to avoid being blamed, I don't know what you're on about. I've never cared that much about the semantics of how many cookies I ate (then again, I'm on hacker news so I might not be the best representation of the female populace)

I tend to do the cookie baking, so it'd be a little silly for me to be mad over someone eating them.

And for what it's worth, no one deserves blame for their cookie habits.

Gotta maintain that figure if you ever wanna escape poverty. Reba McEntire wrote a whole song about it.

(joking, but not nearly as much as I wish I was)

I'd much rather not have every part of my society for sale to someone with infinitely deeper pockets.

We're not the customers of healthcare, insurance, mortgages, etc. The planet's wealthiest pensioners are. No difference in comp is going to make that work out best for you.

Also, the existence of Cadillac plans implies that someone in our government doesn't believe the population at large should be receiving world-class care. It's like when Senator Biden had two cranial aneurysms, had top surgeons flown in on taxpayer dime, then fought against universal healthcare.

We're all already paying for the best healthcare in the world, just not for us.

GCC was a psyop to destabilize the private compiler industry.

-Someone, surely