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No-one who buys a PC with windows preinstalled gets any choice at all… and had the preinstalled malware cme with it.
No-one who buys a PC with windows preinstalled gets any choice at all… and had the preinstalled malware cme with it.
Ali I see is a “pretty butterfly”
DFQOH
I can’t work out what this an acronym for. Please help!
Yes it is. Pick a newbie friendly distribution. Say Ubuntu.
IMHO Windows is only “user friendly” because it’s preinstalled on most PC’s.
User friendliness comes with experience.
Amazing. I get there’s some atlassian bullshittery behind that.
There’s also a draw.io (diagrams.net) plugin for intellij and probably eclipse.
I love it when actual experts chime in! Especially when it improves my understanding.
My source was me: working in my country’s equivalent to the BBC, just not specifically in the studio part. So, kind of second hand, slightly corrupted, fun facts gleamed from colleagues.
Yeah, just a mis-read or typo of the word is by far the simplest explanation.
Teleprompters are also phonetic. So some words are mangled to be pronounced quickly.
It’s entirely likely that what he actually read of the promoter was something like “PAN-TEES” which only “groks” once said aloud (reading and speaking are quite separate parts of the brain BTW).
Edit: it means that news readers are just inefficient text-to-speech systems implemented in wetware.
I’ve used coreos happily on homelab bare metal.
PXE booting it with cloudinit/ignition automation for provisioning.
It’s make for an excellent VPS.
They’re actually great for wading at the beach.
Near where I live is a shallow (waist deep) bay with a rocky sandy bottom: barefoot not advised. There’re great for walking out into the shallows and helping the kids in kayaks or whatever.
Or gardening.
Came here to gripe about exactly this.
Ah yes, our beloved right wing government kissing the USA’s boots.
I made myself sad writing that.
Cut it in half and avoid the spec violating abomination.
You’d probably be able to remove the cooler’s non-compliant a-port and just solder the cable directly.
Then at least it’ll be less of an abomination.
adequate: of a quality that is acceptable but not better than acceptable
The default theme is also adequate for my needs. I don’t even change the wallpaper from the default.
Themes apparently require better than “adequate”.
GNOME is entirely adequate for my professional needs, which is… entirely adequate.
;-)
They do!
See their Era, Mood, Ridge, Terra cases.
It was literally the tag line for Windows 98 I think!
The gag was that it just (barely) works.