Vote with your dollar and go to Jellyfin, or even simpler, a folder with your media in it.

heating bills runs close to $800 a month

You are spending WAY too much per month on heat. Upgrade the insulation in your home and seal air leaks.

Also, do not use resistive heat. It is the most expensive heating solution by a wide margin.

The US has some of the cheapest energy in the civilized world. I’m not sure what to draw from that fact, but it is clear our energy system works pretty well for the end-user.

For a counterpoint, check out Germany’s expensive as fuck energy.

‘This is my hole’

Article also says a passport is fine.

Yeah, forwarding a port to a server with SFTP allows you both to have two-way links. Have done this with some of my friends as well.

Sneakernet via a HDD is also damn helpful for initial bulk transfers.

That’s great to hear!

What’s crazy is he could instead put a ton of support behind Ukraine and achieve many of the same results, but with much more popularity.

Yeah, some people get really defensive when you suggest they can get all the things they are asking for, and all they have to do is stop giving money to user-hostile developers. And saying kernel-level anti-cheat is hostile to the user is a massive understatement. Why would you defend Saudi Arabia having kernel-level access to your computer just to play a game? (It’s crazy that that statement isn’t a joke!)

I understand if someone decides not to take the suggestion, but it is still a reasonable suggestion to make.

and now they are saying they will never upgrade from 10 to 11

The stats show people are committing this time. English speakers are jumping ship at historically unprecedented rates. Steam stats

the old-style devices and printers menu is still in the OS, you just have to dig for it a bit, and it works 1000x better.

For the last 13 years this has been the most infuriating part of the incomplete control panel migration. I find myself struggling to use the new settings, and having to then resort to digging for the old ones that actually have the option I need.

Win 11 finally pushed me over the edge with ads and spying. But I still have to deal with Windows at work.

LibreOffice is good. While people don’t like learning new things, I found it does everything I could want.

I actually switched years ago because I didn’t want to pay for MS Office.

Have you seen any traction with Framework in the corporate space? They are mostly marketed at individuals, but since you specifically mention people wanting higher quality machines, Framework fits the bill.

It was possible to skip Vista and go straight from XP to 7. You could even use the same PC.

It was possible to skip 8 and go straight from 7 to 10. You could even use the same PC.

This time around, Microsoft is forcing Windows 11 as the only option, forcing people to throw away their machines, and it is backfiring on them. People are rejecting it and the competition (Linux) has never been as good as it is today.

The comment was UP TO 40%.

And that comment is incorrect. Unless we are going with Comcast’s ‘up to 1000mbps’ numbers.

Various studies range from 2 to 40%.

No, they don’t range to 40%, and I detailed why. Don’t repeat 40%, it’s demonstrably false.

That is a wild statistic!

It’s a demonstrably inaccurate number. The study was vague enough that yelling at a partner was included, and much more damning they included the officer even if they were the victim in the situation. It literally paints the victims as domestic abusers!

“40% of law enforcement self identify as domestic abusers” is demonstrably false and is not something that should be repeated.

At no point didn’t anyone ever say that it was “criminally worse” it has the same sentence

The article very explicitly says exactly that. Murdering someone due to their sex is very explicitly treated differently now, depending on the sex of the victim.

If someone murdered a male due to their sex, would you treat that any differently than someone murdering a female due to their sex?

Then we wrap back around to the start.

Correct. Murdering a male should be just as illegal as murdering a female.

How is it sexist?

Murdering someone due to their sex is not illegal under this law, if the victim is a male. Murdering a male due to their sex should be no less illegal.

If someone murdered a male due to their sex, would you treat that any differently than someone murdering a female due to their sex?