Are they still doing that thing where OEMs pay licenses based on units sold regardless of OS? So even if you want Linux, they still have to pay for windows?

5 was terrible. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.

I did that years ago, and they said basically “never”. Then a couple years later all of a sudden, there it was.

pirated

It’s not pirating if you own a physical copy like DVD or Blu-ray, it’s fair use. Fuck the studios for trying to take that away from us.

Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.

Noted. When I develop an essential piece of software, I will name it George.

Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.

That’s people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.

Fahrenheit makes more sense for human experience… 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to what can be survived for a significant amount of time. Below freezing you can survive without shelter as long as you’re dressed for it, but as you approach zero it gets a lot harder, you really need shelter and heat at that point. Same with above 100… 117 won’t kill you right away, but without some sort of man-made cooling device, you’ll be wishing it would. I say this having lived both extremes, mountains of Colorado in winter, and Phoenix in summer… Honestly, given the choice between 115 and -15, I’d rather have the cold.

Base twelve would be great if we went all-in, as in new symbols for single digit representation of ten and eleven, then 10 would mean twelve. Having a base that’s divisible by several primes is handy.

Then how to differentiate from 2x6? 2x8?

Planing. Planning wood is very different.

When you build a wood house, how far apart are the studs? I once tried to hang a shelf made by/for the European market, it had predrilled holes that were far enough apart that I could almost hit two studs, but not quite.

We see it as sticking to what we’re used to… As conservative as we are overall, is it really that surprising?

Same in US…

This isn’t some intrinsic value. What you’re used to makes the most sense. If you were used to measuring people’s height in meters, 1.3 meters vs 2 meters would paint just as vivid a picture.

that would be haggling over definitions, rather than facts.

I find this true about most arguments…

Then they’ll make you get a keyboard subscription…

“Stuck with”? I find open source alternatives far less infuriating to work with than anything Microsoft produces.

What’s the Lemmy equivalent of /r/hailcorporate?