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Australis13 ,

CLearly getting in the week's supply of cuddles.

Australis13 ,

Really glad to hear that - sounds like you have found a good vet. They are worth their weight in gold!

Australis13 ,

So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don't.

Australis13 ,

The next step is doing what I did - get a second office chair. One for you, one for the cat.

Australis13 ,

I have actually encountered those sort of potential differences between ground planes. They can indeed wreak havoc under the right circumstances.

Australis13 ,

Indeed! Covers most of the instances where I would otherwise have to use find.

Australis13 ,

I think this person may be mentally ill.

Australis13 ,

Honestly, the third sentence where they're talking about being protected. The third paragraph where they're talking about "unleashing power" definitely confirmed it, though.

I don't consider sovcits to be mentally ill by default (unless you consider narcissism to be a mental illness), so the opening sentences didn't sound particularly unhinged.

Australis13 ,

That's great news! Glad to see he is healing and is more active - definitely indicates he's feeling better.

Australis13 ,

Calling them adult infants is being too generous. They're narcissists.

Australis13 ,

I just gave up and got a new desk chair.

Australis13 ,

He knows he's on a good wicket.

Australis13 ,

And you wonder why they're so against education. Even learning about other societal structures is clearly bad! /s

Australis13 ,

I am glad Blue has been treated. Hopefully his wounds will heal properly.

I agree with another comment suggesting you get the details of the dental surgery in writing. They should also be able to tell you the urgency of the situation. I'm sorry to hear that the costs are so high and wish I could assist more. My wife suggested asking if the vet clinic can do a payment plan.

My final thought was that if your "dad" really doesn't care about the cat and is just using Blue to get attention (perhaps he hopes something will happen to him so he can go "Woe is me! Somebody killed my cat!"), then it might be best if you are able to rehome him. He seems like a lovely-natured cat and you clearly care about him a lot; if your "dad" is going to deliberately harm him (or allow him to be harmed), though, Blue may be safer in a new home. I hate suggesting lying, but since Blue has already been attacked you could arrange for him to get outside and "disappear" if you need a way to avoid your "dad" finding out you rehomed "his" cat.

Australis13 ,

I can't decide whether to laugh or cry.

Australis13 ,

I was already dubious about upgrading from 10 to 11 and this is final straw. I will have to look at Linux options and see if my Windows-only programs will run effectively under WINE.

Australis13 ,

Thanks, will do!

Australis13 ,

Good to know. I don't play many games, but do have some older ones from GoG that would be nice to keep.

Australis13 ,

Because I haven't yet updated from Windows 10 to 11 and had been putting it off. In the past week, though, I have seen a number of news articles highlighting issues I am going to have with Windows 11 and this particular article, indicating that they have been effectively leaving systems vulnerable simply because they have applications they don't like installed is just not good enough. I'd understand it if they were saying "we can't guarantee your OS stability with these apps" or "we can't guarantee these apps will work anymore" if they were removing older API support, but this is ridiculous.

Australis13 ,

Turns out one of the video-editing programs I use (VideoRedo) has shut down anyway (I think the owner passed away) and so I'll need to look for an alternative anyway - I don't think I can activate it on new machines anymore.

The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans (gizmodo.com)

The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...

Australis13 ,

Given how bad the show's writing has been for years and the declining in viewership in the Chibnell era, I'm actually surprised the BBC actually reversed course for once.

Australis13 ,

Cats' body language is often more subtle or more complicated than dogs. It's no surprise that the average person gets it wrong. It takes time and close observation to learn an individual cat's signals.

Australis13 ,

Definitely! One of ours has gotten more vocal as she has worked out she can "ask" for different things.

Australis13 ,

I felt that. I have a colleague whose coding style is different to mine and whenever they work on code that I originally wrote, I have to resist the temptation to modify things to camelCase.

Australis13 ,

Some linters can do both. Getting one set up as an automated job whenever code is pushed to the repo is on my TODO list...

Australis13 ,

I think it's just that we're possessive/protective of "our" code, even more so if one is passionate about programming. We've put a lot of effort into it, then somebody else comes along and "ruins" our "perfect" (to our eyes) formatting/styling!

Australis13 ,

Very likely to be the physical force applied by the headphones, depending on how they are worn. I cannot use certain designs because they become uncomfortable even if only worn for short periods.

Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says (www.seattletimes.com)

Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says::The piece that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet this month was removed and re-installed improperly by Boeing mechanics in Renton, according to a person familiar with the details of…

Australis13 ,

Thanks for that. A very interesting read; I am inclined to believe the author, given how they describe the failure of processes.

Australis13 ,

The browser addon "AdNauseum" can help with that, although it's not a complete solution.

Australis13 ,

Indeed. I'd hardly classify this as going "rogue"; rather, inadequate guard rails in place for this application.

Australis13 ,

Ugh. If I need to collaborate with my colleagues, I'll visit their office; I don't need (or want) to hear every phone call they make or their music escaping their headphones.

I cannot stress enough how much I hate open plan offices and am so glad I do not work in one.

Australis13 ,

Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.

Australis13 ,

That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you're correct - surely there are checks for exit door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.

Australis13 ,

This whole mess regularly frustrates me... why the units can't be used consistently?!

The other peeve of mine with this debacle is that drive capacities using SI units do not use the full available address space (since it's binary). Is the difference between 250GB and 256GiB really used effectively for wear-levelling (which only applies to SSDs) or spare sectors?

Australis13 ,

Of course. The thing is, though, that if the units had been consistent to begin with, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much confusion. Most people would just accept MiB, GiB, etc. as the units on their storage devices. People already accept weird values for DVDs (~4.37GiB / 4.7GB), so if we had to use SI units then a 256GiB drive could be marketed as a ~275GB drive (obviously with the non-rounded value in the fine print, e.g. "Usable space approx. 274.8GB").

Australis13 ,

Huh? What does how a drive size is measured affect the available address space used at all? Drives are broken up into blocks, and each block is addressable.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear. You're right that the units don't affect how the address space is used. My peeve is that because of marketing targeting nice round numbers, you end up with (for example) a 250GB drive that does not use the full address space available (since you necessarily have to address to up 256GiB). If the units had been consistent from the get-go, then I suspect the average drive would have just a bit more usable space available by default.

My comment re wear-levelling was more to suggest that I didn't think the unused address space (in my example of 250GB vs 256GiB) could be excused by saying it was taken up by spare sectors.

Australis13 ,

This is why you never let them realise human food tastes good.

Australis13 ,

Yep, as Jellico in 'Chain of Command'.

I am tired of corporatist technology and I need help to get away from it.

I am a phone scroller and social media reader and a YouTube watcher. My phone and by extension my Google account are my mobile office. I regret having to buy an Apple Mac Mini but I am not giving up Logic as my DAW. I got away from overpriced Samsung devices a few years ago and have a fairly bloat-free Motorola. Now I want to...

Australis13 ,

I second the suggestion of RSS feeds (I use TheOldReader) and DuckDuckGo as search engine replacement.

Also, Mozilla's Pocket is a useful tool for collecting articles (and having related ones recommended to you).

Australis13 ,

Stargates dematerialise travellers too.

https://stargate-sgc.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate

Australis13 ,

I needed that laugh. Thankyou!

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