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Barbershop quartet singer, weight-loser, philosophy student of life

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My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.

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This appeared this week on our home Windows 10 machine as well for the one account that does not use a Microsoft account. It’s a new behavior.

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I’ve had one for a year. I print a lot, in color, and I’m impressed.

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ET-2800 does have a USB connection and linux drivers

I have the ET-2720 which I like but appears to have been discontinued.

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That’s why downvote buttons exist?

No (and not downvoted) … it’s about controlling visibility.

join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html

My take: Upvote the stuff other people should see. Downvote the stuff that should have never been here at all. You don’t have to agree or disagree, you can even have no opinion. But if you find it worthwhile to others, upvote it. Detrimental, downvote it.

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This is very upsetting to me–more as a point of principle than in fact–but I appreciate that it doesn’t bother younger generations at all.

I am in a support group with over 100 senior citizens in it. Getting a file with a *.rtf extension used to be a thing, but it hasn’t been a thing in years. I do get *.doc and *.docx files so they’re probably getting lured into Office like you said even before Wordpad is removed.

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All the Williams titles are pretty terrific. Pinball FX (Zen) has done a good job with these.

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This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

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A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven’s ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it’s fine.

Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

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In 2023? 😞

A funny The Cage production story from MAJEL BARRETT

Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day,...

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Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion (www.nytimes.com)

For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....

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trains and busses that actually work and get people where they need to go with minimal hassle and a reasonable cost

Trains predate cars and busses have always been with us since the car. People have voted – with their cars.

The Interstate Highway System started in the 1950s. Population has more than doubled since then. Of course, we have more traffic, we have more people!

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and it’s generally directly supported by rider fares instead of petitioning for government tax money.

Fares alone do not pay the bills. Buses are always subsidized (which is totally fine IMO. Every fine metro area has a good transit system, and it should be affordable to all who would want to use it.)

Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees (www.businessinsider.com)

Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.

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This is terrible reporting, emotional, practically yellow. Two academics are quoted. The article and headline tell you how you should feel about this. This should have never gotten past the editor’s desk.

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Nobody is forcing anybody – freedom is in the freedom to abstain, and all of us can abstain from working for an employer that demands RTO. There are plenty of remote jobs remote roles are possible, and the smaller the company, the better the job because you (as the individual among fewer) are valued. Big companies don’t care and don’t have to care.

It’s probably another fact missing from this article, but while larger companies are doing RTO, smaller companies are not. Larger companies are making a mistake here, most likely. They’ve got problems and are blaming remote work rather than innovating. Smaller companies are nimble.

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A new study by human resources and payroll services platform Gusto Inc. shows smaller companies that have embraced remote work cite higher performance, better employee retention and strong corporate culture built on a foundation of flexibility. As small companies compete with deep-pocketed giants for talent, those gains could provide an edge.

“SMBs are increasingly looking to extend the flexibility that their workforce enjoys,” said Gusto Economist Liz Wilke. “Not only to attract them, but to keep them less stressed, more able to manage their lives, and to build a culture and a team that works for them.”

Companies that started in the past three years are 31% remote and 46% hybrid for their workforces, far higher percentages than more-established companies. Only 22% of younger companies are fully in the office, according to Gusto. Overall, companies that were 100% on-site before the pandemic are split between hybrid work and being fully in the office, with 8% fully remote.

from: bizjournals.com/…/remote-work-small-business-succ… (paywalled, unfortunately)

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cook and sous chef

Mad respect from me. I can’t think of a more difficult job, you have to keep up, you have to juggle orders were some things are easy and some things are hard, you have to deal with the temperature and the standing and the moving. This is a tough, tough job!

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Barbershop quartet singing (ala The Barbershop Harmony Society). Instant friends and such satisfaction to hear yourself lending a note into four-part chords. (It’s the basis of my username.)

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The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

The USA hasn’t tried one recently.

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

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Working out with weights

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yet work more than any other time in history.

My impression is that we’re the most leisurely, per capita, than we’ve ever been. The average workweek now is 34 hours, down from 60-70 in the 1850s.

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The unemployment rates in the USA and Canada are both far below norms. These robots aren’t taking anyone’s irreplaceable job. Of all the things they are (ugly, intrusive, annoying), one of the things they’re not doing is driving up unemployment. At worst, someone has to change jobs.

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I would disagree about your average because it’s brought down by people working multiple jobs

No, as these are the numbers reported by worker’s themselves (Robert Whaples’s research) and not by their disparate employers. But looking at it as you suggested, it comes out to 34.3 hours.

Here are two more views on it:

ourworldindata.org/working-more-than-ever (world trends)

stlouisfed.org/…/working-hard-or-hardly-working-t… [dated]

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Unfortunately, I’m finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

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Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord

I can’t even verify if this was posted on their site.

  • Discord is currently up. It’s usually up.
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Relevant Article 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ – CNBC

M*A*S*H in space?

I know a strictly military-focused show goes against Roddenberry’s vision, but what are the chances that we could see some sort of war-focused Trek in the future? The scenes in “Under the Cloak of War” (SNW 2x08… yes I’m a few weeks behind) fascinated me. What would a MAS*H-style show look like in Trek? Could the show...

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One of Roddenberry’s first series was called The Lieutenant which aired on NBC for a season – until it was canceled due to a falling out between the Marines and the network over a race-based episode that nobody wanted but Roddenberry forced through (too preachy they worried). Episodes of this are available on YouTube and you will see some of the Trek stars that appeared in Where No Man has Gone Before.

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If you have the Google app on your phone, Discover is a choice on the bottom bar.

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I don’t have a watch or a Fitbit, but these screens sure look a lot like Google Fit.

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Hey folks, send the EFF some of your loving money. They are worth it. They truly are watching our backs. Good people doing the good fight.

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Everything that has a beginning has an ending (perhaps with a long tail). Perhaps the only wrong thing is that we forgot about that. All of these Internet services tend to have a long tail, most of everything we remember once using is still around in some form barely being used but for a tiny and loyal user base that is still hanging in there for some reason.

None of these things were great in and of themselves, it was always the community.

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You have to enable it…

Do not Disturb > Apps > Wireless Emergency Alerts

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit... (www.theverge.com)

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit…::People are dissatisfied with the technology in their cars, according to a new survey from JD Power. They especially don’t...

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As an audio enthusiast, it sucks that I can’t upgrade my stereo/audio system.

Exactly! I can have the system I want but having it somehow means no heated seats in the winter.

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The annual subscription, which was introduced in January of 2022, goes to $139.99 in a $20 increase.

I literally renewed just two days ago, right under the wire!

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Excellent! Consider me subscribed!

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I use this a lot to learn new music. Some of the music we have these days is very fast, and music speed changer helps me to slow it down without changing the pitch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zViMGxKdQ this is a song that I learned to sing using music speed changer by slowing down the track. There’s a lot of yabba dabba dat dabba in this song, and it’s rhythmic. At full speed I found it impossible.

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For me, Music Speed Changer allows me to just focus on the segment of the recording that I need to practice. I can pick an A point and a B point and it will only play between those two points. My learning tracks also come with my part in the left ear and the other parts in the right ear and I can use the balance control to focus on one and defocus on the other. I can also make playlists for the various performances coming up so that I can practice and memorize my music while I’m driving

Google's making it easier to switch between your personal and work profiles (www.androidpolice.com)

Android’s work profile makes it possible to separate your personal and work life on a single device, and Google’s done a lot to make the work profile feel as integrated as possible. For example, when you have a work profile enabled, the Android launcher adds a separate tab (shown above) that contains all your work apps. In...

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When Google added an account switcher to its apps way back in 2019, they made it possible to switch between your Google accounts by swiping up or down on your avatar.

Wow, look at that! I had no idea. It works!

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The 3 button navigation is simpler, much faster than gestures and less prone to input errors than gessure navigation.

I was constantly backing out of my app when all I wanted to do was turn a page. Therefore I went back to the three buttons. The gestures are nifty, but I was always running into problems with the gesture happening when I didn’t want it to.

My tech averse spouse finally wanted a smartphone and I knew he would not understand gestures as he is very literal. So there was a double bonus: the buttons are a lot better for him.

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Which Android devices are you currently using?

I have a Google Home Mini, a Google Chromecast, and I’m on my 4th phone powered by Android … two from HTC and two are Pixels.

What do you love most about them?

The Home Mini and the Chromecast actually don’t do too much that is useful for me. They mainly are just there doing not much.

The phones that I have chosen have been delightful. All Android phones are delightful, the cheap free phone that I got when I signed up for visible for my spouse was a piece of garbage. But that’s the way that Android works: the developer/manufacturer can roll it to be whatever they want it to be.

What do you dislike?

I don’t have anything to put here, but I’m looking forward to some of the responses.

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Perhaps visceral reaction. Small/fast brain over large/slow brain.

Or, perhaps, why is this an Android matter?

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Is it impossible these days to un-Amazon a Fire tablet? I’d love to have a cheap tablet and someone suggested this was a way…

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How have I been on Reddit for 15+ years, totally aware of Reddiquette, and never saw that video? Thanks!

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This is too severe and unhealthy.

Your body is burning not just fat tissue, but lean tissue as well, and likely so fast that it can’t replace it fast enough to keep up. Even with 5000 Fridays, you’re taking in 8000 a week which is less than 1200 a day, less than some old short inactive grandma would use to lose a few extra pounds (not from 270).

Weight loss puts increased demands upon the body. Gallstones, malnutrition, dehydration, and electrolyte imbalances can happen when those demands exceed the body’s capability to cope with them. More minor side-effects include hair and nail problems, irregular female menstrual cycles, constipation, dizziness, fatigue, and headaches.

I just saw your post. Wanted to say hi. I lost from 298 and also lost pretty fast, but didn’t need to go all that severely. I also had a few goal-weight adjustments but I’ve kept it off basically for 8 years now (170s now, at 5’11 male).

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