RoboRay

RoboRay, 9 months ago

Revenue-generation from traffic tickets, if the town is along a major highway.

In other cases, it's usually because the towns are just so far away from anything else and you can't always wait 45 minutes for a cop to drive out from the city.

RoboRay, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

See the second part of my response, above.

The rural US is often very empty with long distances of pretty much nothing between towns. If those towns want a reliable, responsive police presence, they have to provide it themselves. Keep in mind that average population density is the US is about 1/4th of that in Europe... and it's far lower than that when you get away from the North-East.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

I have no idea if either is more effective.

I'm just used to every little town having a handful of local cops to handle local matters because that's how it was in the very rural area where I grew up. Neighboring towns and counties did coordinate with each other for assistance when needed, and meet daily to discuss ongoing matters (they tended to each have somebody gather at the same place for lunch), so I expect the overall effectiveness is pretty similar... it's just independent departments working together while primarily covering their own local areas rather than one giant department directing them all across a large area.

RoboRay, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite

That's not a hurdle... that's a wall.

If your livelihood depends on running a Windows-only application, run it on a Windows computer.

You are, of course, free to also have a Linux computer for everything else. Use a KVM switch to toggle between them, or something like Synergy or Barrier to pass the mouse/keyboard/clipboard between both PCS. Share the storage between them over your network.

RoboRay, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Well, it is still better to get hit with a dozen Hiroshima-nuke-scale impacts than a single dinosaur-killer-scale impact.

Statistically, the majority of them should hit ocean anyway.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

I just disable all that.

If I'm opening the Google app, it's because I want to search for something. If I'm searching for something, I'm busy right now and don't appreciate Google trying to distract me with other irrelevant crap.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

Choose your network provider more carefully.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

I miss hanging out at bookstores, with comfortable seating areas and coffee shops and maybe a quiet musician on weekends... met some really smart and educated people that way.

I recently wandered into an old Borders like that where I used to spend a lot of time years ago, which is now a Books-a-Million. It was like being in a K-Mart. Dirty, dimly-lit, product stacked randomly everywhere (including just left on stocking carts abandoned in the aisles), hot because they had the A/C set to barely run at all (everyone inside was sweating), all seating gone, the kitchen area just ripped out and bare plumbing left exposed, with hardly any staff or customers in there at all. The book selection was gutted down to be mostly romance, horror, manga and self-help. I guess that's what the few people still coming in buy.

It was pretty depressing.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

The portion of managers which don't actually contribute anything to productivity don't have much to do if everyone is at home.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

Maybe if there was a controllable delay on the teleporter...

NOTIFICATION: Your boss has entered the teleporter buffer. Allow materialization? [YES] [NO] [ASK ME AGAIN LATER]

RoboRay, 9 months ago

That's essentially what Call Screening does if the number has been reported as spam enough times.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

You leave a voicemail by calling someone that doesn't answer.

Blocking the call at your phone is just not answering.

Use something like Google's Call Screening that actually answers numbers not in your contacts so they don't get the opportunity to leave a voicemail.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

Can it be done? Yes.

Can it be done in a reliable way that you can depend on to always just work when you need it? No.

If you are completely dependent on Adobe products for your livelihood, you should not plan to work exclusively on Linux.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

They don't have enough trucks to bring in ammunition, food and spare parts... but they have trucks available to bring in trash?

RoboRay, 10 months ago

All seized Ukrainian vehicles are presumably already fully tasked with transporting Russian military supplies, since they've been bringing in city busses, commercial delivery vans and the like from Russia to do it... and still don't have enough logistics transportation.

This is just yet another oligarch money-grab with no intent to actually deliver on the effort (literally or figuratively).

RoboRay, 10 months ago

HDDs are for cheap, not for reliable. Anecdotal, but my personal failure rate with HDDs is around 98% while my failure rate with all forms of flash media (including SSDs) is around 2%.

With 1 TB SSDs being available for as little as $20 (not particularly fast ones but still far faster than HDDs), I don't see a use-case for HDDs at all unless you need dozens of TBs of storage.

RoboRay, 9 months ago

By the time enough longevity data has been collected to be really useful, obsolescence is becoming a factor. And even if the same model number is still being sold, the hardware inside may have changed and all of the data may not be directly relevant.

Sticking with a reputable product line and assuming that past performance is relevant doesn't always help, either... I remember the Deskstar Deathstar drives fiasco, and got bit hard by it.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

Do you have any antivirus recomendations for Linux.

Install all applications from your package manager.

Don't run things as root.

Don't visit sketchy websites.

Run an ad-blocker that isn't owned by an advertising company.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

There have been cases of malware exploiting scripts and even images being displayed, whether directly hosted on the site or via compromised ads.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

Well, to be fair, Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET. It has never claimed to be an alternative to Photoshop.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

The only way to say "no" is to not give them the opportunity to ask the question to begin with.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

The hero we need, but not the hero we deserve.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

TL;DR: Windows works if you don‘t ask to be private, performant or secure.

Don't forget to add "punctual"... for when you need to do something right now but you can't because Microsoft decided to have your computer do something else instead.

RoboRay, 10 months ago

Wow, "it never happened to me so it shouldn't matter when it happens to you" is the biggest shit-take I've seen today.

Bye!

RoboRay, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows

Building a PC technically doesn't include OS installation.

Build it, boot your OS of choice from a live USB to verify the hardware all works, then walk away.

I told my friends and family years ago that I will be happy to set them up with a working Linux installation and will support them as needed... but if they want to use Windows they are on their own.