I’ve heard of Australian bushfires traveling close to 100km/h (60mph) with a strong wind.

What’s even worse is if the flame front is diagonal to your path of travel. The flames might be going 50km/h, but if they’re coming at you at 60%, then you have to be going at least 100km/h to outrun them.

Fires don’t need to follow roads. If a fire is traveling perpendicular to the only road you have, you can’t drive away from it.

How many do you have?

Are you using a rechargeable battery?

AA batteries are typically 1.5V, but some rechargeable ones are only 1.2V. This leads to the product thinking the battery is always low even when it’s fully charged.

If you have a Li-ion rechargeable, you get the opposite problem. The battery is actually around 2.7V, and has a converter internally to step it down to 1.5V. You will keep getting 1.5V until the battery goes flat with no warning.

The laws of physics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in the UK is the law of the UK

It’s not easier than Windows, it’s the devil you know.

Sure it’s slow, but you know how slow. It does updates at the wrong time, but you know it will turn on again eventually. It sends all your data to Microsoft, but no-one has come to your door to harass you because what’s in your data.

Linux is some obscure thing that would take time and effort to learn, and you’re tired from work and just want to use a computer without thinking about it.

Things might be different if Windows wasn’t the default/only option when buying a new laptop.

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If talking about relativity, the distance to destination is further compressed only for your perspective, not the train’s, and not the earth’s. The amount compressed is imperceptible.

“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”

It might help.

At least Windows appears user friendly. Arch otoh is quite hard to set up the first time.

I’m not familiar with Google Matter, but you may find google alternatives for home assistant integrations at !homeassistant@lemmy.world

I’ve been pleasantly surprised before.

I have 2. One has broken twice from over use, so I reprinted the broken piece and swapped it.

Yes

I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.

The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press “Num lock” on the keyboard.

About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn’t work.

Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new “Num lock” button they’d never heard of before.

This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say “Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter” when typing a single “A” on a line, but didn’t know what “Caps lock” was and couldn’t find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.

Are you suggesting that all countries on earth will adopt this law, or that all developers in all countries will comply with the law of one country?

Will all previous versions of all OSs be deleted? Will all OSs become closed source so you can’t just remove the age verification part?

Will you be the only person on earth who is willing to break an unethical law to have basic privacy?

If yes to all the above, then you may need to start learning how to program.

Take back control of your OS. Use a different OS if you need to.

It feels pretty easy when all you have to do is observe and give occasional instructions.

Most people are pretty bad at guessing the amount of effort someone else needs to complete a task.
Most people also have enough empathy to ask how much effort it was instead of telling you what they experienced and assuming it was the same for you.

Unfortunately, some people will still think a headache is painless because they are not the one experiencing it.

There’s a big difference between a constant stream of cars with noise from every direction, and the occasional delivery vehicle that you can hear coming.

Assuming we never get more energy dense batteries, this would be one way to make air transport carbon neutral.

It’s far worse than batteries for cars, but batteries aren’t practical everywhere yet. Every bit helps.