Thanks, I hate it

Had to spin up a virtual windows machine the other day and was just honestly appalled at how bad the desktop experience is these days

for one reason or another

Greed, mostly lol

Don’t let the gatekeepers put you off. The Linux community is quite helpful if you can get past their garbage. Every guru was once a noob 👍

Why wait? Install it now. I would recommend Mint as a beginner distro.

Kinda feels like humanity is in the process of jumping the shark on this one

It’s not my job to educate you on how the education industry works. Go and read what qualified people have already written about it in academic journals.

No assessment method is perfectly suited to every student.

Coursework can be similarly adapted.

All this moral panic is garbage.

Easily solved by using essays with an unseen question written in exam conditions as assessment instruments.

Literally a pencil and paper solves this problem.

What I’ve never been able to wrap my head around is how did they use their tiny arms, and for what?

Only thing I can think of is that they might have used them to brace themselves on the ground while leaning down past their balance point to eat. Doesn’t seem like a very useful thing to have arms just for that though

Was that the number of wigglers he injected into Stormy Daniels?

It’s never too late for a good bazinga

Does anyone else find the term “creatives” to be so damn condescending? It’d be like calling executives, “Admins” or “powerpointers”

The key thing is that teachers can ban phones in their individual classrooms if the school permits it.

There are many schools in which the senior admin don’t institute phone bans (you’d be surprised how common this is).

Legislating it helps maintain consistency and parity between schools nation wide, which is important as it’s a quality of education issue, so the policy should be consistent across all schools.

I’m not from North America, but the situation is similar across most western democracies.

Why are you personally offended by Bluetooth being bad?

Bluetooth is like the SpongeBob “repeating then saying something different” meme where you go through the whole annoying pairing process, then it plays through the PC speaker anyway

No no, they mean “artificially interesting” rice

It’s useful for a lot of stuff but it’s been waaay over hyped, mostly by youtubers desperate for content. So I think a lot of people are having a counter-reaction to that.

Once everyone calms down and realise it’s not an automatic-do-everything-machine, they’ll appreciate the circumstances in which it actually is useful.

Bonus points: find the landing page for any tech startup from the last 12 months that doesn’t mention AI or LLMs

I think we both understand the intention behind my statement

Do you honestly encrypt your porn? Why? (Assuming it’s legal)

Ooh double burn lol