No worries, thanks for following up.

Well, one viable solution is to use a non-compatible remote, but at least my TV complains every time I press a button on one.

Thanks in advance!

That’s disappointing; I always thought the one thing they got right was the 98/XP interface that Cinnamon copied.

How did you do that?

I would be so happy if I could just disable the “magic mouse” (IIRC that’s what it’s called). I once talked to support for an unrelated reason and asked how to do that; they said the only way was to enable on screen narration.

Any time throughout the conversation I asked why those two things were connected, they dodged or outright ignored the question.

My model female cousin (usually most of those details wouldn’t matter, but they sort of do in this anecdote) once broke down on the side of the road in broad daylight. Apparently someone, a man, pulled over and offered to help her, but then immediately started attempting to abduct her.

I was a kid when all of this happened, so all I know is what I overheard my mom saying on the phone when relaying the story to someone else; but apparently the cousin in question decided “I’m either going to die here or get away, I’m not going to let him take me.” From my memory of this secondhand story, she screamed, shouted and struggled, but was entirely ignored by everyone traveling the busy highway where she’d broken down. Eventually an off-duty cop (this was in the late nineties, I think) stopped at the side of the road and rescued her. I don’t know what happened after (except that said cousin is still around).

I’m proud of her for defending herself. So was my mom, which is why I overheard that story.

According to the training at various jobs I’ve held, if gunshots are likely to be a threat, you should lay down wherever is available and put your knees under your chest to kink up your body.

The reasoning given was that bullets tend to travel in a straight line, so if you minimize the straight lines in your body, you’re in less danger. This never really made sense to me, but it’s what I was officially told.

If you were in something like a cast iron tub, that might protect you, but I doubt any modern tub would make much of a difference.

I’m glad you survived your experience!

Agreed about the concept being cool.

habie147 did this in Fallout VR.

Basically this happened in an episode of Adventure Time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

I got offered a job at NASA. It was very tempting, primarily because I would have gotten to see space maneuvers.

However, they had no WFH openings and the department that was offering me a position was only using technologies with which I was already familiar. Unfortunately I had to decline.

But there has to be a twist!

I guess it’s cool that Windows finally has an official package manager.

Noted, thanks!

TIL! Thanks!

Did winget replace chocolatey?

Where I grew up, we called it the MVA. I didn’t learn that was relatively abnormal until almost my twenties.

I once tried to play “PHP” in Scrabble and argued that it should be infinite points.

The opponent didn’t agree.