Yeah, and I don’t see the risk being there when you look at the numbers. My CPU is sitting at around 30C right now, and if I shut it down, it might gradually drop by as much as 10 degrees over a period of hours.

But if I start an encode, the temperature will rise by 20-30 degrees in seconds, then drop back down 20-30 degrees in seconds when the encode stops. And if I run some ridiculous synthetic stress testing tool for stability testing an overclock, that could make the core temp shoot up and down by 60 degrees.

I usually leave it on all the time though, because it does server stuff too.

I submit that president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is a male bimbo, and we should BE so lucky to be led by such a saint in comparison to real life.

Look at this, even Australia is laughing at us from the other side of the globe!

American here. It’s freaking embarrassing. Not as much as all the other shit, and certainly not as sad and tragic. Our neighbors elected a cartoon villain and his best buddy, another cartoon villain.

He took a lot of heat for it at the time

Oh wow, I bet he got his act together after that one and has had a spotless record since.

Mazda has been flying under the radar doing things right for a long time, in my experience.

I’m currently driving a 2012 Mazda3 that we bought new 13 years ago. It has been completely reliable while our 2013 Honda has needed some repairs. It is fuel efficient (40mg hwy), and it is still fun to drive. In the automatic transmission’s manual-shift mode the shift lever goes in the correct direction for driving dynamics (pull back to upshift, forward to downshift). In the normal automatic drive mode it seems to use an accelerometer to downshift when braking downhill.

My very first car was a mazda MX-6 from the late 80s with a 5-speed manual transmission. I bought it with 180,000 miles as a cheap junk “first car” and drove it for another 40,000 miles over the next few years. It needed some repairs, of course, but it was fun to drive and did a great job getting me around the state while I was in the late college to early independent adult years.

Now I’m middle aged and my drive to work is just a few miles via quiet twisty country road. I think I’m gonna get an MX-5 Miata next. 6-speed and soft top. That sounds nice.

For years I thought a fast dual motor EV sport sedan would be my next vehicle (whatever the non-Tesla model 3 performance equivalent would be) but a roadster would probably make it more fun to get up and leave the house. Plus so much cheaper and, given the small amount of miles I drive, probably more environmentally friendly. It would definitely generate a lot less microplastic pollution form the weight difference alone.

I think it would be more accurate to describe this as American politics where people who paid attention to what the elected president said and did got dragged into the Find Out phase by their neighbors, and are trying to figure out why/how/wtf the world does what it does.

How the fuck do you make a living looking for things on tv to be mad about, and why is anyone cheering him on.

Spoken like you must not be recovering from a childhood in a conservative home, lol.

Finding things to be mad about, is living. It is as natural as breathing. Like breathing, you don’t notice you’re doing it unless you notice you’re doing it. It is what you think about when you plan your day and what makes you open your mouth to socialize with other people. It strongly informs your personality, your social circles, and your hobbies.

Just be careful you don’t accidentally spend years wrenching your brain out of the negativity malaise, or you might start to do dumb things like being content with what you have, working less, wasting time on rewarding hobbies, or doing nice things for people without expecting something in return. People you aren’t even related to! Could you imagine??

Of course up above when I say things to be “mad about,” that could also mean “afraid of or confused about, but I am tough and strong and not scared of things and don’t have wussy feminine emotions and so I’m mad rawr!”

Edit to add: I’m being tough on conservatives because they deserve it, but being addicted to outrage (along with all your favorite psychological biases and logical fallacies) is something that everybody has to be concerned with for themselves.

As a user, it seems to me that Microsoft figured out a way to get the customers they care about to hire and pay for their own “Microsoft support” people.

If I have a problem at work with one of those M365 websites I use, or with the Windows partition I don’t, and I can’t fix it myself, the person helping me is going to be a fellow employee and not [email protected].

And never mind that, fire baaaaad!

This makes sense, within reason. Limiting the visibility of low level system settings and statistics is good for the normal user’s experience. That is not just to keep them from breaking their system, but it also makes the commonly used settings easier to navigate and use.

I don’t say this in a gatekeeping way either. I am a developer and old computer nerd who has a terminal open pretty much all the time. But I also run Mint and I use the GUI for all kinds of stuff. If I may stretch to make a metaphor, the primary user-friendly UI from the driver’s seat of my car doesn’t have indicators or controls for all kinds of things I care about, but they are things I don’t need to do every day in the middle of a drive. I can do something out of the ordinary to get to them when the need arises.

The nice thing about Linux is that in the GUI these things are merely hidden. They aren’t locked down and denied access entirely like you might get with a commercial OS.

The worthwhile discussion/argument IMO is just where best to draw that line. I personally don’t have strong opinions on the computer side because I am comfortable with CLI and text files. My gut feel is that more GUI is good, but my suspicion is that actual “normie” users want simple. To them the OS is just the screen that holds the icons for their apps, like a smart phone. It is not a gargantuan tree of settings they can peruse like I might.

Funny though, I DO have a strong opinion in the case of my car metaphor. I currently drive an old economy car, and it doesn’t have a coolant temperature gauge. There’s just a warning light for when the coolant is already too hot or is still cold and warming up. The lack of the gauge doesn’t affect the performance of the car and it has not ruined my day in over a decade of ownership, but I’m a bit of a car guy and an engineer to boot, so I want more information like you might see in a truck or sports car.

That’s another nice thing about the open nature of Linux. There isn’t one official setup that everybody gets out of the box, which can be confusing, but it can certainly be made to fit many different people’s needs.

I’m sure it’s different in many distros, but in Mint the ability to open a file browser as root is in the right click menu.

I’ve come to the conclusion, for ME, that being productive is a mental health boost. However, I’m with you in that I fully reject the notion that "productive” activities need to be tied to financial gain, your job, your career, your net worth, etc.

I absolutely get a return on investment on that time, but in non-financial ways. I’m not sure how to put a price on mental & physical health, having close loving relationships, finding contentment and satisfaction with life, etc.

Like today, it’s the weekend and we don’t have plans. I need to move some stuff around in the house and build some tables. But then my son wants to do stuff together all morning. I’ve learned that it is a much more worthwhile investment of my time to build my relationship with my son rather than brushing him off or even getting angry with him for wasting my time (something I expect from the conservative parts of the extended family).

Having fulfilling hobbies to be “productive” is good for your mental health, sure, but it also makes doing absolutely nothing that much more enjoyable.

Imagine, if you will, a Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pis!