God WinME was such hot garbage. Windows 2000 Workstation ran everything that ME ran. I fucking gamed on it, and did everything. It was faster and more stable, than ME. I never understood why people I knew who were computer nerds ran that steaming pile of shit.

Yes because when you are struggling to take care of yourself, piling on vet bills and food and more responsibility, and less social time will really help.

Depression hates a moving target. The responsibility for exercising my dog is tremendous for my mental (and physical) health.

Worrying over another being you are responsible for and thinking less about yourself and your own situation...just might help with depression I would think.

And nothing increases the desire for other people to be sociable with you than walking a dog.

I love my dog but absent my partner's desires, I don't think I would've taken it on. The cost, attention, potential behavioral issues, the prospect of losing them eventually are not for everyone.

You are not wrong about the laws, but people are working in factories doing 12 hour days 7 days a week. Yes they get overtime, but that's because you can't even afford to live with a roommate in run down company dorms on a standard 5 day work week. Its still slave labor over there. This amount of work nets workers about $1000USD per month, and this is in foreign owned factories which are much more regulated than the locally owned ones.

Are there any monitors that have a resolution somewhere between 1440 and 4k? I want more pixels than 1440p, but don't necessarily want to go to 4k and have to scale everything... I've tried looking and there doesn't seem to be much if anything.

I'm not sure if you're on a Mac, but I've found the scaling to be a non-issue on my 27" 4K monitor. There are various 'use as' resolution options untied to the actual display resolution (basically: make the UI appear as though I'm running at this lower res, but with higher dpi). For me running 4k with 'use as' set to 1440p is perfect.

2560x1440 (QHD) ~3.69MP 100%

3440x1440 (UWQHD) ~4.95MP 134.38%

3840x1600 ("UWQHD+") ~6.14MP 166.67%

3840x2160 (4K UHD) ~8.29MP 225%

You either get more screens, an ultrawide, or a 4K screen and try software scaling lower.

The demo keyboards in the article, I'm pretty sure are wrong.

The "Start" or Windows key is the same as the "Command" key

"Alt" is the same key as "Option"

This is how every keyboard I've ever used has worked. This is usually how they work when you plug a PC keyboard into a Mac or vice-versa.

That's how it is by default but doesn't approximately everyone, when they first plug a non-Mac external keyboard into their Mac, immediately go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Modifier keys and switch Command with Option?

Otherwise it would be really confusing when you switch from your external keyboard to the laptop keyboard.

Yes! Super frustrating that Apple didn't map Alt->Command and Win->Option so the keys would be in the same place on laptop and external keyboards.

It isn’t Apple’s fault (their keys predate Windows), and it isn’t really Microsoft’s fault either – when they were adding Windows key, the Alt key and its scancode already existed, too. Both companies were doing rational things that benefitted the users at the time.

Most newer keyboards I know have a toggle so the CMD and ALT switch in software. I had to switch from Mac to Win and Linux so often that I simply kept my CMD key where Super or Win is located and got used to it. Still sometimes weird when I use an actual Mac keyboard.

I do this as well as swap command/option on the built in keyboards. It works great for me switching between my own computers/OSes but always a second of re-calibration when I touch someone else's Macbook.

Logitech in particular do this. Their keyboards adapt to the OS so the keys are in the right place, not sure if this needs their drivers or not though.

This won't stop guys from lifting their trucks and blinding you anyways. The trucks are lifted after they are purchased. This also won't stop the swath of blinding cheap junk LED light bulbs from being sold on Amazon. This also won't force dealerships to aim the damn headlights properly after they take delivery of their cars from the factory. The police could already be enforcing existing headlight regulations and reduce a huge amount of this, but they don't. We could reduce a huge number of blinding lights without making new laws or regulations. It's already illegal to blind oncoming traffic with your headlights.

What about my proposed penalty? Make every infraction cost 25k$.

You don't think it'll self-correct after a few months?

Are you saying there is deliberately no enforcement?

How much actual braking does a semi truck do? It's usually cruising down the highway, and they tend to use gears and jake brakes down long grades.

Are there any stories you have heard which things have improved notably for the citizens since data centers were put in place? I see a lot of negative articles, but have yet to see where a city has used the revenue to say build a hospital, increase transit, or build something for the citizens, or just improve existing services. This could be a result of my feed being biased, so I'm genuinely curious to hear some stories about the good that these datacenters bring to local areas.

The people building this stuff literally don't give a fuck. So it's probably the latter.

You do get less efficiency from the gas you put in your car though.