The edges of those slider bits can be pretty rough from the factory. If you want to skip the tape just slightly sand or file the corners of the mouse. Once they wear they get a bit smoother, but some gamer mice have some insane anti grip pads that have 0 traction, but the Apple ones have a bit even once worn in.

I have never heard of a carrier re carrier locking a phone before. If they really hated you they’d just blacklist the iemi and then you wouldn’t be able to use it on any carrier. But they’re not that petty, they don’t care.

The kernel is linux. From wikipedia: An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

Linux being designed to work with so many things (and so many things designed to work with linux) all combined make the OS. This is also where the famous quote comes from. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html

Pro or Home? It looks like home is going to try to force you into a microsoft account a lot harder than pro. There are a couple of tricks to bypass it in the OOBE. But if you do sign into an MS account you can go into settings and there’s a button somewhere to switch to a local account. You’d just have to seek that out and it’s a pain.

I actually really liked both windows 8 and Vista too.

8 was slimmed down and optimized vs 7. Bootup time on my HDD equipped machine halved, performance was better, and the search was so good I never actually saw the start menu because I’d just blindly hit enter and it opened what I wanted.

Vista had a rough start because they basically had to start fresh with drivers. But I bought a nice new machine about a year after it came out and it ran it flawlessly. Aero looked (and still looks) so cool, and XP was just a crusty old OS by then, let alone 2014 when it finally lost support.

I gotta be honest, I actually really like windows 11.

Recall is awful and I hope enough pressure keeps it away (or at least as something you have to manually turn on). But besides that it’s mostly just windows 10 but better. I get better battery life, better performance, I actually mostly like the UI changes etc.

Also does nobody remember all of the hate for 10 when it first came out?

You’ve always been able to do that. Settings > messages > text message forwarding

Everyone has to be RCS.

It’s like imesssge but with non iOS devices

Yes but what are they doing to get all these spam calls? Are they petty and signed OP up for a bunch of spam?

Even in single player games I’ve been setting my PS5 to performance mode.

Like a tried GTA 5 in graphics mode and just no I can’t do it. After being used to 100+ FPS on PC at all given times I can’t go back to 60 or less on a console. Solid 60 is fine, but graphics mode likes to take advantage of freesync and dip below.

Apple was popular in academia even before Mac OS.

The Apple II was gaining a lot of popularity with colleges before the Mac even came out. And by the time System 7 was renamed to Mac OS 7 in the mid 90s Apple had gone HARD on getting Macs (and until the 90s Apple IIs) into all schools levels.

Steam reviews are still mixed, both recent and overall.

Is CS2 an actually playable game yet? I remembered trying to play it on my 4090 and getting 60fps on a blank map, and scrolling was somehow jittery.

Have people been going around not knowing about this until now?

I did not

What are you oversharing about?

I mean on day one I wouldn’t talk about like childhood trauma or something. Just talk about your hobbies or interests, but surface level. Don’t infodump their ass the first time you talk about something.

she’ll sense the autism

What if she does, but it’s a good thing?

You can, but assholes out there won’t.

For every time you can hyperfocus on work, imagine every time you’ve hyperfocused on ants walking by, or a speck of dust, or literally anything other than what you actually need to do.

We’ve failed our children by not having any financial education in our schools, let alone good education. Sure in the rich schools you’ll get it. But not in the areas that need it the most. It’s very easy to slip into crippling debt as a middle class American.

But it’s currently too profitable to have poor education. So it’s going to stay that way unless we help out our neighbors.