I never understood its usecase.

I used to use it when I was browsing the web at work. If I was reading something at the end of the day, or if it was something I didn’t want to read at work, I’d give it a pocket bookmark. Then I could pull out my phone and finish right where I left off during my train commute.

Ok, Toph is just one of the best characters in fiction, she’s fantastic! And yeah, that totally counts.

Celebrating your 20th anniversary is a good indicator of the right relationship.

Were they hot chicks?

I just think banning them outright is bad for needing to contact parents, especially for kids like me who had after school activities often.

Ok, well that’s completely ridiculous.

Look, 25 years ago nobody had cell phones in school. Kids had just as many after school activities, this wasn’t a problem. It was sometimes inconvenient, but not a problem. It’s also worth remembering, many rooms in every high school have phones, you’ll be able to use one if you need to.

I get wanting to have your phone throughout the day, I do. But on the other hand… no.

but people here in Lemmy (same on Reddit years ago) completely lose their shit with that idea

I’ve practically never seen anyone over 19 who was opposed to this idea. It’s obviously the right move. Phones don’t belong in school.

If you want to get all fussy about the “danger” of being without a phone, they can be allowed to keep it in their lockers until the last bell rings. There’s literally no down side to this and a whole lot of up sides.

Now, guess which of those two vehicles is regularly used for anything that actually requires a truck bed vs which of those is used to pick up kids from school.

This all sounds mostly right to me. But the regulations aren’t pointless, they’re just incomplete. I’m still quite happy that we have these protections.

And also, you tend to only get regulations on issues after they’ve proven to be a problem. It’s like warning labels, if you see a label that says “don’t put your hand here” it may be because someone did once, and it was bad.

So with that in mind, there hasn’t previously been any need for regulations on door handles that don’t work without power, because it’s never been an issue before. Now that we see a need for that kind of regulation, we may see it go onto the books. Now it’s true that we shouldn’t have to spell that kind of thing out in legislation, but (and I can’t stress this enough) people can be very dumb…

But if you make a Glock out of steel, would you expect it to perform the same as the real deal?

Mostly, i’d say.

Hand machining precision parts to construct working firearms that are so identical to the originals that official parts or attachments would be interchangable… This is like a dream job for me. If I could stand living in the tropics, maybe I’d move to the Philippines…

Speaking of the tropics, in that video the workshop is exposed to the humid tropical air. I wonder how they deal with rust on their tools and swelling in the wooden tool handles.

At any rate, I say keep it up. Keep doing fine artisan work while simultaneously sticking to the man and earning a living. Very impressive.

Also, I’ve never met a hacker that was nearly as hot as Remi Malik.

Ok, so I’ve definitely heard this before, so he’s really hot then?

I guess I see it, he has perhaps a model-like facial structure. But he’s always so off-putting when he speaks, I just can’t think of him as attractive.

Perhaps my perception is muddled by the characters he plays.

Yeah, I’m well aware. But how much of my time would it take to get a bunch of windows software running smoothly on Linux?

I do appreciate the offer of personal help, that’s an extremely generous offer to an internet stranger. Sincerely, thank you!

Superconducting magnets… superconductors are one of those areas where science gets weird.

I’m glad that age has given me the comfort to tell people when I just don’t know, and therefore, don’t have an opinion on some things.

Yeah it certainly seems to me that as people get older they tend to have fewer shits to give in general. What’s funny about it, is that while that sounds like a bad thing, it’s often a pretty good thing. It means people are more confident, confident enough to show humility, and to say what they actually think.

If people were never extraordinarily wrong about things, we’d have nothing to argue about on the Internet. What a blessing!

I guess the question is how often do you realize that you’re actually on the wrong side of that argument, it definitely happens. And then what do you do next? Dig your heels in, double down and keep arguing? Or acknowledge the realization, make a concession or even apology?

Evidently, it can be hard to be a decent person (hard for all of us), when anonymity means there are no personal consequences to being a dick.

I’m a bit depressed that I finally need to upgrade my last windows 7 machine. It looks like it’s 10 for me now :-(

I think this is my favorite comment of the day.

I agree with the second paragraph completely. Although I’m not sure about the accuracy or relevancy of the first paragraph.

Oh no, I can see exactly why you’d want cloud storage in a business… But why as part of your office suite? If nothing else, it seems foolish to tie your storage solution to your office suite. It means your locking yourself into an ecosystem and reducing your options in the future.

Adding all these unrelated features is like saying “check it out! This car has a toaster oven!”. I mean, cool. And sure other cars don’t, so that’s something I guess, but why?

Why would you want multifactor authentication for your word documents? Hell, why do you need authentication? If you’re logged into the machine I think you get to use the word processor. But hey, if all this stuff really belongs in an office suite, why not throw in an aquarium screensaver, a cobal compiler and a drive formatter, that would really round the package out.

Yeah that’s fair, I’ve seen how Office business integrates with the OS and a bunch of network services, so I’m not surprised by that. Well, for those corporate environments I expect MS will continue to be the norm. But for small businesses and home use, Libra is really fantastic.

And honestly, for personal use I could do without all that email and calendar integration, good riddance.

Edit: Also storage? MFA? MDM? Why would you want that in an office suite? like maybe MDM is useful, but it doesn’t belong in the office suite. And the rest of the acronyms I didn’t even recognize… So I’m guessing they also don’t really belong.