Not OP, but houses provide housing. Strip malls provide spaces for local businesses. Data center literally provide nothing to the local community they are built in other than stress on existing utilities. It’s not like factories of yore where 1k jobs would be created and lives were built around it.

$300 will let you upgrade easily to 32GB of ram

Where ya buying ya ram? I haven’t seen any 32GB packs for less than $380

Something else I didn’t see in the comments so far is the NFC allows for unique transaction codes each time and thus doesn’t reveal any information. A static QR code could be “stolen” if it isn’t regenerated each time for security purposes.

Not sure how the system currently works but if the QR code is the same code every time that opens you up to someone just taking a picture of it and scanning it again later to charge you. I’d hope it’s unique each time cause otherwise that’s a huge step back

Seconding goodr. Decent polarization and sturdiness for a very reasonable cost. Do have some issues with scratching but when they cost less than dinner at a restaurant I don’t feel as bad about it.

Beyond Compare is also available on Linux

Random programming one, but some of the changes in C++20 are terrible and do not belong in the language. I will die on the hill of just because something is easier to learn/work with doesn’t make it better.

To answer around the question, I’d say the best way to give this gift is to work with them to get you set up! They might already have a favorite distro they want you to try, and working through it both together is a great way to spend time together.

It literally is? They are expanding power over a foreign nation via military means. That’s basically the definition of imperialism.

Don’t compare yourself to others, compare yourself to your own past performance.

RHEL is on 5.15 in spirit only. They backport tons of patches to the point that 5.15 modules don’t build against it

prolly can’t make it solar panel roofed either

Solar shingles are a thing now

In my US public school: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Latin

Edit: just checked their website to see what they do now, AP level French Spanish, Italian. And apparently have an ASL class. No more Russian

It oversteps because the creators found it to be convenient.

Copacking default services for networking and time synchronization and other systems with the init make sense for a specific usecase but god bless you if you need to use a different service as you track down the various configuration options to disable functionality.

It works amazing as a service management tool but the prebaked services it provides generally cause more problems than they solve.

Can’t find the quote, but a similar vein when talking about Counterstrike pros. Basically if you have the question of “should I try to go pro” you already aren’t dedicated enough to make it.

I have version 25.04.2, was just doing a simple edit trying to overlay annotations on a screen recording so nothing crazy effects-wise. Guess I should go read the patch notes.

I recently tried KDENlive for the first time and had a ton of stability issues. Multiple segfaults, corrupted saves, etc. Is that par for the course of the tool? Seems like it might have core issues with the implementation if a brand new user can crash it.

I test every new headphone and speaker system with Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock. So many layers to the music that gets washed out on poor setups so it’s great to check dynamics!

Does veal count? Technically beef but also not beef