That is maybe the most Aussie text chat I have seen in a damn long time.

How TF does this happen to a book sitting in your hands? I have never had this happen to any of my books, hardcover or paperback.

For simple chained operations they can be noticeably faster than an electronic calculator.

And unless you are getting the circumference of the universe down to a few angstroms, the precision is absolutely adequate for everyday use.

All my vehicles. Slide rules. Drafting table & drafting equipment. Fountain pens. Typewriters. Tanker desks. Cutlery, pots, pans, the fancy dishes (Thomas Rosenthal Arcta, close to 60yo), a fair number of tools, a few pieces of furniture. A large number of hardcover books. And likely a whole bunch of stuff I have forgotten is that old.

Where did I mention anything about them being untrusted?

I was talking about a hardware limitation of phones, not security.

Because I am not talking about WiFi at all. Wifi isn’t even in the picture. Wifi is 100% irrelevant to my original statement.

I am talking about the frequencies handed out to phone ISPs by each country’s telecommunications agency that determines how cell phones connect to cell phone towers in the first place.

Each country has a different mix of spectrums that they hand out, even if the same company operates on both sides of a shared border. So a phone with ISP X that works just fine in a person’s home country might be totally unable to find any kind of a signal to connect to on the other side of the border. No phone calls, no SMS, no mobile data, nothing.

This is because phones are manufactured to connect to a limited number of known domestic frequencies - so-called “international” phones are extremely expensive for this requirement of having all chips for all possible frequencies - so the phone that can work perfectly fine on one side of the border may be totally unable to connect to the frequencies that ISP X uses on the other side of the border - there is no overlap with the phone’s supplied hardware.

It pays to properly read the original comment.

Provisionally agree.

Advanced degrees are for focused expertise far beyond the norm.

Liberal arts education is for that cognitive foundation that massively increases intellectual effectiveness across the entire spectrum.

I don’t care what you focus on, as a person.

But if your entire identity is wrapped up in your career subject or an exceedingly narrow slice of reality or a stereotypical commonality that even comedians joke about, imma gonna judge you something bad.

It is vitally important to be well-experienced, to have encountered variety and complexity in one form or another. To have travelled and meant people all over, or taken up hobbies that are hilariously distant from your daily grind, or to have plumbed the depths of literature, or any number of horizon-broadening activities.

Even something as simple as taking up handyman duties around the house, instead of calling companies to handle exceedingly basic tasks, is an improvement.

You are so wrong it’s incredible.

It’s like me saying, “you have to be careful what fuel you put in your vehicle, otherwise it won’t even start”, and then you start yammering on about the channels on the radio and how you need to set them up in a certain way for the car to work.

Bro, that kind of subject disconnect is epic.

Always be careful of the frequencies that the phone operates on with regards to what cellular ISPs provide in the host country.

You could easily get a phone that shares no frequencies with any ISP, and be left with an expensive paperweight that is useable only on WiFi.

It’s like Germans have acquired collective amnesia with regards to what happened during 1939.

And yet, “pro life”.

F**king hypocrites.

This could have all been avoided with a single, well-publicized torrent.

Is this a parody or legit mental illness in motion?

If “succeed in life” means significant intergenerational wealth to achieve a strong head start, great genetics for height and facial symmetry, and strong black triad traits, then sure. Let’s convert the word “luck” to “intelligence”, regardless of how bad that fit may be.

I mean, there are exceptions among women. But the correct term is called “outliers” for a damn good reason.

You’re focusing too much on what you are supposed to do and too little on what you could be doing.

I would grab this with both hands. Max out the education, and work on side projects that don’t impact the day job. I mean, that is what the “show up sometimes” means, right? Ya gotta warm the seat but you don’t have much to do? So fill that time with things that improve your skills!

ICE said the work targets genuine dangers, pointing to what DHS calls an 8,000% rise in death threats against agents since President Donald Trump took office.

Fashies get bashies!!

I still run a small constellation of programs (some obscure) that are required for my workflows that have neither a Linux version that is perfectly file-compatible, nor can be run reliably under WINE.

Plus, I also provide tech support for others, so being able to “mirror” actions on my own iron as I’m helping them is a massive plus. Differences between installs has helped me catch config issues on many occasions.

So unfortunately, running Windows is still a must-do for the foreseeable future. Now granted, I also have a good half-dozen workstations, which also run MacOS, OpenBSD, OpenSUSE, and various other virtualized fun shit (HaikuOS, etc.).

RUFUS is a lot simpler.

And upgrades keep all settings, including local accounts. They always have.

Build your USB installer using RUFUS.

The SELECT drop-down (the down arrow itself, not the entire button) even downloads a generic multi-version of the latest Win11.

It’s at the last step before creating the installer when RUFUS gives you a bunch of settings that you can leverage, one of which is a Microsoft Account bypass so you can create a local account.