When that species provides no value and brings huge dangers to the world. Hey, if we find we dreadfully miss them for whatever reason, clone 'em and bring them back.

Learn to not make mistakes the same way musicians do. Practise as slowly as you have to to not make mistakes. Then slowly speed up, while remaining intolerant of mistakes. Also as an exercise, one I heard about from my Mum when she was taught professionally, was playing music with a clear pulse, and typing in time with the music: either one correct key per beat, or zero. But not more, and no mistakes. But treat typing as a discipline akin to playing the piano or some other musical instrument.

For those learning touch typing, especially self taught, take the attitude that there is far more than just typing without looking, and using particular fingers to press particular keys.

The overall aim is to type: quickly, accurately, with minimal effort, and with good ergonomics.
As for what you type, for many tasks, it is useful to have your eyesight free to look at other things.
(It is similar with, say, the piano where if you want to read chords, lyrics, or sheet music while playing,
then you need to be able to play without looking at your hands.)
Having your eyesight free for other things is one of the reasons to touch type, consider reading
something out of a textbook, and how much harder it is to type what you see if you have to keep
looking back and forth between your hands, the source text and/or the screen.

Then, thinking old school, professional typists had to be able to type accurately. One single character
wrong, and they can probably get away with tipex and retyping it, but that takes a comparative age
compared to not making the mistake in the first place and going a little slower. (I write this as someone
who was self-taught, and wish I'd drilled accuracy into my technique way earlier.) Especially if
coding, not making typos is important. So learning not to make them is important. And as a suggestion,
consider how a pianist learns to press the right keys in the right order without making a mistake.
Treat accuracy in typing as just as important as accuracy when playing a musical instrument.
The trick is to go as slowly as you have to, to ensure correctness, and then only speed up when
you can do things correctly. If you go faster than that, you rush, you make errors, and then you learn
to make more errors, and to be tolerant of errors. Tolerance of errors is how errors creep in.

But going back to what I said: efficiency, accuracy, speed, effortlessness, and ergonomics.
Those are your real priorities, and they are often well-served by learning touch typing properly.

Oddly enough I still use notepad.exe a lot even though I've got notepad++ installed.

Hopefully what an update can do is restricted. It's never happened with apt, touch wood, but imagine if someone put rm -rf /* in an installer script in some third party repo.

The trouble is that AI plagiarising is kind of like money laundering. You can't take the output of an AI and work out what went in, in general, an more than you can take the output of a hash function and determine the input that produced it. Reaching the bar necessary to win a lawsuit is probably impractical, and the AI companies and their expensive teams of lawyers know this.

Killing the AI industry in its current form _worldwide_ would be a good thing. A big reset and rethink, kind of like reining in the nuclear arms race. Killing the AI industry in the UK only, while it remaining a free-for-all elsewhere is economic harakiri. If the UK bans it, but some other country doesn't, then companies will simply go set up shop in that other country, do all the creative output mining where it's legal, and then sell whatever they can to whomever they can. They make money, the UK doesn't. Basically creatives are being thrown under a bus, there's little a minnow like the UK can do about it acting on its own.

They helped fund the guy who is FAMOUSLY disloyal to even his most devoted followers, and they got their faces ate. Luckily, there's a way out for Apple, which is to invest a billion dollars into Trump's meme-coin. That will buy them at least two or three months of tariff relief.

What the fuck is happening, though, seriously? How is it that even mega-corporations are super-fine with losing billions in service to this grifter, as long as they get nothing in return?

I use one for both, but crucially I only cut one type of meat, and I cut all the vegetables beforehand. Veg to meat is not a problem; meat to veg is, and raw meat to other raw meat is.

Once civilisation started, we started helping each other survive on an industrial scale. People who would normally fail to reproduce now manage to. So survival of the fittest lost its cutting edge. So we've hardly evolved since pre-civilisation. Hence our biological instincts are oriented towards living in small isolated tribes. And as a culture we're collapsing back to that pre-civilisation psychology. In previous generations, hardship motivated us to work together, and religion played a role to. We've got rid of both of those and not replaced them with a functional equivalent.

Yeah ok.

I do not know what world you live in but I have never seen a Linux desktop at work in my 30 years in the workforce. I have seen some ipads coming in for stuff like warehouse workers.

MDM like Intune or JamF is great for locking stuff down and rolling out apps on devices like tablets and even Windows desktops.

Until Excel, Quickbooks, Autocad, and every business software in existence gets ported Linux is not an option.

Crazy people still think WIndows is like Dos based WIndowsME/98 and thinks have not progressed in a quarter century.

If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?

Linux is not an option for 97% of people as their first time OS. I used to use Linux 25 years ago. Today I want to get work done and run games and have something just work. No nvidia wayland issues. Hardware accelerated smooth scroll and anti alaisgned fonts. Chrome goes blip blip blip on Linux when I scroll up and down. Multi monitor support is even worse. Do not let me go on about the insecurity and horrors of Xorg.

Before I get accused of being a MS fanboy and modded -1 to infinity I want to say I chose this username name back in 2000 as I was a MS hater like the rest of you when I was young. I grew up.

I hate all operating systems now including WIndows BTW ... but for different reasons :-D ... since I am old and middle aged.

Linux is great and useful for dev and cloud stuff. Windows is great for multi monitor setup and boring win32 business apps. Android/IOS for content which does support smooth scrolling and fluid animations and fonts like we are in 2007 and later. I do not want linux as a host OS or a desktop or troubleshooting my own system every weekend trying to get a proton port of a steam game.

WSL is amazing and gets the job done. Without it I would have no tools at work. We must use Windows on our desktops.

Minor adjust: I think it's the 2350 that does, not the 2040.

Thank goodness my ticket was for Coach.

The overall quality of Meta's apps has ALWAYS been shit.