Honestly, that likely won't do. I mean, you'll be at risk of troubles if you travel there, but based on that, they won't reach out to you. You'll need to marry a Chinese dissident or so. I'm not quite sure you want their service that badly...

On the buildings may well be hard to see, especially with tall buildings. In front, on spikes, like in the good old times...

I partially disagree. As a father, I've made the observation that up to about 6 years old, there's no essential difference between learning and playing. Or more precisely, between playing and learning. Toddlers play with their food, etcetera.

Then there's learning that's not quite playing, like learning to crawl, walk, speak. Regarding speaking, people who claim that kids learn languages effortlessly at a young age have no kids or haven't paid attention to them, they actually take years... Anyway, my kids never saw going to school as learning that must be done, it was more like playing to them.

I think that's one of the biggest things, to have education not be a drag. It should be focused but it should feel like playing. From very far away, it's probably that which the no child left behind beheaded. Again from afar, it doesn't look like you're recovering from that yet...

Obviously, for teenagers it's good to be confronted with learning materials that are hard, but for the longer and bigger part, learning should be fun. The kids/teenagers that realise the hard parts can be the most fun when the rewards of mastering it come in will be the ones that can achieve the most in their lives.

You've got a great list of gripes, and I'm no fan of most things Microsoft for usability, technical and social reasons.

However, I open a second window of outlook then have one with the mail view and one with the calendar view, which on enough pixels (4k or multi monitor or both) can be put side by side, so at least that one isn't serious.

Not for profit copying of books, CDs etcetera is a thing in many parts of the world. So in many Western European countries you can borrow a book from a library, family or colleague and make a copy for yourself (including others in your household). You may not make a profit, and the original must be obtained legally.

The two most recent hires who's process I was involved with both clearly didn't use AI. Technician level, we didn't mind the few minor spelling errors that gave away clearly they'd written their texts themselves. Some spelling errors should have been flagged by their word processor, so at engineering level, their applications would possibly have been out. But none of these winding, tiring phrases that say little more than look how I'm pretending to have an academic background.

Until the money runs out, we'll be burdened with this. Can hardly be soon enough.

In with you on this one. The main desktop in our household boots to UEFI in about 5 seconds, unless it decides the DDR5 timings need to be checked (ECC on motherboard, 5200Mtps 2x16 + 1x32 GB, typically not needing any calibration), then a few seconds to grub2, then another 5 to 10 seconds to the login manager. Or, it takes 3 seconds to wake up from sleep.

Fun fact, I'm the only one who knows how to boot it when it's really off / powered down. Didn't realise, until my wife told me it wouldn't start anymore and so "it's broken". I had shut it down without thinking...

Tldr: hi and thank you from an internet stranger.

Longer: I don't know in detail what you got riled up about, because I didn't bother to read the messages you reacted to. I did read yours and found them informative, so thank you and have a nice day.

Thank you for the explanation, I knew in UK English the meaning is swapped towards other languages, now I understand why. TIL the British wording is older.

I got myself a non healing distaal biceps tendinopathy doing pull ups. This was in 2023. Eventually the doctor told me any training was fine and even good, as long as it wouldn't hurt after. BTW resting didn't help at all. I pushed it a lot, but wouldn't even get muscle aches even when pushing the limits. It still took more than a year, closer to two. Note that contrary to you, I didn't have great pain, I merely had a strong feeling of discomfort when holding something at a right angle -think standing with a drink. I would quickly feel like I couldn't hold that glass anymore.

So for some tendonitis it's good to load properly, resting may not be beneficial.

Another thing, your story occurred after COVID vaccination, so it also occurred after COVID.

Even if the vaccine caused it, it doesn't mean that pushing the general population to get it was wrong, which is reflected in the fact that you can't sue the pharma company. Perhaps you can sue those who pushed out the recommendation? I think it's known and accepted that between 10 and 100 ppm of vaccinations cause severe adverse effects. You just happened to the on the receiving end of that decision...

An acquaintance, now around retiring age, got the obligatory polio vaccine as a child. His sister, 6 y.o., didn't react well, she was in a coma for 3 weeks before she died. 1970s, Netherlands.

The grandfather of a work colleague died of the COVID-19 vaccine. Turkey, 2021, obligatory vaccination. Muscle cramps and sweating for 3 days, then he died. 80+, not too fit but not bad for his age.

At some point there's no more good options, only bad ones.

The sad thing is, the world didn't learn much from COVID-19, the next time I'm afraid it won't go better.

Considering most embedded systems, and allow me to include Android there, are ARM based, Linux on ARM probably has the most compiled apps...

The editors wanted to be sure the original was no longer on the front page, that's why the longer wait before posting the dupe.

I realise I'm not too early to this party but all things considered, my comment can hardly be considered late.

Yeah agreed, that was off...

Considering the user name (Dutch for little tiger), it's probably the latter.