Debian often has unfortunately old packages. I've resorted to removing a lot of software and building it myself. And since Debs can be a bit of a hassle I usually just install to local or opt.

Japan is not even kind to repatriated Japanese, many of whom have left again because of the discrimination they experienced. They're discriminated against abroad for being Japanese, then come home and get discriminated against again for not being sufficiently racially pure.

I've had many Windows upgrades fail. Some of them resulted in an unusable system, others reverted themselves and only wasted hours of my time. And for that matter, just running Windows Update without an upgrade to a new Windows version very frequently breaks Windows Update so that it will not work, and on a few occasions has resulted in an unbootable Windows system. In fact even my work machine has rendered itself unbootable with a Windows Update, and I work remotely... I had to go in to the office to have them address the issue, that was a fun waste of time.

No, Linux is not perfect, but you don't get to declare that Linux is not ready for the desktop when it has problems that Windows also has.

They have lots of problems. We know because we see their confused posts on Microsoft forums, which are usually followed up with "solutions" which don't work.

Our IT department forces a windows reboot once a week even if Microsoft doesn't, because they have found that this prevents a lot of problems.

I don't have to do this with my Linux systems. This is not to say that they are trouble-free, only that they don't need to be rebooted weekly to work as well as they are going to.

"a statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable."

What prevents you from accessing a dictionary? It's easy and free.

Thanks for agreeing with me, and also being a cautionary tale of illiteracy.

Thus solving the problem forever!

FOREVER!

Capitalism does dumb shit all day. Virtually nothing about it is sustainable. Almost everything it does is abusive to someone. When you are complaining about this, which is driven purely by capitalism, you're complaining about capitalism whether you know it or not.

Like water running in pipes, not like a stream.

I don't know if they make a different noise in the UK, but I sure hope they do, because this one gives me a headache.

I have personal experience which proves that you are factually incorrect. Literally the only time when Kia/Hyundai EVs make more tire noise than artificial noise is when they are moving quickly enough for the artificial noisemaker to shut off. I know this to be true because there are two of the fuckers on my street and the noisemaker absolutely, positively, and conclusively drowns out the tire noise any time it is active, from any vantage point and range. I have heard it in every conceivable context down to and including when I was underneath a vehicle that one of them was parking next to and then leaving again. I can easily hear the noisemaker inside my home, where I cannot hear the tire noise at all unless the vehicle is pushing around a corner and the tires squeak.

MOST ICEVs (the vast majority of which are now little four bangers) are in fact quieter than the artificial noise from these EVs even while in motion. My '08 Versa is quieter than they are, unless I get carried away with the pedals while moving off — it's a stick, so I can reasonably rev it up to the point where you would hear it accidentally. That wouldn't happen with a slush box.

Now, to the point raised, drone delivery is absolutely louder than an EV if you do not count the noisemaker. I own several multicopters, and ALL of them are louder than typical tire noise, period. So you're wrong about the EV noisemaker being quieter than tire noise (it isn't, that's WHY IT EXISTS) and you're also wrong about the drones being quieter than tire noise (even a 250 size quad isn't, and that's too small to reasonably deliver anything larger than a loose cigarette.)

Most music is talentless schlock with poor production quality and provides nothing novel. This barely moves the needle on that. The vast majority of music ever produced was total fucking garbage made only because some producer thought there was a chance that some crowd would latch on and make it profitable, and not for reasons which have anything to do with quality. Far more musical artists have been rightly forgotten than have ever been successful or noted.

This doesn't change that significantly. You're still going to need a map and compass to navigate the shit swamp of mass market music, same as it ever was.

ODBC isn't a kind of data source or service, it's a way to specify connection details for those services, and a type of driver for accessing them. You can generally access the same data sources on Linux systems without ODBC, although you need to specify connection details in some other way, and to provide different software to make the connection. With that said, there are in fact ODBC solutions for OpenOffice on Linux.

Yum, boots!

Remind me, what percentage of PPP loans got repaid?

We are still using a lot of win10 where I work, and only a small minority of it is because the hardware won't support win11. Mostly it's because win11 improves literally nothing whatsoever for our use case. Therefore there's no reason to "upgrade" us until there's some Microsoft-created problem which demands it. Every "feature" Microsoft has added to 11 is a detriment, in many cases because it's a potential security nightmare and all we do all day is handle protected information, so it all has to be disabled anyway.