Ah a USB card. Yeah those were/are a thing.

What is a “USB deck”?

They said “business lunch” which implies martinis already.

I mean that’s exactly how cars were for the first ~50 years they existed.

I understand it. Who wants to use two passwords to access their computer?

Hey whatever it takes to convince people.

Also if they didn’t have an irrational hatred for Linux.

#no.

The logic is that the most useful app will be the most popular by virtue of its utility.

Not always true but I’m sure there’s some correlation.

It works like profiles in chrome now.

Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?

Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?

Still gives money to Google though.

Mario.

No… push forward to go down, pull back to go up.

That’s standard joystick operation, nothing inverted about it.

I’ve never seen a flight sim with reversed controls. They all work like a real plane joystick from what I’ve seen.

I count myself lucky to have only used a scissor lift from one manufacturer and I still have to check the control panel every time. And even then I screw it up sometimes.

It seems only natural…

• the “grandma”/casual users never try anything complicated or different so nothing goes wrong.
• the “pro” users either know what they are doing well enough to not make a mistake or to fix it when it goes wrong.
• the middle users will always have it harder, they are trying things beyond the margins of “easy” so of course things go wrong and they don’t know how to fix it.

Anecdotal example: just yesterday I found out that I broke my file picker function in five out of six web browsers, by loading an Xcompose file with some definitions that GTK apparently doesn’t like. It took me about 5 hours of poking at things to figure out that a change I did a week ago, broke a function I hardly ever use. So I did fix it eventually but I it took me a week to notice and then hours to track down what was going on.

Is there any chance at all that the casual users would be using a compose key, let alone loading a custom definition file for it? Hell no!

But here’s the secret: there is nobody out there who is the perfect expert who never makes a mistake and knows all things. We’re all out here pushing boundaries; the only difference is where those boundaries are.

This applies outside of IT just as much, maybe more. It’s the rare person who will admit it though.

Isn’t nfs pretty much completely insecure unless you turn on nfs4 with Kerberos? The fact that that is such a pain in the ass is what keeps me from it. It is fine for read-only though.

Late 1970s / early 1980s.

Because other people stop existing in that bubble, because they become part of the background, bubbled people stop caring about them.

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