“I only speak one language”… to a room full of mostly bilingual people who also live in (central or south) America. 🤦🤦🤦

Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!

Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.

I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.

Are they European?

I am the sysadmin and I approve this message.

But companies like to make money default though.

Let me get this straight, you want to suspend AND resume?

I assumed this stage had already happened.

Imagine a beach of infinite length with one lemonade stand on it.

Where do you open a second lemonade stand to maximize sales if people will buy from the closet stand?

The answer: next to the first stand. Everyone to the left of your stand will find you are the best option and everyone to the right will choose the other.

This model explains why two political parties along a spectrum can end up not too different from each other in an attempt to capture the most votes.

It’s a Roman numeral…

Xh is my favorite— a rewrite of httpie with some fixes.

Fireflys.

Ducks? That’s quackery.

Microsoft is recognizing that their biggest threat to MS Word is Google Docs, a product they underestimated in the beginning as being a serious choice for word processing.

Saving in the cloud means automatic backups and access from all your devices. Increasingly, people are willing to choose that over the real privacy benefits of local storage.

There is a relatively small number of shared Tor exit node IP addresses.

So it’s more likely using Tor will trigger “too many attempts for IP” throttling for any service with bot protection.

It’s nothing against Tor, but is an expected side-affect of attempting to be anonymous by sharing the same IP address with many people.

Vibe parenting: “Drive carefully! Be safe!“

Hello from Perl! Looks reasonable to me!

Or sweat. Either is appropriate there.

This belongs at https://lemmy.world/c/softwaregore

I want to have my cake and Medicaid too.