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RoboRay RoboRay @kbin.social

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?
  • X1 for ultra portability.

    Otherwise, T14 or T15.

  • Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas?
  • @Reverendender

    OnlyOffice Desktop Editors...

    Simpler interface but lacking more advanced features of MS Office or Libre. It has the features 90% of users actually use though.

    Nearly perfect DOCX formatting compatibility. The only thing I have ever noticed when collaborating with Word users is the bullet symbols on list items may be different on my end.

  • Houthi strike on British-owned ship causes huge oil leak in Red Sea, U.S. says
  • They don't have boats and really don't care for going to the beach.

  • How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust: A missile scientist used mathematical models to push the nation’s one-child policy. Its legacy is proving hard to shake.
  • Good news everyone! We all DO have this problem... It's just most obvious in China because they industrialized and urbanized more rapidly than anyone else AND had this stupid legal policy.

    Industrialization, urbanization and improving healthcare also significantly drops births, to below the replacement rate of 2.1. The whole world is on this path, with China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Russia leading the way.

  • 'My memory is fine' - Biden hits back at special counsel
  • Watched it live and I kept waiting for him to yell "Get off my lawn!"

  • Do you use a serial (Oxford) comma?
  • I'm a technical writer (aircraft maintenance and flight operations manuals, mostly) and eliminating ambiguity is key to clear, effective communication.

    Leaving out that comma takes a sentence with only one possible interpretation and gives it several options instead.

  • Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly detected by sonar 16,000 feet underwater, exploration team claims
  • Didn't they find parts from an Electra in the surf on the edge of a South Pacific atoll several years ago, with no other Electra ever reported lost in the area, and signs of decades old brief human habitation on the island?

  • Nautilus File Manager Gets More Features Ahead of the GNOME 46 Release - 9to5Linux
  • Copy the file and paste it into anywhere you can enter text... you get the path to the file as text.

  • Nautilus File Manager Gets More Features Ahead of the GNOME 46 Release - 9to5Linux
  • I see one sponsor link, no other ads.

    Choose your browser extensions, choose your browsing experience.

  • Steam has made 6 Games Free - Get them while you can
  • If you had, they wouldn't be giving them away...

  • Beijing shrugs at U.S. call for help protecting Red Sea shipping
  • I'm honestly surprised that the US cares about it... There's near zero economic or strategic concerns left in that region for the US.

  • The Crew franchise has a troubled future after The Crew 1 delisting - GameScout
  • It's hard to feel sympathy for people giving money to companies like Ubisoft, Epic and EA. It's not like them being assholes that constantly screw over their customers is a new thing.

  • Amazon taps SpaceX for satellite launch even though Jeff Bezos has his own rocket company
  • It's not enough to just own a rocket company... the rocket company also needs to have rockets.

  • Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
  • Should probably have dictated the ultimatum first, before firing anyone, so they could self-select the departures. Then, if it's not enough, cut some more to get the final numbers the manglers want.

  • Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
  • Travel between worksites is on the clock.

    We've demonstrated for years now that home is a worksite.

    I'm happy to drive in to the company office from my personal office, so long as my commute time is on the clock.

  • Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why
  • Eroding that boundary can also be in your favor... I can step away from the desk for a few minutes to start my laundry, prep something for dinner, or even just go to the grocery store during "lunch" because I can bring the food straight back home since I'm not far away from home at an office. Working remotely is giving me back time. And this isn't time "lost" from the employer's perspective... I'm just doing something useful with my break times rather than wandering down to the water-cooler to chat with other employees.

    The trick is to allow only the erosion that you find acceptable. That's a matter of personal organization and self-control, and each person has to set up a system that works best for them. I use a spare bedroom as my office, and I only go in there during working hours. Everything work-related stays in there.