Law enforcement has been collecting fingerprints for over 100 years now, and the history of using fingerprints for other reasons goes even further back.

The error here is that we decided to start using an easily obtainable piece of data as a “lock” on our phones and computers. For many reasons, it’s better to use a password or PIN.

I decided to try to stop swearing in college, to see if it would improve my attitude - and to see if anyone would notice.

Both turned out to be true. People found me pleasant to work with and hang around. I recommend it, personally!

I had no idea it was even released.

Hacker News works fine. Can’t vouch for the others, since I don’t touch corporate “AI” if I can help it.

There are a whole lot of “templating” libraries which do what you’re asking for. I have used Hiccup for Clojure and Giraffe for F# successfully, and you can probably find others for languages you already know.

Splatoon 1 actually had local multiplayer - it was 2-player only, but for those of us with kids, it was good enough. Split screen multiplayer in Splatoon 2/3 would’ve been great.

Pretty much nothing you said is true, it was not “designed from the ground up to be frustrating” and the other statements are too vague to even bother attacking. “Not even wrong” is the phrase that comes to mind.

You didn’t even mention an example of a game which would count as “something good”.

QubesOS. When you need security and don’t need to play games, this is objectively the best distro.

NixOS for me. It’s a package manager (a very nice, declarative one) that you can use on any Linux (or Mac), and there’s also an entire distro based on it.

Thank you for this! Gonna download it ASAP.

This looks great!

Good to know! I’ve been using local testing and fortunately haven’t run into a case where the tests pass local and fail on their servers. Yet.

My most intense solution so far had been a very multi-core Knapsack solution. The tests they provided are pretty minuscule, which probably helped.

I block meme communities and AI art. I’ll unblock AI art once the machines figure out how fingers work. I don’t block porn except when it’s outside of my interests (I’m not into men or furries, for example).

You might consider unblocking the meta communities - it can sometimes be illuminating to see how other places are run, and give you ideas to improve your own instance.

We don’t have downvotes on my instance, and it’s an amazing difference. I recommend it!

I generally just upvote everything I like, no real thought process involved.

I’ve been avoiding Amazon since 2010. No regrets. They crave your time, money, and attention, and they deserve none of those. (Same with Meta.)

I’ve been using nix on Deck for quite some time now.

As someone who routinely watches YT through Invidious and NewPipe, I haven’t changed my habits.

I can tell you from experience that dual booting is nothing to worry about!

1. Make sure you install Windows first - if you’re already running Windows, you’re good here.
2. When installing Linux, make a Live USB to try it on your machine before installation. Keep the USB. (There’s a Windows program called Rufus that’s excellent for flashing ISOs to USB.) Also make sure your Linux distro of choice is friendly with dual booting - in my experience, Linux Mint is great for it, and QubesOS definitely isn’t.
3. The main risk is that a future BIOS update will cause your system to forget its boot configuration. The USB you made on step 2 will save you - look for a program called BootRepair. It’ll fix your system. You can also flash BootRepair by itself onto a USB if you want, but Live USBs usually come with it anyway for this exact case.

That said, if this is a work machine, they might not appreciate you doing all this to their computer. Running a small distro on a VM might meet your needs. (My Mint bias compels me to recommend Linux Mint XFCE for this purpose.)

It seems like you aren’t enjoying your time with Windows and Excel. Are you able to try alternatives like LibreOffice or Linux? Or even Apple? (I like Apple even less, but you might enjoy it!)

I love F# and .Net a lot, but we can admit that Microsoft won’t always do everything right - and on those occasions, it’s worth trying alternative products.

The Electoral College.