Your friend is gay and he’s not okay with it.

Employees who fail our phishing test will have anchovies thrown at them

Only if I already had some sort of relationship with the person. But the issue is primarily with the partner.

People were a lot less emotionally literate or aware of mental health issues. Autism and ADHD went undiagnosed if you were able to compensate half decently (you were just treated like you were being difficult on purpose). And kids were more brutal to each other.

The music was on point, though. I still enjoy me some Goldfinger.

FYI, Qobuz pays artists very well (the most of any streaming service last I checked) and they have a ton of audiophile-grade quality stuff. Been using them for a couple years, highly recommend.

I’ve only had one exposure with a multi-head printer, and it was incredibly messy. No matter what settings I used, there ended up being drips from the unused nozzle.

My most recent printer is an Anycubic Kobra Max 3, and I’d take the wasted filament over the sloppy prints any day. It’s a bed slinger, so maybe not what you had in mind, but they do make one with an enclosure.

If you walk into someone’s home and it’s full of the latest and greatest tech, that’s a tech enthusiast. If you walk in and the most advanced piece of tech is a printer from 2005, that might be a senior software engineer.

As an engineer, I can understand your sentiment. Unfortunately, it’s a field that attracts a lot of smart and socially awkward people. Those whose heads enjoy engineering challenges often lack self awareness, and it results in either being really awkward or being obnoxious, or both. The “good ones” are less loud, so you don’t hear from them as much.

Marketing is an industry built around manipulating people to buy things they otherwise wouldn’t be interested in buying. There’s no redeeming quality; the entire premise is shitty.

As a Canadian who recently moved back to Canada from the US, I’m gonna throw my anecdotal evidence around and say this is horseshit. Even my tax person has said she’s never seen so many returning Canadians in her decades of work.

Information pollution.

Saying “AI pollution” would be like saying “microplastics pollution” – we generally refer to the thing being polluted, not the pollutant.

I use Proton, but I use their other services as well (drive, vpn) so it’s worth it for me.

Me, a programmer who indexes from zero: 🫤

You might be able to use something like distrobox instead of a full VM. That would at least put it in a container that you could either run from an encrypted partition or something.

Different users would be the “simple” way you’d normally do something like this under Linux. But if your regular users have sudo access, you can’t really lock anything down.

consider what the off-ramp for Republican leaders should look like in the waning days of the Trump era

It should look like retiring from politics. Y’all sunk your party, stay away from the others.

I have three different 8bitdo controllers and they’ve all been fantastic. And they sell things like replacement covers for the joysticks (I wore through one of them after a lot of hours). Obviously this is just anecdotal, but I’ve had nothing but great experiences with them.

Otherwise it’s just sparkling homosexuality

Because schools hadn’t implemented better rules yet. A while ago, physical discipline for kids was normalized; we know now that it’s not a great method of discipline, so we have better rules in schools.

society as we know it is at risk

They say this as if it’s a bad thing.

Oh no, our wonderful society with absurd wealth distribution and normalized pedophile leaders is at risk? Albert, fetch me my pearls that I may clutch them!

Pain. It notifies you that your body is injured in some way, and generally in what area so that you can do something about it.

That being said, I think your original premise is oversimplified. I agree that emotions aren’t instructions, but they’re more than notifications–they’re part of the inner workings of our brains that can happen for a multitude of reasons. The common denominator is that most of them help us survive in some way.