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  • Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn't have an equivalent of "line-out" that isn't affected by the host devices' volume settings. It's so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

  • [AskEurope] Fellow Europeans, what is the aspect of USA lifestyle that surprises you the most?
  • Consider two potential creditors:

    • Person A has no credit history at all.
    • Person B has had a credit card with a $20k limit for ten years, generally has a balance of less than $2k, and has never missed a payment.

    Can you see how B is a less risky client than A? A is essentially an unknown risk, but B has demonstrated the ability to manage their debt. A could still get, for instance, a car loan, but likely not a mortgage. And B will get a lower interest rate.

  • Capitalism indoctrination in progress.
  • That's a good point. I was thinking of my own experience in the software field, where it's rare not to be paid enough to live comfortably. That definitely colors my perspective, as we're usually a few steps up the ladder of Maslow's hierarchy.

  • Capitalism indoctrination in progress.
  • This is only partly wrong, though. Happy employees stay even when paid less than they might get elsewhere, and unhappy employees leave regardless of high pay.

    In my humble opinion, I'd say none of the three options are correct.

    • Ping-pong table - this is an answer along the lines of free pizza and casual Fridays that so many laughably out of touch managers default to. It's liable to actually low-key insult your employees.
    • Additional responsibilities - bitch, we are all drowning under work because of short staffing. I don't need another title bump and half of Travis' work after he left for a job with work-from-home.
    • A raise in pay - this only works if you can raise pay so high that its worth dealing with this shitty job, and that often just isn't possible.

    What workers actually ask for is reasonable staffing, work/life balance, adequate tools to do their job, and autonomy.

  • US plans water heater standards, says they will save consumers $11 billion
  • Heat pump water heaters already exist, but I think they're pretty expensive compared to gas/resistive heat.

    I wouldn't be surprised if electric tankless water heaters are indeed infeasible under this mandate. Heat pumps generally aren't powerful, and tankless heaters require enormous amounts of power while in use.

  • Is now the right time to switch to Linux?
  • I'm a month or so into switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. I've never lasted this long in prior attempts to switch over.

    Gaming has been quite good. Steam just works for 99% of the games I've tried, with the 1% being one or two minor bugs in games that otherwise worked fine. Lutris, on the other hand, did not work at all. 0% success rate installing or running games.

    Linux does still seem brittle and/or unnecessarily complicated, though. For example, I have a super common nvidia card, and my first post-install experience was having to boot into safe mode to fix the drivers. Then Ubuntu updated the drivers and my screens didn't come back up. I had to hard-reset to get them back. And I have yet to get NUT installed and configured correctly so I can have the PC power down gracefully when the UPS runs low, something which is trivial in Windows.

    Is all the frustration worth it to have an OS that isn't selling me ads and trying to move me to a cloud account? Probably.

  • The Release Date and Key Features of Windows 12 Unveiled
  • For me it's Fusion 360. The launcher for it opens your browser to log you in via the Web. Wine doesn't seem to support that.

    DCS has some sort of time/zone issue preventing me from logging in.

    My MX Master scroll wheel behaves oddly.

    Other than that it's been not awful since I switched to Linux last month.

  • I'm tired of dogs. I just don't like them.
  • Taking regular walks around my neighborhood has really soured me on dogs. Every other house has dogs barking at me from the back yard or front windows. Almost every dog that's being walked will lunge and bark at me. There are only a handful of well-behaved dogs that I enjoy seeing on my walks. Frankly, it seems like 95% of dog owners aren't doing the work to properly socialize their pets.

    Hell, I can't even grill out in my backyard without getting barked at from three different directions.

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