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I think a lot of people fall into this perspective that nobody will ever love them, and they take past experience as evidence. But really what this means is that the approach your using is unsuccessful. In reality, even if you have severe physical and mental issues, there are still people out there who will be into it, probably more than you realize. My advice is to lean into the statistics, go to an online dating site, clean up your profile and picture so you don’t come off as an axe murderer, and cast a wide net. You’ll be surprised at who might be interested.

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I came up with dial-up in the ’90s, and around the turn of the century we had in-home broadband and that felt a bit transitional. I remember when everything started shipping with Wifi (802.11B) that was a turning point. Also, Google Assistant doesn’t get enough credit. Lately, when I walk in the door the lights come on and the AC kicks in, that’s been in full swing for about 5 years now. I used to spend hours training Dragon Naturally Speaking on Windows 9x to basically no avail, so being able to talk naturally to my phone or OneNone (online) on my Linux Laptop and watch it just magically get everything right feels very future-tech.

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I like how in other desktops expose (windows push apart effect) is coupled with the app menu and activities… Gnome 40 seems like it has a good setup here and KDE could easily follow suit.

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MB is a bad character and feels out of place in Star Trek because she’s the exact kind of character we never needed before. It’s obvious why the actor was hired, she’s incredible and has a wide range of emotion. I think they thought that her talent would carry the show, and on some level it does, but kung-fu, crying theatrics, and the need for one hero to solve every situation - these just aren’t suppoed to be Trek tropes.

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I would not buy a Pentium, an i5 seems OK but in 2021 you’re probably going to do better price/performance-wise by looking at Rysen systems. The saving grace of the first system you linked to was USB-C charging, which typically I say is a hard requirement. I guess if your extremely budget-conscious then maybe you look past it, but personally, I’d rather dig through used laptops and try to find something last generation with decent specs and perhaps thunderbolt if you really plan on using the thing full-time. I would also make sure any laptop I bought had one or two M.2 slots (supporting NVMe), upgradable RAM, and personally I’d gauk at anything with an optical drive.

But the best advice for buying a linux laptop is searching forums and the arch wiki for guides and threads about people setting it up. Make sure the bluetooth and wifi are compatible (or at least easily swappable), that the system can enter deep sleep states (S3/S5), that it has support for Virtualization (the i5 should), and that the thermals are good enough that it doesn’t sound like a jet engine in Linux.

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Contrary to the advice in this thread, I’ve had several friends whose girlfriend would endure ‘taking a break’ just to prove they are the right ones all along. If your girlfriend says she’s done then believe it, otherwise assume she’s not done yet.

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I went down this path, and while it was ok I didn’t think it handled weird resolutions well, and I wanted something kind of specific with Google Calendar that wasn’t trivial to pull off. I ended up going with dakboard.com which has a nice web portal to manage it, and even has a raspbian image with the software preloaded.

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The Federation would/should not make such a deal, it would be immoral to share technology with those that would use it to oppress others. That’s the exact type of Faustian bargain they could explore in an episode of Star Trek, maybe Discovery could take this one on.

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Personally, I think the desired behavior would be to merge the two directories - which would have the contents of the new directory clobber the old directory, which should be a bit more straightforward programmatically.

But honestly, I think _duplicating_ the file table in MySQL seems redundant. With the S3 library you can list out the contents, I think my approach would be to make your API a wrapper for that and try and dispense with the MySQL table abstraction. As for the upload logic, my initial thought would be to just leverage the S3 upload functionality and let it handle the conflicts as it would. It would give you less control, but it would be less code and its behavior would be more predictable and likely more stable as you’re stripping out a lot of logic.

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Before they became funny jpegs, memes were defined as ‘thought viruses’ sort of like to how religion can spread and take hold on a population. I wonder if there’s a similar term to describe this phenomenon where presumably otherwise decent people are exposed to a concept and turn into gaslighting psychopaths?

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If implementing Windows is “really up to Microsoft” then I would think there’s a path for ol' Linus to realize his dream. Apple has lightning in a bottle with the M1, if they can get other OSs to run on it they may effectively dominate the consumer market until down the line when someone builds a competing chip or a government steps in.

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So I feel like you can pause it at the first point. The video makes a claim that Biden describes black kids as “super-predators” and then shows a series of video clips as proof but he doesn’t once use the term, or in his remarks did he refer to anyone by race.

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