Here in the US, there are a lot of regional cultures so the “rules” vary a lot from place to place. Using one of your examples, it’s very common where I live to greet the driver when you get on a bus and thank them when you leave. But I’ve been told that would seem weird in other parts of the country.
I would never greet an entire waiting room at a doctor’s office. I’d assume most of the people there are anxious and/or not feeling well and not in the mood for social interaction. Excluding organized events (conferences and meetings and the like), I can’t think of any circumstance where I would say hello to an entire room of random strangers.
Sure, why not? Everyone has their own reasons for moving and climate contributes to an area’s quality of life.
When I moved from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, the benign climate here was a factor. Didn’t want to live somewhere where it was blazing hot every day for months, where it was a steam bath all summer or where I had to shovel snow every winter.
See, this is the beauty of running Debian stable as your daily driver. I’ll be on Gnome 43 for two more years, so by the time I upgrade to Gnome 45+ extensions should be compatible. Only half-joking, I really do avoid a lot of early adopter regressions and breakage.
72 million Americans lived through four years of Trump and liked what they saw so much they wanted four more years. We ignore him (and his cult) at our peril.
Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.
Mid 60’s in the US. I’ve always driven manual transmission cars. Fairly common for folks my age to know how to drive manual transmissions, since most of us had economy cars in the 70’s and 80’s. At that time, automatic transmissions were an expensive option and had a negative impact on acceleration and mileage.
My daughter is 29 and doesn’t know how to drive a manual transmission and I don’t think most of her peers can, either.
That is true, but vowels are rarely included in published or written Hebrew. Readers determine the correct word through context, familiarity and grammar rules that can hint at the missing vowel.
Someone on the r thread mentioned that the window in the middle peak doesn’t line up with the other windows, and now I can’t unsee it. it’s making me twitch.
So, how do you deal with communities that don’t interest you? I personally block them, because I don’t like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don’t want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up....
I browse both my subscribed feed and the all feed depending on my mood. If a community is particularly obnoxious it gets blocked, otherwise I just ignore it when I’m browsing all. Most of my blocks are meme, tankie and NSFW communities.
Legislation known as the Credit Card Competition Act, first introduced in Congress in 2022, is described by its sponsors as encouraging “competition in electronic credit transactions.” But if lawmakers end up passing the measure, opponents say it could also torpedo the rich rewards and perks that cardholders have enjoyed for...
This really has very little to do with consumers and everything to do with a tug of war between processors, banks and businesses. I’m skeptical that any potential savings to businesses is going to be passed on to consumers.
From a personal perspective, I’ll miss rewards cards if they go away. I make all my purchases with plastic and pay off the balances in full every month. In 2022, I received $711 in cash back.
Reminds me of Anne Romney trying to relate to ordinary Americans by saying she and Mitt also struggled with living expenses when they were newlyweds. In fact, it got so bad that they were forced to sell some stock to make ends meet.
The S330 has an ARM processor, so definitely avoid that one (and any other Chromebook with an ARM processor). To be honest, I would buy a cheap Windows laptop and install Linux on that rather than fiddling with trying to get it to run on a Chromebook.
Or, as others have said, leave ChromeOS on the machine and run Linux in Crostini. If you have a reasonably speced machine it runs pretty well. Although again, I would avoid ARM as some Debian applications aren’t available for ARM Chromebooks.
I knew someone was going to ask that and I’m going to give you the lame answer that I don’t remember for sure. It’s been a while since I used my Chromebook, but it was a fairly mainstream application that wasn’t compiled for ARM. I ended up using the Flatpak version, which worked fine but was a resource hog on an ARM Chromebook with only 4GB of RAM.
In my 60’s. According to Internet sources, shorthand was taught in schools until the 1990’s. It’s likely that shorthand use declined as PCs became common in offices.
The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy from 1950 to 1984....
Sometimes I play rain/storm sounds I’ve downloaded from YouTube. Other times I use the iPhone white noise generator. I’ve set up 2 Siri shortcuts (one for sound on and one for sound off), but tapping the back sounds like a good way to do it, too.
With the exception of the crazy number of roof angles and the tacked on porte cochère, the house itself really isn’t that bad. It’s out of place for the setting and I’m not sure what’s going on in the front yard - is it all concrete?
That’s too bad. I have 189,000 miles on mine (304,000 km) and it’s never let me down. I haven’t had to do anything but regular maintenance on it. I wanted to replace it with something a bit newer and nicer, but had to replace the car my wife and daughter share, instead. Fortuately, I don’t drive very much so it will probably hold out for a few more years.
When walking into something like a waiting room of your doctor, do you say hello to the people there?
I’m asking because it’s a very normal thing to do here....
Do you think bad weather is a good reason for moving?
Would you uproot your life, leaving behind your family, your job etc if you dont like the weather in a country....
Extensions in GNOME 45 - New import system is not backwards compatible (blogs.gnome.org)
By now it is probably no longer news to many: GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom imports system to standard JavaScript modules (ESM)....
Donald Trump trying to look cool promoting his mugshot merch (i.imgur.com)
America’s Surprising Partisan Divide on Life Expectancy (www.politico.com)
Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country.
Can you drive a manual transmission?
And where are you from? And how old? Not “do you” but just if you know how....
TIL although Hebrew script has no upper and lowercase there is a print and cursive version (en.wikipedia.org)
When you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?
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Sims, NC - Just Ugly (sh.itjust.works)
I don’t think I would call this a McMansion fully, but it’s very very close. If you don’t agree, I can change the title!!!...
How do you deal with communities that don't interest you?
So, how do you deal with communities that don’t interest you? I personally block them, because I don’t like them popping up on my All feed, but at the same time I don’t want to switch to Subscribed because a new interesting community might pop up....
Is Congress Going to Kill Credit Card Rewards? (www.nerdwallet.com)
Legislation known as the Credit Card Competition Act, first introduced in Congress in 2022, is described by its sponsors as encouraging “competition in electronic credit transactions.” But if lawmakers end up passing the measure, opponents say it could also torpedo the rich rewards and perks that cardholders have enjoyed for...
Fact-checking the first Republican primary debate (www.washingtonpost.com)
cross-posted from: dubvee.org/post/120868...
Linux on chromebook
I’m looking at picking up a used chromebook for my kid to use after installing a Linux OS on it. So I have two questions that are very related:...
What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
North American T-28 Trojan [OC - 1800x1200] (photos.smugmug.com)
The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy from 1950 to 1984....
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SP 4449 Night Shot [OC] (photos.smugmug.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4693864...
Portugal Cove Rd, Newfoundland - Certified McMansion™ (sh.itjust.works)
This one has a whole story!!...
Co. Limerick, Ireland - Certified McMansion (sh.itjust.works)
No landscaping, can’t find the front door, open sprawl… yeah not great....
It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)