Having kids you don't want is more of a moral failing than choosing not to have kids because you don't want them

Did you, there were people getting it days after there contract expired

meh, i can't remember shit about my kid's births except for a couple of blurred memories, what with the lack of sleep and stress

this dude probably has better memories of his than i do.

take photos, make sure to take them and write what was happening but i guess don't make them the point of the experience like this dude is

yeah, this was my main annoyance with it, i don't log into my server for months at a time so i wanted something without constant updates but other than that it was fine.

I know at least one other person who runs Arch on all their servers, they do an update monthly unless there's some critical CVE that needs to be addressed ASAP. The sibling comment says 1 year, but I can't honestly suggest going that long for any distro. I've had Ubuntu LTS break very, very badly because of a missed patch in GRUB when updating over too long of a timescale (somewhere around a year, maybe a bit less)

I update one of my servers once a year or even longer, and it’s still doing fine with Arch.

agree, plus since it's trivially easy to get around the block it's almost pointless

that person no longer exists to me, their opinion of me doesn't exist, whether non-person reads my posts or not is uninteresting to me

It's not about others reading your posts. It's about stuffing the posts of people you have blocked down your throat.

i used to read a lot but buying paper books was a real pain for me, i read hundreds of books on the kindle but figured out i could just slap a video on my phone and actually sleep.

since then i've read maybe 15 books in the last couple years and my kids never see me reading, however we've read to them and had them read to us for their whole life and they now both read independently for fun. i don't think leading by example is anywhere near as important as reading with your kids

yeah it was definitely a case of not wanting to spend a comparatively small amount of money on dev time to even look into it

it was obviously not network based as connection speed didn't seem to change the time required

subscriptions are most of their income, they don't pay the bills at all

That is simply not true. Subscriptions are at best at ~20% but lookin up. And yes they do actually pay bills, no landlord would have had them pause that for this long lol

no one is appeasing anyone, the only suggested changes are stopping new gas stove installs in new homes in some states. even then i would imagine it would be trivial to just wait till after the house is built and put one in

induction stovetops are faster and easier to clean anyway, my stovetop is playing up so i'm swapping from gas since it's just better tech anyway

my issue with them is i don't need my house lit up like a christmas tree at 2am in the morning when everything is "off", i've never found having a flashing light a great way of troubleshooting when there's a lot better tools to measure disk or network usage anyway.

disk activity lights can be pretty keen when you're trying to figure out whether or not the system is entirely halted or just slogging through a heavy workload.

the kind of time when a tool that is good at measuring such things won't ever even attempt to load.

I also enjoyed the sound that the HDD made when something was happening. So even if the computer froze, the sound gave me a bit of hope. If there was no sound from the HDD and the computer froze, I just restarted the computer, abandon all hope.

I understand this; on the other hand I pretty much want a totally quiet computer, so I don't really miss the sound. A frantically blinking LED is useful, and desirable if not too bright.

Yes. Related, I really do not need my headset to blink in the eyes of the person I sleep next to this hard. Why does it blinks seven times every time I use any command like volume up and down?

So thick black tape it is. (Can't do anything about this voice screaming the headset's status though.)

LEDs that are too bright on my laptops get similar treatment. I try to leave them a bit visible, enough to see in a dark room whether they are on, but the laptop not sending light including when it's suspended is more important.

> when there's a lot better tools to measure disk or network usage anyway.

Only if your system is working fine.

Only if you are okay with switching the context.

'Flashing lights' aren't the best troubleshooting tools, but they are OOB and works constantly. Frantically flashing HDD LED would say you about why the system froze for a couple of seconds way sooner when you oculd launch some performance monitor things.

monitoring the presence of disk and network activity in general was a lot more useful when computers only did things when you told them to and only made connections to remote hosts when you explicitly requested it. Never knowing what your devices are doing or who/what they are communicating with without having to launch a full scale investigation was nice.

Why would the disk activity or "power on" lights be "on" if "everything is "off"" though