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I have to use Windows at work and I will never have weird cloud authentication issues because I'm required to use a work-provided MS account on the computer. The author says he's a Windows guy, and always will be. This article, and these types of complaints, are really only relevant if you're using it on your personal PC.

TBF that's a fairly contrarian view from Sheldon. I started favoring the front brake after reading his writing on it, and do find it useful. I do find it easier to go down in the ice that way though, so be careful!

An absolute treasure. R.I.P., Sheldon.

...sounds about right? Is this supposed to be an injustice? You can't unilaterally shut down a public resource like RF sectiona because you've decided to be the Batman clearing the streets of hands-free cellphone users.

In addition to the security issues, they would have to deal with non-negligible transaction costs every time they wanted to convert it to actual money so that they could purchase something. If they were using it as an investment, they had to deal with the opportunity cost of underperforming $SPY.

Sure, but that's kind of like saying meth is a better productivity tool than coffee, it's just a self-discipline issue to use it safely. Phones are inherently designed to be addicting.

Not phones. There are a handful of apps on these phones that are the equivalent of meth. The infrastructure powering those apps should be seized and repurposed for public good, the proprietors / owners should be charged with crimes against humanity and punished most severely.

If you think this is hyperbole or over-reacting, you're either too far gone, or part of the problem and should be included in the erasure.


I believe that was a forgotten renewal of copyright status.

Well, I've never seen anything written by AI evangelists that doesn't sound like it was written in day three of an adderall binge. This essay is no different.

Also prefer a tiling wm, but xfce is great to keep installed for guest accounts on your PC


...is it normal for Terminal to be using nearly 5GB memory?


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