JohnnyEnzyme

Bien sûr!
However, and TBC-- I was referring to the actual hardware when I said “system.”

Indeed, I greatly look forward to upgrading this shady OS to some manner of Linux, especially once things settle down here. (any ‘flavor’ you particularly recommend?)

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Upgrading to a Win11 machine to beat the mid-October deadline was my deal. Just about every associated hardware item needed to be replaced, and there were a bunch of small issues with the various new stuff, including me completely forgetting that a network switch is NOT a router, even though they look similar. Building a rolling, swiveling platform arm for a new monitor I needed to sit next to my bed/couch was one of the last major hurdles. Bonus pts for the new machine being hilariously tiny, to the tune of ~"5x"2x"5, but it got great reviews, and I’m loving it so far.

So yeah, moving up to a faster, more capable system is always a treat in the end, but getting everything migrated properly and deciding what software to reinstall and what to upgrade can be a process that takes weeks, or more. Note: the “VirusTotal” site has been a big help in feeling much more secure about my new install choices.

Couldnt remember debit pin and its annoyed me for a long time

A few years back, I had that problem not with the PIN, but with my online PW. I’d somehow forgotten it, and wound up calling customer support for help, getting a live person to talk to. They asked me a couple personal questions, I answered, and they solved the issue within minutes. I imagine they would have done something similar with PINs.

These days, with CS being increasingly automated and/or farmed out to other countries, I’m not sure if that would work so easily, anymore.

No, I mean…
Foof
I’m European-based, for better or ze wurst.

Like-- what do we HAVE across these matters, eh?

Ah, excellent.

I love it!
However, many of those shows seem to be set in SE Asia, which is generally not the specific theatre we envision when we think of The Dark Ages, right?

I don’t know that I would personally make so many specific conclusions or necessarily group individuals together like that, but… as individual points I’ve no doubt that they do accurately describe various types of thinking and character.

I would also tend to think that if that whole package of characteristics does indeed describe lots of people in academia who happened to want to teach, then they’d either have to work to become better human beings, or get sort of ‘locked-in’ to being shitty, unpopular professors. Which could of course greatly impact their career upsides. *shrug*

@DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works

Apparently I was not qualified to have ideas because I’m not a professional scientist, so it’s guaranteed that my theories are trash right out the gate.

I sometimes get the sense that so much of the harshness of such replies come from active students in academia, not so much from professors and TA’s, etc. Probably multiple reasons for that, but one of them might be that they’re smack in the middle of a ‘this is the right way to learn and do things!’ process and mindset.

Whereas most teachers would probably be much more inclined to say something like “okay, let’s break those ideas down, shall we?” But already being teachers, they’re probably plenty occupied with such, and not as much of a regular online presence. Or something like that, haha…

May I burn in hell, but that’s in my top 3 also, along with Google and WP.

I also remember a version where there was an easily heard male chorus that sang a sort of repeating refrain of “rah-hoo, rah-hoo, rah-hoo, rai!” as LL sang the main lyrics.

In the main versions of the song I’ve heard on YT so far, it’s much fainter. *shrug*