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12 days agoThanks, I ended up going with virt-manager and it was relatively easy
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3·21 days agoalquicksilver for president
I used to provide tech support for the family, and tried to move them to Linux to make them easier to support (similar simple use cases)
Thry weren’t interested so now requests for help get a genuine “Sorry, I don’t use Windows so I can’t help”
I haven’t booted into Windows since
What do you use to run the VM? I run Mint and have been meaning to get a Windows VM up but there are too many options
Agreed, see also
25·2 months agoNot OP. I guess that it is for someone missing a finger on their left hand
5·7 months agoTed Lasso is very good, while having basically no sex or violence
391·8 months ago“Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records.”
John Safran - Not the Sunscreen Song
That really doesn’t seem like much money. If Reddit is worth $10B, that is 0.6% ROI
2·9 months agoSorry, I just knew I’d seen this pattern a lot, so I searched and dropped in the first examples I found
7·9 months agoStart spreading the news,I’m leafin’ today
Only 90s cats will get this
Nothing I said was critical of anyone, any set of skills, any profession. I’m glad that you have specialist skills, everyone does because no-one can know everything
I was responding to a particular question about technology, and how non-techies approach it. I explained in another comment that this complexity in technology is fundamentally different from many other fields of everyday experience
If the industrial fan stops working, they call you, and somewhere between the power point and the air they want to move is the problem you can fix and diagnose
If someone can’t see their cat photos, it could be anywhere from their device to their network, their ISP to the server, the programs on that server, the other server that holds the photos… Like with the fan they know the power is generally ok because the lights didn’t go out, but from that point you actually need some conceptual model of the complexity to even know who to call
“It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?”
The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there
The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located
https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal
“It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.”
That explains the blue, but not the metal…