You mentioned not being able to find a good alternative not tied to a subscription. Seems like if you find a good alternative tied to a subscription she could use it!

But yes I understand that change is hard. I spent years working in Excel, hate the thing, but it’s so very hard to change to LibreOffice Calc.

So this morning I had to go to my mother’s house for IT support as one of her monitors wasn’t working. I plugged the power cable back in to the back of the monitor and the problem was solved.

I’m not sure the level of IT support I provide is high enough to get blamed for anything 😆

I’ve used Linux for years at this point, but I never really learnt much about running Windows programs except games, and they make that too easy.

But there’s a windows laptop right there 😆

I’m asking as a learning exercise rather than because I desperately need to get it working on my machine.

This is the specific example I was talking about: https://apps.nissan.navshop.com/en_gb/

I’m sure it could run in wine if I was snarter or kept at it, but I tried it, it didn’t work straight away, so I used the windows laptop because I wasn’t in the mood to spend hours troubleshooting when I had the choice.

I would be curious if it works for you and what your steps are as I do need to run it every 6 months or so to update maps. I use Nobara but also have Bazzite and Mint computers available if there’s some distro oddity.

Also if you know how to tell tomtom that my house in a quiet street that people crawl along isn’t an 80kph zone that would be great 😆

I think this is a very valid reason. I used to reinstall Windows every 6 months or so for various reasons, switching to Linux wasn’t any more work. But if you don’t enjoy researching, installing OSs, etc then it’s only ever going to feel like a chore.

Funny, I could never afford photoshop so I find GIMP much easier to get around in 😆. There used to be a GIMP plugin that changed everything to be like Photoshop, not sure if it still exists. But GIMP doesn’t have feature parity with Photoshop, one of these days we’ll be able to draw shapes.

Is InDesign not already a subscription service?

Someone answered about their wife so I will to. My wife hasn’t switched because her husband doesn’t encourage it because it’s the only computer (of many) left in the house with Windows on it, and occasionally there’s some Window’s only program you have to download to update the maps in your car or something like that, and it’s nice to still have one machine that can do it (rather than paying the dealer…).

I have many comments about your assumptions about Linux but I’ll hold my tongue.

I just generally try to avoid letting people know how technically savvy I am. I’d rather not do basic tech support for everyone I know.

I feel like this book needs a warning. It’s long, and I struggled to follow it. I had to look up the Wikipedia plot summary chapter by chapter to work it out through the middle part of the book.

Some people love it but it wasn’t my kind of book. Or maybe I juat didn’t follow the social commentary while I was trying to follow WTF was happening and who was using which name at which time.

Original admin went AWOL, other admin couldn’t access server. Second admin couldn’t get ahold of first admin, eventually server went down. Second admin started new NSFW instance.

Then they somehow got everything back (maybe original admin replied to messages), and so the old site went up again as an archive.

Personally I try to follow only fun stuff! Subscribed/Home feed for fun, All feed for doom and gloom.

I’ve also seen claims that Google uses OSM to validate their map.

They don’t want to use it directly because they would have to give attribution, but they can use it in automated internal processes to identify where it differs from Google Maps (including which data source is more recent) and where there are significant differences they can get their team to look into it.

Nano say so at bottom but so does vim if it thinks you’re trying to exit.

my thinkpad lappy has a 230w power supply. can usb-c do that?

The latest USB-C Power Delivery Standard should do 240w, but not all USB-C ports are rated for it.

Interesting that duel motors and AWD make hardly any difference! I’m quite happy with my single motor FWD performance, and it seems like they might be similar.

I can’t find the data now but from memory the AWD model is supposed to do 0-100kph in about 4 seconds as opposed to the 7.5 or so of the FWD models, so I assumed you’d be able to feel the difference 😆.

Just one team working on Teams, and they are doing their best to make it worse.

I for one encourage them, it apparently needs to be even worse before my work will consider changing

You can mostly solve the solar issue by building more solar, it generates power in virtually any weather, maybe less but then you just build more to account for it. And when it’s not sunny it’s normally windy.

Also grids normally span multiple areas, you don’t build all your solar in the same spot, you spread it around so it’s sunny somewhere.

Batteries or even pumped hydro also solve the problem of power being generated at a different time than needed.

Outside of the US, solar capacity is being added at speed because it has become so cheap.

I don’t know if airbags are connected enough to coordinate with each other, but you kind of expect they should err on the side of going off if unsure rather than not going off!

Just looked up the recall, apparently 100 million airbags recalled starting from 2013. It seems to have resulted in the bankruptcy of the company!

It might be a little early to be related to your crash if it was just a few years back. Hopefully you’re doing ok now!