RickRussell_CA

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Well, that button probably dates from the late 80s or early 90s, when Apple was comparing Macs to branded IBM PS/2s and such that were sold to schools and enterprises.

And they weren't wrong, at the time. Those PS/2s were fuckin' expensive.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Then they would have to remove the various hooks in the Settings app that actually call and open the Control Panel.

How many are there? I can think of several (advanced mouse settings, advanced network settings, printer properties, date & time has a callout back to the old panel..)

Windows 10 came out nine years ago, so they don't seem in any particular rush.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

"Main Quest". What does that even mean? That's nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The idea that anyone finishes a game of Civilization is a myth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

How hard were the sources laughing?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

What, is this a Canadian assassin?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I went through two defective EVGA cards within the original card's warranty period. On the second card, EVGA tried to deny my warranty.

They eventually made it right, after I shamed them on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I'm not excusing the driver parking it like a jackass.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It depends on the use case, though. If that driver's main concern is getting in and out of muddy work sites safely, maybe carrying cargo is less important than 4WD cred.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

FYI, Fortnine is based in Canada.

Increases or decreases in the frequency of pedestrian-driver fatalities is affected by lots of things, although I suggest that poor road design and traffic laws might have a positive feedback effect when combined with limited forward visibility (e.g. a truck with poor forward visibility isn't a huge liability in Canadian road designs might be a larger liability in typical US road designs).

Unfortunately I don't know if we collect the right accident statistics. Perhaps the more relevant question is: are pickup trucks over-represented in pedestrian fatalities as a result of vehicle collision compared to other vehicles, and has that representation grown as truck grill heights have grown? I found a doc on Canadian pedestrian fatalities, but it classified all passenger vehicles as a single class -- and unfortunately that doesn't tell us much since most 4-wheel pickups are classified as passenger vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Fortnine has an excellent video about this issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

I don't pretend to know what professional landscape contractors need for their job.

I'm all for f*ck cars but people who have actual jobs that involve moving stuff like gravel and sod probably have different needs than I do, I assume?

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