Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.

I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don’t HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.

My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.

Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.

Photogrammetry can also get resource hungry.

That’s how you play the game. Your other choices are being a piece on the board, or violence.

Sure, just dilute your power even more.

Run on a third party ticket when you have the numbers to win an election, until then organize a group, and trade support for concessions.

The thing to fight for is ranked choice voting, or some other method without a spoiler effect. Until you have that, the only thing that matters in the ballot box is the top two candidates. Anything else is equivalent to not voting. I’m saying you should make the choices that have the best actual effect, not make a worthless protest vote to make yourself feel good.

Nobody in power gives a crap about a protest vote, If you spend that time protesting elsewhere you’ll make a bigger impact.

I had planned to vote for Claudia De La Cruz, but the Democrats sued her off of the ballot in my state.

So what? You can write in a candidate. It’s not like it would make any difference either way.

While voting, the only votes that matter are for the 2 leading parties. A third party vote is equivalent to not voting. Outside of the voting booth, there’s more you can do to push what you actually want. Doing stuff other than voting doesn’t mean you have to completely waste your vote too.

Who took away our option to vote to make things better?

The first past the post election system did.

If you want things to get better in elections, you need to get rid of primaries. Instead implement a voting scheme where you aren’t punished for ranking your desires honestly.

In the current system, the only votes that matter are the ones for the two leading candidates. Any other vote is equivalent to not voting.

I’m also annoyed by PWM artifacts on taillights.

Pretty easy to prove you didn’t commit a crime that hasn’t happened, no?

Fuck commission based sales.

OOP smells like a pro-putin propaganda account. Someone else doing something bad doesn’t make your own acts of murder any more justifiable, especially when you’re murdering someone completely different than the wrongdoer.

You can scan a document to PDF, sometimes the default orientation isn’t correct.

You mean you don’t open the terminal and use mkdir?

I mean, so do I, but it’s not something I ever needed to do on a phone.

Oh, you mean characters that are actually on the keyboard. I thought you meant stuff like ‘Δ’ or ‘°’

Do you know how to create a directory on your phone? Lots of kids have never used a desktop/laptop, just phones and tablets.

That’s not one helpdesk needs to know, unless you’re in a specific niche where it’s relevant to how your normal users interact with your product. (For example, some backend service, where your users are web devs)

Yes, helpdesk should know the basic steps that happen when you power on a computer.