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The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing.

If that were the singular goal/point, then most people should simply give up working entirely because they'll never reach it. They're working their own version of the sunk cost fallacy.

Very few of us in society do work that truly matters. Work is like a colouring book: A complete waste of your time (though work might be less fun, YMMV).

It would be lovely to give up the charade of the importance of work.

I have to believe most of us here on HN are in the boat of keeping a W11 partition for work and a Linux partition for everything else at this point.

If statistics bear out, you'd be incorrect (at least with regards to a non-Windows OS being run by 'most').

The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft abandoned as the default in Windows 8, I believe, again due to UX).

Mercury OS 3 years ago

The process of moving from App to App generates friction that takes you out of flow and distracts you from your intentions.

Please tell me why my workflow, which works for me, sucks more. What is this magical 'friction'?

Reads like it was written by an MBA.

Windows on Btrfs 3 years ago

Yep, I feel (a little) bad for anyone doing node development on Windows (though I probably should feel bad that they're having to dev in JS).

But this isn't an "NTFS problem" as you'll have this occur on any filesystem that supports file system filters, like antivirus.

Windows on Btrfs 3 years ago

This is due to file system filter [drivers], not the file system. NTFS is perfectly fine and performs well.

fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows.

Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS. I don't see Linux as superior with font handling. Certainly lacks on the rendering side of things (DPI etc).

comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser

Wouldn't know. I use Win 11 Pro so those updates don't seem to have come down to it (yet?) and use Win 10 Ent at work where those will never arrive.

You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations.

A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be random is the GTK fonts throughout the UI changed to a mono-spaced font regardless of what the control panel showed.

It "resolved itself" within a few weeks.

I don't know if it was an update that caused and subsequently resolved the issue, or something else I did.

This was just one of many hair-pulling examples I ran into across KDE Plasma and Gnome on Fedora.

I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS.

That Cupertino offered the best deal for them is a quirk of the law, not a shady deal by Apple

These two things aren't incompatible with each other.

So $4m a year?

A $2tn company shouldn't be concerned with losing out on $4m.

No need to defend a $2tn company. It's okay to right-size this error.

Windows has always had this churn. Upgrading from NT4 > 2000 > XP > Vista, etc all required a time investment to figure out new features, group policies, creating an image (Autopilot removed this requirement), etc.

Win 11 changing the Settings CPL doesn’t change the overall body of work required.

Chase Freedom Unlimited

After the intro period, a variable APR of 19.49%–28.24%

I suppose it isn't an issue if you pay your card off every month, but that's a high APR.

I can't say I've seen <random state law> written with a "there's no exception to a strongly-held religious belief" within the text. I'm not aware of a general-blanket language that would apply to any and every law in my state, either (and I'm in one of those states where the 'unaffiliated' make up a sizable portion of the population).

Have any of the abortion ban laws been written with any language that would invalidate challenges based on religion, i.e. The Satanic Temple.