I had to close my bank account to cancel mine. I moved and didn’t want to head all the way back to go in person to cancel. They wouldn’t accept a cancel request online or over the phone. Why is it always gym memberships that want to be next to impossible to cancel?

He’ll be warm for the rest of his life, and won’t need any more help, sounds like a win/win to me!

At first, because Microsoft bribed me with reward points for using it. Then I came to realize Bing wasn’t all that bad. Until about a year ago when they started pushing the chat stuff.

It took me a lot of practice. I used to get mad at everything too. Almost violently so (hence the username “fury”). I realized over time I don’t want to spend that much effort being mad at anything. It’s not worth it. I’m going grey fast enough as it is without willingly adding to it. I’d rather focus my energy on something more enjoyable.

Except Bing Chat. Bing Chat can go take a long walk off a short pier, and I wish everybody who worked on Bing Chat a very “good heavens what were you thinking”. Give me back my regular search results, thank you very much.

Even worse is taking over the back button / back gesture to redirect you to “more to read before you go”

Pressing F to pay respects. R.I.P. in pieces

Depending on how mission critical your data is…Set up delayed replicas and backups (and test that your backups can actually be restored from). Get a second pair of eyeballs on your query. Set up test environments and run it there before running it in production. The more automated testing you put into your pipeline, the better. Every edit should be committed and tested. (Kubernetes and GitLab Auto DevOps makes this kind of thing a cinch, every branch has a new test environment set up automatically)

Don’t beat yourself up too much though. It happens even to seasoned pros.

I just want a picture of a goddang hotdog

I lol’d out loud irl

When you decide

Dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff’ll kill you.

I really should check my notifications more often.

I can’t really say from experience, as the only game I’ve played on Linux that isn’t Linux native is Starcraft, and that’s not exactly a demanding game these days. Linux is on my main workstation, but I still have a Windows PC as my main gaming PC, so I haven’t had a reason to check out how well the virtualization & compatibility stuff works.

My intuition says you’ve still got enough CPU oomph to muscle through any such virtualization overhead though.

I always google on Bing.

That hardware will be suited fine to run any Linux distro in general. None of them have an especially demanding desktop environment. I’m rocking an RX 550 at work on pop OS’s cousin Ubuntu.