I might have paid for LTSC if they made it available for retail sales.

Almost any monitor can do that. If the stand won’t rotate, get one with a VESA-compatible mount and you can just rotate the mounting plate, since the bolt pattern is a square.

That’s great, I’d love to have my docs that early! I think I had to wait til nearly the end of February for some of my 1099s this year.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten my W2 before the end of January

Some providers do digital distribution now. I didn’t get any physical documents from my employer or investment account, just PDFs this year.

I don’t think it’s possible to do taxes in January, most places don’t have documents ready before the end of the month. I had to wait a few extra weeks for the documents from my investment account too, so not everything is always available on Jan 31.

I did mine in February this year. I’ll probably wait and do it later next year, like mid-March, as I ended up missing a document that would have slightly increased my state return (not enough to go through the headache of fixing it).

Last year, I needed an extension, as it was first time doing it myself and my situation was fairly complex.

I think is people don’t like it they don’t need to use it.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity. They have no say in the matter.

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

My life flashing before my eyes was an expression, but in that moment i truly believed I was going to die.

I did also piss myself, but the typical expression is brown pants, not yellow.

Phone front right, wallet and earbuds front left. My keys go on a retractable carabiner attached to a belt loop but sometimes get tucked into the nearest pocket to reduce jingling.

Not spooky per se, but it scared the shit out of me:

I was 16 or 17 at the time and worked for a DJ pushing road cases and setting up/striking equipment. One winter weekend, upon striking everything after a wedding, I stepped outside around 2am to find myself in the middle of a blizzard. I had borrowed my dad’s F250 with AWD for the evening, so in my infinite wisdom, I decided it would be fine to drive the 20 or so miles home.

There was absolutely nobody on the road, not even plows/salt trucks. Like many teenagers, though, I thought I was invincible, so I drove way faster than was reasonable in those conditions. About halfway back, I’m on an overpass across a major highway and hit a patch of ice. Cue the fishtail, then panic as my life flashed before my eyes. I ended up spinning about 2.25 revolutions, and come to stop perpendicular to the road with a few inches between my front bumper and the outer barrier of the overpass. Too bad I wasn’t wearing brown pants.

I managed to get the rest of the way home without incident, but I have never taken any chances driving in suspect conditions again- I figure I used up all my luck surviving that event.

Does that mean I can’t ask it?

Read the sidebar and rules of the community before you post. Rule 6 clearly states no US politics, so no, you should not have asked it.

Layaway on groceries, doordash, and now on paying your friends. Do we need any more recession indicators?

Maybe there’s just 1 and it’s a contraction:

Little [jedi is] on board

Read the article.

Raising the recommended RAM requirements is not because the Resolute Raccoon requires more resources than before, not directly – this is not a 2GB RAM jump solely to load the OS and nothing else.

Rather, it’s more of an honesty bump. Components that make up the distro – the GNOME desktop and extensions, modern web browsers (and the sites we load in them) and the kinds of apps we use (and keep running) whilst multitasking are more demanding.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, here’s a few to get you started:

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom
• Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech’s Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More
• Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem
• CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why

This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.

Edit: fixed a link format

Literally do not use it if you don’t like it, it’s really that simple.

Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can’t get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity.

I didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Imo looks unintentional, just an unfortunate result of the circuit traces being arranged as they are.

Well, it will work… until it suddenly doesn’t.

Blender, Solidworks, AutoCAD, Catia, and any other modelling software of your choice all ultimately do the same thing: build digital representations of objects based on our understanding of how they might exist in physical reality. They differ in the workflow to get there, which is why we have terms like surface modelling programs and parametric CAD to differentiate their function or workflow.

OP literally used Blender to manufacture a physical thing- the qualification of Blender as “not CAD” is what’s actually muddying the water. If it isn’t a CAD program, how could they have physically manufactured their design?

To suggest that only some types of programs that do this are CAD is unnecessarily reductionist and doesn’t actually help anyone understand the difference between them. There is legitimate differentiation to be made with things like CAM programs, rendering software, etc., where you are now using that digital representation to achieve some end goal. CAD is about creating those digital assets that could ostensibly exist in the real world, regardless of whether it’s meant for animation, manufacturing, simulation, or whatever else.

Edit: Blender is even listed on the CAD Wikipedia page

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.

CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design (building information modeling), prosthetics, and many more. CAD is also widely used to produce computer animation for special effects in movies, advertising and technical manuals, often called DCC digital content creation.

I was being facetious about the literal use of a computer

CAD software is meant for precise dimentioned designs made from extruded 2D sketches

This exactly what I’m arguing against. Parametric CAD like Solidworks and whatever you’d call AutoCAD don’t get to own the term.

What I was trying to say, and was not very clear, is that CAD is an umbrella term for a wide variety of programs that generate digital models for use elsewhere, whether that’s manufacturing or animation. There are different subdomains, like surface modeling (blender) and parametric modeling (solidworks), but no single subgroup is necessarily the ‘true’ CAD. They’re all computer-assisted design programs, just specialized with different approaches for different purposes.